Pursuing Flight: A Dragon Spirit Novel: Book 4 by C.I. Black

Author:C.I. Black
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gryphon’s Gate Publishing

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Nero forced himself to relax his embrace around Becca. She’d stumbled coming out of the gate, and he’d instinctually drawn her close to steady her. Now that she was tucked perfectly against his body, he didn’t want to let her go. This was where she belonged. This was right.

Except it wasn’t right. It was his dugga’s magic making him feel that way, and even if he was impossibly inamorated, she wasn’t.

The only saving grace to the physical contact was that the voices in her head — now also yelling in Nero’s — had gone silent. The pain, however, had returned to radiate through his skull, although he wasn’t certain if it was hers or just his.

She eased out of his arms and cleared her throat. “Thanks,” she said in her soft alto, making him yearn to draw her back into his embrace.

The voices rushed back into her head and swelled through him. His temples pounded, but she didn’t try to turn their volume down, afraid she’d hurt him again.

A fact he wasn’t going to put too much significance on. It didn’t mean she was inamorated back. It meant she cared about hurting other people. That was all.

He forced his attention away from her and scanned the area. They stood beside an open door at an abandoned 19th century brown brick three-story factory. Before him lay the parking lot, covered with undisturbed hardened snow that sparkled in the moonlight, indicating no one had come in from the road since the snowfall, melt, and then freeze a few days ago. Beyond stretched the road coming from the bend around one hill and disappearing down the slope of another.

There wasn’t another building in sight, only tree-covered snowy hills. He remembered the place well. He’d been hit with a flash of the location with almost a dozen mages inside and had sent Diablo to check it out, only to have the drake discover the building was empty.

“Doesn’t look like anyone is here,” he said. “No tracks.” Although lack of tracks in the parking lot didn’t necessarily mean the building was empty.

“Werner had already thought about that. After you sent Diablo here and we all fled, we agreed if we returned, we would approach from the hills and enter at the back.”

Becca’s aura brushed his. She’d turned to the door, inadvertently stepping closer to him — he didn’t even need to see her to know she’d moved — and he ached with the need to hold her again. His gaze slid to her, drawn of its own volition, and he was too tired to fight it.

“That’s smart.”

“He was a soldier, too… if his story is true… which I guess it is.” Her essence trembled in his head. “I guess he really is a German World War II soldier who was picked up in Berlin… East Berlin… in 1949 and speaks English because of the dragon who’d possessed him. I guess—” Her mental shaking grew stronger.

Pain sliced through Nero’s skull. He needed to distract her before she incapacitated him.

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