Dragon Desire (Hollow Earth Dragons) by Juniper Hart

Author:Juniper Hart [Hart, Juniper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

The feeling of relief that had followed Lennox out of the palace had completely melted away into anger when he returned.

It had taken him half a day to find which bars Gia worked at and another two hours to fly from the Hollows to Columbus. He had been dismayed to learn that Mississippi was just as smoldering as Louisiana had been, and after hours of trudging through the college town, looking for Gia, Lennox was more miserable than he could ever remember.

“Gia? She quit. Yesterday was her last day,” said an impossibly large man—whose name was Egan—behind the bar. “I miss her sweet little face, but I hope she found something better suited to her personality than serving.”

A bizarre, uncomfortable sense jolted through Lennox as he read the affection in the man’s intense brown eyes. It took him almost a full minute to realize it was jealousy.

“What do you mean?” Lennox heard himself asking. “She wasn’t a good server?”

“No, she was great at serving drinks,” Egan said, “but she just couldn’t stand up for herself, you know? I hauled out so many little boys for being handsy, I lost count. Not that I minded. It was just hard keeping an eye on her all the time. I’m relieved she found something else.”

Lennox desperately shoved aside the idea of men pawing at Gia, making her uncomfortable or afraid. It enraged him.

“What the hell kind of place is this,” he snapped, “that your servers are being touched?”

Egan’s eyes narrowed. “No,” he corrected tightly. “No one touches the girls. This isn’t a brothel. I just said I’ve had to bounce out dozens of kids because they can’t make the distinction. It’s an occupational hazard of working in a college town.”

Having had no luck, Lennox returned to the Hollows to try the Trenches again. The only problem was that looking for a single person in the Trenches was like looking for a needle in a haystack. There were no leases in the Trenches, no management offices to contact. The poor lived on top of one another in twelve crime-addled blocks, like they were stacked in cages.

Thinking of Gia spending one more night there caused Lennox’s stomach to shift dangerously.

When he went back to Allegra, he was disappointed to find that she had already closed the boutique, and all the other businesses were also empty for the night.

Allegra is going to tell me everything she knows tomorrow, Lennox thought. I don’t care how much she kicks and screams about it.

Reluctantly, he shuffled through the wide halls, heading back toward his suite on the north side of the building. The silence of the commercial side after hours was almost eerie, though it also had a peace about it.

There was a time when Lennox would have run through the halls, his wings fanning clear across the halls with room to spare as he dipped through the atrium, bowing his dark blue head. Never was he alone. There had always been at least one other brother with him,

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