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“Because I am forbidden by the soul group to do so! I am forbidden to walk there but I have already left the grove of souls and cannot reach my parents that way now. I am as stuck as he is and all because I sought to help my other half and --- I am so tired. It’s like they don’t want him to succeed.”
“What is your name?” I asked her.
“I have had so many. I do not know what my parents will call me. One is to be a lynx and the other a goat. It’s going to be an interesting life if I get to live it. The magic says I cannot pass through the gateways of my own accord but if you carried me, I think together we could make it over there.”
“Let’s go get our dumb dragons,” I sighed and then smiled because I couldn’t help it. Even if this was all a trick, I couldn’t turn down the mere idea of a chance at being by Morvan’s side again. “We have to stop and talk to a friend of mine before we leave. He may want to come with us. He’s rather fond of Morvan.”
Chapter Nineteen
Morvan
I rubbed the bridge of my nose as Teal and his family talked the fates of the three prisoners in circles. This isn’t what I imagined my matingmoon would be like. I should’ve been tucked away somewhere cozy with Rho getting to know him. I should’ve been smothering him in love and cum and ignoring the rest of the world.
“Morvan? Can you think that a little quieter, please?” Crilus said, a pink blush rising on his cheeks. “I mean, I’ve done stuff with dragons and it has never been enough to smother me.”
“Let’s not,” Clarence said. “Don’t even go there. You’ll understand one day, Crilus. When you meet your true-mate all his pining, hyperbolic thoughts will make sense to you.”
“And I’ll try to smother my mate with cum?” Crilus asked and Cobalt broke. He turned away, trying not to laugh, but he couldn’t stop himself.
“This is very serious,” Clarence said.
“I know! He’s admitting he’s going to kill his mate with---” Crilus started but Teal slid his hand over the elf’s mouth before he could finish his sentence.
“It’s serious but we know what we have to do,” Cobalt said a second later. “They can’t live. They forced everyone’s hand here and it’s too much.”
“The omega is possibly pregnant,” Clarence countered.
“But not pregnant enough to be a baby,” Indigo countered. “It wouldn’t even show up on a test, I don’t think.”
“I am not going to argue about when someone is pregnant enough to be pregnant,” Clarence said. “That’s a dangerous sentiment. If he was coming to one of our healers to terminatehis own pregnancy that is within his rights. Are we okay with killing a baby for the sins of the parents?”
“This isn’t us smashing a baby to death,” Indigo countered again.
“We ask what he wants,” Crilus said, his voice serious again. “Maybe he wants to die with his mate. Maybe he wants to live without Georgie and face the consequences.”
“He was willing to kill you all for his mate,” Indigo frowned.
“And you’d kill me if you thought that was the only way you could protect Ambry. Hell, I’d off one of you if that’s how I kept Teal safe and he’s not even my mate,” Crilus said, and Teal looked away as if he didn’t hear him speak.
Teal had found his true-mate not long after turning Crilus away as a chosen mate. Their friendship had somehow survived, but they were still awkward about the situation. I’d been blind before not to realize Crilus was only involved with this because he had a thing for Teal or maybe all of them. I wasn’t sure anymore.
“That’s not the problem at hand,” Clarence said, picking up on my thoughts over the group link again.
“There are many problems at hand, oh dragon of old,” a familiar voice said from the doorway and my heart skipped one beat and then the other. I nearly knocked over the only woman in the room to crash into Rho. He stumbled back a few steps until we managed to find our combined center of gravity and our lips crashed together.
“How did you get here?” I asked between kisses.
“Who’s the chick?”
“I thought you couldn’t travel away from your standing space?”
“Well, if you stop kissing me long enough for me to answer, I can tell you,” he laughed and kissed me again without filling in the gaps. I lost myself to his soft, supple mouth. Fuck Georgieand his crew. Fuck Torvan locked in the freezer and Crilus and his dirty jokes. Fuck everyone and everything who wasn’t my mate. I wanted him. I needed him. The rest of the world could sit on Frost’s Pit.
“I need you,” I murmured against Rho’s warm lips. “I need you and only you and this whole life and death thing is such fucking bullshit, mate. It’s all bullshit. My brother is a fucking ghost. Dead is alive and alive doesn’t last long. I don’t want to think about it anymore. I don’t want to think about anything except you. I want to spend the rest of eternity breathing in your scent and listening to your heartbeat against mine. All the hows and whys don’t matter.”
“I do not think Clarence will appreciate us mating here,” Rho chuckled, cradling my face in his hands.
“It’s my restaurant. I’ll fuck you on every table if that’s what I want to do,” I growled.
