K.F. Breene

A Kingdom of Ruin

Anna Stewart

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” – Og Mandino

He thought I would break free from the demons, something he was confident I could do, and live my life elsewhere. My happiness mattered to him, and he didn’t think he had anything to offer. Idiot. I would absolutely go back to him.

 looked like. And he didn’t know how to rise from the ashes. I’d make sure he never did. 

Because I would be the bitch that burned down his whole world.

“So pretty, even disheveled as you are. I wouldn’t mind using you as a pet myself. One mighty dragon on my leash, and his mate at my beck and call.” A ghost of a smile crossed his lips, and my dragon thrashed in my hold, wanting to break free and crush some bones. “As soon as we can get that stench off you, it will be so. I promise. You will beg for my cock. I’ll let your dragon prince watch as you do so… right before I kill you. It’ll finally break him. I know it will.” 

“Hmm. What an offer,” I said, winking. “Very tempting. I’ll need to pass, though. I’m partial to dragon-sized cocks. I don’t beg for appetizers.”

, I said to the invisible audience, clutching Govam with all my strength. 

No shit, huh? You don’t think I just suddenly went batshit crazy?

Suddenly? No. You’ve always been batshit crazy, or you wouldn’t speak to an imaginary audience…

“She’s a dragon,” Govam said. “They aren’t right in the head. They think danger is a challenge. They like facing it.” 

Not entirely accurate, but it made me sound like a badass, so sure, why not.

Nyfain had felt another alpha try to pull rank with his mate, and he was losing his fucking mind.

Nyfain’s dragon swelled in pride, which was a pretty solid tip-off that I’d gone too far.

“Lotta good that’ll do us in here,” someone murmured. 

“Where there is everlass, there is hope.” I stood when I was finished and walked to the next cell, finding four plants huddled in the shadows near the back. “Because where there is everlass, there is life.” Heart in my throat, I went from cell to cell. Finally, in one, I felt my chest tighten and my hope flower. “And sometimes”— I bent toward the crowded plant—“ There is death.”

You are my heart, little dragon. Guard yourself well, because in so doing, you guard the most precious part of me.

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