6- Protective Beasts
After Cacie’s unexpected vist and the formation load see record, she vanished. This is typical Gracie She always lores pour sprachlos, chalus, and with a beadache
*Serals, GuirTM Atticus sheds at the air, hands on hips, shaking his head, and the halls in anegance and exhaustion. We all
“What the hell are we going to do? What all does that mean?” Tristian stats to camble cot all the questions we weer all thankin
“All I know is, I need a drink!” 1 heartaches speak loudly, he makes his way to the bar and clogs a there danger Highball glass of ander liquid like a shit, We all slowly made our way to the ap and fill several glasses. Eventually, we all decade to go to bed. A slight knock was heard on the closed din as we grabbed sur mit jackets.
“Come in,” we all shout. A moved later, a tiny te gel perks her head though the opening. Her bestial how cuts frame fet face, in longer counted in makeup, her natural beauty is espubite. She is wearing a pale pink satin and lace robe, Alagoas in pursing, and Bam not far behind him.
“Um, I am so sorry to bother you, but, um,” she tries to manble out as she walks into the mom. I see her winging her lathe hands in nemess, I thike out of my tummy, walk up tu best, and scarmly wrap my arms around her. She best head into my chest,
“What’s wrong, sweetheart I try to go at her calmly. Her yes imitantly lift
mine, and I see pure aderations and joy. However, I also noticed her eyes were a hit pulty a
“Lucien,” she breathers. Hearing her say my makes my heart hatter so much. “Um, I couldn’t sleep. I had a muddy say dream, and I don’t want to las alone right noc” She finishes in a hurry
I wrap my as tighter around her and son feel the others wrapping around her, too. Each of us inled her caning soon as she started to an Atticus speaks for all of us when he tells her she can talk to us. “Tell us, most gal, what was this dream?” he ask
| sam… 1 sawitty and all of you covered in blood, and the hottest for surrounded us, yet it was so dark and cold. I saw these eyes, to black that they pierced my very core and a voice–ll was 100 deep. I said. Tara coming for you. Everly. No magic will stop me. You will be mine. And then he started laughing as he completely swallowed me in these sticky, evil shadows.” She let out aicher
She wailed again and visibly shivered as she cried, “He and I to call him Darknes! She shiveerd is ours, I looked at my best friends. We all exchanged knowing looks but didn’t know what we could any Despite what Grace told us earlier tonight, it was not the time to boll our daling male.
Even though she wasn’t marked yet, we could all feel a hint of her fear through the bond. Looking around, I knew all our dragons were trying in claw their way out, wanting to protect their mate; their bond to her was instant and possessive. Aragen was tough, wanting to destroy wrything that would make ben is.
I picked her up in my arms, letting her legs wrap around my torso. She cradled her head against my shoulder. She clung to me like a baby hala bear, and I was content with never letting her go
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petting her back, holding her hands, and whispering sweet nothings into her for seral minutes. Wo kid her silky skin, and our dragons pushed their dragon fire wing with comfortable heat, creating a heated Manker effect for their soulmate. Soon, their kille mule was lulled back into a sweet slumber. We continued to embrace her, letting her sweet scent Invade every inch of our pores, calming our framed minds and protective boasts
fire to fill our
Aher some time, the others begrudgingly started to pull away from our mate. “What do you think that was all about? Could it be connected to what Gracie told us tonight?” Tration becks the
After a long pause, Atticus dnally replies, “I am nature, Tree, but we will figure it out.”
*We just found her, Allicus. I don’t want to lose her,” Tristian responded. He squeezed her lu
hand again and greit a gentle s
*None of us want to lose her, Tristian. She isn’t going anywhere. There are sis of us. We have been together since we were hatchlings. We have always protected each other. We will protect her. too.” I say quietly.
“I think we have a lot to talk about tomonio. And we need to summon Gracie. Maybe Everly can talk to her. But I think we all need some rest first. It’s been a long day for all of us. Lucien, take our mate back to your room for the night. I don’t think she should be alone, Atticus end, kissing Everly on her pully chook. Everyone nodded in agreement
I turn to Octavius and say, “Want to join an? Maybe you and Eros can help her. You both have that special connection to the dreams realm.” Octaviuy’s eyes sparkle gold, and his face lights up instantly. “Absolutely! Anything to shut Eros up!” He chuckles along with everyone else.
Once in my room. I slowly pry our sleeping Everly’s arms and legs off with some difficulty and place her no time snuggling beside her. She immediately throws her arm and half of her body on top of him, snuggling deeper into his broad, smooth chest.
the middle of my dragon sized bed Octavius, alerady stepped down to his bowers, wastes.
Detasin‘ eyes lit up in exit, his dragon Erou wanting to come to the surface to snuggle with his mate, too. His urge to mark her sight them was strong, but it was easy to see Octavius holding him back. Once I entered the bed, Fros called up a dream barrier, an invisible electric shield if you will only be visible to the dragons. This barrier surrounds the whole bed, and Eros spots a dark shadow spirit lingering just outside the shield. When the stack mist cannot penetrate his magical forcefield, the Fog dissgates, and feels comfortable retreating and letting Octavius Lake Contest once more. Soon, sleep consumes un alt
Everly
1 win vaguely aware that my body wanted to wake up before I opened my eyes. My hearing, touch, and smell were the first to register awareness. I felt incordably confistable as if I seene rap in a warm clund. My face rested on a soft pillow that smelled like lavender and sumbine. If you could bottle spring, that would be the sell. It was so pelasing.
-Protective Beasts
But I don’t remember my bed being this contestable, my smelling so delicios
As I traded in hands to grab my Market close, not wanting to get up to start another day, I felt piy pillow vibuate. Pillows don’t vibrate. Okay, this is weind
1 slowly open my shoes and am met with a darkened tours. The ente light comes from a side table lamp, which casts a snovi amber glow near the bed. It takes me andles misade to fully wake up and flisd Lam not suging a pillow but a bare, smooth chest
I follow the chest with my eyes and look up to find a bad tace stating at me, with a mass is for His name comes back to me instantly. The eset
fooding back to me. It wasn’t a dream. I have mates, Plural,
“Octavios?” I question myself ere, but he hears me and chuckles again. He brings his bank to my face and moves, a low loose strands of iny hair that have fallen in hout of my cars mes, beautiful, nich red hair, and without his glasses, I can see the unspõe soiling pattem of his amber eyes…
“Sleep soll, little one?” he asks, his voice deep and house, I think my nes just exploded. I instantly any may face in his chest as my cheeks lat
I mind look like a strawbeny byy now.
“An adorable strawberry” I heard him lease. Oh, mum mutin? Did I say that out foul “Yes, , you did, my kitle cound matta?” He jokes.
“Tim worried!” I mumble into his chest, but it is muffled. I feel his body rumble beneath me, and he spires me into a tight embrace. “It’s okay, little one,” he says crassanngly.
“Now come! The others have been bugging me for the last her. They want their time with you, too.” He says while grostly pushing me off of him and tapping my thigh that was shung over his body. I gave him a questioning look. “What do you mean bugging you?” I asked him, forling very nonfused since se vorne the only ones in the room.
He taps the mde of his head and says, “We can chat telepathically with in mink, You sterbooks called it, som, mind–link?
I give a little “o” and watch him rawl out of the gemous bod, but not before pecking me on my cheeks and my nose. He was wearing only bouts. I linked at bas well while he was putting on some sweatpants. He was what the girl in school call ‘reman fire.” He had nice innacles, and his skim was so suft. He had an apple butt that I couldn’t hook away from
When he caught me staring, he smirked, and I blushed heavily and looked may. “It’s okay to look, little,” he said gritty, I am all yours, just as you are all mine.” He gave me a panty diep seductive wink and began to leave the sply gnomon room.
The bedroom isive, probably hall the star of a football field back home. I see lots of rich reds, golls, and deep browns. The funtine is all deep wood with beautiful flowers caved in it. The bedding is a dark gold duvet with rich mancon red sheets and pillows, the floor matches the tapestry curtains in a stunning red and golden pattem. A large sitting area is to the left of the bed, and an equal massive fireplace sits on the far wall.
“The bathroom is through there,” he says while passing a dot. Treshen up. Clothes will be laid out to you by the time you finish. An assistant will wait outside the doom when you ate ready to join us be reached the door, opened it, and turned around again to face me. “Don’t take tan long, though, little one. Otherwise, we say how to come and join you!” And with that, le bell, and yep, my packen just exploded.
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