Chapter 86 - Tagan

I felt my dragon pushing at my skin. Only the fact that we were out in public kept me from losing control and shifting. Cheeks, answer me, I demanded.

Silence. Cold, brain-numbing silence was my answer.

We bolted around the last corner as the light show ended. How thousands of people weren't standing around with their cell phones pointed at the alley, I didn't know. And right now, I didn't really care. I screeched to a halt.

Cheeks wasn't there. Ari and Drace were holding each other up, tears running down their faces as wrenching loss infused the air like a full face of pepper spray. I reached out for her with my mind.

Cheeks. Answer me, dammit.

I waited for what felt like ten years. Stillness, an open void where her voice should have been. Soul rending stillness.

"What happened? Where the hell is Hollyn?" Tove asked, his voice hard and piercing.

Ari and Drace jolted. Turned towards us. That these two independently powerful women were essentially quaking had my drago