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Part I

“I’ll say this once, then I won’t burden you with this subject again Xenon wasn’t a serpent He was my fated mate I loved hi what he was And despite having no knowledge of what love e met, he somehow came to love me back”

Fensa, Her Dragon Everlasting

Prologue

Maxwell COLBY

“Colby, come to me”

The words appeared in his head like a thought, just a few minutes after the coing No more erotic screams from the woman who had morphed into a hen they first arrived at the house Just quiet

And then those words Colby, come to me

As with every co didn’t feel like a choice He’d had an easier tiht of drinking with Dyana than he’d had disobeying any of Damianos Drákon’s orders

Dyana…

As he rose to his feet, theback like a wave froe of his fiancée had been of her sleeping with a s her to marry him A smile he knew had surely faded then coone

Guilt pressed down on Maxwell Colby at the thought of how he’d abandoned the love of his life without a word of explanation However, he was as powerless to do anything about it now as he’d been back then He’d left his location services on, so she’d knoas still alive and where he was But that was all he’d been able to e with the invisible handcuffs on

The invisible handcuffs…that hat he called his inability to perfores, or asking anyone for help In fact whenever he thought to do anything that ht remove hiht died in a way that felt biological Like having a notion to fly, but not being able to get both feet off the ground for more than a second or two

However, he’d seen Das Also, he’d overheard the large black American woman, whoon” during one of their uments