Page 69 of Queen Takes Triune
All several thousand pounds of dragon flesh. Plopped on top of her without a care.
I bared my teeth at our guests and allowed smoke to puff out as I chuckled. Though it came out more ferocious than simple amusement.
The human looked like he’d messed his fucking pants, but the former knight threw his head back and roared with laughter.
His queen gazed up at him, her eyes wide, shining in the starlight with a soft glow. Evidently Lancelot du Lac hadn’t laughed so freely in a very long time.
The phoenix blasted me with enough flame to melt down the Statue of Liberty into a puddle of bronze, but dragonhide couldn’t care less about fire. Even sunfire from House Helios.
Still laughing, the knight tucked his queen close and they headed on up to the house. The human followed along behind, though he kept looking back over his shoulder at us. Probably to make sure I wasn’t going to sneak up and eat him. He’d make a tasty little snack, but I doubted my queen would be pleased if she lost yet another consiliarius before she could swear him in as Gina’s backup.
Once they were finally gone, I unfurled my wings and leaped into the sky. I didn’t pause to wait for the phoenix. She’d fucking follow or not. I didn’t fucking care. She could explain to Rik why she chose to disobey his order to accompany me.
The blood circle tingled along my hide as I exited the nest. For this to work, I had to be outside our queen’s protections. To avoid any unwanted attention, I flew higher, well into the thick clouds blanketing the sky. The air tasted like snow. One last hurrah before spring broke winter’s hold on the earth.
I loved flying, especially up high like this. So still and quiet. Nothing to impede my flight. Nothing to stop me from simply flying off into the east to meet the rising sun.
Except my queen.
Yeah, once the thought of being bound to a queen had pissed me the fuck off. I’d killed plenty of other queens just to be sure that they couldn’t trap me into service. Shara had broken down my prison walls and dragged me snarling and snapping into her world. Prepared to be chained and enslaved, I found that this queen had conquered me with one thing only.
Her love.
Even this high up, I felt her bond. Not a tether to drag me back to her service—but a shining highway that would always lead me home. The light in the darkness. The warm candle in the window.
The fierce as fuck queen who’d find her way into Heliopolis or Rome or wherever the fuck we needed her, because she would always be sure her loved ones were safe.
To be one of those she counted as precious…
I’d kill anyone and anything who thought to harm her.
I spread my wings out to cup the maximum amount of air and drifted in a slow downward spiral. Centering myself, I reached deep into my chest cavity. Below my black heart. Underneath my bitter liver. To the very base of my spine and the root of my massive body. On a human, it’d be the root chakra. For me, it was where I stored my dragon dick, curled up like a python inside me.
I hadn’t mated as a dragon in… Mentally, I flinched away from that raw, burning memory. Fucking that dragon had ended with me cursed, locked in a prison outside this world. I’d fucking learned my lesson all too well.
I didn’t need to unfurl the dick to make this work, though I’d seen plenty of males using the call as a way to showcase their mighty cock to interested females. The only female I was interested in already appreciated my human-sized cock. Vivian sure wouldn’t give a damn, and I sure as fuck wouldn’t want her gossiping to the others about it.
Closing my eyes, I blocked out my sense of the phoenix. Of course, she’d followed me. We might be badass fucking Blood in our own right, but none of us wanted to be on the rock troll’s bad side. I didn’t care to see how many bones he’d break in my body before he’d allow Shara to heal me. He’d been tough on Daire when I’d first joined the group, and he fucking loved the little furball shit and had spent years with him before Shara called them. I wouldn’t stand a fucking chance of earning a single drop of mercy. He still hadn’t fully forgiven me for breaking Shara’s arm when she’d freed me from the prison.
I cracked my jaws open, hauling in as much air as my lungs could hold. Then as I exhaled, I shoved power through my root chakra. My scales itched at the vibration rolling through the air, but it wasn’t an audible sound.
:What the fuck was that?:Vivian asked.
:Dragon sonar.:
I felt the vibration rolling through the air, racing across the United States. Out over the oceans. North to the icecap. South across jungles and desert and mountains to the other ice cap. But the pulse faded before it touched Europe or Asia.
Fucking hell. I was seriously out of practice.
But one thing I knew already. Arthur’s dragon wasn’t anywhere in North or South America, nor was he flying over one of the oceans bordering either continent. I would have felt a ping as my vibration rolled across the miles.
The tingle on my scales warned me that Shara’s blood circle was close. I shifted my wings slightly, widening my flight path so I didn’t cross over into the nest. I sucked in several deep breaths, gaping my jaws open wider. I needed more air. More power. I had to fucking wrap the globe in sonar if I was going to nail the bastard. And so help me goddess, I was going to fucking pin Arthur’s hide to the motherfucking wall once I found him.
He was an Aima king—but so the fuck was I. And I guaranteed I had at least a thousand more years of hatred than him, burning in the pit of my stomach to fuel my rage.
I filled the bellows of my lungs, panting in air until my chest ached. Then some more. Shara needed to know where the bastard was hiding. I’d never searched the entire earth before, but I knew it could be done. It had to be possible. There was at least one other dragon still living in this world and I would find him.
I thrust power through my root chakra again, sending a deep, sonorous pulse out into the night. I pushed until I was lightheaded. Until every molecule of air in my body was depleted and I started to sink like a stone through the winter air. All my will. All my love.
