Page 93 of The Soul of the Dragon

My mouth dropped open.Did I?

A roar in the near distance brought his head up, and my heart sank as I realized we were almost out of time. If we didn't do this now, we'd be caught and embroiled in another deadly fight. The outcome of which no one could predict.

"Isaac. He's going to find us soon. We have to hurry."

“I can’t leave you to face him alone. I’m your Alpha.”

“You are. And always will be. But you don’t have to worry about Magnus. He can’t stand up to the power I now have. I doubt anyone can.”

His eyes widened. “I knew you were special.”

My stomach flip flopped at his praise. I wanted so much more, but he had to return. It was the only way to be sure about the curse.

“You have to go now,” I whispered.

He nodded, but as I turned towards the cave he grabbed me around my waist and hauled me against him. "I'm not sure how I will live without you. Which means after I free my mother, I will begin the hunt for another way back to you." He pressed another heart melting kiss on my lips and I drank it down and imprinted it on my heart. He wasn't even gone yet, and my entire body already ached for him.

By the time he released me, those tears I'd promised not to shed were running down my face. I had to turn away from him or I was going to beg him to stay with me.

We walked together into the darkened cave and towards the pull of magic that felt as comforting as it did foreign. I'd never dreamt of the human realm before. Only because I knew next to nothing about it. But now that my heart was about to walk through that portal with a dragon man with an attitude, I would dream of nothing else.

"Do you have the spell you need written down somewhere?"

He shook his head. "Nay, I memorized it. We didn't want to risk it falling into the wrong hands or it getting lost."

"Okay, then I'll need to repeat each incantation when you speak it. With both of us joined in, it should make the magic that much stronger."

I came to a halt in front of a large rock that blocked our path. It looked ordinary, but its essence of magic told a completely different story. "I still can't believe this has been here all this time and no one knew about it."

"That's because the agreement between brothers, our King and his King, had sealed it permanently. Only when Isaac killed our father, did it open."

I gasped at the voice behind us. I grabbed my bow and arrow and pulled it taut against my cheek in his direction. "Don't move, Magnus."

"Aww. Are you going to kill me, little cousin?"

"If she doesn't I will, you lying bastard." Isaac growled from beside me.

"What the hell am I doing?" I dropped the bow and arrow I had aimed at his heart. "I don't need those to shut you up."

Magnus's eyes widened when the magic swelled inside me, he tried to lunge for me, but Isaac moved faster than I did and swiped his dragon claws down the front of Magnus's chest, slicing deeply into his skin.

He dropped back, clutching at his wound. I didn't hesitate as I pushed a blast of power in his direction, forcing him to the mouth of the cave and trapping him behind a shield of magic.

"That should hold him long enough for us to get this done."

"I am not leaving you with him."

I rolled my eyes. "Trust me, I can handle him. Dragon form or not, he's no match for blood magic."

Isaac's brow lifted. "Does that mean...?"

"Yes, I could lock you up too. Your alpha status doesn't trump my magic."

He looked like he didn't believe me, but there was no time to prove it. We had to get this done before any reinforcements arrived. One dragon I could hold. An entire army I wasn't sure about.

"We have to open this portal first."

"That I can do." Isaac stepped close to the rock, placed the hilt of his dragon blade on the rough surface and whispered.

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