Sacred Honor by May Dawson

Author:May Dawson [Dawson, May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Thirty-Four

Jaik

I was silent, and I could tell it bothered Honor because she reached for my hand. I took her hand, forced myself to relax.

“Tell us everything,” I said simply to King Kallus. Listening wouldn’t hurt any of us. It didn’t mean we agreed with him.

“If you promise you won’t try to kill me, I’ll unchain you all,” Kallus offered.

“We won’t harm you if you don’t harm us,” I agreed.

After all, just like my father, Kallus was probably hard to kill. He might be tied to the magic of this kingdom.

Although now I had to consider the possibility that everything I’d ever learned was a lie.

“Start at the beginning, please,” I said.

“I can't claim to know the whole story,” Kallus said. He stopped and turned to Honor, a questioning look written across his face. I didn't like for him to look at her that way. As if she were something useful to him. “Your magic. Which you did in the throne room. How have your powers manifested?”

Honor shrugged. “I haven't been a dragon shifter for very long. It's been full of surprises.”

“I hope you'll surprise King Pend very much,” Kallus said.

My thoughts flew as fast and unsettling as the storm of arrows. Maybe I should ally with this man to help kill my own father. Maybe the throne would never belong to me. Maybe I’d never been worthy of the throne, because my father wasn't worthy of the throne.

I tried to focus here in this room, on what mattered. Honor. Protecting her. Making sure Pend never had the chance to hurt her like he'd already tried to do once.

Later on, I’d reckon with the possibility I might not be king.

King Kallus said, “I'll tell you all I know. Furien’s sister Aura ruled the Poison Kingdom then and she rules it now. She took an interest in your father's mission, Honor, because there was no love lost between her and her brother.”

It was strange to think that once people had traveled easily between the Poison Kingdom, the Grey Kingdom, and our isle.

“No good comes from those kinds of sibling feuds,” Talisyn muttered. You'd think he could take one day off from mockery.

“And perhaps,” he continued. “she had some sympathy for his mission because she too was a shifter. Aura’s family was not kind to her once she began the shift and they discovered what she was.”

“And what was she?” I asked.

“A snake, the beautiful and venomous center of the Poison Kingdom.” Kallus seemed lost in his memories. “I was there when your father came to ask for help. Furien had been hunting the shifters. He’d killed so many of them, and the dragons had fought him, but he’d destroyed their families in revenge.”

“The dragons?” I asked sharply.

“Your fathers,” Kallus said. “They were heroes once to their people. They lost everything. Furien razed their homes and murdered their families, and they fought on anyway.” His gaze swept to Honor. “Lysander and Pend flew here, desperate for help, and no one could understand how they survived the journey.

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