Dragon Dreams (The Chronicles of Shadow and Light) Book 1 by Dusty Lynn Holloway

Author:Dusty Lynn Holloway
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, paranormal romance, fantasy, dragons, free, shapeshifter, ya, telepathy, clean, royalty and aristocrats

Chapter Fourteen- Shrouded

As they pushed forward relentlessly, the Sea of Mists came alive. Thick droplets clogged the air, making it seem like she was breathing water and not air into her lungs. She was at the prow of the ship, straining to see anything through the thick, soupy mass of mists. Liran was beside her with his eyes closed. Wolf was sleeping, or probably more accurately resting, with his head pushed up against her feet. She didn’t mind.

“Liran?”

He turned. She flinched at the contrast of hollow depth in his eyes. It wasn’t really something that was visual, more a sense that she had. Liran had so much depth, almost two centuries of it, but there was also a hollow emptiness about him that she couldn't define. As though part of him was withered like the string that he had showed her in her mind. She stared into his eyes, wondering what she had been about to ask him. For the life of her she couldn’t remember.

“Yes?” he prompted.

She fished around for something quickly, hoping he was currently out of the mainstream of her thoughts. “How long until we get there?” she asked, looking away from the questions in his eyes.

“A few hours.”

She turned back in surprise. “So soon? I thought we were still days away.”

He shook his head. “We’ve made good time,” he murmured quietly.

“Are you excited to see home again?”

“I should be.”

“But you aren’t."

He closed his eyes. “El`ness Nahrral is empty for me now.”

“Is there a bond there waiting for you?”

He looked at her face curiously. “No.”

“Family?”

“A brother.”

“It's good that you have someone.”

He turned back to the sea without comment. Every sound seemed blanketed within the thick air. The sound of the water, and the ship slicing through it. The sound of the crew. Even the sound of her breath and heartbeat. Every sound was muffled, held within the silence of a shroud.

She had been preoccupied for days, torn apart by the evidence of another war coming, the death that seemed to be filling Terradin again, the letters they had found, the ships that were sweeping through the waters, closing off all available ports and supplies, and the stranger whom she had met recently with the deep, grey eyes. Eyes that looked at her both with pain and . . . something else.

“Love,” Liran murmured quietly. “He looks at you that way, because he loves you.”

She jerked her head up, barely able to see him now, even though she knew he was barely a foot from her. “Love? But he barely knows me.” She found his eyes, which was easy to do because they were currently glowing as he looked at at her.

It was odd. The mists shrouded him completely. All she could see were his glowing eyes. There seemed to be no body or face attached. He stepped forward, now less than six inches away from her, revealing his body and face once again, and looked at her intently.

“You create for love limits and boundaries. What about the love of a mother and child? A love that is instant.

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