Stroke of Fire by Kira Nyte

Author:Kira Nyte [Nyte, Kira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781947077027
Publisher: Dark Illusion Publishing
Published: 2019-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Syn swore to himself he’d never leave Briella alone again if he couldn’t reach her in a split second. After the incident at the shop, his frustration and fear of what might have happened had he not decided to track her down red-lined until his dragon wanted to singe anything in sight that threatened his woman. The entire screwed-up situation had been way too close a call for him to relax his guard.

As it stood, his blood seared his veins and his senses were highly attuned to the slightest noise, shift of air over his skin, and possible black misty clouds pouring into the frame of a woman.

It took several minutes and constant reassurance to calm Saralyn and keep both parents from suffocating his lifemate with their attention. He allowed his Keeper his due words to Briella, but put a firm foot down when Giovani and Briella started arguing about freedom and independence.

“I learned my lesson today, Dad, but I am not going to live in fear of walking out the door every day,” Briella snapped.

Giovani, whose face was the same shade of flushed red as Briella’s, gritted his teeth. “I knew it was a bad idea keeping this from you. Now I have to contend with a strong-willed, stubborn as sin, independent woman. You are not like everyone else, Briella, and the sooner you accept that, the safer you’ll be.”

“I think emotions are at a dangerous peak right now. Giovani, give her space. And Briella, please take into consideration his concern,” Syn said. He half expected both his Keeper and his lifemate to turn on him, and braced himself.

To his surprise, father and daughter nodded, their heads lowering and the fight draining out of them before it turned explosive. Syn noticed Saralyn’s closed-mouth smile of approval before she wrapped an arm around Briella and led her to the kitchen table. She had spread a towel over the tabletop and set out several types of antiseptic, gauze rolls, bandages, and a suture kit.

Syn motioned to the table and said to Giovani, “Please don’t tell me she does this often.”

“Saralyn never lost the skills she learned before the attack. She knows how to handle just about any injury,” Giovani said with pride. Pride and love and adoration. Syn noted that in all the years, nothing dimmed that light of love Giovani and Saralyn shared.

To share that with Briella…

His hopeful thoughts were doused a minute later.

Saralyn pulled back the makeshift fabric dressing and the dragon clawed in fury. He hadn’t realized he’d lost himself in the powerful anger until both women stared at him, eyes wide. Giovani rested a hand against his arm. A small plume of smoke curled up from Syn’s nostrils as his dragon took over his sight to watch the ladies through thermal, orb-like lenses capable of picking out the finest detail of any object.

That object being Briella’s sliced-up hand and wrist, and how deep many of her wounds were.

The growl that drew their attention subsided. He raked a hand through his hair, shaking the dragon down.

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