Unleash the Inferno (Heart of a Dragon Book 3) by Tamara Shoemaker

Author:Tamara Shoemaker [Shoemaker, Tamara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KinnAisling Presss
Published: 2017-04-20T16:00:00+00:00

Ayden found Luasa easily enough when she nudged him from a rock jutting where she crouched near their rendezvous point. He jerked to the side, and she shimmered into visibility again, affectionately blowing a smoke ring over him.

He coughed and waved. “Luasa, we must return to Kinna in Ongalia. The Seer Fey seek to kill her and Cedric immediately. We must warn her.”

Luasa's thoughts tumbled into a dark swirl as she read his thoughts he'd tried to hide. A low rumble shook her throat, and she lowered her head, her snout only an orlach away, staring him seriously in the face.

Ayden's shoulders sagged. “I'm sorry,” he murmured. “Yes, it is the only way to destroy the Amulet, and yes, I will flee with you to the far corners of the earth if you refuse to ritual with me.”

Luasa snorted, and her hot breath waved Ayden's too-long hair in the breeze. He shifted uneasily. “Aye, it would mean Sebastian's unequaled power. Likely more wars, more tyranny. There are no easy answers. Either we give our lives in this ritual, and we won't live to see the resulting peace and—and Kinna and Cedric's reign... or we flee and allow Lismaria, West Ashwynd, and possibly more countries to suffer beneath Sebastian's corrupt rule.” He scratched her muzzle gently, waiting for the answer he knew she'd make, but hoped she wouldn't.

After a moment, she blinked slowly, tilting her head forward and nudging him in the chest. Her thoughts poured over him, searing him inside, and involuntary tears crowded to his eyes.

“Then neither of us will survive, Luasa. You're my psuche partner, and there will be no coming back. Is that what you want?”

She snorted a derisive agreement, as though she laughed at his hesitation. She nudged him once more, and her wings unfurled. Her urgency was clear: they had work to do, and they had best get it done.

Ayden gathered the dregs of his courage, climbing onto her back. “This must be our secret, Luasa,” he crooned as she leaped from the ground. “No one can know of this.” He leaned forward, wrapping his arms around her hot neck. “Especially Kinna.” She would not let me go through with it. They flew high into the sky, soaring over the velvet folds of mountains below them.

The morning had peaked, and the late winter sun lit the pale sky with a pearly, luminescent glow so Ayden could see fieldspans into the distance. He had turned Luasa's fin so they were invisible again, and urged her lower; the air at the greater altitudes stole his breath altogether.

To the east, he could see the distant city of ClarenVale, a massive, sprawling shape of stone along the river at the base of the Marron Mountains. Sebastian would be there, concocting his schemes for ending the lives of his own brother's children.

Disgusted, Ayden returned his gaze ahead. The wind whipping into his face blurred his vision with involuntary tears, but where the land flattened out into the Sand Flats, he could just see the sparkle of the Northern Sea.

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