Free Shane: Dragon’s Savior – Ménage Erotic Fantasy (Dragon's Savior Book 4) by Kathi S. Barton Page B

and draining as well. He could only imagine what she was taking from the dragons when he felt slightly nauseous and weak at just a small touch.
    The energy burning off her was hot. Almost too much, he thought, for a woman without a dragon. He ran hot, being what he was, and would be hotter still when he was in his other form. But to see her like this, feel her heat, he wondered at how much magic she did indeed have.
    It was then that the rocks that had been brought from the quarry started to move, their weight nothing to the magic that lifted them and moved them quietly into position as if they were held by a magical string. As they watched, keeping a safe distance back, the wall that they’d been working on began to take shape. The earth below it moved, making room for the stone, to make sure that it was tight against the stone wall behind it.
    They’d raised the walls several stones high over the last several weeks, and recently had started seeing the shape of the castle taking its ending form. Having cleared out all the lower levels inside the fallen castle, and with the stone that they were going to use in neat piles, they knew it was going to be a long hard haul to finish. They’d been lifting the stones, with the help of all the larger dragons, and putting them in place to form the foundation of what would be the main part of the castle, but it was slow, difficult work.
    As he watched Lelani work to bring the stones to the base, he could see windows form in the stone that hadn’t been accounted for just yet. There was a fireplace, he realized, on the wall in the drawings, and it was formed too. Shelves that had been carved from the stone in the other castle were there as well. Improvements too, some of them small but noticeable, and larger ones, like the longer hearth and the stone indentations to hold extra wood. It was almost as if she’d been here or had looked in the books they’d found.
    Daniel dropped to the ground. She’d told him that she’d use him first so that he could rest the longest in the event she needed him again, and it looked to have been a little too much for him. He was an old dragon, brother to Keion’s mom, actually. But in that moment, Keion knew that she’d not used him up, not entirely, and wouldn’t go back to use him again if she could help it. She’d given him his dignity in this, his self-worth, by using him as her first bit of power to show all that watched that he was still a dragon worth having around. Keion fell in love with her all over in that moment.
    For all her professed hatred of people, she’d done this for him. Of course, Daniel wasn’t a person, but a dragon, but he was still their friend. He watched as two more of the dragons fell to the earth, their bodies heaving with exhaustion while the castle moved and became complete…as complete as it could be right now.
    Others still began to drop in exhaustion. Caroline and Gobi were waning but never moved away, but did take juice and fruit when it was handed to them. Even as his brothers began to falter, Lelani never stopped, didn’t lower her hands or stop the movement of the stones. The need to have this wall complete no matter what clawed at her, and in turn him and Shane as well.
    After several more minutes, the wall was up. Not only that, but he could see where the other stones would fit, the way the opening for the door had been carved by magic, and there were shutters for the windows she’d put in, for winter months as well as wind. Her magic had done more in one hour than they’d done over the last month. Christ, it was going to be beautiful here when they were done.
    When she staggered a little, he and Shane caught her. Asher had fallen to the earth, his body covered in a fine sweat, as had the others, but they were otherwise fine. The only ones that remained standing other than the three of them were Caroline and Akassa, his brother. Picking Lelani up in his arms, Shane took her to the ground as well and