Page 91 of The Ruby Dragon's Unconventional Mate

Lachlan’s? Why?

He’s the only one without babies. We’ve got to figure out what happened before we let anybody in without watching them. Do you understand?

I understand, but this? The marks on this omega don’t make sense. I think someone threw them at the ward. Like a… Like they were testing an electric fence.

Take them to Lachlan. Lachlan, can you hear me?

I’m on my way home.Lachlan sounded stronger than he even had.I’ll meet you there, brother. Bring them to me.

Jason, we need you to stay in the air.

No problem, Logan. Retirement is boring.

He held the omega and the infant in his claws, and then he flew as fast and as high and as hard as he could.I think we’re going to need a healer. They were left for dead.

He was afraid the omega already was dead.

None of this worked for him. None of this was right. Every bit of it made him sick to his stomach.

How could someone abuse an omega like this? A lifebringer. And a baby? Fuck.

He landed as gently as he could, Jake on his tail, guarding him.

Lachlan had beaten him there and was waiting for him, along with Alban and Arthur who came out to take his cargo. The three of them carried the omega and baby inside.

Do you want me to stay?

Lachlan glanced over his shoulder.We have it. Arthur says he’ll be home when you and Lars get there. Just let us know.

Bryant blinked. He…he didn’t know what to do.

Lachlan says he has it. Let’s fly. Somebody did this to that omega, right?

Bryant nodded to Jake, a dull sickness in the pit of his belly.The bruises were on his back, his chest, and they were vertical. He would have had to have jumped backward and sideways. Damn near naked. It didn’t happen. Someone threw him.

Then we have an asshole to catch and dispatch. We have to protect our wing.

We do.And they had to protect the new members of their wing too. That omega and baby deserved justice.

They soared, he and Jake, the earth shaking a little as Jake fired up his talent. His own talent would come in way more handy if they caught whoever had been tossing omegas at wards…

They screamed out over the creek, up by the cabins that Mariposa rented out. Jason passed them going back in toward Oro, because they needed to be able to have a flight pattern going on that protected everyone. They moved superfast and followed the creek up north where a trail of magic seemed to lead like a blaze of glory across the ground.

It was as if whoever had dropped the omega had brought him in this way too, and the omega had been full of way more magic than he had been once they’d found him. Bryant could totally scent the dragon now, the one who had dropped the omega and run. It was a foul, sour odor, and he felt like he knew that smell. In fact, it smelled a lot like the beta who had hurt Lachlan. He knew better, because he knew that beta was dead, but—Had he and Lachlan done this? Had they brought this on the wing?

This is not on you, Jake told him. Their lines of communication were wide open, so he knew Jake had to be able to hear what he was thinking. Normally only Lars could do that. Maybe Lachlan.This is on them. Remember they’re the guilty ones.

I don’t know who they are, but we’re going to find out, and we’re going to take them down.

I’m with you, man. This can’t be allowed to stand.

They came abreast of an area where there was an SUV, parked up by the soda dam in the state park. It had no business being where it was, because it wasn’t in a parking area or in one of the safe tourist spaces. This was someone who was hiding their vehicle so they could do their dirty work.

Split up, and we’ll flank him. They have to come down for a landing at some point, Jake told him.

You got it.

He was going to make sure they killed whatever this thing was, and they were gonna send a message back to whoever it was who had sent the fucker that this was not acceptable.

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