The Warrior King (Inferno Rising) by Owen Abigail

Author:Owen, Abigail
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dragon shifters, dragons, shifters, forbidden romance, Game of Thrones, fantasy, paranormal, military, royalty, fated mate, JR Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Donna Grant, Kelley Armstrong, Christine Feehan, Dragons & Mythical Creatures Fantasy; Fantasy Adventure Fiction; Paranormal & Urban Fantasy; Romantic Fantasy; Werewolf & Shifter Romance; Paranormal Romance; Inferno Rising series; Dragon Romance series; Abigail Owen; dragon shifter romance; The rogue king by abigail owen; the blood king by abigail owen; the warrior king by abigail owen
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2021-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The wail of a siren had Meira jackknifing in the bed to put her hands over her ears. Before she could call out for her uncle, an unfamiliar voice came over a loudspeaker, one of the men who ran this mountain.

“We have a dragon fire. Large. Situated fifty miles west near the town. Holding to determine cause.”

Only the alarms kept going.

She went to throw back the covers only to have a thick arm wrap around her waist from behind, yanking her painfully against a hard wall of chest with a knife to her throat.

“Scream and I slit you from ear to ear and drink your phoenix blood,” came a low-voiced threat. Almost a whisper, probably so Tyrek wouldn’t hear.

Only, instead of a fear-crazed whimper—the response that would have been normal for her not that long ago—Meira stuffed her fear into a box and shoved that box behind a wall, thinking of Sam and how he turned coldly purposeful both the day the fake Gorgon died in her fire and when Brock came for her in her home.

Somehow that worked, her mind clicking on like the whir of a booting computer. This person had come for her. He knew she was a phoenix. Which meant he also knew what she was worth. No way would he kill her.

A scream burst from her, making her throat raw.

“You bitch—”

Something or someone yanked her assailant from her, the knife slicing through the first few layers of skin on the side of her throat before falling to the ground with a clatter of metal on stone. Meira turned with a gasp, hand to her neck to test the deepness of the cut, to see Tyrek, partially shifted and grappling with a man dressed all in black. With a roar of threat that shook the furniture around her, her uncle speared the barbed end of his tail through the man’s gut, hoisting him into the air.

The skewered man gurgled before going limp and silent. With a flick, Tyrek tossed him to the ground, his tail absorbing back into his human form in a misty haze. There then gone.

“The others will have heard you,” he said. “I doubt he’s the only one. Let’s go—”

With the crunching of bones and a grunt of agony, a hand burst through Tyrek’s chest, his beating heart clutched in a partially shifted talon. “You’re not the only one who can do damage in human form, old man,” a voice like a hiss snarled from behind him.

Shock protected her from what she was seeing, separating her from the moment so it almost seemed to be happening to someone else. Her mind trying to make sense of it. She’d only just found him. He couldn’t already be gone—

It hit her on a wave of nausea, and she pitched forward, hands on her knees, breathing hard. Her heart tore apart to shreds. Dragon talons would be less devastating. Then her empathic shields failed her in the face of her own devastation, the rage and hatred of Tyrek’s murderer beating at her, leaving her insides bruised and bloodied.

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