Page 210 of Blood and Ruin: The Complete Series

“Dragons. As we mentioned, we need a spell removed and enough dragons to do it.”

Rhory tilts his head to the side, his complete focus on me as he tries to avoid looking at Kai.

The weak fuck is scared shitless of him. I’d find it funny if I weren’t so pissed at being here with them.

“And why should we help you? What could we possibly gain from this?” Rhory knows he doesn’t have a leg to stand on.

We could destroy this whole place and burn it to the ground, just like Kai said, but if we want to keep any type of peaceful agreement among the dragons, we need to try the official way first.

We could always destroy their little valley another time.

The thought makes me smile to myself.

“We’d never offer an alliance, if that’s where you’re thinking we’re going with this,” I tell him.

As if we’d want to align ourselves with a group of weak fuckers who hide behind their so-called political status and power.

Rhory gives me a hard smile, forcing out a laugh. “But as you can see, we don’t need yourhelp.”

He moves to get up, probably trying to get the fuck out of here before shit blows up, but Kai speaks, stopping him.

“No, but you like power.”

Rhory pauses, slowly sitting back into his chair and giving Kai his full attention. “I’m listening.”

I scoff. Of course, he’d help for power. Even the bitch is frothing at the mouth for the chance to gain more.

That’s all this fucked up family wants, more power. The old man wouldn’t be around forever, and since I inherited his little immunity, that leaves his true heir, and any other from his line, vulnerable.

“The spell we’re hoping to break is extremely powerful. We need enough dragons to absorb the energy from it to destroy it. Once it’s done, you and your dragons can keep it,” Kai tells them.

Normally, the power would have to be transferred back to the source, but no way are we letting that twisted psycho, King, get any more power than he already has.

We still don’t know how he was able to get it in the first place.

Rhory’s eyes light up like a fucking kid in a candy shop. Something finally piquing his interest.

“We need at least a dozen of your most powerful dragons as soon as possible,” Kai says.

Rhory’s eyes narrow, quickly glancing from Kai to me and then to Rion. “If this is any kind of setup—” “It’s not.” I stare him down.

If we wanted to fuck with them, we wouldn’t go to the trouble of offering them something and then turning around and betraying them. I’d watch him, wearing a fucking smile while I did it.

Rhory stares at me a minute longer before nodding his head. A smug smirk gracing the fucker’s face as he realizes what we’re handing him.

“Then we agree to help our fellow alphas.”

My chest burns at the thought of working alongside them. I rub the spot, focusing on Kiarra.

She needs this, and it’s one hell of a step closer to getting her back. They would be out of our hair soon enough.

Amaris stays quiet, but keeps a look of disgust on her face, like the old hag she is.

Rhory gets up, holding his hand out to Kai, knowing he’s the one to deal with. I’d rather punch the fucker in the face, so maybe he’s not so fucking stupid after all.

“I’ll have my best dragons ready to go within the hour.”

Kai and Rhory shake on it. I smile when I see the grimace on the fucker’s face when Kai grips him a bit too hard. Rhory tries to pull back, but Kai stares him down.

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