Fate brought them together, will destiny tear them apart?

Lord Sylvin of the Silver Dragon has two missions in life, to keep and protect the Lady Yelena of Elliard, and to fill the gaps of his past. To do the first, he trains as a knight with the Fae Kings army, and in their war against the humans, wins honours, titles, and land – but the years apart from Yelena do not come without a cost, and when he returns, it is with a mistake that both holds promise for their future together, and threatens to destroy it.

Mated to The Dragon Lord

　　Yelena woke and stared blankly before her, wondering, for a brief blissful moment, why she felt so raw - her lungs tired and heavy within her, her throat sore, her head throbbing, her lips cracked, and her eyes swollen.


　　Sylvin lay over her, weighing her into the mattress, his face against her back, as if in their sleep she had continued their fight of waking, with her seeking to squirm her way free of him, and him using his greater size and weight to physically hold her down.


　　She was trapped beneath him, her heartbeat picking up a panicked rhythm, her breath losing rhythm and setting into the deep drags of hysteria.


　　She focused on drawing in and releasing her breath, concentrated on keeping her body relaxed beneath his and began, carefully, to move out from beneath him, almost achieving freedom.


　　“Yelena,” he breathed her name, and she froze.


Chapter 24