The Protector (Fire's Edge #4) - Abigail Owen Page 0,99

as another dragon with his teeth stuck deep in Levi’s hindquarter held on. He snapped at the other guy with his teeth. He was bigger, but as a gold dragon, his neck wasn’t as long and he couldn’t reach, coming short by a foot or two.

Another roar filled the air suddenly. The white dragon didn’t release him, but Levi jerked his head up at the sound.

He knew that roar. Hell, he’d fought beside that sound for centuries.

Deep.

A second later, the skies swarmed with dragons, like a blanket being drawn over the stars. He had no idea how they’d got here in time, but the Huracán team of enforcers had arrived. With extras, because there were a damn sight more dragons in the air than the team had among them.

The crash of battle sounded as their forces erupted through the now mostly spread out Alaz men who’d scattered. The Alaz were now greatly outnumbered.

The asshole with his teeth still in Levi’s leg must’ve done the same math, because he released him and jumped for the sky.

Levi tried to follow, but his back leg crumpled under the force and he sort of frog-hopped along. But the white dragon, like many of that kind, was long, with an elegant tail trailing behind him. Levi lunged and snagged it just above the spiked, mace-like tip and yanked the thing from the sky. Immediately, Hall dropped on top of him, neon green scales bright even at night. Levi held the shithead down and Hall gutted him in one long drag of his clawed hand down its belly, his snakelike eyes glowing with bloodlust.

“Brother.” Hall nodded, then leaped back into the air.

A quick look around showed Levi the layout of the battle quickly. Every Alaz dragon now faced two or more of Levi’s people. Rivin and Keighan took two of the Alaz on a merry chase, the white dragons looping and circling. On the ground with him, William and Marin stood over the body of one of the green Alaz dragons. Blood poured down Marin’s chin, giving his white scales a gruesome appearance as the tiny dragon blasted flame into the gaping maw of their enemy.

Above, only just clearing the top of the trees, Drake flashed by with Cami at his side, chasing down a blue dragon in perfect sync, almost beautiful to watch. Finn and Delaney tore into another overhead, Finn holding it from behind while Delaney went at its gizzard. She must’ve hit the fire sac because molten sparks burst from its belly, raining down over the forest like red glowing embers. Immediately several trees went up in flame.

Levi spun to find his mate gone. Hard on the heels of his relief came a bitter spike of worry. Where the fuck is Lyndi?

Attor, Mike, and Coahoma remained unconscious on the ground. “Stay with your brothers,” he ordered William and Marin.

Back leg dragging, he took to the sky. In three swift strokes he cleared high enough to search for his mate. Then he realized all he had to do was reach out for her through the bond they now shared. As soon as he reached for that place inside him that was her, the floodgates opened.

Fear and fury. All pouring from her.

Because she was fighting hard, but she was also losing, already pushed to the edge of exhaustion. And no wonder after the last few days.

He didn’t call out to her. He couldn’t distract her. But where was she?

Levi jerked around in the air, wings beating to hold him aloft, searching. A blow must’ve struck her hard, because the impact shuddered down that connection to him followed by a wave of disorientation.

That’s when he spotted her.

Directly overhead, facing off against Tineen on her own. Fuck.

“I’m coming.” He shot the thought ahead of him as he pushed himself faster.

His leg was definitely broken, dangling rather than tucking up against him, dragging in the wind and slowing him down, cutting his ability to make himself more aerodynamic.

“Pull him in closer on my call.”

Lyndi didn’t answer, but the sensation down that bond was one of her readying herself.

“Now.”

As he watched, she slipped out of the way of the black dragon’s swipe with a talon, but she dropped lower and nearer. As Tineen moved to follow, it brought him in to her.

“To your right.”

She juked to the side, and the Alaz leader followed, and that’s when Levi went at him. Only, at the last second, the bastard spun.

Almost as though she heard his thoughts, Lyndi attacked one side while