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I grew quiet, and focused on the thick strands of the bond that ran through me. The strength of the magic was enough to make me proud of our connection.
I followed it to my mind, where I found the divider Naomi had told me about. It was much thinner than a wall, though.
When I pressed my magic against it, it cracked easily.
After so many years spent thinking about the woman, it wasn’t a surprise to me that the wall between our minds was so damn thin.
Another light push later, and her emotions swept over me.
Her happiness.
Her peace.
The soft ache of her missing me.
The anticipation of having me back in our bed with her, claiming her body the way I had so many times already.
I rubbed at my chest as her thoughts washed through me, easing my own longing for her.
She was surprised by how easy the wall had cracked on her side, too.
She’d missed me just as much as I missed her.
The walls slowly rebuilt as we reveled in each other’s thoughts and emotions for a while. It was intimate, in a way that made me intensely grateful that I’d followed her away from the Stronghold weeks earlier.
And insanely glad that even after all the time we’d lost, we ended up in each other’s arms again.
“Come back to me soon,”Naomi whispered, as I felt her start drifting off to sleep.
“That’s the only thing that matters to me anymore,”I murmured back.
The words were completely, and entirely true.
I only slepttwo or three hours, and only managed to rest in chunks of ten or twenty minutes.
The ache of being away from my mate was too damn strong.
If Aev had ever cared for her, he never would’ve been able to stay away as long as he had. I wasn’t even certain I’d make it the handful of days this damn journey would take.
Though I grew slightly obsessed with breaking the wall between us so I could live in my female’s soft mind and calm emotions while she slept, I knew she wouldn’t be bothered by it.
Or surprised by it, even.
When the creatures we were hunting finally took to the sky, forcing us to rouse the rest of our crew and follow behind them, my relief was thick and heavy.
Two more days—andlong, lonely nights—passed before we finally found the place where the creatures lived. They had no civilization, though they must’ve been able to communicate in order to gather an army to attack us with.
We had developed a plan on the first day, so enacting it was simple and smooth when we reached them. The goal was to scare the creatures into staying on their own land, in case the war they’d just lost wasn’t convincing enough.
Our klynnas soared overhead, roaring and burning some of the trees on the outskirts of the creature’s lands.
Their shrieks made me grimace, and the way the larger males of all their species protected the smaller females and children, made my chest ache.
The klynnas were careful not to kill anyone, as were our dragons and phoenixes as they roared and blew fire, putting on a display of power.
There was always the possibility that our display would urge them to attack us again, but we would prefer an attack in retaliation to waiting out the creatures.
Two of the largest dragons joined us in the skies when we began flying away.
