A Dragon of a Different Color (Heartstrikers Book 4) by Rachel Aaron

Author:Rachel Aaron [Aaron, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Urban Fantasy/Dragons
Publisher: Aaron/Bach, LLC
Published: 2017-07-27T22:00:00+00:00

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The main hangar was one of Heartstriker Mountain’s many side buildings. Located just off the runway Bethesda had built to keep her remote desert citadel connected to the rest of the world, it was big enough to house both of the clan’s private jets. But since Ian had taken the newer plane to Siberia, and Conrad had made off with the backup last night, the giant metal building was empty when Julius walked in except for Bethesda herself.

“Took you long enough,” she snapped, tapping her alligator-skin stilettos in a nervous rapid fire against the cement. “Did you crawl down here?”

Considering he’d made it all the way from Bob’s cave at the top of the mountain out to the hangar, a total journey of a mile and a half, in six minutes flat, Julius didn’t dignify that with a response. “Where’s Ian?”

Bethesda nodded through the open door at the brightly lit runway. “About to land.”

The words weren’t out of her mouth when Julius heard the low rumble of a jet coming in fast. That was all the warning they got before a plane broke through the low clouds like a rocket. It touched down a few moments later, skidding onto the runway faster than any vehicle should ever hit the ground. If it had been a traditional jet, that would have been the end, but Bethesda spared no expense with her private planes, and the custom AI pilot managed to save the landing by spinning the jet out into the soft dirt at the end of the runway. Proper dragon that he was, Ian had the rear door open before the almost-crashed plane finished moving, jumping the ten feet from the hatch to the ground as easily as a normal person would step off a curb.

“Do you mind?” Bethesda yelled over still-spinning engines. “That’s my custom suborbital Gulfstream you just put in the dirt!”

Ian shot her a murderous look. Everything about him looked murderous, actually, which was even more alarming than the botched landing. If the normally collected and calculating Ian looked this upset, things were a whole new level of bad. Even Bethesda picked up on it, stepping back to give her seething son space as he stalked down the pavement toward the hangar, motioning for them to follow him inside. Nervously, Julius did, ducking under the rolling door along with his mother before Ian slammed it down.

Bethesda eyed the jangling metal warily. “I take it things didn’t go well.”

“They didn’t go at all,” Ian growled. “Svena sealed herself inside her mothers’ ice fortress before I got there. I couldn’t even find the door.”

“So why did you come back?” Bethesda asked angrily. “Svena was always a long shot, but I thought I made it clear in my message that you being in Siberia was the only thing keeping the Golden Emperor from—”

“I am well aware of our situation,” he snapped. “I didn’t come back because I wanted to. I came back because I didn’t have anywhere else to run.”

Julius and his mother exchanged confused looks, and Ian rolled his eyes in disgust.

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