Page 27 of To Spark a Dragon's Love
My dragon was smug as he hummed his agreement.
“There has to be some solution,” I said. “Check the texts.” That’s what the scribe was for anyway.
Kieran scratched his jaw, thinking. “There aren’t any texts on human-dragon mate bonding. I’ve looked. We’re all in uncharted territory here. I’m assuming most of the basics will be the same. The need to stay close together.”
I flinched. My dragon smiled.
“Obviously we create a telepathic link,” Kieran listed that as fact.
I’d known the minute one was created, but I refused to use it with Willow. No one sane deserved to be tainted with my thoughts.
“Our venom heals them. We know that much from when those idiots attacked my mate,” Kieran explained.
“Did you kill the local humans yet?” I asked.
“A few.” Kieran looked to the door as if Ember could somehow hear him. “She doesn’t like me to slaughter them, though.”
“I would’ve leveled the town once I came out of the mating frenzy.” Lucan poured himself another glass.
I needed one of those. Especially when they both looked at me.
They know,my beast taunted.
Either they knew I was fighting the urges to hunt Willow down, or they suspected something was wrong with me for not bedding my newly claimed mate like a pair of wild rabbits.
But that was none of their business.
“Does distance mute the bond?” I asked.
Kieran narrowed his eyes at me. “Distance will kill you both.”
And you will not hurt her.
We’ll figure it out.I reached for the bottle, needing something to soothe the tumultuous thoughts now racing.
“I need an option to protect her,” I said.
It was the rawest and most vulnerable I’d sounded in ages, but you wouldn’t be able to tell from the tone of my voice.
Kieran watched me as if he could see past my exterior. My oldest friend was a keen observer. Not that he truly knew me anymore. “I can ask the witches if they have some sort of brew at the reception tonight.”
“You and your fucking witches,” I growled at the same time as Lucan. My brother looked at me and nodded, knowing we were on the same page again.
“You will show them respect.” Kieran’s dominance pulsed around him, reminding us that we were guests in his territory. He couldn’t help it. This ground was neutral and it was his job to keep it safe.
And it might’ve affected a lesser dragon.
I stared at him until his jaw ticked.
“Forgive me, guardian,” he spit the title like an insult, “but they’ve come to the aid of dragons more than any other species, showing up to help even when you weren’t around to see it.”
His rage pulsed as the shadows gathered to him and he turned around, not giving me a chance to respond as he marched from the room.
Lucan leaned back in his chair. “That was dumb. Do you always have to piss him off?”
I glared at my brother.
He was right. I was very aware of the damage between us. Kieran was more like me than he cared to admit and I knew that was why he’d taken it the hardest when I began to cut them out.
