Dragon Mated by Cassie Alexander & Kara Lockharte

Author:Cassie Alexander & Kara Lockharte [Alexander, Cassie & Lockharte, Kara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Caskara Press

9

There was no guarantee that the timing would work out. Andi could have a meeting after work for all he knew. But he caught the bus outside the Briars and took it down into town and made the transfers so that he should be on the bus that she’d take home. He kept his hood up so that no one could see his earpiece, and rested back inside its shadows, so that hopefully no one could see him. A man tried to take the seat beside him at a stop before Andi’s hospital, but the low growling sound Damian made in the back of his throat made him detour away.

And then the bus was there. The brakes hissed, the whole thing lowered, and people in scrubs got aboard. Damian’s gaze flickered over each new entrant, waiting, hoping, and just as he was about to give up, the bus doors closed and the hydraulics lifted, there was a fast knocking at the glass door.

“Sorry,” Andi apologized to the driver who’d let her aboard. “Long night,” she said.

Damian’s entire world stopped at seeing his mate again, in all her ever-so-human glory. Her long dark hair swirled around her shoulders, the way the cold outside had pinked her cheeks, her perfect, full, bitable lips, the gentle sound of her warm voice, and then she turned, and saw him.

The driver handed her her card back. “Take a seat,” he said, as she let her bus card fall to the floor.

He watched her swallow and then she disappeared from view for a second, picking her card up as the bus lurched forward. Then she returned to view and slowly walked down the aisle toward him. He could see the necklace he’d given her, its gemstone nestled against her throat.

Yes, his dragon whispered, slowly uncoiling.

“Is anyone sitting here?” she asked him. Her cheeks were flushed by more than cold now. He could almost feel the reaction she was having to him, like flashes of heat lightning, all over her body.

“It’s a free country,” he told her, just as she’d once told him, and she sat down beside him without a smile.

Damian closed his eyes, breathing in her scent. Jamison hadn’t said anything in his ear about him being in danger. He’d just been periodically reporting whether or not Damian was safe, but he hadn’t tracked all the hunters on those buses last night now, had he? So Damian knew someone might still be watching, which meant he couldn’t give anything away in public. He pulled his phone out of a pocket and texted her.

I have to see you.

More than this.

Name someplace safe.

He heard her phone buzz in her bag, but she didn’t reach for it, she just kept staring resolutely ahead.

Was she mad at him? It was clear from her text he’d finally scared her—only not in any way he’d ever wanted. She twisted beside him, her shoulder brushing his, his knee knocking hers, and she pulled her big bag over from the aisle onto her lap, where it overlapped onto his.

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