Heart of a Dragon by Alisa Woods

Author:Alisa Woods [Woods, Alisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance & Erotica
Publisher: Sworn Secrets Publishing
Published: 2016-07-27T18:30:00+00:00

It’s better this way.

No matter how many times Lucian repeated that during his hour-long flight north, there was no better in how he felt. Then again, he was winging his way to his death, so that was to be expected.

The chilly Canadian Jetstream blew past his wings, chilling him to the bone, but he could still feel the slip of Arabella’s silky hair through his human fingers, the soft warmth of her forehead as he kissed her one last time. He’d left her sound asleep, dropped into the depths of relaxation by their sexual adventures throughout the night. It was the perfect way to leave if leaving had to be done.

Which it did.

His brothers would have to manage the fallout from his death without him. He hated every part of that—the fact that he was leaving them to deal with the unraveling of the treaty; that he would never have a true chance to say goodbye to Arabella; and not least, his own death—but it was the only way to save her. The world might go to hell, but the woman he loved wouldn’t have to die trying to save it.

It’s better this way.

He almost believed it now.

Lucian dipped down from the slipstream and dove into a rocky canyon that wove deep into the Canadian Rockies. Every responsible dragon sought out a final resting place well ahead of his five-hundredth birthday. Some desperately tried to stall the inevitable by impregnating any female they could seduce—or took by force, in the case of the House of Drakkon. And several other of the Houses, if he were honest about it. Lucian’s position as the crown prince was an inherent part of protecting humanity from the fae, but policing his own kind had been a full-time occupation as well. Many were repulsed by the number of females who died in the mating process, yet most dragons managed to produce a dragonling at some point. But even when that bought them an additional five hundred years, they all succumbed to the wyvern in the end. If a dragon had successfully mated, their wyvern would only be a savage force of destruction, blasting dragonfire at will and hunting whatever it wished for meat. If the dragon hadn’t mated before devolving into his wyvern form, it was even worse. The hunt would be for females as mates as well as prey.

An uncontrolled wyvern was not only hunted down and killed by its House for the sake of decency; the House itself risked war with other Houses, or the House of Smoke if no one else stepped up. A House that wouldn’t slay their own wyvern was a House that had proved themselves a danger to all dragons.

Most would rather die in solitude than force their own House to tarnish their talons with their blood. For that, a pre-selected tomb was the preferred way to die—a secretive spot where a dragon could spend his final days contemplating his life and dying with honor. Some took a specially-prepared magical poison.

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