“The wolf’s blood probably would taste rancid.It’d be better to rip his head off,” Amaros advised.
Marceline’s laugh was husky and loud, drawing the attention of the trio standing across the circle by the Lupine’s seat.
However, the Lupine and Fae’s attention was captured by the broad-shouldered wall of the two Drahks as they almost appeared to move in sync as they entered the clearing to the meeting grounds dressed in long-sleeve dress shirts and slacks, keeping to the business casual tradition Iskah had set forth to give them all as a show of civility.
Probably so the Lupine wouldn’t sit around naked.Amaros loved a nude body as well, but his kind believed there was something to be said about dressing for an occasion—there was no such thing to them as over-dressing.
“Hmm, strange the Drahk didn’t make their usual glorious landing entrance,” Marceline commented.
Amaros frowned.He wondered why the change-up by the dragon-shifters.
However, as they parted to step through the stone columns of the circular hypaethral, Amaros was alerted to the reason.
He smelled the human female keeping step behind them before he fully laid eyes on her.The pounding of the strange woman’s heart and the scent of fresh, pure blood saturated the space.
All eyes turned to the Drahks.
Marceline sniffed, and Amaros knew his Vice was drawing in the sweet liqueur of the life source.“Who is she—?”
“Ava!”
The medium-height woman with curvy hips and thighs dressed in a simple mint-green blouse and white slacks standing beside the Drahk’s Second-in-Command turned toward Michaela.
Amaros looked back at his mate but already saw she was up and moving fast toward the new arrival.
“Mich!”The woman, apparently named Ava, was racing toward his mate, too.
“Mich?”Liekki echoed with a frown.
“You’re here!I was worried you had died,” Ava rushed on, “That the monster got to you.”
Before Amaros could think about stopping Michaela and telling his mate he didn’t know it was a good idea, the two friends were making haste to embrace in the center of the two halves of the stone table.
Everyone stared at the two, now gripping hands, talking a mile a minute.The excited females couldn’t be more different.Where Michaela, apparently called Mich, was tall and slim with a short, blonde pixie cut, and Ava, the human woman, was of medium height with long, golden-brown hair and fuller curves at her lower half.
“I thought I wouldn’t last long, either.I didn’t know what happened to you, Ava.”
“I missed talking to you.I have so much to tell you.”Ava threw herself at Micheala again, wrapping her in a tight hug.“Where have you been all this time?”
Blood.Sweet blood.Just a taste—
“Michaela, no!”he commanded.
Hearing his mate’s words through their bond and sensing the rush of her blood lust streaming toward the cliff, ready to devour and fill the mouth of the cavernous beast within, Amaros crossed the distance in vaporous black smoke.
Amaros gripped Michaela and snatched her away from the human as a roar ripped through the air.
~YH~
Myhnn, his dragon roared.
Liekki slapped his palms on the table and launched himself over it, then charged toward the center of the room without pause.
One moment, he’d been watching the two females, apparent friends from inside the Wall, in utter fascination at their enthusiastic chatter.When he’d heard Avalore call out to Mick, he’d scanned the room for a human male in their midst.One who he’d planned his death a million and one times in his mind, unsure of who the Mick was to Avalore.Yet, too prideful to ask.
He’d been more than relieved when he spotted the other woman running with glee toward Avalore, and relief had showered down on him.But he’d picked up on the scent that the other woman wasn’t a human.
It hadn’t immediately concerned him since the meeting place was neutral ground.No one would be stupid enough to harm Avalore here, especially not with him present.
