Page 70 of Fire Dragon
Let me get back to you.
He carefully turned over so that he was essentially spooning Emma. Quarters were tight.
He stroked her arm gently. “Emma? Can you wake up?”
He felt her stir and he added pressure to his touch and spoke more forcefully. “I need you to wake up, Sweetheart. Can you do that for me?”
She stirred against him. He kept his gaze on her face and watched her eyes roll around then finally open.
“Liam?”
“I’m here.”
“Where are we? Why can’t I move my legs?” He felt her foot punching at the cage.
He explained where they were.
Slowly, she shifted her hips, a bit at a time, until she lay on her back. He remained on his side.
He carefully touched her abdomen. “How is she?”
At that, Emma relaxed despite that they were locked in a metal cage from which they had no clear means of escape. “She’s perfect. But I think she wants out of here, too.” Her gaze shifted skyward. “They’re still fighting.”
“For you and me. Santos thinks they’re only sticking around to make sure they can cart us back to Magiffe Province in this cage. It would be a major victory for them.”
“Like hell that’s happening. We’ve got to get out of here.”
He cupped her face then leaned down and kissed her. “I think I know a way out, but you’ll have to trust me.”
Her eyes widened. “What are you thinking?”
When he told her he wanted to shift and to let his massive dragon body break the iron all to pieces, a slow smile covered her face. “Let’s do it. I know your energy will protect me, just like when we’re in flight.”
“Exactly.”
An odd look crossed her face. She blinked several times in a row.
“Hey, you okay? Having second thoughts?”
She shook her head. “Liam, once we’re out of here, I think I know what we need to do to defeat the weapon.”
He stared at this amazing woman lying prone at the bottom of a slave-cage, with her eyes dancing with excitement. “Then we’d better bust out.”
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Before Liam shifted, Emma could feel powerful vibrations running through his body. She was also able to sense how Liam’s shielding energy emerged at the same time and covered her with a steel-like casing.
She wrapped her arms around him and let her dragon baby feel her father. Liam murmured a soft dragon purr as his shifting energy increased. Heavy waves followed and that was exactly what had given her the idea she intended to put into place as soon as they were free and airborne.
When the shift arrived, it was like being hurtled through time and space, yet safely cocooned at the same time.
Liam quickly righted himself and she levitated up the tough beautiful black, iridescent scales of his body. She stretched out and, using a burst of levitation, slid up his long dragon neck. She placed herself near his head so she could take hold of the prominent silver horns of his crown.
She felt the familiar vibration through her body of her connection to him and her love for him.
But this love, as powerful as it was to her personally, wouldn’t be enough to amplify Liam’s natural abilities.
Instead, she shifted her thoughts slightly and began to focus on Dusane, her world, their world, the world of the dragon.
