Page 21 of Her Silent Knight

How could he fix a problem he didn’t understand?

You spoke when she touched you at the train station. I heard it. I felt it. It was her voice that pulled me up from the dark abyss. Get her to touch you again.

“Good idea, dragon.”

He just needed her to put her hands on him. Simple as that. She did plan on torturing him anyway. They could start there. He’d known couples here who’d started their romance in worse ways.

It would be something to laugh about with their kids years from now. First, he needed her to come inside, away from the cannibal who was trying to convince her to turn him over to him.

Kaede couldn’t call out for her. However, he could remind her that she had him strung up in her living room, butt ass naked. He roared loudly, a sound he knew could be heard by her and the creatures surrounding her home.

It was a warning roar. Even his mate should fear it. He was tired of playing around. He needed to be free so he could destroy those creatures outside. Once that task was done, he’d take care of his mate.

First things first, let her touch him to see if he was able to speak. Then tell her how thankful he was to have found her. Then tell her that if she puts his ass to sleep again with her magic, he was going to spank her until she couldn’t walk.

Spank her,his demon purred.

It was a strange sound that Kaede wasn’t used to hearing. “Yeah, I’m going to spank her if she tries this shit again.”

Even if she doesn’t, spank her anyway.

“What... oh...”Kaede grinned. “You’re right, I should spank her anyway.” He’d never spanked a female before. There were a lot of things he’d never done with a female before.

We’ve never kissed.

True. Twenty-seven and he’d never been kissed.

Not twenty-seven anymore.

Right. He’d been on this plane for sixty years. That would make him eighty-seven now.

Haven’t aged a day.

He’d never age a day. He’d reached his immortal peak at twenty-seven. That’s when he became his strongest and fit to become pack alpha. Most immortals didn’t reach their peak until their late thirties, some even their forties.

His father had reached it at forty-two. He’d been eighty before he finally found his mate and a year later, Kaede was born. Many had thought Kaede would follow suit and be a late bloomer.

When he was a teen, his traitorous cousin, Onaku, often joked and said that since Kaede’s father was getting tired of being the pack leader and wanted to step down, maybe he should step up until Kaede matured and reached his immortal peak.

Though Onaku was twenty years older than Kaede and had already reached his immortal peak, Kaede’s father would never allow him to be alpha. Only those born with the alpha gene in their DNA could be alpha.

This was why his dad’s oldest brother, Onaku’s father, hadn’t been able to assume the role. Yeah, his father was tired of politics and the bitching that went on behind the scenes. And his dad had wanted nothing more than to travel the world with his mate and explore places neither of them had gotten a chance to see.

Though he was ready to be free of the restraints that came along with ruling over an unruly den of dragon shifters, his father would’ve never turned his den over to his immature nephew.

Even as a teen, Kaede had been taught never to trust Onaku. He’d heeded those warnings and steered clear of his cousin. He only dealt with him when he had to. Despite his carefulness, he was still betrayed by him on the night of what would’ve been his alpha initiation.

That was the same night he was banished to the Frostlands. That was the same night he’d been branded as a traitor to his pack. A title he couldn’t clear up because he was trapped on a frozen plane with no way to return home. Unless of course, he completed his tasks.

We will not turn her over to them.

“Of course, we won’t, if she’s ours.”

If she wasn’t theirs, he’d figure out a way to free himself and turn her over as soon as possible. If she was his...

We’ll protect her. We’ll cherish her. We’ll finally get a chance to do all of those things we never could. Like spanking. Like kissing.

Spanking and kissing. Two things he was yearning to do to the witch who was standing outside, ignoring his roars. As the future alpha of the den, he hadn’t been able to live a care-free life like some of his friends.