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“What lines? I have no lines.” Kit glared at Hudson. “And hasn’t anybody ever told you how egregious it is to mention something like that? Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a suddenurge to use the bathroom. Be right back.” Kit leaped from the couch and hurried out of the room.

“That certainly got his mind off the other things,” Connie said, watching Kit rush out of the room.

“Wait until he figures out he’s basically going to look like this for as long as he takes our blood.” Hudson chuckled.

“The proverbial fountain of youth.”

The humor on Hudson’s face faded. Moving closer, he took Connie’s hand. “I have no words to explain how relieved I am that there’s a soul bond between us, but I’m also angry. Very angry.”

Connie had been expecting this, actually. “I am too, but I understand, to some degree.”

“Do you?”

“I hate to say it, but Gaura had a point.” Connie squeezed Hudson’s fingers. “You and I most likely would’ve been so involved with each other we never would’ve accepted Kit. If this was what had to happen for us to get here, I can accept it.”

“I’m not disagreeing, I just don’t like—”

“Someone messing around with your life? No, I don’t suppose you do. You, after all, like having control. We dragons can be stubborn, especially when we think we’re in the right. You can be more stubborn than most.”

Hudson didn’t comment on the last part of what Connie said, but he didn’t call Hudson out on it. Humans lived such brief lives, and by the time the two of them would have gotten their heads out of their asses, it very well might’ve been too late to join with Kit.

Their blood could offer humans a variety of things, including youth, but it couldn’t reverse aging. Time really had no meaning to creatures such as them, but it marched relentlessly over humans all the time.

The simple truth of the matter was Connie and Hudson could have bonded, and because they were obsessed with each other, they could have lost Kit. As painful as it was not sharing a soul bond with Hudson before, Connie understood the reasoning behind it. But that didn’t erase the pain.

“I will concede you may have a point.”

Connie’s lips twitched. “That’s mighty big of you, Your Majesty.”

Hudson poked Connie in the ribs.

“But all kidding aside, Gaura said the three of us would be a force to be reckoned with,” Connie said. “I wonder what they meant by that.”

“They also said we shared a soul bond that can withstand the Flames. I find that concerning, because I don’t know if our deity meant that as a figure of speech or something more.”

“I agree. Like Kit said, there was a lot to unpack there.” Connie leaned over and kissed Hudson’s cheek.

Gaura had also hinted that they were falling in love, but he wasn’t quite ready to address that elephant in the room.

Connie knew how he felt. He’d been falling in love with Hudson for quite some time. He was also pretty sure Hudson was in the same boat as him. Kit, though, was another matter.

There was definitely lust there. Also, affection. But love? He wasn’t sure about that. But he also didn’t think it would take Kit long to get there either.

They were, after all, lovable.

Kit joined them a few minutes later, a big grin on his face even though he said nothing about lines or the lack thereof.

They cleaned up the mess the broken wineglasses had caused, then discussed what Gaura had said some more. After a while, Kit started yawning, so they retired to the bedroom.

Somehow Hudson ended up in the middle of them, so they both snuggled up next to him while watching TV.

Halfway through the show, Kit started snoring.

Happy that his mate was there in bed and safe, Connie let himself drift off to sleep too. With everything that had happened, they hadn’t made it to his hoard yet, but he planned to tackle that tomorrow after breakfast.

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE – KIT

KIT DREAMED of being engulfed by fire, but not just any fire—dragon fire. There had been yelling, threats, and fear… then him staring into the maw of a red dragon.

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