The Cursed King (Inferno Rising) by Owen Abigail

Author:Owen, Abigail
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: hot and steamy; dark; dragon shifters; paranormal romance, pnr, shifters, romance, Abigail Owen, Inferno Rising, dragons
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2021-10-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

“Holy smokes!” Angelika yelped as everything about her flared in an inferno of fire.

Her vision immediately took on a reddish-gold haze. She lifted her arms, staring at the way the hypnotizing flames danced and glided over her skin. Over her clothes. Over everything. She wasn’t burning, but she was covered in it, the warmth penetrating, seeping into her blood only to spark there.

An answering lance of desire shot through her with each pound of her heart, sending all the best parts of her tingling and pulsing with each rush.

Like Kasia.

She jerked her gaze to Airk’s. Is it finally happening? Am I getting my powers?

Only…the fire wasn’t going away. It was getting hotter.

“Um…Airk?” She shook a hand, only to have the flames leap higher as though she’d added oxygen to the mix and made it worse. The heat at the tips of her fingers and her ears started to singe. “Airk?” Definitely panic in her voice now.

Kasia’s flare-ups had calmed with Brand giving her a great big orgasm every time, apparently. If Airk wasn’t currently a massive dragon, Angelika might not have had a problem with that.

The dragon before her was staring at her with his head turned, one giant eye filled with what appeared to be concern.

“I need him,” she told the creature.

The dragon snorted once, which told her he understood what she was asking for. In the same instant, the heat stepped up a degree or a hundred. Holding in a wince, she lifted her hand again to find the flames turning blue. At a small whimper from her throat, the dragon snorted again, this time sounding almost afraid. Then, with a flap of his wings, scooped her up and flew away.

“Don’t follow us.” That was Airk’s voice but not. Rougher, angrier. Directed to the dragons on the ground.

Only several looked as though they weren’t okay with that. Angelika stayed them with a hand. She’d have to trust Airk in this, even as a dragon. If he wanted to hurt her, he would have already.

She buttoned her lips around more whimpers and almost expected her fingertips to start blistering with the intensity of the heat by now. She even tried rubbing her hands against her clothes to snuff out the flames, but that did nothing.

Luckily, Airk didn’t go far. Only enough away that the other dragons were around the side of the mountain. Then he landed, setting her on a rock, where her flames couldn’t set the surrounding trees ablaze quite so easily.

With a suddenness that astounded her, the shimmering lines—like watching a mirage—that indicated a shift encased him. Only the dragon didn’t change. Not immediately.

The concentration of her own fire, forgotten for a mere moment, made itself felt, the pain receptors in her nerves making her believe it was crawling up her hands to her wrists now. “Airk, hurry.”

The dragon tipped his head back and roared even as his size decreased. Even as his scales turned to human skin and clothes, as his bones realigned so he was standing on two feet instead of all fours.

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