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“Wow. I’m right and brilliant in the same day. I don’t know if I can take all this praise at once.” She raised her palm to her forehead and made like she was about to swoon.

A dark laugh rumbled through my chest alongside some equally dark thoughts as I imagined her on her knees in front of me squeezing my knot as I told her what a good girl she was…

“If it’s praise you seek, I have some ideas on how you can receive more.” When her smile fell, and the scent of her sudden lust filled the room, I knew what had to be done. “Go and lock the door.”

“What about the—”

“The staff can handle them a bit longer.” I stood, my hand going to my belt and I began to unfasten it. “You should know by now that this Alpha will never let his omega’s needs go unfulfilled.”

“I love you, Ian.” Her words trembled and her hands shook as she reached to help me. It nearly caused my dragon to explode from my skin to see her like this.

“Forever, Cordelia,” I whispered before taking her mouth in a kiss that I knew would leave us both reeling for more. And in the end it was I who ended up on my knees and the sweet taste of my omega forever burned onto my tongue.

ChapterThirty-One

Kitra

“We’re here,” Ensley announced, coming to a stop at the mouth of a tiny cave. Although calling it a cave was too generous. From its small size I would call it no more than a tunnel.

“You must be joking.” Isaac came up beside me and we both bent down and peered into the dark hole. “I doubt I will even fit through that.”

“It’s not my fault you’re so big,” Ensley smirked.

Isaac moved to go after her and I grabbed his arm and shook my head. “You know it doesn’t help if you frighten her. Now would not be the time for her to disappear.”

“This better not be a trick.”

I shook my head, tired of the constant back and forth between these two.

“I can go back on my own if need be. I know what I need and where to find it.”

“That’s not happening,” he snarled.

“That won’t be necessary. The magic will make it work. Although I wouldn’t recommend turning dragon while in there.” She giggled, and even I felt it all the way down my spine. I had no idea why she wanted to help us, but what choice did we have? I had to get my magic back at any cost.

“Go now, before it’s too late.” We both looked down when the water at the edge of the bank lapped at our feet. As she’d predicted, it was already beginning to rise.

We started forward, but at the mouth of the tunnel I realized she still stood on the opposite bank. “Aren’t you coming?”

“No. You have to do this on your own.”

“I told you she was up to something. What’s waiting for us on the other side? A horde of demons?”

She shook her head. “I hope one day, dragon, that you will learn to trust. Without someone at your side that you can believe in, you are never going to get what you want.”

“Don’t give me your cryptic bullshit, and tell me what’s on the other side,” he roared, his patience obliterated as the water crept towards the tunnel.

“I did. The dark forest. No one will be expecting you there because very few know of its existence, and if they did they wouldn’t venture that far into the darkness unless their life depended on it.”

“And even you don’t want to go to that part of the forest?” I asked, beginning to see Isaac’s point.

“That is true. But I am not you. If you trust in each other and believe in what you hope to gain, then you’ll make it. Now hurry.”

I hesitated, looking between the tunnel, the imp, and a dragon I was connected to. What chance did I have if I didn’t go? I had to get my magic back or I’d be nothing.

“I’m going.” I didn’t wait for Isaac to respond before I dropped to the ground and crawled into the darkness. I couldn’t see very far ahead of me, but I was going to have to do as Ensley said and trust in her. A tingle of warm magic moved through me and I gasped.

Mother.

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