Protecting His Mate by Colleen Delaney

Protecting His Mate by Colleen Delaney

Author:Colleen Delaney [Delaney, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-06T00:00:00+00:00


Chapter 17

Fucking finally.

Two months in the hospital. Three days waiting to see if she carried Alpha’s spawn. Three days of traveling.

Vallie finally stared at Balaur.

She had expected to feel some fear coursing through her veins. Anger at the very least, gazing upon the place of her imprisonment. But all she felt was resolve and power. She was here. Vallie had survived eight years of captivity, crossed the wall, and made it through the Wastelands with ease.

She was ready to save her sister.

They moved silently and closed the distance between them and the open drawbridge. The heavily clouded sky was just beginning to show signs of light, the black giving way to streaks of pale gray.

“Follow me,” she breathed, snaking her hand around Lambda’s wrist. She was still mad at him, pissed as a stepped-on-snake, but that didn’t mean she didn’t care about him. They were getting out of here together with Verona, as was the plan. A fight didn’t change the plan.

He followed her over the narrow bridge. It wasn’t too impressive, a slim walk that four humans could stand across without falling into the pit below. The dragons had no need for it—if they were to leave, they would simply fly. But, humans needed a way in and out of the keep, hence the bridge.

The pit was at least fifty feet deep and empty. No water, no stakes, nothing but a long, slow death laid there. Vallie stuck to the middle of the bridge, with Lambda close behind her. She crept silently through the massive stone archway and into the keep.

A wave of nostalgia hit her. Eight years ago, when she first walked into Balaur, there had been a dragon on either side of her. She had fought like hell, trying to pitch herself over the edge of the bridge. Her heart was so broken, and a life in captivity sounded like no life at all. Plus, fuck those dragons. They didn’t deserve to have her. But it was Verona who stopped her. Verona who begged her to stay.

How could she ever abandon the person who saved her life?

She looked up at the towers, flipped off Cade’s, then turned toward Bedek’s and pointed it out to Lambda.

“The entrance is on the other side,” she said, just barely a whisper. The grounds were empty, which wasn’t odd for this time of day. The dragons tended to late nights and even later mornings, rolling out of their golden beds much later than the noon hour. The guards would be around here somewhere, but more than once Vallie had caught one slumped in a corner asleep. They stayed close to the inner wall, a fifty-foot pile of stones crafted together with mortar. Vallie looked up the side. Now, the fear was of being trapped inside. If the drawbridge was raised, how would they climb that? Especially with Verona in tow.

Lambda reached out and squeezed her hand. She turned back.

“Are you ok?” he mouthed.

She nodded. Vallie needed to keep focused. If she let her concentration slip for one moment, she could make a fatal mistake.



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