Feral Ice: Paranormal Fantasy (Ice Dragons Book 1) by Ann Gimpel

Author:Ann Gimpel [Gimpel, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ann Gimpel Books, LLC
Published: 2019-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

The bite of Konstantin’s magic rippled around me. It was, indeed, very like the sensation that had pounded against me after we jumped through the black hole-esque thing in the crystal cave. Rather like a mild electric shock paired with the scent of baked clay and a piquant herb I couldn’t quite identify. Maybe rosemary or cilantro.

It hadn’t taken very long for Johan and me to cover the miles between the cave and the dragons’ home, so I wasn’t surprised when an icy blast of air announced our arrival on the surface. I zipped my suit to my chin and cinched the hood cord. Despite the nearly half a year I’d spent in Antarctic waters, I was never quite prepared for the cold that hit me like a wall, stealing breath and freezing my lungs.

Konstantin and Katya were naked. How the hell did the well-below-zero chill not bother them? The magic shielding us dissipated. Icy sleet mixed with snow spilled from skies filled with gunmetal-colored clouds. The wind must have been gusting to forty miles an hour. I had to plant my feet to not get swept off them.

Waves crashed against the ice-crusted shoreline.

A blast of light so intense I clapped my mittened hands over my eyes died away almost as soon as it flared. I pried my eyes open, shielding them against the wind with hands and hood, and saw a golden dragon. I don’t know why I expected Katya to look like her brother, but her dragon was totally different. Not just in color, but in proportions.

Katya was smaller—if you consider seven feet an improvement over eight—with more delicate proportions. Except I wasn’t sure “delicate” applied to any dragon. She might have different-colored scales, but her eyes were the same, whirling gold with deep-green centers.

She was perched on a chunk of ice with Konstantin standing next to her. Light flickered around them, adding a golden glow to his phenomenal physique. Not that it needed any help. Was he why I’d caved and said I’d stay? A rather guilty yes formed in my mind.

He might not be the whole reason, but he was a big part of it. He’d as much as said he’d imported Johan and me to make new dragon shifters. That might mean sex. A small spark of heat began in my belly and traveled downward.

Or it might be anchored to magic and have nothing to do with the “normal” way babies happened.

“It is good to be aboveground,” Johan said, his deep voice breaking into my thoughts.

I wrenched my gaze away from Konstantin’s Apollo gorgeousness and nodded. It was a relief to be outside. Something about knowing miles of dirt sat above my head would have bothered me—if I’d allowed myself to focus on it. As it was, I’d had plenty of other items to occupy my mind.

Konstantin walked to where Johan and I stood. I scanned him for patches of frostbite, blue lips, ice clinging to his eyelashes and found none of the above. I may have included his genitals in my visual exam, but only for clinical reasons.

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