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Dragon Mated (Supernatural Prison #3)(9)
Author: Jaymin Eve

Rose’s exit from his castle led out into what looked like a courtyard garden surrounded by a stone wall about six-feet high. Damn, I wish I wasn’t in this dress. The draw-string pack in my hands had straps, so I quickly threaded my arms through them and secured it across my back. I was going to need both hands to make it out of here. If I could have touched my dragon, it wouldn’t have been a problem, but no, we still had a wall between us.

I sensed my beast’s frustration too. Smoke was pouring from her nostrils as she struggled to reach me. I forced my focus outwards again; the gardens were filled with low bushy plants, twirled brambles of thorny vines and lots of flowers, most of which I had never seen before. Crazy things grew in Faerie, that was for sure. As I was closing in on the wall I heard shouts from back at the castle and knew that Rose’s crisscrossed path had been discovered. I never looked back. I was not returning to the castle. I was not spending one more second with the king.

Avoiding most of the deadly looking flowers, even with their very tantalizing scents, I traced a path across the large courtyard garden. As I closed in on the wall, which was taller than me by quite a bit, I leapt up and landed cleanly on the large sandstone surface which lined the top of the barrier. On the other side of this wall was nothing but clouds, a massive expanse of white.

Well, eff me.

The breezes were buffeting me, and since I couldn’t see more than a speck of land below, I knew there was no way to survive a drop this high. Sure, I’d done it once before in Faerie, but that had been when the dragon marked were indestructible. Now that the king had returned we could very easily be killed. My only choice was to “take a leap of faith,” or return to the castle.

Trusting in Rose, I stepped off the side.

I stifled my scream, but thankfully only dropped for about three seconds before a mist swirled around my waist, and then, just like that, I was on the ground.

I shook back my hair, flipping my head up so I could see if the castle was above me. It was. Miles above. But it was as if I’d only fallen a few meters. Was it some sort of optical illusion? Damn, no time to worry about it now.

I took off again. As soon as I had some distance between myself and those pursuing me, I would change into my wolf. I was faster, smaller, and harder to detect in wolf form. Magical tracing didn’t work on my wolf either. Of course, I wasn’t forgetting that Larky was a dragon. He’d definitely track me from the sky, so I had to find some sort of cover – this wide open expanse of grassy plane was never going to work.

I could see undulating hills in the distance and decided to head in that direction. They would limit the dragon’s ability to both track and fly low enough to snatch me up.

The ground was still soft under my bare feet, which helped a lot with speed. I had a bad feeling I wasn’t going to be fast enough. Sure enough, when I was only about halfway to the mountain, there was a distinct change in the air around me. Shifter energy lashed out and I almost stumbled at the sheer power. Larky was one powerful bastard – which was really annoying.

I sensed the dragon long before I saw him. Looking up, he was only a black dot in the sky behind me, glints of red and black flashing, yet I still clearly heard the distinct whoosh of wings.

In my dreams the king always had dark, heavy black scales, but in real life his black undertones were lit through with flames of red and orange, the colors shimmering in the light.

I skidded to a halt. There was only one chance for me now. I pulled off my bag and got naked in about five seconds, shoving my clothes into the pack. I called for my wolf, and within a few heartbeats I was changed, the bag in my teeth as I took off. I was at least three times faster in my wolf form – not to mention the dulling of my human fears was a nice relief. The wolf knew we were being hunted, but her emotions weren’t quite as broad, nor strong, as my human ones. She would not panic until she was caught.

I heard the roar behind and there was a tingling heat in the air. The dragon drew closer, but my extra speed was enough for me to make it into the first valley between the mountainous ranges.

Chapter 3

Despite the mountains offering the smallest sense of security and freedom, I did not slow or lose my focus. If Braxton had taught me anything, it was that dragons were relentless. Larky would hunt me forever. He thought I belonged to him, and he would do everything in his power to retrieve his possession. The bag was a little annoying; its weight pulled at my lower jaw and the string dragged on the ground, but I couldn’t escape without my clothes and what was hopefully food. I could smell varying scents from within and was reasonably confident that Rose had given me provisions.

The air still shimmered with tendrils of energy and lightning power. The dragon king was pissed, like mega pissed, and he was not hiding it. I could tell that here, in this land of pure magic, the dragon was extra potent. So why the hell couldn’t I reach mine?

I could barely even sense her now in my wolf form; there was an even greater barrier between us. The two animals did not hate each other or anything, but it was almost as if one could not be present when the other was. It sort of made sense. It wasn’t natural to have two shifter animals. There was no other shifter in history – even those from hybrid parents – who was a dual like me.

A roar echoed over my head; it sounded so much closer than before. I lowered my wolf muzzle as much as I could whilst carrying the bag, and picked up the pace. My paws were aching from the rocky ground but I was holding up. I’d be doing even better if I had some food and sleep to fall back on.

   
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