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At least I’d been able to ease the worst of it with my version of a distraction. Even if we hadn’t really gotten todoanything. Though, if we’d continued much longer, I would have happily dry-humped him into an orgasm. That was how desperately I’d missed and needed him.
Admitting it now was freeing. It felt odd to think that needing someone so much could release me, but it was the truth. I’d fought it but wouldn’t any longer.
I slid off his lap and stood up, reaching a hand to him. “What now?”
His fingers easily slipped between mine and tugged me toward his chest. “Now, I think thoughts about baby scapese, so that Lykem doesn’t get the joy of commenting on my current situation.”
“First, I told you I’d have remedied that,” I teased. “Secondly, what the hell are baby scapese?”
His head jerked slightly back. “You don’t have those on Earth?”
“Not that I’m aware of.”
He seemed overly confused by that statement. “They’re white fluffy things about the size of a watermelon. Big floppy ears and they jump around a lot. No tail, just a little ball of fur.”
I gaped at him. “Do you mean a bunny? Or rabbit?”
“What is that?”
I slapped my hand to my forehead. And here I’d thought our worlds were practically parallel.
“I’m rather positive it’s your version of a scapese,” I answered. “Now, I feel like I should question everything.” I pointed behind me. “Is that a rock?”
“Yes,” he deadpanned, clearly not as shocked by this revelation as I was. “I did survive in your realm for four weeks without not knowing the proper name of something. I think this could be a one-off.”
I hummed. “We’ll see.”
He led us toward the cave entrance, and I was surprised by how dark it was. “People have been living in here?”
“Yes, but further back,” he said. “There’s another opening on the other side. They set up in the middle so they could escape from either end if there was an attack on the mountain.”
Smart dragons. Given what I’d seen of their town, I was surprised there hadn’t been an ambush out here yet.
“How many people are here?” I asked.
He grimaced. “Only a couple hundred. There used to be several thousand that lived in the village you saw back there.”
My chest ached for their people. So many lives pointlessly lost. There’d been no purpose in the attacks. At least, not that I could see. I almost wished I’d had more time with Knox so I could have figured out why he was doing these things, but at the same time, I was grateful he’d wanted little to do with me until the end.
Cillian threaded his fingers through mine and led the way inside the cave. My vision adjusted within seconds, thanks to the ambient light. While it wasn’t bright, I could see well enough. Though, there wasn’t much to see at first besides a dirt path and slate grey rock walls.
“What can you do?” I asked him, thinking about how I’d had no idea what he was capable of as a dragon shifter.
“Huh?”
“Can you breathe fire? See in the dark? Scent things from long distances? Run super fast?”
“Oh,” he replied. “Well, I can see inside these caves just as clearly as if we were outside still, but if I was somewhere like you’d described the cell, I probably wouldn’t be able to. I run faster than a human, but not like a vampire. Fire is touchy. Every dragon can produce enough heat to make smoke and embers, but we don’t necessarily breathe it like the fables would have you believe. Though, there are some dragons who can create fire with their dragon energy like I can with lightning.”
I jerked him to a stop. “I’m sorry, what? Lightning?”
He grimaced. “I thought I told you about that.”
“Um, nope. Pretty sure I would have remembered that.” I was tempted to ask him to show me, but that probably wasn’t a good idea in such a confined space.
“What about you?” he asked. “I’ve never seen a glowing wolf before.”
He tried to guide us forward again, but I couldn’t move. Somehow, with all the fear and adrenaline and hurt pumping through my veins, I’d completely forgotten that my wolf had become something entirely new as we’d run for our lives.
