Twin Dragons: Dragon Lords of Valdier Book 7 Read Online Free PDF

was still being cautious.
    “The boy don’t speak,” Cal said loudly.
“He’s not all there in the head. He stays with me at all times. No
one touches him.”
    “I have assured you that we will not let any
harm come to you or the boy,” a deep male voice replied.
    “There’s one more thing,” her grandfather
said in his gritty voice. “He don’t go nowhere without the
beast.”
    “The beast?” The voice asked.
    Melina blinked several times as the light
from the landing bay blinded her dilated eyes. She kept her chin
tucked so that it was more difficult to see her face. Her fingers
tightened around the long metal pipe she held in her hand as she
and the Pactor stepped out of the dark tunnel.
    She saw the look of distaste flash across
both men’s faces before the one that had been talking to her
grandfather curled his lip. She automatically moved in front of the
small Pactor. She dropped her left hand so that she could reassure
it that everything would be alright.
    “I said we would take you and the boy,” the
male said. “There is no way that… thing can go. It will have to
remain here.”
    Melina shook her head furiously when her
grandfather glanced at her. She knew that this might be their only
chance, but the idea of leaving the small defenseless creature to
die of starvation was more than she could bear. She had been there
when Hobbler had been born. She had brought the young Pactor into
the world when the mother struggled during the birth and cared for
it when the mother rejected it.
    “Mel,” Cal said, turning and walking over to
her. “Mel, this is our only chance. We’ll die if we don’t get off
this rock. They have another human on board their ship.”
    Melina heard the soft plea in her
grandfather’s voice. She had never disobeyed him before, but the
feel of Hobbler nibbling on her fingers suddenly was too much. She
couldn’t just abandon the creature knowing that she was sentencing
her to death. She would be no better than the Antrox.
    She glanced up into her grandfather’s
worried eyes and slowly shook her head again. A touch of
exasperation and admiration crinkled the corners of his eyes. He
knew she wouldn’t leave the Pactor behind. He had seen the same
stubborn look in his wife and daughter-in-law’s eyes.
    “The creature goes,” Cal stated, looking
down at Melina’s bent head.
    “That is not possible,” Creon replied in a
firm voice before turning back toward the shuttle. “There is no
reason to search the mine. Vox is not here. Everyone return to the
shuttle.”
    Melina backed up, pressing against Hobbler
when her grandfather turned to argue with the male. She could tell
by the man’s voice that he wouldn’t change his mind. With a wave of
her hand, Hobbler turned and started moving back toward the dark
tunnel they had just left.
    “We aren’t going,” Cal called out behind
Creon.
    Creon turned in surprise. His eyes widened
when he saw the back of the boy and the Pactor as they headed back
into the tunnel. With a wave of his hand, he barked out a short
order for the two men closest to the young boy to stop him.
    “This is not open for debate,” Creon stated
coldly. “You and the boy will come, the beast will stay. My mate
would not be happy if she discovered I left you two to die
here.”
    “No, she would probably kill him,” Ha’ven
added.
    “Ha’ven! You are not helping the situation,”
Creon growled, glaring at his friend.
    The startled shouts of the men had Creon,
Ha’ven, and Cal turning to see what was going on. The boy had
attacked one of the men with the long metal pipe in his hand while
the Pactor rammed the other, knocking the warrior down. Both of the
warriors trying to stop the boy had shifted to their dragon forms
in self-defense.
    What surprised Creon was that the men’s
symbiots moved between their dragons and the boy who was waving the
pipe in front of him. It was as if the symbiots realized that the
boy might not be completely aware of the