Chapter 26

Battleground

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Dracul

I felt my heart pounding in my chest, thundering against my ribcage. My breath came in quick gasps as I ran.

Something was off, something was very, very off. I knew it from the moment I opened the bedroom door and found Elena gone.

She was out there, somewhere in the wildlands of my kingdom. She was out there in a place where dragons roamed freely and did not suffer fools, or humans very well.

As far as many of my kind were concerned, humans were food and nothing more. And if one stumbled upon their path, they would not care if she was royalty....