“She wouldn’t have a throne without you.”
I pressed my cheek closer to the thrum of his heart. “Maybe not. But I’m ready to let her be in charge for a few more…decades? Yeah, decades sound good.”
“Okay.” He stepped back slightly, and I looked up at him. “If you’re sure.”
“I’m sure.”
“Good because now that you’re no longer queen, I’m going to take you flying a lot more often.”
“Hey, Winston?” I said, smiling up at him.
“Yeah?”
“I love you. No matter what happens.”
“Even if there are years of unending peace?”
“Especially if there are years of unending peace.”
“I love you, too.”
He leaned down to kiss me, and I let him cradle me in his arms, pulling me close. It wasn’t the Winter Formal in the high school gym, but it still wasn’t a bad place for happily ever after to start. Especially when your Prince Charming happens to be a dragon.
Acknowledgments
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again—no one ever writes a book alone. There are so many people to thank, but the first has to be my lovely daughter Ainsley for asking me to write something that she would be able to read. Here is something for you to read. I hope it meets your expectations. Thank you as well to my editors at Entangled Teen, Libby Murphy and Danielle Rose Poiesz, as well as all the other hardworking editors, cover artists, publicists, and writers who make every single day that I work with Entangled Publishing a good one. Without all of you I’d still be doing a job I hated instead of one I love. And finally thank you to my family for putting up with the pixies, the dragons, the wizards, and the frozen pizzas that come with having a mother who spends her days writing stories and living inside her own head instead of doing more interesting things. I love all of you.
About the Author
Andria Buchanan is the pen name for Patricia Eimer, a small town girl who was blessed with a large tree in the backyard that was a perfect spot for reading on summer days. Mixed with too much imagination, it made her a bratty child, but fated her to become a storyteller. After a stint of “thinking practically” in her twenties she earned degrees in Business and Economics and worked for a software firm in southwestern Germany, but her passion has always been a good book.
She currently lives in Pittsburgh with her two wonderful kids and a husband that learned the gourmet art of frozen pizzas to give her more time to write. When she’s not writing she can be found fencing and arguing with her dogs about plot points. Most days the Beagle wins but the Dalmatian is in close second. She’s a distant third.