The Curse of the Dragon by Eliza Gayle

Author:Eliza Gayle [Gayle, Eliza]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gypsy Ink Books
Published: 2022-05-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Eighteen

Ian

I woke before the sun came up and turned to look at the woman lying next to me. Goddess, she was perfect—and complicated.

I don’t know what I expected this morning when I woke, but the look of pure contentment on her face as she slept practically made the dragon purr in my head. Fucking softie.

At some point in the night, she'd pulled all the blankets and pillows she could find into the bed with us and was now sleeping in what looked like some sort of cocoon. I half expected that when she woke, a butterfly would emerge. She was so different from the kind of women I was used to and not at all what I expected from her coven.

For years they’d been wary of our presence and in the last few years had become unexpectedly hostile. An all-out war had seemed imminent as it became evident that we couldn’t co-exist peacefully. Cordelia, however, didn't seem to have anything more than a little apprehension when it came to my family. That could have been the mating heat influencing her, but I didn't think so. It was almost as if the coven had known exactly what we needed and when.

What I didn’t understand was how they didn’t recognize what a treasure they were giving up and why.

Although, according to her, she wasn’t like the rest of her coven and they’d ostracized her because of it. That thought did not endear me to her people, even if I was grateful to have her in my life. Nor did I feel particularly inclined to give them the peace they asked for because of it. I wasn't normally a suspicious person, but after years of dealing with Isaac and his declining mental health, I'd grown leery at best and paranoid at worst. My brother literally defined the word cutthroat, and I was determined to be different from him in every way.

However, there were other ways to make her coven regret they’d ever given her a moment’s pain. She was my mate after all, and as such deserved my vengeance on her behalf. I would just have to bide my time and wait until after we were married and life settled down.

Married.

What an odd requirement. I wasn’t sure why the witches were so hell bent on observing human traditions. Why did they care about such things? It was all for show. They probably thought a human wedding would show everyone in their part of the mountains that we were giving in. What else could explain it? They somehow thought accepting Cordelia into our family showed submission, but they couldn't be more wrong. She was my Omega, and the human ceremony carried little weight with our kind. It was the mating ritual I wanted. Without it, I would certainly face a perilous future.

If she rejected the call…

I shook my head. She couldn’t reject it. The consequences were too dire. Neither one of us would live a long, happy life without that bond. The fates would be sure of it.

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