Chapter 6
Ezra
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Iwill fight thosesons of bitches and I will win.
I storm into their shop with breakfast in hand, because I may be pissed, but I still love the idiots and they never came home last night.
Kinsley’s is the first face I see, sharpening a dagger on the wheel as sparks fly. The light reflects off of his safety glasses and I know he won’t be able to see me yet. I march over and wait for him to finish, because I’m not a monster. I don’t want him to get startled and hurt or ruin the project he’s no doubt spent days perfecting and have to scrap it. He finishes a few minutes later, standing up and taking off the glasses, wiping sweat off of his face.
“Ez?” he asks, setting the dagger on his work table and coming over in concern. “What’s wrong?”
I narrow my eyes at him. “A cosmic fuck ton is wrong, you butthead. Here.” I toss a breakfast sandwich at him that he catches easily, forehead scrunched in confusion. “Where are the others so I can yell at you all at once?”
He starts leading me around the bend to the forge, where Kahl and Kaiden are working in tandem. I’ve always adored watching them work, but I can’t even find the enjoyment in it right now. Kinsley gets their attention and they arrange the time sensitive things to buy themselves a few minutes.
“You alright?” Kaiden asks as I toss him his breakfast with a scowl, but it’s Kahl I glare at because I know he’s the ringleader and final decision maker on all things since our dads died.
“I went to watch Elias practice yesterday and the coach decided he’d try to hurry up and ask me on a date before my apparent oncoming heat makes me too horny to think straight, so no, I’m not okay! Why the fuck would you guys keep something that big from me, you assholes?”
Despite the situation, they still devour their food and I hate the fact that it steals away from my anger at them, worrying if I should have brought more.
“Ez,” Kinsley starts tentatively, but stops as I glare daggers at him.
“What did that bastard say to you?” Kaiden growls.
Kahl on the other hand is quiet, and it’s his answer I really want to hear. My anger rises with each second that passes until he finally sighs, swiping a tired hand down his face.
“We hoped that if you didn’t know about it, you wouldn’t think you didn’t have a choice and accept it. We wanted you to have a fighting chance to decide your own life instead of having it already mapped out for you.”
But I don’t back down. “And if you had given me a little forewarning, I could have prepared myself. I could have actually had time to date people and get to know them instead of just being so horny I want to jump on the first guy that-“
Kaiden’s snarl cuts me off. “You’re our sister, don’t say shit like that.”
I roll my eyes. “So now I have less than six months to try and find my mates, so thanks a lot, dickheads.”
Kinsley grabs my shoulders and looks down at me seriously. “You don’thaveto do anything. We can just lock you in the house or something until you get over it.”
I give him a withering look. “Do you think it’s a period? Like I just suffer for a week and then it goes away?”
He blanches. “Why do you have to be gross?”
“Why do you have to be a baby?”
“Look!” Kahl snaps. “Ezra, we’re doing our best here, okay? The attack scared the hell out of everyone. The humans just fucking snapped and killed off nearly every female dragon to try and cripple us, and we lost countless men when we eradicated their race. We’re all that’s left and that’s pretty damn terrifying.”
