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Not the enemy she had expected, but that didn’t mean the males were not also Aeleftherian enemies.

In the distance, more dark figures appeared.

Dear Goddess, no. I will never, ever forgive Kymri or Kolina for bringing this upon us.

She sank to her knees beside Zayli’s inert form, brushing the hair from her forehead, seeing her lost daughter in her features.

“Your mother was the best of us. It can’t end here.”

Standing, she turned her face to the sky and the incoming enemy as she summoned her magic to slide into her beast.

I am still the Dragon Star, no matter the star was taken from me. I was tasked with protecting the crown and the Great Mother.

She wasn’t long in the sky before another of the enemy rushed at her from behind. Instinct finally kicked in and she rolled aside, clipping him with her claws.

Righting herself, she turned, surging after him…

Her.

Zadora gained speed, closing the distance enough to realize that this dragon was female.

And not entirely dragon.

The scent was… Wrong.

Sam Egan?

No, not the same.

The opponent faced her, malice in her eyes, her snake-like tongue tasting the air as her slitted eyes blinked at Zadora.

She spared a glance toward other nearby skirmishes. Other beast-like dragons over coming the guardians. In the distance, Kolina fell.

Her heart stopped, attention focused on her surviving daughter, tumbling with a much larger enemy toward the ocean.

Zadora’s opponent’s tail jerked forward.

Pain lanced her side where the barbed tail had struck her, forcing her attention to what was in front of her.

Not the mountain males.

The Consortium.

Pain of a different kind twisted through her chest, shattering her heart.

Reality erupted in a great roar from her depths, lashing out at the abomination hovering before her.

Her body took over as thought gave way to blind instinct.

Chapter 33

Withalastglanceat the overhead chaos, Marli noted with some small relief that the Aeleftherian guardians were not alone in the sky.

The terrible scream coming from the male that Kolina latched onto nearly burst her eardrums as she watched the veteran commander engage the much, much larger male while her Aeleftherian sisters continued to harry him.

Kolina should be with the queen.

Turning her attention to the grounds surrounding the citadel, she ran in search of any stragglers. She rounded the side of the citadel to find a cluster of women hiding in the shadows of the laundry hall’s thick walls.

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