Fire In His Veins_A Post-Apocalyptic Dragon Romance by Ruby Dixon

Author:Ruby Dixon [Dixon, Ruby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fireblood Dragons — Book 6
Published: 2019-01-19T05:00:00+00:00

17

LIAM

Heat courses through my blood.

I stare at the male with a wild grin on my face, a challenge in my eyes. I’m daring him to try and take Andrea from me, to try to get between us, to threaten her. Just give me an excuse to tear his throat out and I’ll do it.

It’s clear the male wants my female. He watches Andrea closely and casts her admiring looks when he thinks I’m not paying attention. Well, let him just try and take her from me. He’ll figure out soon enough that she’s my mate—

But no.

The realization is like a slap in the face.

Andrea cannot be my mate. I cannot claim her. Ever.

It would be far wiser for me to back away and let him pursue her. She deserves to be happy with a strong male at her side…but I cannot do that. I can’t back away. I can’t let her go to another man because everything I am, everything in my spirit roars in agony at the thought of my female being touched by another man.

This thing between us is no good. It’s only going to cause pain for both of us…but I can’t walk away from her, any more than I can give her over to the human Gabe.

So I do my best to ignore him as I walk inside the abandoned encampment with Andrea. It’s full of old scents, many of them tinged with a strange flavor that I don’t recognize. I don’t care about that right now, though. I only care about getting her to safety before the red female that pushes so oppressively at my mental walls appears and attacks this settlement.

“Shelter,” I tell Andrea. “Pick a place, as long as it is safe.”

She nods and rushes inside the walls of the fort, and I am glad that she’s so levelheaded. There are no protests or silliness in her, no dawdling. She is a survivor and knows what must be done to survive. Her steps are quick and to my surprise, she immediately heads for the cow. “We have to make sure their animals are safe,” she tells me. It’s not a soft heart that declares this, but a practical one. A cow can feed many mouths and provides milk and butter and all the things a settlement needs. It’s incredibly valuable.

I’m proud of how sensible she is. “I’ll take care of it,” I tell her. “You round up the chickens.”

“Got it!”

We split up and I move to the cow’s pen, ushering her inside and shutting the door of the strange dwelling so the dragon can’t get to her. The animal smells like hot blood and good meat, and I hesitate for a moment, my drakoni side warring to dominance. My skin itches and I gaze down at the thing, imagining how good the warm gush of blood would taste in my mouth…

No.

I must be human. I must be Liam. I must.

I make sure the damn thing is enclosed and then hastily retreat, just in

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