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“We tried to get your attention,” Abbra told him, her furry hand wrapped around his face.

“Woman, I was welding,” he said. “Get distracted when you’re welding and that’s the end of all this long, luxurious hair. Nothing like the sight of a bald Bergailian.”

“All’s well that ends well,” Ree-lah offered, smiling at her kids, who were already running around the field, pretending to be dragons.

“Yes, it is,” Abbra said, smiling up at her husband, then turning to Ella and Jhon. “I assume you’re back to stay?”

Jhon nodded and pressed his lips to the top of Ella’s head.

She closed her eyes and soaked the feeling in.

“Well then, I suppose Charl and I should officially offer to mind your boy for a week or so,” Abbra said, nodding approvingly.

“Thank you,” Jhon said.

“What?” Ella asked at the same time.

“I told her about the mate bond,” Abbra told Jhon sternly. “But you can tell her about the frenzy.”

Jhon laughed, while Ella looked between the two, trying to figure out what in the world was happening.

“Go on and laugh,” Abbra teased. “But when this boy is bigger, don’t expect me to tell him about the birds and the bees for you either.”

That only made Jhon laugh harder, and Ella couldn’t hold back a smile of her own.

“What’s the frenzy?” she asked him.

He looked up at her, and his expression darkened.

“Let’s walk and talk,” he suggested, grabbing her hand and marching off so fast she barely had time to wave goodbye to the others over her shoulder.

“The frenzy happens when a dragon finally claims his mate,” Jhon told her through a clenched jaw. “It goes on for days, sometimes even a week.”

“What goes on?” she asked, trying to keep up.

He stopped in his tracks and turned to her, pulling her close.

She felt a wave of attraction, as if he were a planet and she was his moon.

When he bent to kiss her, the ache intensified so that she suddenly knew exactly what she craved, what they both needed so desperately.

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JHON

Jhon pulled back from the kiss, growling with frustration, but determined that he would not take her here on the frozen ground in front of all their neighbors.

Ella might be moaning against his mouth like she didn’t care right now, but he was pretty sure she would care a lot a few days from now when she realized what she had done.

Besides, the dragon was too jealous over his mate to allow her to be revealed in front of the other males, even if they were already mated.

Mine, the dragon screamed.

Yes, he told it. Just let me get her to shelter.

Ella whined and tried to pull his head back down to hers.

“Easy, love,” he murmured to her. “Let’s get home first so nothing can interrupt us.”

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