I couldn’t let myself obsess about that, although.

Dragon shifters surrounded me, one on each aspect as I adopted Jasper via the hallway and down a set of stairs.

These stairs have been adopted by extra stairs.

And extra stairs.

And extra stairs.

So many stairs that I began to surprise if possibly the shifters’ measurement wasn’t due to their magic—it was as a result of they spent their complete lives climbing stairs.

I huffed and puffed my method after Jasper.

Nobody provided me a hand. If August was possessive, having their scents on my pores and skin wouldn’t work out properly for any of us.

I couldn’t assist however hope he would care.

That he would need me.

I counted the flooring and turns as we went, embedding them into my thoughts as a lot as attainable. I wished to verify I might discover my method out, in case I acquired caught or left behind.

The additional down we went, the extra I might hear sounds echoing via the hallways we handed.

Pained moans.

Rattling chains.

Indignant voices.

One thing laborious hitting a wall rhythmically.

My arms have been round my center and my abdomen was clenched painfully, once we lastly stepped right into a hallway.

“Don’t make eye contact with anybody within the cells,” Jasper mentioned, not pausing a beat. “Don’t get near any of them, both.”

I took a step nearer to Jasper.

The dragons round me tightened the gaps between us.

Silence reigned as we walked via the chilly stone halls. The dragons round me stored me hidden from the prisoners’ sights, and hid them from me too.

A couple of minutes later, we slowed to a cease.

“What would you like, Jas?” August’s gravelly voice made my whole physique tense.

He sounded exhausted.

Worn out.

Hopeless.

“You’ve acquired a customer.”

“What?” August’s harsh query made me chunk my lip.

My thoughts couldn’t resolve whether or not to give attention to the horny desires it had been hit with the evening earlier than, or the numerous attainable methods I used to be about to be rejected.

Jasper lastly stepped to the aspect, and my gaze met August’s.

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