Page 43 of Starting Over
Wyatt looked up and slowly let a breath out before nodding. “Sounds good.”
“My concern is that kid, Noah. If Rob’s telling the truth, he’s looking at some serious trouble,” Ryan warned.
“I agree with Ry. We should go and see what’s what. For all we know Rob’s full of shit,” Asod said.
Hearing a thump, they turned to see Smoky shrinking to about their height just as the sound of Jude shouting, “Wyatt! Wyatt! Rain’s gone!”
Wyatt turned as Jude made it to the top of the stairs with Casper and a few of his men on his heels.
“What the fuck do you mean Rain’s gone?” Wyatt snapped.
“He means that your mate took off out of here like a bat out of hell. I followed him and it looks like he’s heading north,” Smoky answered as he walked in. “I only came back here because My soul bonds demanded I pick them up and take them in that direction.”
“We demanded it, because Rain is going to where that guy Noah is,” Jude snapped.
“For fuck’s sake! I swear I’m going to spank his ass when I get him back here,” Wyatt ground out, before snarling, “Orca, you, Omar and Tandris meet up with the police. Jinyr, River and Augus stay with Rob until Pit’s men arrive. The rest of you are with me.”
It was mere seconds, and Wyatt was in the air with his thunder close by him.
Wyatt’s dragon sensed an unfamiliar next to him, but he didn’t tense or get upset. He knew it was Smoky.
“My bond mate wants me to tell you to not be upset with Rain,”Smoky said using a mind link that Wyatt had no clue he could do.
“How are you using my thunder’s mind link?”
Smoky gave a mental snort, saying, “I am an original. It means we do not need to belong to a thunder, Wyatt.”
It still blew Wyatt’s mind that the originals were real and not the myths he and his brothers thought them to be. Insane really… and he planned on having a long talk with Smoky and hopefully some of the other originals when he got to their new home.
There was so much he and his thunder didn’t know, and these dragons held the answers.
“My soul bond said to please not be mad at Rain. That you need to understand that Rain feels guilty.”
“Rain has nothing to feel guilty about,”Wyatt stated angrily.
Smoky said nothing for a moment, then asked,“Can I be frank with you, Wyatt?”
“Of course,”Wyatt answered.
“I can’t say I always understand a human’s mind or a shifter like yourself. In my time we had little dealings with either. However, since joining souls with Casper I learned some, but when I joined with Jude… well, let me tell you I’m still learning.”
Wyatt gave a mental laugh but Smoky wasn’t finished speaking.“I don’t always understand his mindset, but I do know that when he gets an idea in his head, no matter how stupid it might be, no one is going to talk him out of it. I believe your mate listened in on your talk with the prisoner.”
“Rob,”Wyatt said.
“His name is inconsequential. The point is, Rainmust have felt the need to listen in when you guys all spoke with the prisoner. My Jude would say he had a right to be there since all of this involves him. I also learned that in this he isn’t wrong. Because all of this revolves around him, he feels a need to be involved, and he knew you would not allow this.”
“Damn right. He isn’t trained for this kind of thing.”
“No. No he isn’t. However, he feels responsible for what is happening, and trained or not, it’s something he must do. I had to learn this myself,”Smoky replied.
Wyatt was completely thrown with those words, and found himself snapping out,“What the hell would he feel responsible for? Danny is the reason for this shit, not Rain.”
“I know that, but to Rain, the reason Danny is even here is because of him. The reason those men shot at him and Jude is because they were after him. Because of the bounty on him, someone is now going after the young man. I know it makes no sense, but knowing how my Jude thinks as well as Bren, Rylee,Lex, Gio and all the others… well, it isn’t too much to think that your Rain thinks the same. It seems to be the common denominator for a dragon’s mate.”
“What? Insanity?”Wyatt asked with a laugh.
Smoky gave a soft laugh, before answering,“It might seem that way, but no, Wyatt… integrity. That and the fact that they have a moral compass. They are honorable. Is their way of thinking… understandable? Not always, but the fact that they are willing to put their own lives in front of others to keep them alive? That says a lot about the kind of man you are mated to. So instead of being angry with Rain… maybe you might be proud that the gods thought so much of you that they gave you such a blessed gift.”