Dragon Dreams- The Complete Shifter Collection by Leela Ash & Tabitha St George

Author:Leela Ash & Tabitha St George [Ash, Leela & George, Tabitha St]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-04T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

“Well, I hope you’re happy,” Finn told his Dragon.

Utter devastation spread in all directions around him. Two-foot trenches clawed in the Earth. Uprooted trees, their wood shattered into matchsticks. Even a handful of boulders with large chunks gouged out.

That was his work. Or, rather, his Dragon’s.

He’d awakened from Bree’s…

…treachery!...

…Bree’s shocking confession, he corrected his Dragon. Furious, swimming in rage. Dragon’s didn’t handle…

…treachery!...

…disappointment well. ‘A true Dragon is his own master’, as his Alpha was fond of saying. Yet, it was also true that a wise man picked his fights. Maybe he could force his wild soul to swallow its pride. But why bother? Better to fly out here, far from civilization, where it could vent its rage safely. A few squirrels might die of fright, but that was the worst of it. This mess? A feast for beavers and woodpeckers.

Now, with the red rage finally dimming, he sat down amidst the ruin and tried to think.

So much for ‘true love.’ His ‘soul mate’ was promised to another man.

That admission stung, a sharp, stabbing blow to the heart that set his Dragon’s fury flaring again.

“I am such an idiot,” he said to no one. “This time, this time, things would be different. Hah.”

She is a traitor!

“No.” Firmly, he pushed his Dragon’s rage out of his mind. “She’s one of the Lost. Probably never Shifted in her entire life. She has no idea what the Rite of Claiming is. To her, this was just a strange dream. Of course, she didn’t take it seriously!”

But he had. For one night, for one glorious moment, he had dared to believe…

He cut that thought off too. He’d dared to believe stupid things. Best not to dwell on that.

Not when he needed to plan for the future.

Clearly, Bree Williams was not his woman.

We Claimed her! his Dragon protested.

“Oh, great! She’s a traitor but we Claimed her, so… what? She’s our traitor? Nobody else can have ‘our’ traitor?”

Fuming, his Dragon refused to answer.

The first prick of a headache blossomed behind his eyes.

He would die of shame if his Alpha, his Flight, found out how he’d been humiliated. He could never mention that stupid dream. On that, he and his Dragon agreed.

“So, we’re going to let her go.”

His Dragon seethed.

“Stop it. If we can’t love her, we’re letting her go to a man who can. She deserves love, if she can find it.”

There. That quieted his soul.

“We never mention this.” Again, embarrassed agreement. “We do our job, buy this Wellspring, and call the Wolves in to care for it. Then we leave.”

And this humiliation would be just another failing in a long, long list.

An urge welled up inside him. He longed to Shift once more and vent his anger on the land around him.

But he wouldn’t. Enough was enough.

Time to fly back to Jackson. Time to put ‘love’ and all of its horrors behind him once more.

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