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. She squirmed, wanting down, but Eric saw the look on my face and held her fast. I ignored my daughter s squeals of protest and tried to concentrate on what Ry was saying. Ry, I said, finally breaking in when it seemed like he was going to take a breath, Kaida s not here. She hasn t been here for more than a year. I held the phone away from my ear when he started shouting. Since most of it was in Japanese I could only make out certain words. Kaida obviously hadn t told him she was no longer my Urmator. Ry, I tried again. Ry, please. The torrent of words stopped finally and I spoke quickly before he caught a second wind. In English, please. I listened as he told me he had received a package with a lock of Kaida s hair and Amphisbaena charm in it. He had called her home and when he received no answer, he went there to find it ransacked. My chest tightened and I blinked back tears. The women in our Clan wore their fertitility charms until death; only then were they removed, to be passed on to the next female in the family. This didn t mean Kaida was dead, but if she wasn t she was in serious trouble. Eric, sensing my distress, came up behind me. Holding the baby in one arm, he wrapped the other around my waist and pulled me back against his chest. I took comfort in the solid strength of him as my baby girl patted my cheek. I realized I was crying when I saw her little hand come away wet from my face. I ended the conversation with Kaida s brother and hung up the phone. Eric and I stood silent for more than five minutes. Even Ania was still, a minor miracle. More than likely she had picked up on my distress. Eric s arm tightened around my waist and I shuddered. Kaida had been my Urmtor since before I had become Primul and now she was missing. What are we going to do? My voice was hoarse. Dragon s Mate Well find her, my mate assured me. And we would. We had to. I needed to apologize to her and thank her for my mate and my hatchling. THE END Emma Petersen Author Bio Emma Petersen wrote her first romance in high school after falling in love with historical romances and has been writing ever since. She lives in sunny California with a cool cat with named Toussaint and is working through an addiction to shoes.
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