I hope you enjoyed this look at Iniko and the future generation of dragons. One more epilogue to go before this book is done.
One Month Later.I’ve never been so exhausted in my life. An Alpha, especially an Alpha of Alphas, should never be this tired. But with twenty-two mouths to feed, it’s nearly impossible to keep up. I’m pretty sure that whoever said it takes a village to raise a family was a dragon, because if I didn’t have the help of nearly every dragon at the academy, I don’t think I’d ever be able to sleep.I can hear my little darlings screeching before I can see them. The four deer I have in my talons will only quiet them for a moment. By the time I’ve fed every one of them, the first ones will be screaming for more food again. And by screaming, I mean screeching. It’s an ear-piercing sound that makes my head throb.As I fly in, I see all of my half siblings in various stages of assisting with my babies. Thankfully, the younger kids enjoy helping out and they can oil and scrub my babies as they shed their skin, which seems like they do every damn day. I’d think I was over-feeding them if they were
**This is Book 5 of the Elemental Dragon Series. While this book can be read as a standalone, it is recommended that you read the first four books in the series, starting with The Arena. References to other story lines and past situations will not be reiterated in this story.**I'm standing here in the arena once again, staring at this arrogant asshole who thinks that he can claim me and make me his dragon. This time, it’s an elf prince.My Aunt Kaylani says it's not an arena. Call it what you want - an Arena, a Colosseum, or a claiming ground. It's all the same to me. It's a place where idiot assholes like this guy in front of me come to try and enslave me to their will.I had hoped after the Alpha werewolf had tried to claim me and I had made a point of nearly killing him, that the claims on me would stop. And they did, for a couple of months. But now here I am again, with yet another high-ranking supernatural who thinks that the Alpha of Alphas belongs to him.I glare at the elf as
We're being chased, Snow and I. We're running as fast as we can. He's faster than I am, being a dragon, and he can fly. So, I tell him to run ahead of us, to go. It's really him that they want, not me. There are five of them and they're spreading out, trying to pin us down.Only one of them has shifted into something that I recognize - a lioness. The other woman looks like a winged Lycan, her body covered in sapphire scales. The males, I'm not sure if they're boys or men, have hideous shifts. They look like they should have been dragons, at least they have scales on part of their body, but not all of it. Whatever they are mixed with did not blend well with the dragons. They hiss and slither like reptiles.Snow has been leading us up a mountain. The last time he fought them, one of them fell off the mountain and that was how he and I got away. I'm not exactly sure what that means or how he did it. It was one of my blackouts and I don't remember it. But it doesn't matter. If he thinks t
I am completely, totally, and utterly in love with this woman. She is everything that is good and kind and gentle in this world. She's the only one that I've ever met who is that way. Everyone else that I've ever encountered has tried to hurt me.She thinks that group that was chasing us was after me. They aren't. They want her. I know they want her, but she never remembers that. And I don't understand why she can't remember when she turns into a dragon.I lift off with Eliane on my back and go in search of food, thinking back to the first time that we met. Well, we didn't actually meet, but it was the first time that I saw her. It was her first shift. I didn't immediately recognize that the large dragon that she had shifted into was the same young woman whose pained screams I'd been hearing for who knows how long.She had destroyed the laboratory where we were being held captive and I had been terrified, having suffered my own pain at the hands of those crazy men. She had shifted int
“C’mon, Cal. You have to go to class. This is an academy,” Ajax, my best friend, arguably my only friend, says.“Why? It’s Elemental Manipulation. What can Kaylani possibly teach me that I don’t already know?”“Charlotte will be there,” he says in a sing-song voice.Charlotte is a fox shifter and she’s as foxy and cunning as her animal spirit. I like her a lot. I like how adventurous she is in bed even more.“She’s becoming too clingy,” I say, but it’s an excuse and by Ajax’s raised eyebrow, I know he knows it. Unlike the others, he has no problem calling me out on my shit. Of all the dragons or hybrids with the dominant dragon gene, Jax is the only one that will stand up to me. I have a lot of respect for him because of it. Elio is a close second, and he tends to make our duo a trio, but for the most part, I prefer Jax’s company to the others.“Fine, I’ll tease her to the edge of insanity during class, then fuck her into oblivion afterward,” I say, pulling myself out of bed.“That’s
When Snow flew away, I was worried that they would try and follow us, the two who tried to get us to stop, Fenian and Tesha. When they didn't, I was thankful. And when we were far enough away, and realized they weren’t following us, Snow and I finally started hunting for food.He caught a large buck. He's become adept at killing them quickly because he knows I don't like to see the animals in pain. I'm thankful for that. He's an animal and I understand his need to eat other animals, but he's not cruel about it, not like the Mean Ones. We’ve seen the way they torment their food when they hunt and the devastation they leave behind. Sometimes, they hunt for fun, not because they need to eat. It's another reason I know that we don't want to be captured by them.When we land, Snow slices off one of the deer’s legs for me. I use the makeshift knife that I've made with Snow’s help. Using his earth element, I was able to take a rock and wear it down to where it had a sharp edge. Then I found
Once again, Jewels has protected me, saved me from the ones who attack us. I wasn’t expecting that Ancalagon would be so determined to find Eliane. He brought a different dragon with him this time, another green one. Both dragons were large, larger than me, but only Ancalagon is as large as Jewels.They said they wanted to help me and Eliane, but when I didn’t tell him where Eliane was, he began ordering me to tell him.I refuse to betray her. I will never betray her. When his command washed over me, trying to force me to his will, I had screamed in fear and that was all it took for her to come. Jewels, my constant savior. I’m not sure what would have happened to me if I’d had to live this life without her. She is my everything.When she tells me to follow her, I do. I know she’s looking for another safe place for us to hide. As we fly, I watch her swoop down over a herd of deer, snatching one in her talons and tossing it in her mouth whole. I marvel at her grace and beauty, loving th
My father was right. Eliane and her dragon don’t know about each other. Or at least, her dragon doesn’t know she has a human form. I don’t even know how that’s possible, but I intend to ask Doc Everett.“I swear I was just trying to talk to him, Cal,” Ajax says. I know he feels my anger and frustration. I’m not angry at him. I saw what he was doing. He was trying to engage Snow, or Iniko, as Jewels calls him, in a conversation.“I don’t blame you. I blame HIM!” I bellow. “He knew you weren’t going to hurt him, but he didn’t like it that she was starting to listen to me, so he lied, cried out, knowing she would respond and turn on us.”I roar, hot flames flying out of my mouth, but I fly through them unscathed. “That….creature is NOT my brother. He is deceitful. He wants my mate and he’s willing to manipulate her so he can have her. I won’t allow it,” I say, turning to look at Ajax.He’s flying slower than usual, and it takes me a minute to realize that he’s injured.“JAX! WHAT THE FUC