Dragon Boss: Paranormal Arranged Marriage Mafia Romance (Dragon Mafia Family Book 2) by Sansa Moon

Author:Sansa Moon [Moon, Sansa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8 - Dmitri

Alina didn’t answer. Instead, she opened the door. He could tell by the look on her face that the pleading he’d heard on her end of the line hadn’t garnered the fruit she’d hoped. He also had the smashed phone to corroborate that impression.

“I’m sorry,” she said, walking past him to stop in the middle of the room, wrapping her arms around herself with a sigh as she turned to face him. “I thought… I don’t know what I thought.”

“That he’d respect you enough to show up guns blazing?”

“Something like that.”

There was a sadness to her tone that he didn’t like very much. And an air of dejection surrounding her, as though she’d just had a sliver of her previous view of the world cut off, shifting her perspective of her place in it. Or of her place in her father’s esteem.

Perhaps it was making her doubt he would ever pass the mantle onto her shoulders.

“He’s crazy,” Dmitri offered. “To not respect you.”

The briefest glimmer in her eyes. Gratitude, he supposed. But something more as well. Did she feel it too? Was that why she’d kissed him? He felt as though he’d known her longer. He felt like he’d waited for her his whole, long, lonely existence. But finding his true mate through a random set of circumstances… It seemed too fantastical. He did feel drawn to her, though, and the pull was only getting stronger.

Especially after that kiss. It had taken his breath away, gone straight to his head. Made him forget about the pain he was in. His entire being had responded like a match had been struck against it. How had she done that? He hadn’t felt anything like it in much too long.

“What’s it like?” she asked. “To be in charge.”

She went over to the foot of the bed, having a seat.

He remembered the small parcel in his hand, knowing the crushed herbs would help take the edge off the searing pain in his leg. Someone had been thinking of him. Bringing the herbs over to a bowl on one of the side tables he emptied the contents of the parcel into it, thinking of how best to answer her question.

“It’s isolation in its truest form,” he said, looking over at her. “You lock yourself in a cage. You know? You put steel bars around you to make certain nobody gets close enough to knock you off your chair.”

“Sounds amazing. Tell me more,” she said.

He sent a crooked smile her way.

“Thought you’d like it.” A smile back. She was calming down then. She’d looked like a storm cloud when she came through that door. The clouds were slowly lifting, her brow smoothing.

“Were you taught how to do that?” she asked.

“It’s a simple spell,” he said, crushing the herbs with his fingers.

“No, I mean, how to put steel bars around your chair.”

He chuckled, adding a splash of water from a nearby jug to the bowl. Water for healing. He closed his eyes, whispering the words his mother taught him when he was still a child.

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