Lahat ng Kabanata ng Taming the Fire Dragon: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 10

Kenna“Are you serious? You’re pregnant again? Can’t Ajax keep his hands off you?” I ask my friend and ex-roomie, Emmi.“You do know it’s not his hands that got me pregnant, right?” she asks, smirking at me.She wasn’t always this confident. For someone who used to be so innocent, Ajax, or more likely Phoenix, has totally corrupted her.“Yes, I know,” I growl.“Speaking of hands, how is a certain elf king?” she asks.“That question had nothing to do with hands,” I say to her as we make our way to my mother’s fire class. It still feels ridiculous to me that I have to attend these classes merely because I haven’t turned eighteen and been claimed. As if I would allow anyone to claim me, much less an elf.“Okay, then,” she says, getting serious, “how are you holding up without Yhendorn here?”I asked him to leave. I told him that if he didn’t leave the school, I would. I’m getting too close to turning eighteen and I know he intends to claim me. I’ve always known he intended to claim me. B

KennaThe day after the attack on Rhys and Enki, I find Merethyl after breakfast.“Hey, were Avani and the others able to hide all the evidence from yesterday?” I ask her.Ever since I asked Yhendorn to leave, Merethyl’s attitude toward me has been a little cooler. I understand why. She’s Yhen’s sister. But she should also understand my perspective. While I struggle horribly without Yhen near me, I can’t risk him trying to claim me.“They’re still out there this morning,” she says.Usually, Merethyl is one who will ask how you’re doing. After yesterday, she would normally be checking in to see if I’m okay. But not now. As I said, she’s a bit chilly towards me. And while I know I shouldn’t, I need to know he’s okay.“Have you spoken to Yhen lately?” I ask her.She stops and looks at me. “Have you?” she snaps.“You know I haven’t,” I snap back.“Well, maybe you should. I’m not you’re messenger girl.” She turns to walk away, but I grab her arm.“Please Merethyl. You’re mated to a dragon.

KennaYhen and I are quiet when we lift off the ground. I take us up high, since I know he likes that. He enjoys feeling the cooler air and the sun hitting him while he’s on my back. I like the feel of his strong hands stroking my scales, making my entire body shiver in the way that only he can.Seeing Kenzo and Ember is always hard. They’re not flourishing like the rest of us, like the dragons who have been claimed by their mates. They act beaten and defeated, and I hate it.“Do you think Prince Merellien forces Ember into physical intimacy?” I finally ask the question that’s been bothering me.“Why do you ask?”One of the many, many things that I love about Yhendorn is that he always wants to know what I’m thinking. He wants to know where my questions come from. He wants to understand me completely, to understand the thought process that brought me to the question that I’m asking.“I saw the way that King Eldarion looked at me,” I say honestly.I feel his hands clench against my scal

YhendornKenna’s question about Merellien’s relationship with Ember has me feeling uneasy. I know if a man like Eldarion claimed Kenna or possibly any of the dragons, he would most likely force them into intimacy. I’ve watched the way he’s coveted Kenna. It disgusts me to think that an elf would abuse their power that way. It’s so very ... human. Elves are supposed to be above that, but power does things to people. It can turn them into something ugly and terrible, and it seems that the elves are no longer above that.I have to consider that she’s right and if she is, then I need to make sure that I do everything in my power to keep the dragons who have been forced into claims safe.By elvish standards, I’m young, only one hundred and sixty-eight years old. For the last ten years, ever since I identified Kenna as my mate, I’ve been practicing my fighting skills with the warriors in our troupe, the ones who are considerably older than I am. Because elves have the earth element and I nee

KendrickI’ve known Nova for years. When you spend as much time at the Academy as I have, you meet everyone. I’ve been gone long enough that she must have turned eighteen while I was away. She smelled nice before. But now, she's mouthwatering.I know she’s one of the hybrids that was experimented on by the scientists. She was a human but survived the experimentation that made her part fire dragon, part elf. The fire dragon is her primary gene, and while I wouldn't care if she was still a human, the Alpha in me is proud that I’ve been mated to a hybrid as strong as she is. She is Zephyr and Ishir’s adopted daughter, and I know they’ve raised her to be a powerful, confident dragon.I close my eyes, breathing in her rich amber scent. She smells delicious.“Kendrick,” Kenna’s hand on my arm makes me snarl. I turn and glare at her, but she doesn’t back down.“Remember the rules, Kendrick,” she says, her voice remaining calm.I blink, pulling my wolf back, just as Luna Tana and Alpha Cedric