Becoming the Heirless Dragon King's Fated Mate novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: Hask in the Snow

The claw fell into Linnea's palm with a soft click, as long as her finger and black as obsidian.

Aldric swore and shook his right hand, where silver scales were already sinking back into skin.

"That's all you get," he said. "If I change more, the ice in my chest breaks."

"It's enough."

They sat on the warm sand of the Hollow Cave, twenty guards at the mouth and the afternoon going grey outside.

She carved by firelight, the way her mother had, with the broken knife's handle laid beside her for the pattern.

The claw split cleanly under her gouge.

By night she held a new blade, thin and curved, with a spiral cut into the hilt.

It hummed against her palm.

"Tomorrow," Aldric said quietly. "If the child comes early, it comes here."

"Then tonight is ours."

He looked at the fire, and at the hand he had nearly lost, and at her.

"Come to the pool," he said.

Behind the cave's inner wall lay a pool of black water that steamed in the dark.

She had not seen it in the first night, because she had not looked at anything but him.

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