“So long?” Her eyes were bright. If he didn’t know better he would say that she looked excited.

Chapter 19

One week later…

“This is crazy.” Julie’s voice shook. “It is the craziest thing I’ve ever… I don’t know if I can do this.” She felt faint. Her heart raced.

Coal tightened his hold on her hand. “We can do this.” He smiled at her. He was so gorgeous when he smiled. Then again, he was gorgeous when he scowled and gorgeous when he roared. He was gorgeous when… okay, he was gorgeous at all times.

She looked down at her lacy, white dress. It wasn’t a wedding dress. Not really but it was pretty. “I don’t want to ruin my dress.” She smoothed the material with her free hand, her fingers coming to rest on her stomach. “It might be bad for the baby. I don’t want to scramble my egg.”

She still couldn’t believe that she was pregnant. She was going to have a baby. Scratch that, she was going to give birth to an egg. An egg. Coal could’ve told her that little detail before he knocked her up. Then again, she smiled, it wouldn’t have mattered. Not one bit. She would have this man’s egg. She would do anything for him because she… anything. Maybe anything was too strong a word. She looked down the sheer cliff and shuffled backwards an inch or two. Some loose stones clattered down the side of the drop. Oh and what a drop it was.

She turned. There were a couple of people present. Blaze, who smiled. Pauline and Flame who had taken the plunge a few days ago.

Taken the plunge!

“Why didn’t you guys tell me that taking the plunge was a literal thing? I don’t know that I would’ve agreed to mating you if I had known.”

“You would have.”

Julie made a fake growly noise. Yes, she would have. “I’m crazy.”

“Crazy in love with me.”

“Arrogant much?”

“It’s a simple fact.” He put an arm around her. “I’m nuts about you too. Now, shall we? I really want to make this official. I told you that I would never let you fall. That I would always catch you and I meant it.”

“I understand that this is a part of your traditions but dragon shifter women can fly so it’s hardly fair.”

“Trust me. Just close your eyes and take the plunge. Trust me, please, Julie.”

“Is this the only way?” She did trust him but this was beyond trust. This was throwing herself off a cliff and trusting that he would catch her without ripping her apart with his talons or squeezing her too tightly or knocking her against the cliff. “If I don’t do this then that’s it, we can’t be mated?”

He cupped both her cheeks. “You can do this.”