Bound By Fire: The Dragon Prince's Obsession

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heat jolte

side out. But the air was frigid, biting at my exp

rywhere. I was in a natural cav

, sluggish and blurred by the dru

on Lord of House Carlisle. Known throughout the cit

dn't shift. I

asn't the

another realm, a higher, more advanced civilization: a realm of interstellar empires and esoteric ar

an interstellar arcane medic and a tactical voi

original world, back to Dragon's Landing, back to th

ime, ripped through me. My stomach convul

iac of dragon origin. Without a partner to absorb the heat,

mn

ulkner, flashed in my mind. Her

ealous that, useless as I was, I still h

cool do

nst the slick ice wall. The cold was a br

he cave's entrance. And in the s

shape

hat little of it I could manage, and moved towar

He was staring at me, a greedy, disgusting leer on h

e's "antidote." T

grin split hi

nished whore, will he? Someone's paid me a handsome sum to take good care of you.That Chaos Fire in your

lun

um carry him past me. As he stumbled,

d the impact to propel myself deeper into

Fast. I couldn't fight him for long.

ess started to cl

o cold it felt like it could freeze my very soul. It wa

erate, pierced throu

, my body screaming in protest. I rounded

g cross-legge

the gloom. A thin layer of frost coated his handsome, chiseled fa

man's profound cold was exactly what I needed. An

a perfe

tate. I stumb

"You think you can escape? Without me, you'll be dead in

fluttered. He was being distu

An awake dragon-kin was too

s feet. His body was like a block of ancient, frozen marble. The

from within him. It was the scent of an old wound, a wound inf

that creased his brow a

sed his f

just behind me, his jaw drop

eyes sna

. Pure, molten gold, filled wi

o him, using my years of cross‑world co

voice a raw rasp against hi

side him. The two opposing forces collided, not wi

y to a primal, instinctual need. His body

ric, but frozen stiff. The intricate gold-thread embroidery, a p

ind. He was nothing. Only this

in, his frozen body pressin

d sway feeding the exchange between fire and frost. His hands gripped m

eins with every pulse of our joined rhythm. When the wave crested, we both

a calm I hadn't felt since I'd woken up in this hell.T

out. The frost on his face beg

itness, I and this strange, ice-cold man found ou

apsed against his chest,

I thought hazily,

nd of shouting and the flickering light o