Page 14 of Tease Me

Tripping to the Afterlife

God dammit. He wasdying.

No. no, no. Steele yelled the words, but they wouldn’t come out of his mouth. Nothing in his body wanted to work.

He had to make it.

He would not leave Fleur. He had to protect her. Steele fought like hell to stay conscious, to hang on to life so he could be there for her.

Fleur, his beautiful, luscious flower. His true mate. He’d only met her hours ago, and he knew to his core they belonged together.

The beats of Steele’s heart shuttered in his chest. Darkness pushed at the edges of his vison. The colors of the night faded to black and white. The only light left was the beautiful green of Fleur’s eyes glowing from deep within. He held onto to that light, that love.

Even her eyes faded. He wanted to stay, needed to, for her.

The darkness overwhelmed Steele’s consciousness, tunneling him under until there was nothing.

Steele died.

He felt himself slipping away while reaching for her with everything he had, but his soul. She already had that.

He’d left her alone in a world where demon dragons spread plague and death for shits and giggles. What an asshole he was to go and die on her. He should have been more careful, done more to protect her. He’d failed at the greatest duty a dragon had. Would she ever forgive him?

He did not understand how this had happened. One minute he had found his fated mate and the next he lost her. That was not how this story was supposed to go. Steele was a dragon warrior. No way he had lost a battle with a demon dragon.

His shard. The only thing he could think of was how he had lost all his power when one of the bastards had stolen his soul shard. He hadn’t been wearing it when he first met Fleur, which was dumb. It gave him the ability to shift.

He would never understand now how he’d been defeated or how Fleur fared. Because he was dead and none of it mattered any longer.

Steele couldn’t believe he was dead.

How was he even believing it? His thoughts still functioned but his body did not. That was too weird.

Voices filtered into his mind from somewhere far away. “Why couldn’t he stick to the fucking plan?”

“Maybe because Steele didn’t know about it, my love.”

He heard a couple arguing and they talking about him. Tally number two for the weird column.

Was it his parents? No. His mother had died almost a hundred years ago, but his father was still alive. A dragon well into his Wisdom.

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