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“Then let’s do this together.”

Gods help me, I’ve never loved anyone more.

I raise my hands and call the spell.

Magic races from my palms, imbuing even more threads of protecting into the shimmering Dragon-scale armor around her body.

It is lightweight, impenetrable, and made ofme.

Fitted to her form so she can still move, still fight. But safer now.

Because she is not justmine.

She isNightfall’s.

And I’ll burn the realms before I lose her.

Chapter23

Jules

The Second SoulTakerInvasion At The Eyrie

For a moment there, it was touch and go.

I mean, I’m just a bartender from New Jersey.

I know how to pour a mean drink, charm a bad tipper into leaving a twenty, and talk someone out of picking a bar fight with a pool cue.

That was my world.

How was I supposed to know I’d be kidnapped by a seven-foot Dragon Lord with wings, eyes like molten fire, and a voice that makes my spine melt?

Claimed as his mate.

Pulled into the middle of a war between two ancient factions of a magic-wielding race from a realm that shouldn’t even exist?

But it does exist.

And I’ve seen it now. I’velivedit.

And the truth is, Nightfall means more to me now than I ever imagined.

More than I can explain without my voice breaking.

I’ve found something here.

Something that’s more than just danger and magic and monsters in the dark.

I found him.

I’m in love for the first time in my life.

Real, soul-deep, fated-mate fairytale kind of love.

The kind that buries itself in your bones and whispers in your blood and makes you believe in impossible things.

And more than that—I feelconnected.

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