“We’ll find balance,” Jace added. “We’re growing so much, maybe an addition rather than two separate places?”

Dante smiled. “I’d like that. My hoard is growing.”

“Forever the dragon,” Nadie said, laughing.

“You know it, darling.”

The others began to give suggestions for what needed to be done, and Dante nodded, listening. There would be change, that was inevitable. Even a dragon as old as he knew that. Before he’d mated, he’d have made all the decisions on his own. Now, however, he’d let his friends help.

And while they worked on that project, on their new beginnings, he knew there was one more path they would begin down, as well. One that the kit now in Alec’s arms had put him on.

There were others.

Those who needed him.

Who needed the seven.

He would answer the call. Just as he had before. And as he looked at his family, his blood, felt the bonds and more thanks to the call he’d answered, he had to wonder who would come next.

And who they would meet along the way.

Together.

THE END