Vende (Scifi Alien Dragon Romance) (Dragons of Preor Book 11) by Celia Kyle & Anne Hale

Author:Celia Kyle & Anne Hale [Kyle, Celia & Hale, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-06T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Vende watched Dawn disappear into the forest. He had been in here before because every soldier had to turn soil and carry water at some time in his life. He could tell the garden was far less pleasant than it had been in the past, but he couldn’t understand why.

This left him in awe of his mate. What was this ability she had to understand how the plants felt? He had never thought of plants having feelings before.

The way she had walked quickly away from him left him feeling dismissed. Even though he still wanted to be by her side, he had been worrying about his duties on the ship and what would happen if he didn’t at least check in.

He took one last look into the forest and saw his mate standing at the foot of a tall tree. The trunk was massive in circumference and the top of the tree vanished into the light of the solar reflectors that transferred UV rays straight into the garden from panels outside the ship.

It was a Flame Tree, and back on Preor they would grow tall enough for a dragon to land in the highest branches. They lived to be hundreds of years old and were called Flame Trees because the hot sun scorched their outer leaves making them appear to be on fire, especially at sunset.

Watching Dawn at the foot of the tree triggered nostalgia in him. He had not thought it possible to miss Preor, but right now, he missed his home planet. He knew he would never fly his mate through the endless skies of his home, which meant this was probably the only part of his heritage she could really see and touch.

He turned and left the room, fighting with himself. He wanted to stay with her, but he knew his dragon begging him to claim her was making him so uneasy. She would be safe here and he needed to use his self-discipline without remorse. He couldn’t lapse in his duties as so many other mated Preor had done or he would never forgive himself.

He asked Penelope to transport him to the top of the ship. It was mostly bare, with only a small iron fence around the viewing platform. Wind screamed around the edges, the atmosphere all too thin as the ship hovered high above the tower. He stepped out of the small viewing deck and walked along the edge, looking at all the bare fastenings where his beloved training platform had been detached.

“Penelope, we need a new platform.”

“Yes, you keep telling me. I’m doing my best. I’ve been getting Lily to organize things, but we haven’t got it all on board.”

“I want it to extend out, just like it did before. We need to be able to take off and land at multiple points.” He gestured around the edges. “Just follow the model of the old one.”

“I’ve got a plan, Vende. I keep telling you that. Can’t you just trust me?”

He made a small sound that might have been a laugh.

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