Blades and Flames: Five Hot and Magical Paranormal Novels by Eva Chase

Author:Eva Chase [Chase, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2021-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Ren

Aaron’s last comment was not the kind of revelation anyone should drop on a girl before she’s even had breakfast. I stared at him, my fingers closing around his to stop the caress of his thumb—but not letting go. Because even as the shock rippled through me, some part of me leapt to accept the idea.

Yes. They were mine, all of them.

I shook that thought away. “Hold on. Just so I’m clear, you’re saying that if I’m the last dragon shifter there is, my ‘role’ is to hook up with the four of you alphas?”

The corner of Aaron’s lips crooked up. “Not just ‘hook up with.’ The mate-bonds shifters form are lifelong. You’d be partnered with all of us, ‘til death do us part.”

“That seems kind of... greedy, grabbing the four most important”—and hottest, I added silently—“guys around.”

“Like I said, it’s considered right because it unites the four kin-groups. I’ve looked back through the old records, as far back as shifters have kept them, and from what I’ve seen, our community has always worked that way. It’s so natural it’s woven into our beings.”

He paused, studying my expression. His voice dropped to a pitch that sent eager shivers over my skin. “You’ve felt it, haven’t you? That pull toward each of us—the same way we all feel toward you.”

My breath caught. I couldn’t look away from his brilliant blue eyes. I wet my lips, and his gaze dropped to them. Suddenly they felt as hot as if he’d already kissed them.

How could I lie to him when he was looking at me like that?

“I have felt it,” I said. My voice came out in a murmur.

“Then you understand how innate it is. How meant-to-be.”

He raised my hand to press a kiss to my knuckles. The heat of that touch flared down my arm and right through the core of me. I might have yanked him into a different sort of kiss if someone hadn’t cleared his throat rather rudely at that exact moment.

I flinched back from Aaron, an embarrassed flush prickling over me. West was standing in the kitchen doorway, his arms crossed in his usual standoffish pose. His dark green eyes glowered at us.

“That might be how it’s worked before, but that doesn’t mean it’s supposed to stay that way forever,” he said in his low, throaty voice.

Aaron rested his hand reassuringly on the small of my back. My embarrassment didn’t stop me from wanting to lean into him.

But the most infuriating thing was that neither that embarrassment nor West’s jerk-ish demeanor stopped the pull drawing me toward the wolf shifter too. Even as I glared back at him, some part of me longed to see that handsome face soften with affection. A few strands of his silvery auburn hair had drifted across his angular cheekbones, and my hand itched to tuck it behind his ear. To linger on his cheek afterward.

I curled my fingers into my palm. Meant to be or not, West clearly wasn’t mooning over me.

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