Page 61 of Bite Me

“Jada. We have got to get you a fucking phone. Damn it, why are you naked? Isn’t that fucking dragon taking care of you?”

Jada ran into Leon’s arms and he slipped off his jacket, covering her before he gave her a hug. “Shh, shh, shh. I’m here.”

“They took him. I couldn’t stop them. I tried, but I’m not strong enough.”

“Oh, tsk, tsk. You’re stronger than you think. You just haven’t had a chance to spread your wings. Now tell me what happened.”

They sat on the nearest couch and Jada told him the main details from the second she met Ky until the Black Dragon disappeared, leaving out the epic sex bits. They wouldn’t have bothered Leon, he was an incubus after all, but they were private intimacies between her and Ky.

“That stupid bastard and their god-damned family feud.”

The door to the house slammed open and Jakob and Ciara burst through the door. She was supporting him, and he was covered in blood. Dax was right behind them, then Fleur and a limping Steele.

“Where’s Ninsy?”

Jakob slumped into the nearest chair. “She led the remaining demon dragons on a chase. Told us to retreat here. Where’s Ky?”

All Jada could do was shake her head.

Jakob straightened up and scowled. “Where is Ky?”

“Kur-Jara has him.”

Jakob, Steele, and Dax were on their feet surrounding her and Leon in an instant. “Who are you?”

Leon had very old power that he could turn on these dragons and their mates in an instant if he wanted. “An ally and Jada’s father. Her mother entrusted her safety to me until she was claimed. She knew Jada was destined to be a dragon’s mate.”

A thousand stones could have fallen on Jada in that moment and she wouldn’t have felt a thing. Her entire body had gone numb. Her mother had known. No one had ever told her.

Ciara stepped between the warriors and Leon. Jada recognized the soft touch of the white calming power Ciara had wash over her. It had no effect.

“Who was this woman and how would she know something like that?”

Leon glanced at Jada and sighed. “I had hoped you would uncover all of this in time yourself. Raina made me swear a binding oath that I wouldn’t tell you. She was afraid it would interfere with your destiny.”

Jada couldn’t look at him. She barely remembered her mother. She’d been gone for hundreds of years. Jada had been so young when her mother had died. “Who was she? How did she know?”

“Your mother was the daughter of a dragon and the White Witch told her your destiny.”

Welcome to Hell

Ky landed hard on the hot stone floor of the barred cave acting as his prison cell. He was almost grateful for the gravel grinding into the skin on his hands and knees as he pushed himself up. It hurt a hell of a lot less than the whips of fire the demon dragons had lashed him with over the last…he didn’t know how long.

What he wouldn’t do for an ice lolly.

“I’m not telling you shit, asshole, so you can quit skulking over there and get the fuck out.”

Skulking?

“Who’s there?” He used his dragon sight to search for the speaker. It was one of the only parts of his dragon he still had access to.

“Like you don’t know. Wait, who the fuck are you?”

God, the mouth on this girl. He took a breath, catching her scent. She smelled of the sea and now that he’d made the connection, he recognized her voice.

“Azynsa?”

She came into the light at the front of the cave coming from the bubbling lava in the underground hell hole. “Ky Puru?”

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