This is a super sweet "happily ever after" bonus short story for the full length steamy science fiction romance novel Onyx Dragons: Malachite. YOU REALLY MUST READ THAT BOOK FIRST!!!

Read first: Onyx Dragons: Malachite

This bonus short story takes place almost two years after the events of the novel—well after the series is complete.

It was so challenging to write without spoilers! I am deliberately vague and there's a bit of a "fuzzy cam" over most of the guests. I hope it's no surprise that by the end of the series, every dragon finds his/her true mate, even if I leave it a mystery as to who they are...and they all come together to have a wonderful first birthday party for Mal + Cheryl's baby dragonlet.

But will Mal's mother recognize her first grand dragonlet? Or, will she subject him to the same lifelong rejection, loneliness, and low class destiny forced upon the Onyx siblings—and Mal?