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Atticus was in heaven. He had hoped that one day he would find his mate. He just never expected to have two and that one of them would be the dragon king. He sent a prayer of thanks to the fates for both his mates.

Slowly, Atticus tapered the kiss and pulled back. “You’re both so perfect.”

“Of course we are,” Mateo replied, grinning.

Atticus and Puff burst out laughing.

Puff held his hands out and both men took them. “As much as I would love to stay here kissing you both for hours. I need to do some work and I want to check on General Delinga.”

“I need to contact my brother. I was supposed to phone Archer yesterday. If I don’t phone soon, he’ll send a search party for me,” Atticus said.

“Seriously,” Mateo asked.

“Yeah, he did that once when Artimus missed a check-in. I still chuckle over that, but I don’t want him sending everyone here.”

“Then ring him, and we’ll go and see the General, then be in the library,” Puff said.

Puff pulled Atticus into a quick kiss, much to Atticus’ delight.

Mateo also gave him a quick kiss. “See you later.”

“You will,” Atticus replied, letting their hands go.

CHAPTER 27

Puff and Mateo walked outside searching for the General. They stopped on the way to watch Martha training some guards, which is where General Delinga found them.

“Your Majesty, Mateo, I’m glad to see you both awake. I was meaning to come back and sit with you, but ...”

Puff touched his arm. “Hi, General Delinga. You’re busy, I understand. Everyone is awake now and call me Puff.”

The General nodded. “Call me Paulo.”

“You can both call me Mateo,” Mateo said.

Puff and Paulo laughed.

“As opposed to calling you what?” Puff asked.

Mateo went to talk then stopped. “Yeah, I have nothing.”

“Nutter,” Puff said, shaking his head.

“I met Maletayah yesterday,” Paulo said.

Puff looked confused. “Who?”

“The leader of Battle’s warrior angels. Frederick was showing him around yesterday,” Paulo told him.

“I was busy all day yesterday. I’ll go and find him and say hello,” Puff said.

“He was over by the new obstacle course. Ares has created a new one that is much more difficult. He’s keeping the original one for the children,” Paulo said.

“I’ve not seen the new course yet,” Mateo said.

“I’ll come with you and introduce you.”

Paulo led the way to the new tougher obstacles.