Dragon's Heat (City Dragons Book 1) by Lisa Oliver

Author:Lisa Oliver [Oliver, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-16T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

“Boy, I needed that, thank you.” Jon made sure he didn’t leave any drool on his chin and tucked his napkin beside his plate.

“It takes a lot of energy to shift into a creature far bigger than your human self,” Dirk agreed as he pushed his plate aside. After returning to his office for a spare set of clothes, Jon had taken Dirk to one of Raoul’s restaurants. As a personal friend of the owner, he knew he’d get a table even without a booking and despite the lateness of the hour. Now the plates were empty though; it was time to talk.

“Did you mean what you said about returning to New York?” Jon wasn’t sure how he felt about uprooting his life, but he knew his first duty was always to be by Dirk’s side.

“I think I should.” Dirk picked up his coffee cup, sniffed it and then put it back down. “There’s something still not right with this whole set up,” he said leaning across the table so only Jon could hear. “My father has, by his own accounts, a huge hoard so, the Ahlberg dowry should be nothing more than chump change. Then there’s this business with pushing the marriage between me and Celine. We’ve had lifetimes of arranged marriages in our family and the Ahlbergs are probably the same; but they’ve never been forced. If either party doesn’t want to go through with it, they discuss it like adults and the pair announce their decision and that’s the end of it. Sure, there might be a bit of pressure behind closed doors to make them change their mind, but if the couple are adamantly against it, then the matter is dropped.”

“Celine still wants the marriage, although at least we know why now,” Jon said drily. “Will that be a problem?”

“Celine doesn’t feel anything for me. She just terrified of what will happen to her if news gets out she’s had a half-breed child. I’m thinking we might offer to give the child a home, if she agrees to give the child up, of course. If you didn’t mind children.”

Considering Jon spent the afternoon mentally trying to work out how he could make that happen, all he could do was grin like a loon. “I love children,” he managed when he realized Dirk wanted a formal answer. “Celine’s baby may be dragon, wolf, or half and half, and none of that bothers me.” He had another thought. “I won’t allow the baby to be a pawn though. We’d have to be married and the contract signing the baby over would have to be ironclad for both of us. I won’t keep any mother away from her child if she wants to have access, but I won’t have that poor baby used as a means for Celine to get what she wants. At the moment, she wants you and that’s not going to happen.” Maybe he was still channeling some of Dirk’s dragon, but Jon wanted his point made perfectly clear.

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