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however long it may last.
    What she knew in the way of werewolves didn’t amount to much. The magickal laws that bound them to their mates were a mystery for the most part. She did know one thing from the last few months of being with Lucian and Zane. Werewolves claimed with their bite and hot, sticky, kinky all-nighter sex that you felt for days. So the mated females of her men’s pack said. From the smiles on their faces, she had no reason not to believe them. That had her heart kicking up a notch and soft heat skimming along her chest.
    Without both, she wasn’t fully claimed. At this point, the trouble she stirred up would reap some nasty repercussions. Putting them in the middle of it could didn’t seem fair. She had to think of their pack too. Tonight’s small showdown would escalate and affect them all.
    Marabelle rubbed her temples. Most of what the healer had said went unheard as she slipped in and out of consciousness, but a few words whispered along the back of her mind. If they didn’t fully claim her soon, the magick of the dragons that played tug of war with hers would build until eventually she’d go crazy or it would rip her to shreds.
    Neither option sounded fun, but her options were limited. When mating became a forced subject, they had no business getting mated no matter how much she loved them and wanted them in her life. Despite what the healer had said there had to be another answer.
    Determination pushed aside the inkling of fear that wanted to take root in the pit of her stomach. Someone had answers and she wouldn’t find them sitting around in a sheet with fantasies of a happy family life or woulda shouldas. She couldn’t shake the feeling that Obsidian knew more about her father than he let on. Her father’s death a little while before she lost her powers to the High Council burned a hole in her gut, but what could a lowly witch do in the eyes of Royalty? Maybe, with the help of the dragons, all that could change and something good could come out of her losing her magick.
    Inklings of words from the healer broke through the fog. Marabelle closed her eyes and focused, when the low hum in her head kicked into a steady pounding again.
    Think Mara. The room had been spinning in loops. That much she remembered. Her stomach still felt uneasy. The old lady had placed her hands somewhere on her a few seconds before a liquid had been forced down her throat.
    That wasn’t all. Her eyes sprang open. “Of course.” The healer chanted something over her in the same language as the spell Marabelle had performed back at her cabin. Maybe the healer could shed some light on why the dragon’s blood potion had failed earlier.
    And why in holy Hades could she talk to dragons now?
    “You look beautiful with such marvel and wonder in your eyes. Or is that mischief and plotting giving you that glow? Should I be worried or prepare to slay whatever sorrow that’s stealing such beauty from you, baby girl?” Lucian’s husky voice played with her senses and stroked along her sweet spot. It was currently buried beneath a mountain of guilt, but the man had a set of vocals on him that made her wet no matter what he said. How he did it with a mere inflection of his tone? Not a clue, but she loved it all the same.
    Heat fused their gazes together as she turned to him, and the fire he stroked to life every time they were close caught momentum as it always did a second before he stepped from the shadows. Crimson red penetrated the once rich brown of his irises. Despite trying to work up some level of anger only love surfaced, and gratitude. He drifted closer and she matched him step for step.
    “Tell me what’s wrong?”
    Everything fell under that category. Listing it all wouldn’t help unless he found a way to help turn off her emotions. Life needed a freaking on-off switch. And a pause button.
    She stiffened her spine and let out a deep sigh that ruffled the hair framing her face.
    “You should know no harm