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“He found him!” I yelled at Kingston while my heart slammed against my chest. “Braxton is close by!”
Luna’s call reached Spartan, and they both began descending towards a small lake amidst the beginning of the Woodlands. Frantically, my gaze searched the area below us, but I couldn’t see Braxton or Fire Fury anywhere, and that Dragon wasn’t particularly easy to misplace.
“Can you see them?” Kingston asked, his voice struggling through the breeze created by our rides’ wings.
“No!” I yelled, pushing my whipping hair back just as Aeramen’s eyes became brighter. “I don’t understand, he should be here—” My words cut off when I glanced down at the small beach of the lake again, to find Fire Fury coming out of the water with Braxton… or so it seemed, but neither of them was wet.
One moment the beach was empty, the next, they were there.
Briefly closing my eyes, I thanked the Sky Gods that Braxton seemed to be safe, and stood on Luna’s back, ready to jump off her as soon as she neared the sand. Braxton’s head whirled towards us the second he heard us, and a strange emotion crossed his expression.
Without another thought in my mind but making sure he was alright, I leapt off Luna, bouncing on her wing and landing on the shore before she touched the sand. I felt Spartan land beside her, but I didn’t look back.
“Braxton!”
Boots splashing through the receding waves, I rushed towards my mate, remembering too late that he was likely still upset with me for not telling him the truth sooner. I stopped myself from crashing into him, merely a few feet away while my heart thundered inside me.
“Forgive me,” I breathed, watching him close the space between us in response, and yank me into his arms. My soft breasts crashed against his hard muscles, sending familiar warmth through me. “I should have never—”
His mouth swallowed my words as he kissed me harder than he ever had. Like a tempest threatened to undo his being and I was the only one who could stop him from coming apart. My arms instantly wrapped around his neck, anxiously pulling him closer, impossibly closer, even though an ounce of air couldn’t be found between us.
I needed him. I needed his lips, his touch, his love to know that we would be okay, and I didn’t care who saw it.
“I love you,” he whispered against my lips before kissing me one more time, making every inch of my being tingle in response to him. It felt like my soul returned to my body by just being next to him again.
“I love you too. I’m sorry, Brax. I just didn’t want to break your heart. I—”
“I know.” My mate shook his head, as though this was more complicated than that, and let his thumb caress my cheek. “I don’t blame you, Evie. Not anymore. I probably would have done the same just to save you the pain, but there is so much more that you don’t know.”
Brax’s gaze lifted beyond me, and I turned to find that Kingston had stayed behind, tending to the Dragons. He made sure to bring Aeramen down from Luna, so he wouldn’t hurt himself trying to get to our side, and was now between Spartan and her, busying himself with nonsense to give Braxton and I time to talk.
His behavior brought a smile to my face. “He knows about us.”
“He, what?!”
“I told him.”
The color left Braxton’s face, and he swallowed like he was expecting Kingston to challenge him to a duel or something.
“Shit. I’m going to have to sleep with one eye open now. I wanted to tell him myself.”
Rolling my eyes, I playfully slapped his chest.
“He’s not going to kill you, and you can still talk to him yourself, but I had to tell him. He needed to understand why I had to come and search for you myself. Kingston has been looking for you since you left, but he couldn’t find you. And he wouldn’t let me leave the Hidden Kingdom for fear Raithian would come after me… Where have you been?”
The mention of the Warlock King seemed to do something to my mate, marring his face with dread.
“What is it?” I caressed his chest, only then noticing he was no longer wearing his shirt. He never took it off because he preferred to cover his scars, and he’d been wearing it when he left. That was strange. “What happened to your shirt?”
With a heavy sigh, Brax placed one last kiss on my cheek, and stepped away from me. “There is a lot I have to tell you, Evie, but Kingston needs to hear this too.” Facing the direction of the Dragons, Brax waved his hand, calling my guardian’s attention and waving him to our side.
Hopping along the sand, Aeramen followed Kingston, every so often taking flight briefly—although his wings couldn’t yet carry him more than three to four feet off the ground. He jumped on Braxton’s arms the second they reached us.
“Hey, I missed you too, buddy.” After petting his head and neck, Braxton placed the bronze babe on the ground next to him, glancing at Kingston. “Chief, forgive me for what happened. I shouldn’t have yelled—”
My guardian’s hand lifted to stop him, and guilt filled his gaze as he shook his head. “You don’t owe us any regrets. We have all made mistakes, Braxton. Your sudden arrival was not an easy situation to handle for any of us.”
“Agreed.” My mate nodded with an appreciative gaze. “But the two of you should sit down for this.”
