Dragon Bites by Allyson James & Jennifer Ashley

Author:Allyson James & Jennifer Ashley [James, Allyson & Ashley, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JA / AG Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Mick

Drake, Titus, and I surrounded the dragon slayer in the basement of the Crossroads hotel. The binding spell nearly smothered him, but I watched the man with diligence.

I knew from experience how powerful he was—I’d fought him as a young dragon, before he’d come into his full powers. If he hadn’t thrown off the spell by now, he had some reason for retaining it.

The basement was the best place to confine a magical prisoner. Not only was it dark and intimidating, but one end held a pool of shaman magic that could destroy cities, and the other end held a Nightwalker. While the slayer had segued into a demon centuries ago, blood still beat in his veins, blood he needed for life, and a hungry Nightwalker could divest him of that.

We also had Cassandra, Janet’s cool and pale-as-ice manager, whose power I had yet to understand the depth of.

The dragon slayer didn’t look worried as he sat cross-legged against a brick wall, three dragons he’d nearly defeated hovering over him and happy to tear his heart out, Cassandra, one very competent witch, looking on. She’d let us rip his heart out, and he must know that.

Titus filled his hands with fire. “Talk. The longer the conversation, the longer before you die, so tell us everything.”

The dragon slayer gave him a contemptuous look. “This doesn’t end your contract.”

“It will if you’re dead.”

Titus had always been too sure of himself. He’d gotten into the fight with the dragon slayer in the first place, because he’d been certain he’d win, and I had to dive in and try to save his ass. I’d probably been just as arrogant, neither of us realizing how powerful this guy was.

Titus and I had grown since then—mature dragons were a hell of a lot stronger—but our arrogance had grown with us, I guess.

What the slayer would do to us now for ending his games prematurely, I didn’t know. He rarely came to the arena to watch his matches, not obviously anyway. He knew dragons would honor a contract, because we had too damn much honor. He just liked his power over us.

Would he try to kill us or make us finish the games another time? In the passing years, he’d become more and more powerful, like Emmett, but as a demon, not a mage. We might be able, all three of us, with a boost from Cassandra and Ansel, to kill him. And we might not.

“Speak,” Drake said, more restive than I’d ever seen him.

The slayer had almost killed Drake, from what Colby had said, which I could see had pissed Drake off. Most people didn’t understand how strong he was—until he got mad. “What is this danger you speak of?” he demanded of the slayer. “And how do we defeat it?”

“You don’t,” the slayer said. “It is old, older than time. It is Earth magic from so deep inside the planet that it will erase all in its way.”

“Deep inside the planet is molten rock,” I pointed out.

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