Page 57 of Brutal Alpha Dragon

“Fuck!” I bellow, throwing a fist into the nearest wall. The impact only mildly scrapes my knuckles but leaves a large dent in the wall. “Come back to the island,” I order my brother. “We need to have a meeting.”

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“Blaze Legion has taken Lily,” I announce to my family members gathered in Father’s study.

“What?!” Kairo is the first to exclaim, jumping off her chair and throwing a horrified look at me.

We’re unsure if we’re being watched, so we couldn’t meet in the boardroom. Still, in the confines of Father’s study, I press a finger to my lips as a gesture for her to keep quiet.

“Please, Kai…” I beg her. “We have a reason to believe that we’re being watched.”

“What if this place is bugged?” Stryker worries.

Lifting my hand midair dismissively, I reassure him, “Aragon has already scanned this room for any bugs. But it still begs the question… How did Blaze Legion know where to find Lily?”

“Perhaps they have spies in the area,” Aragon suggests. “After all, Zark would have known where the human originated from.”

I nod slowly, trying to process the situation. I have to get Lily back to safety, but I need to know why she was abducted in the first place. We haven’t heard from Cadmus yet.

And if I call him now, he’ll know that the human is important to me.

He can’t know. He’s already made his decision clear that he opposes the human mating process. And he must believe that I have rejected the idea, too.

That’s why I’d take Lily back to the human world.

Perhaps he’s afraid that the human knows too much.

Or, maybe he wants to understand what made Lily so special that she’d been picked as my child-bearer.

There are so many possibilities, but none of them matters. What matters the most is that I need to get Lily out of Samui Island.

“Is there any way you could speak to Zark?” Mother asks my father.

“No, Phoenix,” Father shakes his head disappointedly. “We’ve been told that he’s off the Council for good. It’s as if Blaze Legion has distanced themselves from any association with the other clans across the seas.”

“So he’s an enemy, then,” I scoff. It’s not the first time Blaze Legion has gone against the rulings of the Council. Three millennia ago, they’d waged war on the three other clans. Aurora Dragons, Flame Serpents, and Fire Force all stood as allies against them.

Still, many lives were lost in battle. Dragon lives—immortal but vulnerable to a dragon’s fire. That’s the only way any one of us can be killed.

It’s almost as if the gods reduced our extinction to one, horrific event—in-fighting.

“If Cadmus knows we want Lily back, he might retaliate,” Father warns me. “We’ll have to find another way.”

“There is no other way, Father,” I declare boldly as I rise to my feet. Curling my fists on my sides, I continue, “I need to bring Lily back to the island. She’s safest here.”

“I will stand by you, Brother,” Felix concedes.

“Me too,” Aragon adds.

“Me three!” It’s Kairo who fiercely announces this.

I glance at the twins, who nod their heads eagerly. Then, turn back to my parents. “I guess I have an extraction team big enough to bring her back.”

Father turns to Mother and sighs as she takes his hand. “Fine. But how do you plan on getting through their protective dome?” he asks with a raised brow.

Aragon chuckles, drawing everyone’s attention to him.

“I have a solution for that,” he smirks, chuffed with himself.

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