Arousing a Dragon by Sarah Sarasota

Author:Sarah Sarasota
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-05-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Aurora walked slowly back out to the dining area. Sitting down in her recently vacated chair, she kicked off her heels, a frown creasing her smooth features.

“Well,” she said to the remaining lobster that regarded her with one beady black eye, “I kind of wish it had been a sex dungeon. At least with a sex dungeon you sort of know where you stand.”

The lobster offered no comment, so Aurora loaded her plate with some more salad and dug in. This situation was so strange that, for the time being, she didn’t have the mental capacity to process why Hawthorne had her chain him up. Besides, it’d been probably the longest day on record. She poured herself a glass of the beautifully light rosé – filled to the brim as there was no one around to judge her – and took a generous sip.

Afterward, she moved down to the deck below and sat with her feet dangling in the hot-tub. It was absolutely quiet, aside from the light breeze and the swells lapping on the hull. It might’ve been somewhat eerie, being alone on a superyacht ten miles out to sea – with the exception of the eccentric billionaire below deck –but Aurora found that she was rather enjoying it. It was such a contrast from the city where the noise was constant, the pace of life frantic. She actually felt as if her heart was beating more calmly than when she was in New York. The stars were numerous out here, without the light pollution.

Suddenly, the serenity was shattered by a deep, persistent clanging from somewhere in the bowels of the ship. It was as if the ship’s hull was being used as an enormous metal drum

“What the ?” Aurora said out loud.

Then a long, low roar echoed through the silent vessel. It was a mournful sound, full of grinding pain and angst, but it didn’t sound human.

The lights on the vessel flickered briefly, the water in the hot-tub rippled.

Then there was silence.

“– fuck?” she finished.

Draining her glass, Aurora quickly pulled her feet from the water, but realized she didn’t know where to go.

“What is going on?” she whispered fearfully.

Taking refuge in a secluded corner of the deck, Aurora discovered a patio heater mounted above the lounge she had selected. The soothing warmth and the wine lulled her into a dreamlike state.

She dreamed that the superyacht reverberated under her, shaking and shaking, the din of that mysterious bellowing roar growing louder and louder until the entire vessel was shaken apart. She fell into the clutches of the sea, tossed this way and that. Faces peered at her from the depths, faces that she recognized. There was Brodie Wood, the self-satisfied smirk plastered across his ridiculously handsome face. Then Ryker’s visage appeared out of the murk – hurt written across his features. And next; Finn Hawthorne with his captivating gold-flecked eyes. As she looked deeper into his eyes, unable to call out for help, they began to glow brighter and brighter, until they were orbs of gold, the pupils contracting until they became cat-like slits.

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