Emerald Gryphon: A Paranormal Shifter Romance (Gryphons vs Dragons Book 1) by Ruby Ryan

Author:Ruby Ryan [Ryan, Ruby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-29T16:00:00+00:00

19

JESSICA

I'm coming.

I felt the emotion from Ethan as if he'd whispered it in my ear, as if he were there with me in the dragon's truck. And although it was momentarily comforting, it quickly filled me with dread.

No, I tried to say back. Don't come. He wants you to.

But I couldn't stop him. I could feel him following, a steady beacon of warmth tingling in the back of my head.

Overwhelming that was pain. Pain which grew the farther we drove, an increasing pressure in my ears and head as we increased our distance from the totem. I clenched my eyes shut and waited for the pressure to end, my bond with the totem to be severed like a rubber band stretched too far, but it never did. Soon I was in constant agony, so strong it was difficult to think.

I glanced at him. The Emerald Dragon wore the same dress clothes as the other night, a pale green button-down tucked into black dress pants. His sleeves weren't unrolled now, and I could see the edge of a flame tattoo peeking out on his right hand on the steering wheel. His eyes were as green as Ethan's but behind a harder face, with eyebrows as sharp as talons. He was the kind of bad boy women probably gushed over.

I hated him.

"Where are you taking me?" I poured as much animosity into my voice as possible, but he didn't seem to care.

"Somewhere," he rasped in a cigarette-scarred voice.

"Why not stop right here? Pull over on the side of the road and fight Ethan when he comes? You've already drawn him to you."

The dragon laughed, a low rumbling in his chest.

"Because we are going somewhere else. Some place safer."

I tried to imagine what might be safe for a dragon.

"Do you have a name?"

He snorted as if that was funny.

"Why are you doing this?" I asked a while later. "Why do you need to kill Ethan? Where did you come from?"

"You ask too many questions."

"If you answer them, maybe I'll shut up."

"You'll shut up if I strike you," he growled. I flinched, but no blow came. "We were born to fight one another. We have done so a thousand times, again and again across the eons. It is what we are."

I had no idea what that meant, but he didn't elaborate.

We drove while the sun climbed lazily into the sky. At some point we passed into Louisiana, driving through the casino-riddled town of Shreveport. Then we turned off I-30 and went south on smaller roads with fewer cars.

The dragon stopped at a gas station, and got out to pump gas. While the tank filled up he walked inside, leaving me alone.

I could flee. Nothing was physically stopping me from hopping out the truck and sprinting away. Or I could yell and scream for help, telling anyone and everyone around to call the cops. There were half a dozen cars here, including a man pumping gas next to our truck who looked like he would help if a woman fell at his feet crying.

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