Allyson James - 01 Dragon Heat by Allyson James

Author:Allyson James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“Lisa.” Caleb gently lowered her in his arms, fingers touching the wound where the single bullet had pierced Lisa’s chest. She was still alive, her breathing fast and shallow, her eyes half closed, gaze fixed and unseeing.

He heard Malcolm shouting at the gunman followed by a crackle of bone. The man who’d shot Lisa crumpled to a groaning heap. Behind Caleb, Saba lay flat on the ground, unmoving.

“Someone call 911,” Lumi said, panic in his voice.

Caleb sensed the others gather around, Grizelda open mouthed, Malcolm’s men still numbly holding their guns. Malcolm dropped to one knee, leather coat swinging, and reached for Lisa. Lumi, guilt heavy in his eyes, knelt on Lisa’s other side, trying to help Caleb hold her.

“There isn’t time for an ambulance,” Malcolm bit out. He looked up at Caleb, sliver eyes losing their coldness, pain haunting their depths. “This isn’t what I meant to happen. We can’t lose her.”

Caleb could barely think. Lisa’s hands were growing so cold. She was drifting away from him, farther than she’d ever been even when he was on the opposite side of the door. “Black dragons are healers.”

“Not here, I’m not,” Malcolm answered, voice harsh. “I have limited powers here.”

“Your witch healed you. Make her heal Lisa.”

Malcolm’s gaze darted to Saba’s limp body, the wind from the bay stirring her dark hair. “Saba is spent.

It would kill her to try. You have to take Lisa to Dragonspace.”

It made sense. In a magical world like Dragonspace, even human bullets could be rendered harmless by the right magic.

“Find a black dragon called Balin. Tell him I sent you.”

Caleb gave him a short nod. Black dragons, for all their distant coolness, knew the secrets of healing, and he’d heard of this one and knew where to start looking for him.

“Lumi,” Caleb ordered. “Drive Lisa’s car. Get us to her apartment.”

Lumi wiped tears from his face and nodded. Gently Caleb touched Lisa’s jacket pockets until he found the jingling keys that would run the car and open the apartment’s door.

Lisa never moved as Caleb drew out the keys and handed them to Lumi. Caleb’s fingers were stained with blood, Lisa’s life blood.

Lumi sprinted around the warehouse, and after a moment Caleb heard the roar of the engine. Lumi squealed the car around the end of the building, through the open gate in the huge chain link fence, the smell of exhaust overriding the acrid smell of spent magic.

Lumi screeched to a halt next to Caleb and Lisa, and Malcolm helped Caleb lift Lisa into the car, resting her on Caleb’s lap in the front seat. Lisa didn’t respond as they laid her against Caleb’s shoulder.

Malcolm touched her face, his silver eyes still, as though he tried to call up his powers of healing but could not. Caleb regarded him narrowly. When he returned from Dragonspace, whether Lisa lived or died, he’d make Malcolm pay for what he’d done.

Malcolm slammed the car door, Lumi jammed his foot hard on the gas pedal and the car shot away.

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