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Oh no! Come home as soon as you can.

I will, love. We’re just waiting for the alphas to tell us we can go.

“This really pisses me off,” Liam snapped. “I wanted to get up to the old dragon home.”

Niall glanced at him as he wound the bandage around Dean’s arm. “Why?”

“I don’t know.” Liam blew out a sigh. “Something is telling me to get up there.”

“Hmm.” Niall didn’t say anything else, but when Loyal came back inside, pulling on his shirt, Niall waved him down. “Liam wanted to go up to the old dragon home.”

“Yeah?” Loyal raised an eyebrow. “They’re gone.”

“What?”

“The dragons. They’re gone.”

Liam nodded. “I know that. But I have this itch to get up there.”

“Not today, Liam.”

“But—”

“No. Not today. If you still want to go once we clear it and make sure no one wants to shoot you, I’ll take you up next week.”

Liam sighed. “That’ll work. I know it’s selfish, but it’s poking at my brain.”

“Then we’ll go. I live with this one. I don’t ignore stuff when it itches.”

“Thanks, Loyal.” Liam glanced at his brother. “I need to get Dean home, anyway.”

Fen nodded as well. “Rory is ready to see all of us and make sure we’re all good too.”

“Oh, I bet he’s freaked out,” Liam said.

“He is. He was going to try to come up.”

Loyal chuckled. “I bet one of my brothers put a stop to that.”

“Keegan.”

“Good. He needs to be safe.”

“I know.” He worried about how Rory just threw himself into danger like it was nothing. He wanted his mate to be careful. Not just for the baby, but for him, for them.

“He’s kind of impulsive,” Dean said, his tone a little breathless as Niall finished binding his wound.

“He is. But he’s a good egg,” Liam put in.

“I adore him,” Fen said.

That’s good, love.

Eavesdropper.

Can you come home?

I’ll be down the mountain in a few.