Where Sleeping Dragons Lie (Skeleton Key) by Cristina Rayne & Skeleton Key

Author:Cristina Rayne & Skeleton Key
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Fantastical Press
Published: 2016-06-11T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Briana had known before she craned her neck over her shoulder so fast that her neck popped loudly that she was completely and utterly screwed.

The staircase that descended into an eerie gloom from the threshold of the door she and Taron had just fallen through just confirmed it, if not the fact that an unnerving silence had replaced the sound of a castle being destroyed by a pissed off stone dragon. She could hear her own breathing more keenly than she ever could before, short, gasping, and panicky, while her heart was beating fast enough to send her into cardiac arrest.

Shit.

“It’s there, right?” she whispered. “The key—it’s still there in the keyhole, right?”

She felt Taron stiffen against her, before he gave her another squeeze around the middle, this one reassuring. “It is.”

Briana let out the breath she hadn’t realized she was holding and sagged with relief in his arms. The key was still there. Maybe she wasn’t as screwed as she had thought.

Now that she wasn’t on the brink of freaking out, she finally remembered that they had a rather sizable audience, and the likely reason why.

“Is that Dagon on that bed?” she asked tentatively.

Taron released her and stepped forward. “Yes,” he replied, that one word steeped with a plethora of emotions.

That single step shattered the stillness that had fallen over everyone else in the room, and within two beats, Taron was mobbed like a celebrity suddenly spotted by paparazzi. A flurry of words, laughs, and embraces were exchanged, and even though Briana couldn’t understand a word of it, pure joy was universal, and seeing that emotion on Taron’s face made her feel choked up as well.

As she stood apart from the celebration, feeling awkward and unsure but nonetheless happy for Taron, she remembered the skeleton key that Taron had assured her was still sticking out of the keyhole in the door behind her. A quick glance over her shoulder confirmed it. While she was being ignored, Briana hurried over to the door and pulled out the key, deliberately ignoring the fact that the key was now so cold that it actually burned her skin when she touched it. She shoved it back into her pocket and vigorously wiped her hand on the side of her jeans to get rid of the sting.

When Taron finally turned around, sunset eyes seeking her, she was back in the spot he had left her as though she had never left it, staring back at him uncertainly. She had been tempted to try to use the key on the other side of the door while his back had been turned and everyone else was distracted, but what stopped her was the possibility that the door on her world may no longer exist thanks to Cabak. Between the thought of opening a door that led into a dimensional void or sticking with Taron, who just might be able to lead her to an Ansi still loyal to the firedrakes who could safely open a portal back home for her, it was a no-brainer.

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