Dragon's Guard by Eva Chase

Author:Eva Chase [Chase, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780995986541
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2017-11-15T06:00:00+00:00

Ren

I braced my hand against the wall of the tunnel, and my fingers came away damp and gritty. My nose wrinkled at the sensation. The stairs we were tramping down were narrow, the air dank, and the space dark except for the bobbing beam of Aaron’s flashlight as he led the way.

I’d never been really claustrophobic, but this place gave me the creeps. Nowhere to run or jump.

Nowhere to stretch the wings I couldn’t convince to rise out of me yet.

At least I had my best friend with me again. Kylie squeezed my other hand where she was walking shoulder-to-shoulder with me and shot me a grin. She seemed more excited about this expedition than I was. Maybe because she hadn’t just heard a story about practically her entire family being slaughtered.

“Do you have any idea what we’re going to find down here?” she murmured. “I mean, why your mom wanted to send you to that symbol?”

I shook my head. “I don’t know any more than you do at this point.” About my mom’s plans, at least. The second we’d met up by the subway entrance, Kylie had asked how I was, but I hadn’t mentioned what I’d learned about my past. It seemed like a lot of dump on even my best friend. I was still processing the facts myself.

I must have seen more of the violence than the brief fragment of memory that had come to me, but none of the rest had come back yet, even after hearing the story. I wasn’t sure if that was for the best or if I’d rather have had those images to examine. I could almost sense them, like sharks weaving by beneath water too dark to penetrate in my mind. They were going to surface sometime, and when they did, it was going to hurt.

“Quite an adventure,” Kylie said, and nudged me with her elbow. “You looked like you were getting pretty close with the big guy. Now he’s a hunk and a half.”

She must have meant Nate. He was at the back of our procession, several feet behind us, making sure no unfriendly intruders snuck up on us. My face warmed a little. I was getting used to the idea that all four of these guys were meant to be my partners, but I knew it was going to sound kind of weird to anyone else. Anyone human, at least.

But it wasn’t as if I’d be able to hide it from Kylie very long. I didn’t want to.

“Actually...” I said. “I’ve been getting pretty close with all of them. Well, the three of them who don’t spend the whole time glaring daggers at me.” I glowered briefly at West’s lean back where he was stalking along just behind Aaron. “It turns out that’s the thing with dragon shifters. We’re supposed to, er, bond with all of the alphas. It’s, like, a political decree.”

We followed the guys past a door with squeaky hinges and into a wider tunnel that was just as dark and dank.

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