Incendiary Magic by Aimee Easterling

Author:Aimee Easterling
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dragon, dragon shifter, mage, witch, urban fantasy, romantic fantasy, fantasy romance, paranormal, paranormal fantasy, paranormal romance, standalone
Publisher: Wetknee Books
Published: 2017-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Evacuate the humans to the tunnels. Mason flashed the frequently practiced but never before used code to his brothers, ultraviolet pigments in his scales changing to match the pattern they’d developed during a misspent youth. In reply, Zane immediately peeled out of formation, shifting even as he landed on the Riverview’s roof then sprinting for the stairs to carry out the Lord Dragon’s orders.

With both sets of towers taken care of, that left only the bomb itself to defuse. Cold air bit into Mason’s hide as he turned away from the houseboats arrayed across Golden Reservoir. The west, in contrast, was a Green stronghold, a spot where Fee could drop the explosives without harming human life.

Heading established, Mason twisted his neck backward to check on his precious cargo. Despite a clear understanding that the redhead had come to the Aerie with the intent to do harm, his belly immediately filled with peaceful embers as he watched his treasure work.

Long tresses whipped around her face while pellets of ice settled into the gap between collar and skin. But Fee was so engrossed in her task that she noticed neither wind, cold, nor the fact that she was currently perched on a dragon’s moving back.

So much like Sam. Mason couldn’t count the number of times he’d walked in on his brother intent upon a sea of engineering drawings, how many times he’d slipped a plate of food onto the corner of Sam’s desk only to return hours later to find the offering still untouched.

Instinctively, Mason shied away from the memory...but then he slowly eased back toward an image that emanated warm nostalgia rather than the usual flame-quenching guilt. His chest expanded as his fire grew. And for the first time since Sam’s premature death, a reminder of his twin sent Mason soaring higher into the cloud-filled sky rather than plummeting toward the grasping plants below.

But the moment of tranquility was short-lived. Even as the dragon watched, his treasure’s chin tilted earthward and her hands went abruptly still. Then she peered toward Mason’s face, her already pale skin now so ashen that the dragon was terrified she’d lose her grip and fall down, down, down toward the perennially hungry Green.

Immediately, he whipped his own head forward, berating himself for startling a human who wasn’t accustomed to staring into a dragon’s gargantuan eyes. Fee was so small in comparison to his true form, her body so nearly weightless that he could barely feel human thighs squeezing the saddle of draconic neck as his passenger clung on for dear life. No wonder she’d been startled.

Maybe Fee can relax now that she’s not gazing into eyeballs as large as she is tall....

Except his passenger didn’t relax. Instead, her muscles tensed further and her fists started pounding a staccato against hard-edged scales.

The pummeling didn’t hurt, but it did provoke Mason to glance backward one more time in an effort to assess the situation. “...Dangerous men!” his rider was saying, words barely audible as she yelled against the roar of the whipping wind.

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