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est. The night wind whipped my hair around my face, but I didn't feel the cold. The golden fire from my newly awak
ient building constructed entirely of white marble. The Sanctuary was open to everyone who had b
ers. His eyes softened with deep sorrow. He didn't ask what happened to the shattered urn. He simply hande
the resin, gluing the jagged pieces of black stone back together. The urn was whole again, but the ugly,
thing incense, watching the thin trail of blue smoke rise into the dark ceiling. "Once I have finalized my divorce, sev
uiet sorrow, the air in the Sanctu
biological terror, the kind a prey animal feels when an apex predator enters the clearing. The ambient light
bled violently in my chest. It resonated with the overwhelming power floodi
y lungs seizing, an
toned, revealing the faint, golden edges of a true dragon scale pattern resting over his collarbone. His long, silver hair fell like
y were the vertical, slitted pupils of a true dragon. T
m of Eldoria with that pure, untainted bloo
ic Vanderbilt-Carlisl
e the marble floor hum with suppressed power. He stopped right in front of me
the Dragon King could be seen as a threat, and his pure white-go
e scarred urn; he looked right through me, peeling back my layers. He slowly raised
t his touch. It was incredibly intimate, yet terr
ding a shiver down my spine. He leaned in closer, invading my personal space. His nose br
t my ear. "You carry the scent of a newborn
against my ribs. He could sense it. He cou
razing my jawline. The touch was possessive,
main steady, refusing to look away from his predatory gaze despi
int, incredibly dangerous smir
, tasting my name on his to
fraction of a second longer than necessary, burning a memory into my
ped forward, realizing my plain dress was soaked in cold swea
stood up, and walked out of the Sanctuary. I had to get my affair
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