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Chapter 1.
LUCIAN.
I staggered out of the hall, away from my brother’s wedding and the woman he’d taken as his bride. His fated mate.
Sarah and Dymitri had been right from the very start. From the moment they met, I’d been able to see the intensity of the feelings Dymitri had for her.
Desperately, I’d hoped it would be the same for me and my mate. Marienne had said it would be, but that wasn’t the case. I’d felt nothing except sympathy for Nadia when we’d found her injured and unconscious.
When she’d woken up, there had been none of the intense feelings I’d been promised. No passion. No quivering desire. No dragon rearing his possessive head.
The lack of those feelings had sent me into a rage unlike any other. I’d felt so hurt and betrayed. So disappointed. But I’d gotten through it and hoped to one day find my own mate. Perhaps a servant in the castle or one of the women in town.
But no...it was another human woman. Just like my brother.
I burst through the door of the grand ballroom, my gut tightening to the point of having to run bent over.
“Hold it together.”
Running for the entrance of the castle, I passed through the foyer that had only recently been patched up. Dymitri and I had done irreparable damage to the once-grand colored glass windows.
I burst through the front doors, feeling the cold blast of our icy winter breeze on my face.
Reveling in the sensation of the crisp chill, I deeply breathed in the air.
Calm down, calm down.
My dragon was furious at me for running away, snarling and snapping inside my mind. He wanted me to go back and find his mate, but I couldn’t do it.
Couldn’t bear the thought.
I was out of control and if I returned to the wedding party, I’d destroy everything in sight. There was no hope of containing him any longer.
My dragon rose up inside of me as I stripped off my suit jacket and threw it on the ground. Wings sprouted from my back, and my skin became the leathery scales of my shifter.
I closed my eyes and let my mind go as mist swirled up around me, and I became my dragon.
When I opened my eyes, the world around me looked different. But the feelings inside of me weren’t.
My mate was here, and Marienne was right. My fated mate was human, and was a sister to Sarah. But it hadn’t been her tiny, younger sister Nadia. Instead, my mate was her older sister. The gorgeous, overly curvy Katerina, with dark, curly hair and a sexy smile that made my skin catch fire.
Not to mention her ass...oh my God.My cock ached just thinking about her curves.
I leapt into the air, beating my wings against the sky.
Everything that I’d been told about fated mates was true. My dragon was uncontrollable in his fury, my human side having no chance of dominance. My heart was thudding against my chest with the power of a steaming locomotive. Lust poured through me, all for a stranger. A woman who would never understand my world or our customs.
I’d never been good enough for my father to accept, nor any woman I’d known in the past. Why would this gorgeous human want me now?
Memories of my anger and hurt from long past traumas poured through me like molten lava, eating away at any hope I had for my future. None of this made any sense to me, and in my fury, I couldn’t see a way around the problem except to fly higher, and away.
I flew higher and higher, until I couldn’t move my wings any longer. Until I was afraid I may fall from the sky if I didn’t stop soon.
Soaring to a lower altitude, far away from my half-brother’s kingdom until the sunshine heated my wings, my winter skin ached from the rapid change in temperature.
There was another kingdom ahead of me. I could only hope it was Stavrok and Lucy’s castle. I’d never been to visit them in their home but had met the royal couple when they’d visited Damon and Cass.
I glanced back the way I’d come, weak now from hunger and fatigue. I’d never make it back. Not tonight. Not now. Without much of a choice, I used the last of my strength to fly onto a high balcony on the castle and collapsed against a railing.
