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My heart leaped for joy and Will smiled at the pair. He bowed his head. “Thank you.”

Ware shook his head. “Do not thank us yet. You have yet to make amends for causing the darkness to spread from the elven forest to your own and now it is harassing your people.”

Enna lifted an eyebrow. “Come again?”

“The creature you need to protect Rose from has bothered others,” Will told her.

Vargas gave Enna another careful and distasteful examination. “You are to exterminate those creatures?”

Enna shook her head. “Only if I have to. My job is to make sure they don’t get rid of her.”

Vargas knitted her eyebrows together as she looked between us. “You are to protect Lady Thorn?”

“That’s the gist of it.”

Vargas stiffened before she spun around to face Will. “Why did you not request that I protect your bride?”

“Because I didn’t want you to discover her secret,” Will replied.

“I have found it out and yet you would keep this. . .this creature-” She waved a hand at Enna, “-to protect your bride for whom you broke one of our most sacred rules to find?”

“I can think of none better,” Will countered as he wrapped his hand around mine. “But if you are finished with your questions, I would like a word with my bride. Alone.”

Vargas still didn’t look pleased nor did Ware, but the pair left. Enna followed them with a smirk on her face. She shut the door behind them.

Chapter Twenty-Three

I turned to my dragon lord and cocked my head to one side. “So I’m guessing that passing between rules is really not allowed.”

Will sighed. “No. That magic is one of the many spells forbidden from use, even for we dragons.”

I set a hand on his shoulder and smiled up at him. “I’m glad you did even if it means prison food for the both of us for a couple of hundred years.”

He leaned down and pecked a kiss on my lips. “So am I.”

I drew back and tried not to giggle like an idiot schoolgirl. “So I’m guessing you didn’t shoo everyone out of here just to talk to kiss me.”

Will wrapped his arms around my waist and looked me over. “That is a tempting thought, but unfortunately, no.” He jerked his head toward the door. “What do you think of Enna being your bodyguard?”

I snorted. “It’s a little late to be asking my opinion on that, isn’t it?”

Will pursed his lips. “Truth be told, I had no inkling that Vargas had grown so fond of you that she would offer her powers to protect you.”

I blinked at him. “Is that why she offered?”

“Is there any other reason?”

I shrugged. “I just kind of figured maybe she wanted to get Enna out of the house.”

Will thought about that for a moment before he chuckled. “That would be a benefit to her but I truly believe she desires to protect you.”

“So you’re trying to tell me I can pick between them?” I guessed.

“Just so.”

I wrinkled my nose as I thought about the choices. “A rough bounty hunter or a touchy dragon lady.”

His eyes twinkled as he stared down at me. “I have given you some very interesting people to be around.”

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