Always (Dragon Wars, #3) (14 page)

Authors: Rebecca Royce

Tags: #Werewolf and shifters, #Dragons, #family saga, #alpha wolf, #series and sagas, #military romance, #war

BOOK: Always (Dragon Wars, #3)

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She glanced up at the sky. Her own family was gone. Unless Jocey got on a shuttle to find out what happened to her, they’d never see each one another again. She mourned the loss of Gordon, of seeing her father again, but not her sister. The human exodus was complete, they’d be forever thought a myth.

“I think you’re going to be fine.” She hugged Lena. Wolves liked touch, she had quickly gotten used to it. “Baby is strong, healthy and one of these days will come out and say hello. You’re both doing well.”

She’d never imagined practicing werewolf medicine either. It seemed, however, she had a knack for it. Lena struggled to her feet. “Thanks, cousin.” Lena winked.

“Welcome.” She cleared her throat. “Sex. It’s great for getting babies to come on out. Lots and lots of sex.”

Lena laughed. “You’re so awesome.”

“She is.” Robert rounded the corner and sat next to her. For the man who hadn’t wanted to be Alpha, he took to it as if he’d been born for the role. Most werewolves would argue he had. Alphas were born not made.

After hugging Robert, Lena waddled home. Before she left the porch, she looked skywards and watching her do so made Tatyana sigh. Would there ever come a time when they wouldn’t look for dragons? It had been a month since they’d seen a flying lizard and it had been sickly, dying, before it crashed to the ground. They’d burned the body and the whole day had felt as if it were a cleansing, sending the dragon’s body to the heavens with the smoke which turned it to ash.

“You’re deep in thought.” Robert tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear.

She nuzzled him. “When I’d been watching you, I didn’t want to be a werewolf. I wanted you but not this.”

“And now?” He kissed her cheek.

She suspected he knew the answer. “I’m sorry it took a war to bring me here. I’m sorry for so much death. If I’d been alive two hundred years ago maybe I could have prevented it.”

“Tatyana, you’re not allowed to take on the responsibility of the universe. I’m not going to allow it.”

“As I was saying,” she laughed. “I wouldn’t wish war on anyone. That being said, I’d have run happily to my werewolf destiny if I’d ever known how it would feel to be here with you, to know I’ll wake next to you every morning. I watched you my whole life. I didn’t realize I was waiting.”

“Yes, well, what can I say? You were always going to be mine, sweetheart. I’m the Alpha, apparently. I get what I want.”

She smiled when he kissed her. The skies could fill with dragons. As long as she had Robert, all would be as it should be. Always.

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ugust bent over the hatchlings. He hated to kill them once they’d broken through the outer ring of the egg. He shook his head. The only good dragon was a dead dragon. These fuckers weren’t getting out to cause any of his kind pain.

“Well?” Homer looked at him. His three men waited for his orders.

“We’re going to have to figure out how to go deeper into the egg caves.” Auggie shrugged. “They aren’t getting to make any more queens. Not while I live and breathe.”

He was the bringer of death—to dragons, anyway.

August Owens had never been made for peace. “Burn them.”

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