Dark Hope of the Dragons by Nikki Mccormack

Author:Nikki Mccormack [Mccormack, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elysium Books
Published: 2018-07-27T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO

Dephithus stared at the ceiling of his room, his head resting on the book of daemons he had taken from the archive the night before and hidden under his pillow.

The cat was gone, his head felt like someone was hitting it with a hammer from the inside, and Myara’s birthday was only a week away. Avaline was helping Myara’s mother plan a celebration in the palace since she had grown up so close to his family. He did not want to hurt Myara so close to her Dawning Day, but he had been avoiding her of late. His desire for her was a thing he did not know how to handle. When he thought of her, he thought of touching her, of kissing her, and, in his head, it always went too far. There was force and struggle and the images in his head set his blood on fire with dark hunger. His passion was accompanied always by an inexplicable aggression that was only made worse by the suggestive looks he kept receiving from Suva. Perhaps Darkin had told her about their conversation regarding her, brief as it was. Suva did not seem friendlier toward him, but she did not necessarily have to like him to find him attractive or even desirable. The longer his desire for Myara went unsatisfied, the more he wondered if Suva really would be willing to couple with him.

With everything that had gone wrong of late, there were only two things that disturbed him to any great degree, outside of the death of the cat. The first was the matching looks of distress he saw on Mythan and Avaline every time he was around them. The second was a broad number of things all revolving around Myara. The sexual tension was minor compared to his other concerns. He wondered how she felt about all the talk that was going around. Did she believe he was a curse upon them? Did she think he was becoming corrupt? How he would ever make her happy if things kept on the way they were? How would he get her to couple with him?

Dephithus gave himself a mental kick for that last question. He was running late yet again because he had overslept. His adventure into the village with Darkin and his group the night before left him foggy and miserable, his stomach roiling. They besotted themselves with ale and behaved in a generally loud and obnoxious manner as best he could recall. They had agreed to do the same again in a couple of nights when none of them had guard duty. Right now, he was regretting that decision as the throbbing in his skull intensified with every movement. He managed to get up and dressed despite the headache and the nausea, but he was dreading practice. Today was close combat with daggers. It was probably his weakest area in melee combat skills. He planned to talk to Darkin again about convincing Suva to work with him on dagger fighting, but that would not help today.

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