Immortal Dragons: The First Four: Prequel + Books 1-3 by Ophelia Bell

Author:Ophelia Bell [Bell, Ophelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ophelia Bell
Published: 2017-07-14T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Ked

Somewhere Over the Pacific Ocean

Present Day

Throughout the flight, Ked kept sending periodic breaths to Evie to maintain a mental connection with her. Thanks to his blood in the man he carried, he had a solid connection to Marcus, but Evie was still remote to him.

The pair of lovers came together in his mind as though meant to be there. Evie’s memories fell into line with Marcus’s so perfectly, Ked had no reason to doubt either of them, or their bond to each other.

Ked had only the smallest twinge of envy that Marcus had reached Evie first, for being there in that first moment she’d seen her true mate, though he knew it was his own blood running through Marcus’s veins that had drawn her to him.

Deep inside Marcus’s mind, Ked sensed the regret. In spite of his deep love for Evie, Marcus would have given everything up to spare her the ordeal of the last five decades. Marcus was letting go, bit by bit, as they traveled. Ked sensed the man’s crumbling constitution with every mile, but not because he was dying. Because he was wishing more and more for death, as though he were ready for it, willing it to come to him, willing himself to let it take him because he didn’t deserve her love anymore—because he didn’t deserve life, either.

That wasn’t how their world worked, though. And whether Marcus knew it or not, he’d been a part of their world since before his birth. As a Blessed, he’d been marked in the womb to someday become a dragon’s mate. How he found that dragon was up to Fate to decide.

Now that Marcus had been irrevocably altered, thanks to the Ultiori ritual to create an Elite, there was only one dragon he could belong to. And Ked wasn’t about to let him give up. Not when he knew how tightly bonded Marcus and Evie were, all thanks to his blood.

He knew from the memories he witnessed that Marcus had, indeed, been no more than Blessed when he’d first met Evie, but somehow that had changed. Yet even before it had changed, Marcus’s blessing had drawn the pair of them together so swiftly only magic or Fate could be responsible.

Ked would bet his soul that Fate was the bigger player in the scenario. If Ked was Evie’s true mate, Fate would not have simply delivered her to his doorstep. She’d make him work for it. He and his siblings had been in seclusion for too long. It would take dire circumstances to draw them out. Making them dream about their mates was what had done the trick, finally.

Just any mate wouldn’t do, however. It had to be someone special. Evie’s brothers had been the first to be mated, by Ked’s sister, Belah. The North siblings were more than just eligible turul. They were essentially turul royalty, the descendants of Boreas, one of the four Winds. Just as Ked was the son of the Mother of Fire, he was meant to mate a descendant of another elemental goddess.

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