Davina I am extremely impressed with Maliyah’s skills. She really hasn’t been working with Aspen that long but he has done wonders in use a few short months. I am so proud of her and even more happy that she doesn’t need to rely on her powers to protect herself. I wouldn’t put it past the rogues to find a way to prevent her from using her powers or mine. Derek and I get the twins situated for the night before getting ready ourselves. I am in the showering rinsing out the shampoo when he joins me. He comes up behind me, kissing the back of my shoulder before moving to my neck. He grabs my breasts, teasing my nipples causing me to moan. “Mmm…Derek.” “Shhhh.” He continues kissing me before spinning me around, pinning me to the wall. He moves his mouth to my nipples teasing me and he continues lower until he reaches my clit. He puts my legs on his shoulders and lifts me up as he continues to tease me. I grab a fist full of his hair as I feel my core tighten. He abruptly stops and lo
Maliyah I am happy Aspen asked me to dance. I don’t know anyone else and it would’ve be boring standing by the wall all night. I’m sure uncle Owen and dad would asked me to dance but that’s embarrassing. I can’t believe I just performed in front of everyone. “I can’t believe you asked me to play in front of everyone,” I tease. “Well with everyone watching when I asked you wouldn’t be able to say no now would you?” “That is quite evil Aspen.” “I wanted to hear you play,” he replies. The song ends and one of the elves walks up to us. “Hey Maliyah, mind if I cut in Prince Aspen,” asks Drake. Drake is about a year older than me. “Not at all. I should ask my mother to dance anyway. You’ll be alright Maliyah,” Aspen asks. “Yeah I’ll be fine. Thank you.” Aspen heads back towards his mother and Drake places his hand on my waist. “How are you enjoying the ball,” I ask. “It's alright. This is not really my scene though, I'd rather be out in the woods. Oh I’m sorry, dancing is not my
Maliyah I can tell someone is here. I can hear pages of a book turning. My eyes flutter open and I raise my hand to the blinding light. I feel like I am going to be sick. I groan and lean over the side of the bed and vomit all over the floor. “Maliyah, it’s okay. You’re okay. You have a concussion and some broken ribs.” I look over and it’s Aspen. Great and I just vomited in front of him. I groan again holding my head. It’s killing me. “How long have I been out?” “Here drink this tea, it’ll help with your head pain. It’s been two days since the ball.” I look at him shocked. I can’t believe two days have gone by. I panic suddenly. “The twins?!” “They’re fine. They were not attacked. You were the objective. You fought well though. Had you not, you wouldn’t be with us right now.” “I lost though. Last thing I saw was you throwing some knives.” “One got away, the rest will never harm you again.” Meaning he killed them. I don’t feel too bad though for those that died. I throw th
Derek I wake up earlier than I normally do. I really am not looking forward to having to tell Owen about his sister. I hear Davina in the nursery. She must’ve not been able to sleep either. I get dressed and head to the nursery. Davina has both the twins up. Thierry is dressed and in the play area and Davina is finishing dressing Accalia before setting her down with Thierry. “Good morning love, how did you sleep?” “Not well, I kept getting up and checking on Maliyah to ensure she is still there. I’ve been scared I’ll walk into her room and she won’t be there.” “She’s here and alive. We will ensure it stays that way. You ready for today?” “No. He’s going to be so hurt Derek.” “I know. I have Aspen keeping Maliyah company today to distract her while we watch the video. He’s gonna take her to the library to read and paint.” “That’s good. She needs to rest still.” My mother walks in the room. “I’ll stay with the twins this morning. I’ve missed them and I really don’t want to be in
Davina As soon as the meeting ends I rush upstairs to my bathroom and vomit. Shit. This is not the time, I need to be able to shift to protect my children if needed. I cannot be pregnant. I flush the toilet and head to the sink to brush my teeth. I decide to check on Maliyah when I am greeted with Aspen outside my door. “Oh Aspen you startled me.” “Sorry Davina. Are you alright.” “Oh I’m fine. The video was harder to watch than I anticipated. Two shifters were killed. Derek wants to plan a rescue mission. Will the elves be able to assist in that?” “Of course but that is not what is troubling you, is it?” How does he know? “Please don’t say anything. There is so much death lately I don’t think anyone will be up for being happy about this pregnancy.” “I think that is exactly what everyone needs. A distraction from all this death. Something happy. But I won’t say anything. That is not my place.” “Thank you. How is Maliyah?” “She’s quiet. I may have trained her well but mentally
Derek Gabriel stands to run after Davina. I raise my hand to stop him. “Let her go Gabriel. Give her time to accept this. Maybe we can get further proof it’s him, though I really hope you are wrong.” “I hope I am wrong too Derek. I hope I am.” “Alright. Dimitri can you teleport and bring the warriors from the other packs? It’ll be quicker than my jet.” “Yes, I’ll send my daughter Anastasia to your pack Damon, Gabriel go to the flock and I’ll head your way Brian,” says Dimitri. “I’ll take this drawing to Aspen. See if he knew any other silver dragons with a scar like this. Get some rest everyone. We leave as soon as the coven finishes the potion. Shaun, you are welcome to a guest room. We could be leaving at any moment.” “Yes alpha,” he replies. Mark and Keila take their mates back to the guest rooms they’ve been staying at. I head upstairs to find my mate as well. I find her in our room vomiting in the bathroom. I rush to her side, holding her hair. “Are you okay? I can guess
Derek “Damn, Dimitri is there nothing you could’ve done to at least make it tastes somewhat alright?” I gag as I force myself to keep the contents down despite my stomachs protest. “I could’ve but that would’ve taken longer and I don’t think time is on our side.” He’s got a point and let it go. Dimitri, Anastasia and Gabriel chant two words. I recognize the first word but not the second. “Lanuae draconem.” I blink and find we are in the dragon realm. “Eyes and ears open people. Let’s assume they know we are here.” “Yes alpha,” reply the shifters. We take in our surroundings and us shifters immediately shift into our other forms. We can see better in the dark this way. Gabriel translates since only us shifters can speak to each other in this form. Gabriel and the others chant another spell and I can see their eyes glow. Must be something so they can see in the dark. We are well hidden in the woods. To the left is the lake from Maliyah’s drawing and on the far side of the lake i
“Derek,” says Dimitri to get my attention. “What did you find,” I ask as I walk over to the makeshift table he is at and see a map of the dragon realm. There are several x marks all over the map and there is a spot circled on the map that appears on that far side away from our location. “That is where the dragon palace was, here where they have circled is pretty close by the palace. They’re looking or found something important I believe. Maybe the dragon scale flower,” Dimitri replies. I put my paw on the map and Dimitri understands, rolling it up and stuffing it in his pocket. We are going to need that later. To the left of where we entered is the red door Maliyah drew. “Gabriel,” I say and he looks where I am headed. “That’s it isn’t? The door Maliyah drew.” “Yes Gabriel it is. Let’s get it open and get everyone out of here.” Gabriel gets ready to chant a spell to open the lock when we suddenly hear several growls and I see several shifters stalking towards us from another t