Forbidden Honor (Dragon Royals #1)(124)

“Talisyn,” Honor whispered. She didn’t sound like herself; she was hoarse and ragged. From screaming? The thought made a murderous pulse thump through my body. But she was begging me with her eyes. “Alis knows something about my family, you’ve got to protect her.”

My desire to kill was leashed by my desire to give Honor whatever she wanted. If she needed to see her stepmother alive, then she would have her.

I threw myself between Jaik and Alis, and Jaik’s massive head drew up sharply, exhaling an irritated huff of smoke. Jaik’s glare was familiar in either his dragon or human form.

“I’ve got her.” I held up my hands. “You don’t need her to be a corpse.”

Branock, Arren and Lynx had crashed through the roof. I wasn’t sure if the guards intended to fight back or flee, but it didn’t matter.

As my friends destroyed the drawing room in their effort to get to her and to help us fight back the swarming soldiers, I grabbed Alis’s arm and dragged her toward the cross where I could protect her. I shoved her to her knees. “Stay. Or die.”

Honor’s eyes met mine. “Thank you,” she mouthed the words.

I had a million questions, but her lashes fluttered, then closed.

And judging from her wounded, injured body, maybe that was a mercy. As I looked at her beautiful, wounded face, rage shot through me.

Under the rage was a thrumming fear. I couldn’t imagine my life without this fierce, sunny, wild girl.

I turned to Alis. “You are about to have some of the worst days of your life. If she dies, I’ll make sure that you’re tortured but kept from succumbing to your wounds, the way she may.”

Alis paled. I turned and looked at Honor and got her down from her bindings. The battle raged around me, but I barely noticed any of it. I was focused on getting my girl, and my brothers would make sure that she and I were safe while I tried to look after her.

“I don’t understand,” Alis said. “I thought she was nothing to you. I thought you had her and discarded her.”

“I’ll always come for her.” I wasn’t sure if I would have been able to tell Honor those words to her face. But as I said them, I could feel the burning truth of them igniting something deep in my chest.

I glanced up at the sounds of fighting. Arren lopped the head off a guard, and it rolled across the floor. I kicked it away as I unfastened Honor’s wrist, gathering her in my arms and lifting her against my chest.

Her dress had fallen open, and there was a fresh brandmark on her chest. I could smell the scent of scorched skin and it ignited my fresh desire for killing.

“Don’t move,” I growled at Alis. “I want to keep you alive for Honor, but I won’t hesitate to hurt you.”

Her face was pale except for two blotches on her cheeks. “Since when do the dragon royals get involved with a common girl? What are your parents going to say?”

That was perhaps a valid question. But I would overthrow them if that was what it took to keep Honor safe. I’d long thought perhaps we should anyway.

All around us, chaos reigned, but Honor was the still at the heart of the storm.

Then quiet fell. Jaik reached me in a few long strides, his gaze blazing when he saw her. Then he snapped at Arren, “Find her sister.”

Jaik took her out of my arms. “We’re taking Honor north. I’ll deal with her anger later.”

I nodded, but I knew that choice would start a cascade of impacts that went far beyond irritating the girl we loved.

All hell would descend on us when the king knew Jaik had defied him for Honor.

But for now, Jaik turned to the others and said, “Get ready to fly.”

Don’t miss Dangerous Honor…





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