Chapter 55

• [Ona]
• “So,” Orion raises one eyebrow, his expression so much like his father’s that it pierces me in the heart. “You are our mother?”
• We are sequestered in my private rooms, the rest of the family giving us space and time to “bond.” I’m not really comfortable around dragons this age, I never have been. I never expected to be a mother. And in many ways, I guess I’m not. What kind of mother abandons her clutch and doesn’t even return to name them?