Page 118 of The Breeding Cave
“I’m not resting,” I said, hurrying as the sensation became stronger.
“Yeosin,” Luciano growled, following me. “Come back!”
My legs moved quicker and quicker and quicker. Then, suddenly, I found myself stopping in front of a huge tree. I didn’t know why. I didn’t know for what. But I dropped to my knees and pushed some vines out of the way.
A dungeon entrance glimmered in the dawn light.
“We go through here,” I said. “To free the phoenixes.”
CHAPTER
SIXTY-EIGHT
YEOSIN
I grabbed the metal handle and yanked on it with all my might, but it didn’t budge. Dirt flew up from the ground, getting in my mouth. After spitting it out, I stood to my feet, grabbed the handle, and pulled on it again.
Still nothing.
Luciano growled under his breath. “Move out of the way.”
Once I stepped to the side, he grabbed the handle with one hand, his biceps bulging, and pulled it open with ease. I stared at the veins on it, warmth growing between my thighs, then averted my gaze.
Gods, why is he so …
“I’ll go first,” he said, staring down into the darkness.
I grabbed his wrist. “No, you can’t go. Only me and Gideon.”
“No fucking way,” he snarled, eyes blazing a hundred different colors of jealousy and possession. He stood before me, his chiseled jaw clenched and his muscles bulg?—
Control yourself, Yeosin!
“You’re not going without me.”
“We must go alo?—”
Before I could finish my sentence, Luciano grabbed Gideon by the throat and slammed him up against a tree, his canines lengthened and dripping with saliva. “What the fuck did you tell her? What lie this time?”
Gideon raised his arms. “I didn’t say anything to her.”
“Gideon didn’t say anything to me. I made this decision on my own.”
Luciano glared at Gideon for a couple more moments, then dropped him and turned back toward me, his eyes now hurt. “Why don’t you want me to come with you? I’m not letting you put yourself in more danger than you have to.”
“Because you can’t withstand the fire,” I said. “If you or any of your beasts go down into the dungeon with me and the Dragon Clan finds out, then they will burn the mountain to the ground with all of us in it. You will have no chance of survival.”
Gideon nodded. “That makes sense.”
“No, it doesn’t,” Luciano growled.
Molly cleared her throat. “She’s right. We should stay up here with the Colossals.”
“We will wait for the dragons to make an escape, and then we’ll catch them,” Brent said.
Luciano pursed his lips, nostrils flared, fuming silently to himself. Then he finally released his clenched fists. “You have fifteen minutes, Yeosin. If you’re not out by then, then we’re coming in.”
I stood on my toes and kissed him on the lips. “Deal.”
