Chapter 1 The meeting took place in the depths of Snowdonia. Five dragons met on the first floor of an ancient tower that leaned ever so slightly as if tired from its own age. A tall red headed man stood back from the group, his eyes still shadowed from the events of the past week. Wesley’s mate was tending to his mother’s broken heart, a human woman new to the world of dragons and now charged with the responsibility of holding two people together in the face of grief. Another dragon, a very pregnant female who seemed to carry steel in her spine sat at the table and nursed a cup of tea while she studied Wesley, the heir to the red dragons. Rhiannon could have led the red dragons, could have swooped in and stole the position from Wesley if she weren’t expecting her first child. She chose