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The Assassin Chapter 51: Zephyr
The atmosphere that night is incredible, there’s a lot of laughter, the dragons are bugling in happiness and everyone is excited. I’m not sure I realized how much Nova expected to die when she shifted, but watching her with Amne, I realize that now she can relax and begin to really think about what it will mean to be a fire dragon. I knew Ajax and Kano had given up already and Naida and Keagan were too new to have let it sink in, but watching Nova’s excitement makes my heart soar. As we cook food and roast marshmallows, everyone is talking about happy things. Everett and Kaylani tell everyone about their plans to open a boarding school for all dragons, shifters, and hybrids to come and learn about themselves and each other. “It will be a place for those who don’t have homes, to live until they decide they are ready to leave,” Everett says, smiling at Kaylani. “So, Nova and I can live here?” Naida asks. “Oh, I have a home,” Nova says, coming to sit in Ishir’s lap. “You do?” Ajax a
The Assassin Chapter 52: Ajax
Kano and I are sitting in our living area playing video games. “Sucker!” I say as my player on the screen kills his player. “Son of a bitch!” Kano says, tossing his controller aside and slumping back into the couch. It’s been two weeks since Doc Everett told us we were going to live. Honestly, Kano and I had both given up on life, but now…now we’ve had to really start rethinking what we’re going to do with our lives. I still don’t truly understand what it means that I’ll become a dragon. Kano and I had talked about it after that night at the bonfire. He is my best friend, and going through all of this together has made us more like brothers. We both want to stay here. I don’t know what that will mean in the long run, but living here is way better than living on the streets and there’s no comparison to that hellhole of a laboratory. “Lights out in one hour guys,” Kaylani calls out to us. I look at Kano and he smirks at me. We’ve both been on our own, taking care of ourselves for a
The Assassin Chapter 53: Zephyr
This last month of my pregnancy has been very busy. Ishir found Nova’s real birth certificate and the missing person’s report for her two years ago. It broke my heart to see the sweet smiling face of what must have been Nova's school picture. “What happened to her parents?” “Car accident. Then she was sent to live with family that, from what I can tell, didn’t realize she’d gone missing for several weeks. They did put in the missing persons report, but they haven’t really done anything to search for her,” he told me. “Do you have pictures of her parents?” I ask him. “Yeah, I knew you’d want them. I’ll send them over to you. We could make a photo album, or get her one of those picture frames that uses electronic photos in a slide show,” he tells me but I just look at him. I have no idea what he’s talking about. “I’ll take care of it. You just worry about bringing our healthy daughter into the world. There is one more thing,” he says, his voice grim. “What?” “I think I found Olive
The Assassin Chapter 54: Ishir
I carry my daughter in one arm and wrap the other around Zephyr as I help walk her inside. Ancalagon is anxiously flying in circles over our head. “Let me get your mother settled and then I’ll bring your sister out to meet you,” I tell him. He rumbles a thank you and flies over to the dragon area, impatiently waiting. I help Zephyr get inside to the medical room we started in. “Do I have to be in this room?” she asks. “Let me check you out, get an IV in you and just make sure that there aren’t any complications. You dragons are pretty sturdy animals, but I want to be sure since I’m here and you haven’t delivered your afterbirth yet either,” Everett says. Merethyl’s lip curls. “Avani ate mine, both times. I can handle a lot, but that was gross,” she says. “Animals in the wild frequently eat their children's afterbirth to hide the scent of the placenta and therefore the smell of a newborn child from predators. So he was just trying to protect you and your newborn,” Everett says.
The Assassin Chapter 55: Zephyr
I feel like my heart is going to burst as I take Cyrene from Tana’s arms and lift her hand to mine, seeing Ancalagon’s blessing. “Cal?” I ask quietly, knowing he can hear me, even over the humming of the dragons. “She will be one of us, only different. She may have Ishir’s form, but she will have the heart of a dragon.” I’m not sure I understand what that means, but my heart is so full of love for both of my children, for my mate, for everyone that is here to support me that I just burst into tears. Ishir’s arms come around me, holding both of us, until my tears turn into hiccups. “You’ve had a lot going on in the last couple of weeks, my love. Why don’t you let Kenna watch over Cyrene and you and I can go lie down. Kenna already looks about ready to burst into flames in her excitement to hold our daughter,” he says and I turn, seeing Kenna bouncing on her toes. She holds out her arms and I put Cyrene into them, before leaning into my mate. “I’ll bring her to you when she gets h
The Assassin Chapter 56: Ishir
I could smell the fear and pain on the young hybrid female as soon as I found her. There were a lot of strange scents in the area where we found the two hybrids, and I want to go back and investigate those, but right now, her life is literally on the line. When Cedric bursts into the area where we’re waiting to hear from Doc Everett, I stand. Cedric is a royal Lycan and his own powerful energy makes him a good mate for a fire dragon, but it also means that he blows into a room like bomb when he’s on edge. “Cedric,” I say, getting his attention and putting myself between him and Zephyr. I know he’d never hurt her, but it’s a protective instinct to protect her. “Where are they?” he asks again, this time a bit more calmly as Tana comes in behind him, putting her hand on his shoulder. “Everett is trying to save the girl. It doesn’t look like the boy made it. Kaylani and Merethyl are in there with him,” Zephyr says behind me. Cedric scrubs his face. These are the first hybrids that we’
The Assassin Chapter 57: Zephyr
We leave Everett to work his medical magic and hope that it works. When we step outside the medical wing, all the hybrid kids are standing there, looking solemn. “Did they die?” Keagan asks. “The boy did, but the girl still has a chance. Doc Everett is going to do everything he can to help her,” Ishir says as I watch Nova’s lips tremble. I open my arms and she rushes into them. I wrap my arms around her, crooning at her. “What can we do to help find them before more end up like this?” Ajax asks. “I need to go searching for them. I need to find them before they shift. I don’t know if there are others that have died or maybe, like the girl, they shifted and didn’t die right away and we could potentially save them. I need to get back to where we found these two. There were other scents on the ground that I want to search for,” Ishir says. “We can help,” Kano says. “Not yet. You’re still learning how to shift and in the forest, you have to shift above the tree line and drop to the g
The Assassin Chapter 58: Ishir
I had just smelled the scent of blood when Ajax yelled for us. We all turned and began racing in that direction. I’m thankful that Zephyr diverted to Kano, taking the kids with her because I wouldn’t want them or anyone else to see this. I’m an animal, but even for me, this is violent. I shut off my mind to Zephyr, hoping she won’t come looking for these images. The field looks like a slaughterhouse. It looks like an entire herd of deer, some foxes and who knows what else has been literally ripped to shreds. I slowly walk forward, trying to catch the scents of what could have done this. It’s impossible to even say if whatever did this actually fed on these poor creatures or just ripped them apart. “What do you smell, Ishir?” Avani asks me quietly. The three of us, Avani, Cedric and I have seen awful death. When Zephyr was killing the shifters, we saw it, but not like this. Zephyr was quick, efficient, she made their deaths as easy as she could. This is pure violence, rage, possibly
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