Dragon's Mate

5: Shadows

Dragons Mate 5

Recap:

"You known as well as I do that its a mating pull. You just don't want to -"

"I want to confirm. I want to be certain this time. No mistakes this time. I wont make the same mistake I made. The one that cost us everything. That cost us Catherine."

Did...Did he just say Catherine? Me?! Or was it that girl from his past? We have the same name!?

Suddenly everything began to spin rapidly. Their forms twist and blurred in and out along with everything else as a ringing began in my ears.

"W-what is...happening?" I clench my hand to my head as the earth tilts and I find myself falling.

"Peaches?" Axial questioned taking a step forward, concern and slight shock in his eyes. The last thing I see is Damien moving forward towards me with the same look as I crumble onto the ground.

What in the world was my life becoming in a matter of one day?

*•* Dragons Mate 5 *•*

"A-Axiel?" I gasp as the man caught me in his arms.

"Peaches? What's wrong? Are you ok?"

"Something...my neck." I groan hand coming up to the numbness that had suddenly began to grow on the back of my neck as the world began to spin.

Oh god I think I'm going to hurl. No, no please I don't want to throw up on him. He is too hot to see me like that!

"What is it?" Damien hovered over us as Axiel went down with me, setting me on the ground.

"Her neck, she-" he suddenly hissed out a curse as his hand met something on the back of my throat. He plucked it out and I groaned as he brought it into view.

"A toothpick with a blue tip?" I ask suddenly confused.

"Prosqia." both men hissed at once.

"What?" I ask as the world began to slowly stop spinning. Thank god.

"Shadow worshipers. Don't worry this is a blue tip. You are just going to be weak for a while but it won't kill you. If it was red or black then-"

"They are coming. At least five. North East. Two miles" Damien interrupted turning suddenly away, eyes darting into the darkness of the woods with a narrowed look.

"The shadow people?! I have to get out of here." I'm suddenly panicked. If these guys could kill a person with a red or black toothpick from over a mille away then they were not the type of people I wanted to hang around and chit chat about the weather with.

"Not shadow people. Prosqia. Shadow worshipers. If we were within ten miles of a real shadow demon he would have smelt your fear and you would be dead before you can sass at him." Damien hissed moving forward with powerful confident strides.

I'm about to snap at him that I do not 'sass' but I bite the retort down because this was so not the time for another verbal fight with him.

"I wouldn't let the shadows within a lifetime of you. Just like we won't let these guys hurt you." Axial smiled brushing my hair back with a new fondness and gentle touch.

With those vibrant golden eyes locked on me and the buzzing on my flesh that his touch ignited, it was impossible to not relax into his arms and instantly trust him.

"Twelve. Hmm. There's twelve of them." Damien Let out a dark chuckle. That definitely snapped me out of the warm fuzzy daze Axial's touch and eyes had already been drugging me into.