“Fools. Every last one of them.”
“They were following orders.”
She sneered. “Not all of them. Some asked to join the cause.”
Dain clasped his hands behind his back. “Did you get anything today?”
“Nothing concrete,” she said, agitation deepening her voice. “Yet. I suspect I know who sent the nightwraith after my sister. This particular Conclave member is…devious. I’ll get the proof I need, though.”
“We’re treading on dangerous ground.”
Savita shoved her long, tawny hair over her shoulder. “No one suspects us.”
“Let’s keep it that way.”
“What about your lead?”
“I’m about to head there now. I’ll contact you when I have something.”
Savita stepped toward him. “Thank you for helping me.”
“I’m helping me,” he said before calling the shadows to him.
* * * *
Stonemore
Merrill looked west. He’d stopped trying to reach his brethren weeks ago. He should be angrier than he was that they hadn’t tried to contact him. Maybe it was for the best. He wasn’t the same dragon he had been. There was only so much a man could take, and he had reached his limit.
He’d actually reached it long ago, but he had kept a firm handle on it. While at Stonemore, he’d just stopped caring. The residents of Zora might not know the history of the dragons, which meant they couldn’t know that they were close to repeating the past. But he knew. So did the other Kings.
He was tired of innocents dying, tired of pretending to be something he wasn’t.
The mortals on Zora were just as brash and arrogant as those on Earth. He swung his head to the side to look at Villette, who lay naked beneath the covers of their bed. He couldn’t explain why he remained with her. She hid many things, and he intended to get to each of them in time.
She stretched and opened her eyes, searching until she found him at the window. “Still nothing from your friends?”
Merrill shook his head.
She flung back the covers, exposing her lush, sensual body. “Let me take your mind off it.”
He strode to her as she smiled triumphantly. Merrill grabbed her wrists when she reached for him and pinned them above her head before settling between her legs. Her eyes glowed with excitement.
“Yes,” she whispered urgently.
When he didn’t move, she lifted her hips and ground against him. The light from the fire in the hearth danced along the scarred side of her face. She was using him. He was certain of that. But then again, he was using her, too. Stonemore held many secrets, and he intended to uncover each and every one.
She pouted up at him, then leaned forward to lick his nipple. “What do you want, lover?”
That would come soon enough. For now…
He thrust into her, burying himself deep.
And her gasp turned into a moan.
* * * *
Merrill and the rest of the Dragon Kings will return in DRAGON ARISEN, coming June 2023.
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