Flames of Fury

Chapter 20 - Bonus

Totally not me writing bonus chapters instead of the rest of the story >.>  

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Kat

My thoughts are swarming my mind like bees in their hive, the hum from the buzz making me dizzy. Absolutely nothing makes sense. When I caught the scent of lemongrass and coconut my wolf recognized it immediately as belonging to my Mate. I let her guide us through the pack house down the stairs into the great room where Incandis and Syble were standing surrounded by a whole crowd of people, including Alec and a girl I've never seen before.

It didn't make any sense, it still doesn't. Incandis is undeniably my mate, my soul recognizes his, so why didn't my wolf or I sense our bond the last time he was here five months ago?

I didn't even get to ask any questions before my mom chewed out my brothers and ordered us to travel here with Incandis and Syble. I barely had time to shiver from the electric shock between where my skin connected with Incandis' before we were being engulfed by darkness and dropped back down in an entirely new room – an office by the looks of it.

More people filed in, rushing past me and my brothers over to Syble. I swim through the current of my thoughts like one would swim through syrup, it's laborious and exhausting. It's easier for me to tune things out and get drunk on Incandis' scent than to untangle and make sense of the chaos around me. His scent is the one thing that can reach me clearly, the one thing that can ground me in an otherwise hectic and confusing situation.

"Make sure she rests," I vaguely hear Syble's mom's voice through the ringing in my ears. "Girls, why don't you come with me and we'll get you settled into your own rooms?" My eyes refocus on her mom's expectant face, and as if on autopilot I follow her and the other woman out of the room.

The walk through the halls is mostly quiet. Syble's mom calls the other woman with us a healer, not just a doctor but a healer, and situates her in a room next to a girl named Magnolia.

When the other woman has been deposited in her room I continue to follow their mom further down the hall and around the corner.

"Here you are my dear," she directs me to a door on the right. "You are a guest of the queen, if you need anything at all you need simply ask."

I don't get the chance to ask her who the Queen is and why I'm their guest before she slips out of the door, shutting me inside the room.

Despite its white walls, the room doesn't feel cold or sterile. It has an innate warmth that I can't source and a comfort that calls to the weary.

I find myself gravitating towards the balcony, drawn to the incredible view of the mountains in the distance and the lush grove beneath me. Dragons fly freely around in both forms; human and dragon. There's a security here that wraps around your bones, like anyone who enters this place is immediately home.

My wolf is itching to run – not away or from anything, just to feel as uninhibited as those flying above us. I'm not a prisoner here, she called me a guest – of the Queen, no less. I don't think anyone would stop me from going out if that's what I wanted. I'm still considering the idea when his scent wraps itself around me like a hug, then I hear his voice call out from within the bedroom.

"Kat?"

"I'm out here," I call out to him with a shaky voice.

Incandis approaches me tentatively, like he's afraid to make any sudden movements around me. It's not the same confidence and disinterest with which he treated me all those months ago, now he's practically submissive.