Damon was out of the blue there. He loomed over us each. Out of the nook of my eye, I might see his hand gripping Anderson’s wrist. He held it and the pistol in an unmoving grip.

“Are you threatening my mate?” he growled, smoke curling from his nostril, blue-white flames filling his eyes.

Wings slowly sprouted from his again, spreading excessive and extensive, blocking out the daylight.

“Have been you going to make use of her as a hostage?” he growled, a imaginative and prescient of loss of life incarnate raging down on the helpless federal agent. “My mate?”

“Uh, I, um,” Anderson stammered.

“I’ll let you know this as soon as and as soon as solely,” Damon stated, his voice so deep my pores and skin vibrated with each phrase. “I’ve killed none of your males. I can’t kill you. Not this time. However when you a lot as contact my mate or her household in any approach, I’ll return. And I’ll make what I did to Charles Lekkohnen appear to be a day on the park. Do I make myself clear?”

Anderson nodded jerkily. “Sure. After all.”

“Good. As a result of I don’t wish to kill anybody else. I’m attempting to show over a brand new leaf, you perceive,” he snarled, sticking his face proper into Andersons. “We’re at peace. It is a good factor. However I’ll know when you don’t maintain your phrase. And I’ll come. For you and your loved ones.”

Then he pried Anderson’s fingers from my ponytail earlier than plucking the weapon from his grasp and tossing it away.

“Additionally,” Damon growled, pulling me into his aspect, one arm round me protectively. “That is for threatening her.”

He twisted his arm, shattering Anderson’s wrist and possibly forearm. The agent screamed.

“Say goodbye,” Damon advised me, the chilly killer persona fading away. “We needs to be on the transfer earlier than the army could be scrambled. Simply in case.”

I nodded, dashing over to say goodbye to them each.

“I’ll contact you,” I stated, wrapping my arms round each my mother and father. “I don’t know when, however I’ll. I like you each a lot.”

“We love you, too,” my dad stated as he hugged again laborious, his voice nonetheless unsteady after every part he’d simply witnessed. “Be protected.”

I smiled, glancing over my shoulder at Damon, my dragon-man. He stood there, wings tucked in opposition to his again, eyes nonetheless crammed with the yellow of his different aspect. Ready protectively, watching the assorted guards as they tried to assemble themselves and retreated down the road.

“I’ll be protected,” I stated confidently, kissing them each on the cheek after which working over to Damon.

“Hold on,” he stated, wrapping me up in a single arm.

I had simply sufficient time to fling my arms round his neck earlier than his wings snapped downward, and we shot into the sky, the bottom rapidly shrinking under.

“Thanks,” I stated because the wind whipped at my hair. I planted a kiss on his cheek. “For saving me.”

“It was my mess you wanted saving from,” he stated. “It appeared solely truthful.”

I leaned into him, holding tight however feeling no worry I used to be in any hazard as we winged swiftly towards the border, a number of hours flight away. These a number of hours would fly previous.

They usually did. Earlier than I knew it, we had been approaching the sting of the occupied territories. Two jets flanked us on both aspect. That they had appeared maybe an hour into our flight. At first, they’d tried to movement us downward, however Damon had ignored them and saved resolutely on towards the border. He was going house, and that was that.

I used to be going with him.

“We’ll be protected now,” Damon stated, gesturing forward to the river that marked the border in that exact space. “You don’t need to—”

The jetfighter to our proper exploded.

Chapter Forty

Damon

I tucked my wings round Elanya protectively as flaming wreckage of the fighter crammed the sky. We dropped 100 toes immediately earlier than I unfold my wings barely, angling us away even farther as one thing got here screaming via the fireball that had been a human plane moments earlier than.

“What the fuck was that?” Elanya shrieked, clinging frantically to my neck.

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