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the white-faced cliffs of Normandy.
“Emerly used to live there, to your left.”
    Caleb rolled his back in response and picked up speed, flapping
his wings harder and faster, with deeper strokes than before. They rocketed high
over the Drakein Cliffs. Plummeted down their jagged surface. Skimmed over the
black-sand beaches Lucy remembered so well. They glided over the cresting waves
of the Pacific, Caleb’s golden wings reaching wide and free. Sea spray kicked up
to meet them, dusting Lucy in mist.
    “See that beach over there?” Lucy leaned forward, pointing to a
small alcove of black sand secluded by a horse-shaped section of cliff. “That’s
where we’ll find her.”

Chapter Six
    By the time Caleb shifted back to Draco form and
changed into his clothes, Lucy had knelt by the water’s edge with her back to
him.
    “What are you doing?” Caleb asked, watching Lucy swirl her
fingers in the water, round and round. It wasn’t until he crept closer that he
saw she was drawing the infinity symbol—the number eight flattened on its
side.
    “This is how we used to call Emerly when we were young. I guess
she feels the vibrations in the water and knows it’s either me or Tristan.”
    Laughing, Caleb stood behind her. “Morse code of the
ocean?”
    Lucy gazed up at him and smiled, her silky, blond hair falling
in front of her face, stinging his heart. “Something like that.”
    As she continued to swirl her finger, tracing an invisible line
in the foaming sea, a pang of want sliced through Caleb’s gut. He wanted her
stroking his back that way. Tracing the lines of his stomach and the stubble of
his jaw.
    “Feel that?” she asked, slowing the circle, teasing the ripples
of water.
    Oh , Caleb felt it all right .
    Shudders rolled through him. He had to bite back the desire to
tackle Lucy, roll her over and make love to her right here on the hot, black
sand.
    Something had definitely changed inside him.
    When they left Draco Cavern, Caleb could’ve sworn his newfound
feelings for Lucy were purely physical. He wanted to be close to her. To be
inside her. To consume her with joy and light their passion on fire. But he also
wanted Lucy the same way he always had—beside him, laughing with him, exploring
the isle with him, warming him with her kindness and gentle touch.
    He wanted Lucy any way he could get her. He wanted more.
    He’d never get enough of her.
    “Emerly’s coming,” she whispered.
    “From where?” Caleb’s throat cracked. “How do you know?”
    Lucy stood beside him, scanning each tumbling wave. “See that
violet stream of light seeping through the water?”
    Barely, but it was there; a tiny hint of purple in the moonlit
blue.
    “I see it.”
    As the violet hue burned brighter, a woman emerged from the
water. Well, half a woman, anyway. The bottom half of her remained hidden under
the waves. Caleb suspected it was so that her tail could remain submerged.
Emerly was probably the most beautiful mermaid he’d ever seen, though her beauty
still paled compared to Lucy’s. Sandy-brown hair flowed full and wild, falling
over her shoulders and down to her waist. Diamond dust sprinkled through her wet
locks, shining brilliantly white in the moon’s glare. Innocent brown eyes stared
back at them, though Caleb got the feeling Emerly was far from innocent.
Mermaids always were.
    “Great seeing you, Emerly,” Lucy said, kicking off her shoes.
She waded into the water, soaking her jeans. “It’s been too long.”
    “It has.” Emerly hesitated as if she yearned to say more.
“Why’d you bring him here? You know my demands, Lucy. The fewer dragons who know
about me living on this side of the isle, the better.”
    “I know, but I didn’t have a choice.” Lucy reached out her
hand, welcoming Caleb to follow her. “This is Caleb, my dragon.”
    Caleb had no intention of following Lucy into the ocean...until
she gave him the greatest introduction he’d ever heard.
    He wasn’t just any dragon. He was