Kissed by Fire by Kimber White

Author:Kimber White
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nokay Press LLC

Chapter Twelve

Shae

I hadn’t heard the entire argument. At first, it felt like the sky had crashed down on the top of the Brandhart Building. But, instinct fueled me. Xander was hurt and not getting better. When the elevator doors opened, I’d heard Xander giving voice to my heart.

I was his fated mate. He was mine. And he said that it would kill me.

Gideon stared at me as we got Xander back to the elevator. We couldn’t all fit. Avelina and the rest of them took flight off the roof. We met them a few minutes later in Avelina’s suite of rooms. They were nearly identical to the ones Xander had given me with panoramic views of downtown Chicago and Lake Michigan on the other side.

We took Xander to one of the white leather couches. His cut had clotted, but turned gray. His scales had emerged, pulsing with fever.

Avelina worked quickly. She grabbed a plush gray towel from the bathroom and pressed it against Xander’s arm.

“You’re absolutely sure?” Gideon asked her.

“Yes!” Avelina’s voice came out as a hiss. “I know a dragonstone wound when I see one. Though it’s been...I don’t know...about seven hundred years.”

“What’s dragonstone?” I asked. A look passed between Avelina and her sons.

“You mean you don’t know?” she asked.

I knelt beside Xander. My anger rose. I’d heard enough on that rooftop and deduced plenty myself. Avelina had set a trap for me, and I’d walked right in it. She understood the heated anger behind my eyes. There was a conversation she and I would have to have. Soon.

“No,” I said. “As of two weeks ago, I didn’t even know dragons were real, Avelina. You seem to think I have something you want. I don’t. And whatever you think Marvin was, you’re wrong about that too.”

“Dragonstone is fossilized dragon egg,” Xander said. He glared at his mother. “It’s what we leave behind after we’re born. It’s the hardest substance on earth and it’s imbued with traces of the magic its dragon left behind.”

“So this dragonstone...it came from one of you?” I asked. Avelina tore the towel in strips. She made a sort of tourniquet and tied them on Xander’s arm, above and below the wound.

“Bring me a kitchen knife,” she said to Loch. He went to the kitchen to carry out her command.

“No,” Xander answered. “Not mine. Avelina destroyed most of ours so they could never be used against us. What remains we keep in a vault, deep underground.”

“Xander!” she snapped at him.

“Enough,” he snapped back. “Shae deserves to know it all.”

“You sure about that?” Avelina kept his gaze as Loch handed her the knife.

She performed her next act with swift precision, never taking her eyes off her son. She turned the knife and plunged its point into her wrist. Then, she drew it down, opening up a thin, red line. Xander hissed with pain, but kept still as Avelina dipped the last strip of the towel into her own blood then pressed it to Xander’s wound.

“Dragonblood has healing powers for all shifters,” he said.

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