Page 61 of Been There Dragon That
“I can’t even imagine how scared she is and what she might’ve seen during the fight.” Penny and Kann stepped back away from the door.
“I can break the door,” Col said, his voice a deep growl. “Move.”
Naomi grabbed his arm. “No, you don’t. That poor woman has been through enough. She doesn’t need the trauma of you busting through a door and scaring her even more. She needs Wrath.” Naomi motioned him toward the door and Penny stepped back, pulling Kann along with her. “Don’t you break that door either, you hear me?”
Wrath gave Naomi a polite nod of acknowledgement and stepped up to the door. He raised his palm to the heavy wood.
“Rylee.Shuarra. You did good. The babies are safe. Everyone is here. Open the door,shuarra.”
He could hear inside the room like all the other worried parents behind him. Her voice was soft and repeating a few short lines of a lullaby over and over. The younglings were quiet and listening to her. Nothingsoundedwrong, except that Rylee wouldn’t respond.
Mate.His dragon pushed from inside.
He started to push the beast back down, but then thought better and let the dragon rise closer to the surface. His chest rattled, and he let the dragon call to his mate. The women in the tribe called the sound a purr, and it’d already calmed Rylee more than once.
Within seconds, he heard her footsteps crossing the room.
“Wrath?” Her voice was tiny and thin and filled with doubt.
“Shuarra, let me in. I’m here. You’re safe.”
The doorknob clicked, and a second later, the door was thrown wide and his mate was climbing into his arms. She was sobbing into his shirt, crying about wolves and a dragon and lions and how she was crazy. Then she said something about telling the babies they were safe.
“Yes, love. The babies are safe. So are you.” He moved aside, Rylee tight in his arms, so the parents could get inside to their little ones. “You did so well. I’m proud of you.” He kissed the top of her head and let his dragon continue to rumble.
She burrowed deep into his arms, her head directly against his chest.
“Take her back to your place, Wrath. We’re good here for a while. Tai’s not coming back until he licks his wounds. She’s going to need to talk once she comes out of this shock.” Naomi held her two daughters up and nuzzled their faces then looked back at him. “Be patient and be honest. It’s time.”
“I’ll set the perimeter cameras on alert. If I see anything, I’ll radio you,” Penny said, picking up one of her babies.
Wrath nodded. “Thank you.” Then turned to Col. “Alpha?”
“Go. We hunt tomorrow.”
ChapterTwenty
Wrath
He hurried down the road toward his cabin, unwilling to put her down for even a second to drive. She was safe in his arms. His chest swelled and cracked. If he hadn’t been focused on purring for her, he’d have been shaking like a leaf.
He kept hugging her tighter and tighter. Wrapping his arms around her, enveloping her completely. He could’ve lost her.
The snow melted around him with each step. He was running hot, but he couldn’t focus on that. She would be asking all those questions soon enough. There was no reason to hide anything any longer.
Hiding the truth from Rylee had been the hardest thing he’d ever done.
He wanted her to love him. He wanted her to accept him. But he needed her to love and accept every part of him.
He got them into his cabin and back to his room. Then set her gently on the bed. He wanted to continue holding her, but his pants were wet from the snow, and he wanted to be in bed with her more.
He kicked out of his boots, pants, and then stripped out of his shirt. Rylee had stopped crying by the time they’d gotten to the door of his cabin, and now she was watching him intently, her gaze hungrily devouring his naked form.
She grabbed the hem of her shirt and yanked it off, revealing that she wasn’t wearing a bra. Her heavy beautiful breasts swayed again when she reached up to pull the colored band from her top knot of purple hair. Her pale skin glowed with the magick of Reylea.
His soulmate. The one promised especially for him. The one and only woman he wanted to mark and bond with for the rest of his life. The woman who would complete him. The woman he already loved with every breath he breathed.
Rylee shimmied out of her pants too and then crawled beneath the layers of blankets on the bed, leaving the edge turned back–a clear invitation to join.
