Night's Awakening by Donna Grant Read Free Book Online

and walked down the corridor to Con’s office, where he knew the others waited. He rounded the corner and stopped, preferring to lean against the doorway than take a seat inside the office.
    “She likes you,” Con said when he spotted Guy.
    “I’m the only one no’ ramming questions down her throat.”
    Banan snorted. “Nay, you just rammed your tongue down her.”
    Con’s blond brows rose. “You kissed her.”
    “Nay,” Guy said as casually as he could. “She was scared witless when we found her, and we had to take her down the cliff to return.”
    “With her injury, she couldna do it herself,” Rhys said.
    Guy nodded. “So, I took her down on my back. She said she’d haunt me if she died, but if I got her safely down, she’d kiss me.”
    “And she did,” Banan said with a smirk. “Doona deny you didna liked it, Guy.”
    Guy shifted his gaze to Banan. Ever since Hal and Cassie were bonded, Banan had gotten even crankier. Hal was the first of them to have found his mate since the dragons left earth.
    It had been a rarity when the dragons were still here, but once they had left and the spell was put on the Kings, they all knew they would forever be alone.
    They had accepted it. Or had they? Hal hadn’t fought against the love he felt for Cassie. He had fought for Cassie.
    Guy hadn’t really understood what Hal went through before, but he was beginning to. It wasn’t like Guy to skirt his duties as a Dragon King, yet every time he thought of Elena, the first thought that came to his mind was to protect her.
    Against his own. Never before had he felt that. It unsettled him, just as Elena did. Her mere presence in the mansion drove him to distraction.
    “Who doesna like the kiss of a pretty girl?” Guy replied when he realized the others were waiting on him to answer.
    Banan lost all trace of anger and peered closely at Guy. “You feel something for her, do you no’? Is what happened to Hal happening to you?”
    “Nay,” Guy said quickly. Maybe a little too quickly, by the way Con narrowed his eyes at him. “It’s been five months since the Silverss moved. Five months since the spell preventing Hal from feeling for a human ceased. That’s five months as proof that our dragon magic used for the spell still holds. None of us have been drawn to humans since Hal.”
    Con tapped his fingers on the desk. “Five months is a blink to us. I’ve worried since Hal fell in love that our dragon magic had cracked somehow. That worry hasna left.”
    Guy watched his leader, the King of the Kings. Their history as Dragon Kings was long and bloody. The dragons they once commanded where gone, and because of a human betrayal, they had used their magic to never feel anything deeply for humans again.
    Too much was at stake for Guy to lie to his friends. They might have won against one of their own and saved mankind that fateful day several millennia ago, and though Ulrik had been stripped of his ability to talk to his Silvers or to shift, he was still out there.
    The silver dragons caged in their mountain had moved five months ago, something that had never happened since they were forced to sleep. Not since the Dragon Kings had sent the other dragons away and took up post guarding the Silvers.
    Guy locked his gaze with Con’s. No, he couldn’t lie to his friends, his brethren, or himself, but especially not his King.
    “I want her,” Guy admitted. “I willna lie about it.”
    Con’s lips flattened. “How badly do you want her? Is it because you have no’ had a woman in a while? Or is it more?”
    “It hasna been that long since I took a woman,” Guy answered.
    Rhys sighed loudly. “Maybe you should stay away from Elena.”
    “Nay!” Guy shouted.
    He backed away at his outburst, more stunned than the others. What was wrong with him? He had no reason to snap at Rhys for a suggestion Guy himself probably would have made.
    “Fuck me,” Banan mumbled.
    Con slowly rose to his feet. “I admit, Guy. I’m