To Love a Dragon: Venys Needs Men (Wild Dragons Book 2) by Tiffany Roberts

Author:Tiffany Roberts [Roberts, Tiffany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

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Arysteon rolled onto his back and swung Serek up, holding the baby high above him. Serek’s delighted, high-pitched squeals mingled with Arysteon’s laughter, making Leyloni’s grin stretch somehow wider. Her cheeks were already sore from it, and she relished the feeling.

She added a piece of wood to the campfire and watched as Arysteon brought his tail up between his arms, teasing Serek with it. When the baby reached out to grab the bait, Arysteon tugged it away, and Serek’s little hands clapped together. The baby giggled uncontrollably until the tail came within reach again and the process repeated.

Leyloni held many happy memories of her time with her tribe, and she would cherish every one of them until her last breath, but these moments with Serek and Arysteon…they had become her happiest. She never would have expected to find joy so soon after tragedy, and though none of this had freed her of her pain and grief, the joy shined all the brighter after so much darkness.

There was a future ahead of her. There was hope.

There was love.

As Leyloni ran her eyes over Arysteon, her smile softened, and her heart quickened. She took in his backswept horns, his tangle of long, blue hair, the flash of his fangs as he laughed, and the glow of his violet eyes. He was not human, would never truly be human, but none of that mattered to her. She knew what that warm, frightening feeling in her chest was.

She loved him.

She loved him, and that was equal parts thrilling and terrifying.

Everyone else she’d loved was gone. Loving Arysteon—and Serek, too—could not be separated from her fear of losing them. Just the thought of it made her heart ache, made a chill creep up her spine and dread pool in her belly.

Arysteon was powerful even in this form, but all his strength, all his lightning, could not protect them from every threat. He’d chosen her and a mortal life over his immortality. He was not invulnerable.

She’d known he had lived for hundreds of years, a length of time she couldn’t quite fathom, but she’d been stunned when he had told her he could have lived for thousands more had she not touched him. It had taken him some time for him to ease her horror after the realization of what that meant had settled in. He hadn’t simply given up his form for her, he’d given up countless years of his life.

Arysteon had assured her with indisputable vehemence that he wanted this—a mortal life with her. That what years he might otherwise have had without her would’ve been empty. That he did not regret their bond, that he did not regret his change.

His words had made her love him all the more.

Leyloni didn’t know what she would do if she lost him—if she lost either of them. Arysteon and Serek had become her life, her reasons to wake each morning, to smile and laugh and keep pushing onward.

As though sensing her thoughts, Arysteon turned his face toward her and met her gaze.

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