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“I’m going to have to shift and fly while you stay on the ground, but I’ll stay as close to you as possible.”
She squeezed my hand and offered me a sweet smile. “Don’t worry about me.”
The words fell on deaf ears.
“Let’s go.” I led us back outside, seeing no point in furthering the conversation and letting my mind get wound up again. Nothing was going to change. Dawsyn was right. She was an alpha and, while I didn’t grow up around them, I understood the meaning. She would do whatever she thought was best, and there wasn’t a damn thing anyone could say to change her mind.
When we arrived back outside, lightning was streaking across the sky and landing closer to the caves than ever before.
Clay and Lykem were directing people who weren’t fighting to start traveling north, as far from here as possible.
“And when do we come back?” Sereph asked, with Daron by her side.
I suddenly understood why we had less fighters than I’d hoped. Some of them had to stay with the others.
“When we come for you or never at all,” Clay answered her grimly.
That had her face paling and throat bobbing, but it was the truth. While we had the team to win, Knox was ready for us and there were no guarantees in this battle.
“We’re ready to go,” Lykem said once Sereph and Daron had left to start the evacuation of the cave.
“So are we.” My hold on Dawsyn tightened as the lie left my mouth. I’d never be ready to head into a fight with my mate.
But I also knew when I was out of options. None of this could be avoided.
Our group of nearly thirty dragon shifters walked away from the cave, some with their other halves still clinging to them, others alone and prepared to die if that was what this came to.
The air was thick and the mood tense, but we were in this together and that was most important.
As soon as we were out of the tree line, I turned to Dawsyn, wrapping my arms around her again and pressing my mouth to her ear. “When we’re done here, I’m going to take you somewhere far away from anyone else.”
“I will gladly let you.”
Her steady heartbeat thrummed against me, calming my nerves as I anchored myself to her, even without the tether of our bond. I closed my eyes and just focused on my mate, knowing that no matter what, she was mine.
Now and always.
ChapterTwenty-Seven
DAWSYN
The further we moved away from the caves, the harder it was for me to breathe. Though, not impossible. I wasn’t sure how Knox had gotten a hold of wolfsbane and had filtered it through the air like this, but I was going to find whatever remnants of the plant are in Drago and burn them to ash.
As promised, Cillian stayed close to me, flying above as I raced over the ground as my wolf. Even though the air burned our lungs, my wolf was charged with energy.
The meditating did you good, I said.
We’re not Luna Marked, she replied, even though that wasn’t where I was going to take the conversation just before a fight.
But we’re not a normal wolf shifter, either, I countered.
No, and this wasn’t a gift from the moon goddess, she said.
That had my pulse increasing.Then, where the hell did the boost of power come from?
The only thing I’ve been able to tell is the bond with Cillian.
Yet, the bond with him is gone and we’re still glowing…
