Page 64 of Bearly Yours
He still wasn’t moving. The crash had thrown him more than thirty feet away. His eyes were closed and he lay crumpled on the ground. I couldn’t see him breathing at all, and my eyesight was really good.
My heart shattered, and it was suddenly impossible to breathe. It felt like someone had my lungs in their fists and weresqueezing.He looked broken. My mate looked broken. My strong mate, who’d always made sure I was safe. Who’d protected me...loved me. Tears streamed down my face... In that moment I felt like I’d losteverything.My mom and dad. My mate. My future... Every good thing that had ever been given to me had been stolen by the twisted creature fighting my Clan and the royals beneath my feet.
He had to die.
Not for the pain he’d caused me, even though vengeance was tempting, but because he was too powerful and too evil and he would keep coming after those I loved, again and again and again.
I turned resolutely back to the fight happening a few feet from me, and moved determinedly on gummy, melting tennis shoe bottoms to Drakis’ head. His dark eyes followed my movement, and even though he was about to die, there was a chilling coldness in his eyes that I knew I would never forget.
“My mate will heal, and I will live,” I whispered to him. “You lost.”
Then I stabbed his third heart.
When I saw the life leave his eyes, I leapt free of him and ran for Roarke. Dice was already there, urging him to shift.
“Roarke,Roarke, shift baby,” I begged, climbing on top of his chest. “You have to shift! Dice’s medical tools won’t pierce your dragon scales.”
Draven and Rhys came up beside me, followed by Alpha Riggs and Virion. “I can try to rouse his dragon,” my alpha said. “The dragon might be able to wake Roarke up.”
Alpha’s eyes turned pure gold has he gathered power, wild spokes of visible spectrum light shot from him, and he commanded Roarke’s dragon with so much power that every shifter in a fifty-foot area grunted as his power hit them and forced them to spontaneously shift. Except for me, because I was bonded to Roarke, a stronger alpha.
“Shift!”
I started to despair when nothing happened. Roarke’s alpha dragon was justtoostrong. To him, we must be like ants trying to get the attention of a giant.
I cradled Roarke’s face, nuzzling my cheek against the smooth dragon scales of his forehead. “Shift. Please. I can’t live without you.”
“Please,” I whispered, brokenly.
His eyes suddenly opened as though he’d been tasered awake, and he moved to cradle me to him, despite the immense pain he must have been in, then he gathered all of the energy he had left andshifted.I hurriedly scrambled off of him, but stayed by his head as Dice used her Insight to repair the damage to his internal organs and sew them up.
Rhys spoke up. “I can use my star magic to seal his skin. In this form it’s a flame. It should promote faster healing because he’s a dragon.”
Roarke nodded, and Rhys’ purple and gold magic flared across and out of his hand like a mini-blowtorch. I wincedas Rhys, with very pinpoint precision, cauterized Roarke’s skin together, while Dice held the edges until they matched evenly, using tools that gave her a longer reach so her hands didn’t get burned.
I looked at the end result. Roarke’s skin looked red, raw, and angry, but despite Rhys having literally used starfire on him, the wound and the area around it weren’t burned to a crisp like I thought they’d be. The benefits of being a dragon, I supposed, and holy honey badgers, was Iextremelygrateful for it.
My Clan got him into the house, and Alpha Riggs got him dressed in athletic shorts with an elastic waist, then they moved him to our bed. Dice gave me ten vials of shifter painkiller and the sharps to get it into his system quickly. She explained that I should give him one vial every ten hours, then she and Rhys got ready to leave.
I hugged her before she could escape. “Thank you,” I whispered, tears coming to my eyes. I tried to laugh, but it came out all croaky. “It’s so nice having a doctor who does house visits.”
She grinned and hugged me back. “No problem. I was glad to help.” She slung her medical bag across her body. “I need Mexican food,” she announced to the room. “Rhys, honey?”
He wrapped an arm around her middle and kissed the top of her head. “You want me to run by Tres Hermanas?”
“I love you,” she said.
“I know,” he replied.
I couldn’t help but laugh.
Draven was talking in a low voice to Roarke, hovering around him like a mother hen, fluffing his pillow and helping him drink some water.
I stood there bemusedly. “Would you like me to leave you two alone?” I asked with a grin.
The whole room cracked up. “They have a bromance,” Rhys said, laughing as he ushered Dice out the door and they said their goodbyes.
“Aww, big guy I thoughtIwas your bromance partner,” Taco teased. Mateo growled and started pushing the rest of the Clan out the door, clearing the room until only Draven, Roarke, Alpha Riggs and I remained.
