Deacon - Nicholas Bella Page 0,67

owe my life to. For that man is my brother.”

I could sense Elliot believed the words he was speaking. To him, I was already more than a friend. “So, you pledge your loyalty to me?”

Elliot nodded. “Always.”

Charlene huffed and brushed her dark hair from her eyes. “Are you certain it isn’t just because you favor my husband’s cock in your arse?”

“Charlene, really, darling. My cock, and this cannot be contested, is most pleasurable, but I doubt it could…” I stopped, because maybe she had a point. I looked at Elliot. “Well, is that it?”

Elliot laughed. “I enjoyed you fucking me, aye. But I’d much rather it be my bloody cock in your arse. I put no stock your cock. Your mouth, well, that’s a different issue,” he said, then rubbed his thumb along the width of my bottom lip. “I’ve yet to feel the pleasure of these lips and tongue.”

“One day, you will.” I teased, then pushed his hand away. “We need to retrieve our dead and have our ceremony. Once that is complete, we will have to gather our most precious belongings and prepare to leave.”

“Where are we even going?” Charlene asked.

I shrugged. “Wherever our Alpha takes us.”

“Julie, oh, my poor friend. She loved Connor,” Charlene said, and wiped a tear from her eye.

“I know. Many lost loved ones last night. We don’t have time to properly mourn.”

“Who is Bernard?” Elliot asked again.

“Do not press,” I warned him.

“All right, I won’t press, but can you answer this question?” Elliot asked.

“What?”

“If Julie had been killed too, what would have happened to the rest of the pack with no Alphas?”

I had heard stories of entire packs being decimated or worse. “I believe the dragons would have killed the rest of us. There aren’t many left. Either that, or enslave us. Without an Alpha, we would be at the mercy of the victor. If they had let us leave, we would still be in danger if they wouldn’t allow us to have the bodies of our Alphas so that we may induct another. Other packs or vampires and dragons would have targeted us.” I did feel grateful that Julie had survived. I’d hate to wonder what our fate would have been otherwise.

Elliot pursed his lips and nodded. “I see I have a lot to learn.”

“You do, but for now, get dressed.”

I walked off to get dressed as well. We three traveled back to the battlefield that was still being protected by the dragons. Their King was standing there waiting for us. We stood behind Julie, ready to protect her if need be.

“I’ve come to claim our fallen,” Julie said.

“And waste more time?” the dragon King replied. “You would take these bodies and spend hours burying them. I want you gone, all of Great Britain’s east coast belongs to me.”

“We have until early morning,” Julie protested.

“I am giving you the chance to take more than what you could carry. Load your carriages with as much of your personal belongings as you can. To do that, you will need time as horses cannot travel as fast as wolves. My dragons will handle the burial of your wolves. Have your ceremony and leave,” the Dragon King said. To his right and a few feet away, I saw the dragon who had nearly killed me, Darius, and he had his eyes on me as well.

Graham, the last remaining wolf who had killed my family, stepped closer to Julie. I hated him and had wished a dragon had put an end to his pitiful existence along with Bernard and Elias. It would have saved me the trouble of plotting his death. Because I would have it; his blood would be spilled for the life he stole from me. If I were honest with myself, a part of me was happy that Connor had perished. He was the wolf who had attacked my original pack. Had he not taken over our territory, my mother and father would be alive and I would probably be a Beta Capo by now. What would my life had been like had it not been derailed?

I let the thought fade from my mind. Graham would get his, I was certain. I listened to him give advice to Julie, telling her that we needed to take the dragon King’s offer. We had to leave Great Britain all together. We had to find new territory in the new world. England was old country and all of the land it possessed was already in the possession