Alexa's Dragon (Dragon mates Book 1) by Serena Simpson Page A

agonized.
    “I was in a beautiful castle. I saw you and your family coming in to eat. Your sister handed you your nephew. She was talking about how she couldn’t wait to teach him to fly. There was so much laughter and love. Then he came in.”
    “Mutufa, he killed my father that day, and all I did was run like a coward.”
    “No, you did what your father wanted you to do. You made sure your family survived.”
    “Did I? My mother died of loneliness. The grief she bore was too much for her, she flew off one day and we knew she was never coming back. None of us know if our sisters and nephew are alive. The connection we shared with them has been severed but that’s not conclusive proof that they are dead. In some rare circumstances, a mental bond can be severed. All I have are my brothers.”
    “Your dying wouldn’t have changed anything. Without you, Mutufa would have never been locked away. Your dying would have changed the world as we know it.” She shed tears as the death of his father played before her eyes in vivid color. She mourned him and the loss of Syn’s family.
    “I thought you didn’t become human until you locked Mutufa away. You looked human in the dream.”
    “Your mind interrupted it in a way you would understand it. Can you stand?”
    “Of course I can, silly dragon,” she replied, trying to lighten his spirit. She snatched the comforter off forgetting she was naked and stood to her feet, promptly falling into his arms.
    “What’s wrong with me?” She looked down to see her legs shaking. They felt as if she hadn’t used them in months.
    “You don’t have reserve energy built up. Fighting Mutufa and then memory walking requires lots of energy.” He placed her back on the bed and went to retrieve a bathrobe.
    She wrapped it around her body taking a deep breath, it smelled like him.
    “You actually wear this?” she asked in shock.
    His lips quivered in a smile and he laughed before picking her up.
    “Sometimes. I have friends who believe they are allowed to visit me in my lair. I keep a robe for such visits because they never call ahead.”
    “Is one of those friends George and the mysterious wife you told me about?”
    Wrapping the robe around her, she followed him into the elevator. He hit the fourth floor. “Especially her. I will never understand women.”
    “Can I ask you a question?” She looked up at him. He was still holding her close allowing his body heat to penetrate her.
    “If my parents were still alive…” she licked her lips wondering how to ask, “and we were together. Could they stay with us if they wanted to be closer to me?”
    “The fifth floor would be theirs.”
    “Really?” Who gave in without a fight when asked about in-laws living with them?
    “Yes, my brothers and I would all live together, if it was possible. Unfortunately, dragons need space. As the times have changed so have we. Instead we live in our mountains close enough to fly to, but far enough to provide the space we need.”
    “But it didn’t use to always be that way.” Pictures of them seated at the large table flashed before her complete with the laughter and the love.
    Those pictures reminded her of how her life used to be. Her dad was always teasing her and her mother. He would tease her mom then wink at her over her mom’s shoulder and she would giggle. When she was younger, he always picked her up and threw her in the air asking who was his little angel.
    Then things changed. Not because her parents changed, but because she had. She crawled back into her shell just when she was beginning to emerge. It didn’t matter to them though, they stuck with her no matter what. Now they were gone. There was no way her mom left her voluntarily.
    “Are you all right?”
    “Yeah, just thinking about my parents.” She followed Syn as he walked into his big kitchen. “So how many people share this kitchen?”
    He chuckled and seated her in a chair. “As of right now there are two of us. I