Dragon's Thief by Chant Zoe

Author:Chant, Zoe [Chant, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

At some point, Tara looked up and apologized about leaving his car in the parking lot, and when he told her he would have it picked up, she laughed.

“Everything's easy for you, isn't it?” she said, and he grinned a little.

Very few people who knew his situation would say that the last few decades had been easy for him. His family's greatest treasure was lost, and he couldn't tell anyone about it. All he could do was engage in a frantic quest with rapidly diminishing clues for the whereabouts of the sunstone, realizing even as he did so that the item might be long gone, lost to time and the vagaries of fate.

On the other hand, he had never gone hungry, everyone who had ever come after him had quickly realized that that was a terrible idea, and he had never worried about being able to afford a place to sleep or been short of people who cared for him.

“A lot of things are easy for me,” he said from the driver's seat. They had switched off at a desolate little rest stop where Tara had defiantly gone in to grab some snacks. She had come back with something homemade, wrapped in cellophane and without any label, but it had walnuts and chocolate in it. Tara broke it up to share, and Reese had to admit that it was good.

“Lucky,” she snorted, but there was no rancor in it. Somehow despite everything that had happened to them, she looked oddly relaxed, slouched against the door, her head against the window.

“I am,” Reese found himself saying. “I found you, and if I continue to be lucky, I won't lose you.”

Tara shifted, and he could feel her gaze on him.

“What is it?” he asked.

“We should... I mean, let's knock that off, all right?”

He scowled, glancing at her. His dragon hissed uncertainly. It had only started to calm down from the fury of the day.

“What do you mean?”

“The ... the mate stuff. Let's just table it for now. It's distracting, and at the moment, we can't afford to be distracted, can we?”

Reese wanted to protest, but he had the idea that she might be right. The sunstone, the ones that were hunting her, it was all too much. Even if it went against his better judgment, he knew that leaving it to rest for at least a little while was a good idea. He nodded reluctantly.

“I reserve the right to revisit the matter of mates when this is all over.”

She gave him a smile that let him hope a little more than he had when she said she wanted the matter tabled.

“All right — ”

“And I want you to let me treat you as my mate, even if we don't talk about it.”

“Wait, you can't just sneak that by me...”

“I could if you let me,” Reese said, a slight grin on his face. Tara was adorable when she was caught flat-footed.

“No! I mean ... why would you? I don't think of you like that.

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