Fire Heart: A Dragon Fantasy Romance (The Dragon of Umbra Book 1) by Emma Hamm

Author:Emma Hamm [Hamm, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-01-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Abraxas

She was an elf.

Abraxas couldn’t stop thinking about that. She was a damned elf, and he hadn’t even noticed it.

Of course she was. He hadn’t thought to check her ears when Zander had chosen her to be one of his brides, but that wasn’t something any of them had thought of. No magical creature would be quite so courageous as to walk into the castle without at least trying to hide what they were.

She had, he supposed. She’d kept her hair over her ears and no one had been any wiser.

How had he missed it?

He twisted his serpentine body around the pile of gold that he’d gathered around himself and mulled over what to do next. He knew she was trying to kill the King. She’d told him that much. And she was part of the rebellion, a group he hadn’t heard of until lately and yet now he wanted to know more about. How long had they been working to kill the King? Longer than he’d been protecting Zander? That seemed unlikely.

But maybe this had all been happening under his nose. Maybe the great Abraxas, the crimson dragon, had missed key details that a group of people were trying to kill the man he protected.

He wouldn’t let her kill the King until he knew how to take those eggs away from Zander. Her speech in the dungeons had wiggled underneath his skin and, yes, he’d fallen for it. But in the days that passed, he knew he couldn’t let her do anything until the Umbral Kingdom at least had an heir.

Now, there were plenty of women around to beget an heir. Mortal women were fragile, however, and a pregnant woman didn’t mean that she or the child would survive. If the King died without a wife, however, then the throne would likely go to his first bastard son. The Umbral Knights were bound to a bloodline, not to the throne. They’d help the child take over the kingdom if no one called them off.

Which stood to reason that all he needed was to convince Zander to take one of the women to bed, perhaps multiple of them, to ensure a child was actually born. Then he had to convince Lorelei and the rebellion to wait at least nine months, and then the eggs were safe. He could take them and disappear to rebuild the kingdom that the dragons had once controlled.

It was a shaky plan at best. He knew that.

“Are you even listening to me?” Zander snapped. “Abraxas, it’s like your head is elsewhere and I really need you to focus.”

He didn’t want to focus on a king who rambled about nothing. Still, he shifted his long neck so he could stare blankly at the mortal man pacing on the cliff. “Another plan, Zander? The last one didn’t work out so well.”

“The last one worked perfectly. We know who the young woman is that’s most likely to save me in the event of an attack. And that woman is quite beautiful, if I do say so myself.

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