Dragon Fall: Masters of the Flame 3 (Mating Fever)
“Her fingers almost scorched him through the heavy fabric of his shirt. The lights of the games and residual body heat of the gamers had nearly felled him when he stepped into the hall for the first time in more decades than he could easily tally.
But her touch, the whisper of shuddering breath when she stepped beside him was worse. Just her presence pained him as every frozen nerve yearned toward her.
To stand this close to the heart of his treasure and know that he couldn’t claim her without k...illing himself faster and risking the future of the Nox Incendi echoed like a hollow roar in his head.
But he was too far gone with the stone blight, and she was too fragile to fight on his behalf.
He might be doomed, but his clan was not if he could just hold on long enough for Rave and Piper to synthesize the treatment, hold the dragonkin together just a little longer. That was more than enough.
In the private elevator, he swiped the key card he’d taken from Torch and they started up. There’d been a time when he would’ve just flown… As bad as elevator lighting was when it opened in his cavern, it was harsher standing right underneath.MoreLess
But her touch, the whisper of shuddering breath when she stepped beside him was worse. Just her presence pained him as every frozen nerve yearned toward her.
To stand this close to the heart of his treasure and know that he couldn’t claim her without k...illing himself faster and risking the future of the Nox Incendi echoed like a hollow roar in his head.
But he was too far gone with the stone blight, and she was too fragile to fight on his behalf.
He might be doomed, but his clan was not if he could just hold on long enough for Rave and Piper to synthesize the treatment, hold the dragonkin together just a little longer. That was more than enough.
In the private elevator, he swiped the key card he’d taken from Torch and they started up. There’d been a time when he would’ve just flown… As bad as elevator lighting was when it opened in his cavern, it was harsher standing right underneath.MoreLess
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