Page 100 of Heir of Draga

The thief’s dominance rankled but Nash rolled his shoulders back and kept his thoughts to himself. He may not know how he felt about Adelina’s proposal, but he still cared for her – loved her. Nash clenched his hands into fists and gritted his teeth together.

They needed to move. The longer they waited the worse it would be for her. This wasn’t about who had the biggest cock, this was about getting Adelina back. “I’m coming and you can have access to anything you need. Let’s go.”

Kaiden stopped them both from heading toward the stairs. “It will be much faster to fly, but I can only carry one of you at a time.” Without warning he gripped Nash by the arm and jumped straight out the window into the gloomy sky.

He managed not to screech as they plummeted before Kaiden’s wings caught wind, but just barely. Kaiden shifted so that he had his arms around Nash’s chest and then banked toward the landing station. Moments later their feet hit the ground and Nash stumbled, but managed to catch himself before he fell on his face.

Kaiden launched himself back into the air and flew quick as lightning back to the Royal Eyrie before Nash could throw a slew of curses at the blasted dragon.

“Nash!” Nadyah ran down the ramp of the Ravager toward him and grabbed his arm, desperation and panic leaving a bad taste in his mouth. “Delphine said she watched Alpha board the ship he came in on and then leave. She didn’t see Adelina, but I bet my life that’s the ship she’s on. He must have cloaked her somehow. The coordinates of her bracelet match those of his ship.”

Nash didn’t shake her off for once despite that awful scent of hers. Nadyah had tears streaming down her face and he didn’t even bother to ask who Delphine was. “Why in all the hells would Alpha take her? You think he’s a spy working for the Neprijat?” he demanded.

“I don’t know, I should have sensed it if he was – but I didn’t,” Nadyah stumbled over her own words, guilt and grief written on her face.

Then Kaiden landed with Varan and Nash relayed the information. The thief growled deep in his chest, the intensity coming off him was impressive. “Are you trying to tell me that little prick has stolen my wife and queen? I will shred him to pieces before I take one eye at a time and then feed them to him.” Nash saw the elongated canines and watched the way Varan stalked into the pirate ship.

He smiled in anticipation.

Nash couldn’t wait to deliver a world of hurt to the male who thought he could just take Adelina without anyone noticing.

“Ready to see blood run?” he asked Kaiden as they fell into step together toward his warship.

“It will be my pleasure to exact justice,” Kaiden confessed. “I’ve known him for all of one hour. It will be nothing to drop him into the heart of a volcano.”

Nash grinned and unsheathed his sword. They would hunt Alpha down like the rat he was before ripping him into tiny pieces until blood ran down the walls and he was nothing more than a pile of flesh and bone.

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