Bitten by Flame (Dragonborn Daughters Book 1) by Kimber White

Author:Kimber White [White, Kimber]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nokay Press LLC
Published: 2020-07-07T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Cassia

They were dead. No. Not dead. Incinerated. I’d laid down fire hot enough to turn the two bear shifters to ash in a matter of seconds.

For a moment, I couldn’t breathe. I could barely see. The world existed in heat and flame. I rose higher than I’d ever gone before. The roof of the motel grew smaller and the farmland surrounding it stretched below me in a grid pattern all the way to the horizon.

I could hear my father’s voice through the warnings he’d given me since I was old enough to talk.

“Slow down. Be careful. Your wings are powerful, but you cannot fly. If you go too high, you could fall, Cassia.”

Was he right? Or was it a lie? Something to frighten me to keep me close to home.

The wind picked up. My wings got caught in the updraft. Terror seized my heart. I felt so out of control.

“Cassia!” A voice reached me through the chaos. It acted as a tether and calmed my heart. More than that, I felt his steady pulse filling my ears. It was a touchstone. A beacon. I latched onto it and exhaled.

The ground came up so fast. My stomach lurched. But somehow, I managed to slow my descent. Still, I landed hard, teetering to one side, I fell and scraped my knees.

“Mother of God!” A new voice reached me. It was the hotel manager. His face had gone sheet white, and he clutched his chest as he backed up toward the lobby doors.

My God. I hadn’t cloaked myself. He’d seen! They’d both seen!

The manager pulled a whistle out from under his shirt. He drew in a breath and readied himself to blow it. It was a signal to the Ring. If there were any agents within a mile of here, they’d hear it and come.

Colm reacted faster than I did. He charged the man and let his fangs drop all the way. He lifted him up by his shirt and pressed him against the side of the building. The man had the whistle between his lips. He reached for something. I saw a flash of silver. It was a knife. The fool actually tried to fight Colm off with it.

Colm gave him a quick death, snapping his neck between his arms. The manager slumped to the ground; the whistle still lodged in his lips. Colm grabbed it, tearing it from the leather strap around the guy’s neck, then crushed it beyond repair in one hand.

He turned to me.

I knelt on one knee, struggling to regain my balance. The fire had taken something from me. My wings were tucked behind me but still rested on the ground.

Slowly, I rose.

Colm took a hesitant step toward me.

“You,” he whispered. “You’re…”

I knew what this meant. I’d been raised on it. Colm had just taken care of one problem in dispatching the innkeeper. The bears were already dead. That left just one more soul who’d seen what I was. Who could tell the world and do me harm.

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