Free To Date A Dragon: BBW Dragon Shifter Romance (Weredragon Warriors Book 1) by Natalie Kristen Page B

and
waited.
    The mouth of the cave was
partially hidden by trees and thorny shrubs. There was no telling
how deep the cave was, and how many Slayors were lying in wait for
them inside.
    “I'll go in first,”
Edriq said, stepping forward.
    “I'll bring up the
rear,” Zul said, backing Edriq. They were keeping Rohan
between them, and they weren't letting him out of their sight. Rohan
didn't bother arguing with them. Edriq and Zul would be able to
concentrate on fighting the enemy better if they weren't worrying
themselves silly about him. He would go with them on this.
    They entered the cave slowly,
weapons drawn. Rohan could hear water dripping somewhere deeper in
the cave, and he could sense that they were being watched. Edriq was
right. They were walking into a trap, but there was no other choice.
    Tessa was in here. He could
feel her. They couldn't blast the cave with dragon fire and burn
everything and everyone in it.
    General Nhor was watching
him. Rohan was sure of it. Watching in the dark, waiting to make
his move…
    Edriq shouted a warning and
raised his knife. A dart stabbed into the hilt of his knife. Edriq
yanked the dart out and snarled, “Poison darts.”
    Rohan stepped forward and
said, “They already know we are here. So...”
    Edriq nodded. “The
best defense...”
    “...is a good offense,”
Zul answered and threw his knife straight past Rohan's shoulder.
    There was a loud thud as a
Slayor crumpled to the ground. Rohan nodded at his brothers and they
charged into the cave, firing their weapons as they ran.
    Slayors began to pour out of
their hiding spots. Rohan pulled out both guns and kept firing.
Bullets were much faster than blades. He needed to kill as many
Slayors as possible.
    He glanced over his shoulder
to see Edriq using his guns but Zul was merrily slicing and dicing
with his long knives. Zul was covered from head to toe in black
blood but there was a maniacal grin on his face.
    Zul was like a tornado,
churning and whirling unstoppably round the cave. He seemed to
relish digging his blades deep into a Slayor's body and pulling the
slimy innards out. Rohan heard Zul crow in triumph when he
decapitated three Slayors at once.
    Zul grabbed one of the heads
and rolled it towards a group of Slayors who were coming at him. The
Slayors tripped and fell like bowling pins. “Strike!”
Zul hollered and pumped his fists in the air. “Woohoo!”
Then he spun round and buried his knife in another Slayor's neck.
    His brothers could take care
of themselves. They even looked like they were having fun.
    Rohan ran ahead, shooting
with deadly accuracy to clear a path for himself.
    As he moved deeper into the
cave, the Slayors thinned out and the attacks ceased. All the
Slayors had gone out to the front to fight.
    The sound of fighting receded
behind him, and he heard the echo of Zul's laughter. The guy was
having a little too much fun.
    Rohan followed the sound of
dripping water until he reached a large pit at the back of the cave.
A muffled sound rose from the pit and Rohan leaped down quickly. He
landed soundlessly on his feet, his guns aimed at the moving shadows
before him.
    The pit wasn't very deep but
it was huge. There were rock pillars and boulders, and Rohan made
his way carefully around them.
    He heard approaching
footsteps. Two Slayors emerged from the shadows and stood in front
of him.
    “Daddy!” Rohan
jerked at the sound of Tessa's scream. He turned and saw General
Nhor moving out of the shadows. Nhor threw Tessa on the ground and
pinned her face down under his boot.
    Rohan lurched forward but a
small, glinting blade flicked out from Nhor's boot and pressed
dangerously close to Tessa's eye.
    Rohan dragged his gaze from
his daughter's tear-stained face to the woman kneeling in front of
General Nhor. The smile on Nhor's face widened as he yanked the
woman's head up by her red hair and pushed a knife against her
throat.
    “Amelia,” Rohan
said in a pained whisper.
    Amelia opened her eyes at