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Authors: Stephanie Beck
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Tears burned Alice’s eyes, tears she’d let loose only a few times in the last decade, but almost always on good occasions. She turned to find Bade’s eyes locked on the creatures he’d spent his life loving and protecting. He twisted toward her, tears glistening on his cheeks.
“I came here with this in my dreams,” he said, his voice heavy and tight with emotion. He put his hand on Erica’s back. “But all of this…I cannot thank you enough for granting so many wishes I never knew I held. I love you, Alice.”
She wondered at how similarly they thought as he pulled her and Erica close to his chest. She rested her head next to his beating heart and watched Rustyann and Walter dive side by side. Life on Isle Aden brought challenges and struggle every day, but she hadn’t felt the sting since Bade entered her life. She kissed his chest as his lips descended on her hair. They’d lucked out. The dragon charmer and dragon breeder, two souls from different worlds, united on Isle Aden. Alice kissed Erica and hoped her daughter one day felt the wonder and humility she’d discovered by chance.
~ABOUT THE AUTHOR~
When Stephanie Beck’s mother told her to quit whining about less than perfect stories and write her own neither of them could have guessed what would happen. Ten years later that advice has become a fulltime passion and occupation. With a wonderful husband and three beautiful children, the fulltime status makes for very long days, but she breaks up the romance and steamy scenes with knitting, walking, sewing and reading.
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