Dragon Fall by Katie MacAlister

Author:Katie MacAlister
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction / Romance / Paranormal, Fiction / Romance / Fantasy, Fiction / Fantasy / Urban
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2015-07-28T04:00:00+00:00

Eleven

I returned to the main cabin and sat down on the couch next to Kostya. He had a new pencil and was writing on his pad of paper in a language I didn’t understand. “That mark you put on my hip—it’s something to do with me being your mate, isn’t it?”

He didn’t answer me, but I noticed his jaw tightened.

“I thought so. Did you put the same thing on your ex’s hip?”

The muscles in his jaw worked a couple of times but finally gave when he answered, “No. I told you that she was not my mate. She just forced me to name her as such.”

I wanted to point out that he’d told me repeatedly that I wasn’t his mate either, but figured that was petty. “How’d she force you? I don’t think I could make you do anything you didn’t want to do, certainly not without some serious leverage, and even then, you don’t strike me as the sort of man who can be forced into doing things against your will.”

“She used her woman’s body against me,” he snarled, careful to avoid my gaze.

Well, now. There was a lot to be said about that, but I remembered the pain hidden deep in Kostya’s eyes, a sign that he, like me, was one of those people who felt things deeply but who’d been burned for wearing their heart on their sleeves.

“When I was seventeen,” I said carefully, tucking my legs underneath me as I scooted over until my thigh pressed against his, “I fell madly in love with the mail boy in my dad’s office. His name was Thor, and he was everything a seventeen-year-old gawky girl with braces on her teeth could dream of—tall and blond and wore a Thor’s hammer necklace, and man, was he built—and the day he managed to recognize that I was a living, breathing human being and said hello to me, I thought I would die of happiness. I started going to my dad’s office every day, ostensibly to have lunch with him, but the reality was that I just wanted to hang around and hope that Thor would notice me again.”

Kostya muttered something so softly I didn’t catch it, but it had an edge to it that could sever concrete.

“After what seemed like weeks of mooning around the office, one day I was casually posed in the hallway in a spot that I knew Thor would have to pass. As I waited, I heard laughter coming from a nearby office. I edged close to the door so I could hear what was so funny and heard one of the junior executives telling Thor that he needed to go ahead and bang me so that I’d stop mooning around the office.”

Kostya’s frown grew to an epic level of blackness. The pencil snapped in half.

“I was so mortified that evidently everyone in the office knew what I thought I was hiding so well that I almost missed what Thor said in response. Almost.”

“What?” Kostya snapped, the word emerging with the velocity of a fiery bullet.

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