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

　　Sylvin pulled his horse to a stop, his eyes scanning the freshly tilled fields. It looked, he thought with satisfaction, much as it had during his childhood, the earth rich and full of fertile promise, and the grasses busy with people and cattle, all working towards the greater purpose of feeding keep and village, supporting the symbiotic relationship between the two.


　　Yelena would be pleased by his efforts, he told himself, and felt bile rise at the memory of the heartbreak in her eyes when he had left her that morning. She would be pleased if she ever forgave him what he had done.


　　He was riding the fields, comforting himself with his successes, and seeking to banish from his thoughts his failings, avoiding seeing the shadows of that expression in her eyes.


　　He had known what was coming, but like the swell of a freak wave rising above a ship adrift on the sea, he had been able to do nothing other than brace for the crash.


Chapter 27