Firestorm Forever by Cooke Deborah

Author:Cooke, Deborah [Cooke, Deborah]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Deborah A. Cooke
Published: 2015-05-12T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Friday, April 3, 2015

After two months, Ronnie felt both better and worse. Her voice had recovered and the casts were off her fingers. Six months into her pregnancy, she had an obvious baby bump, and a rhythm to her day in the isolation ward.

She’d used that laptop to advantage, first for getting her life back in order and then to do as much research as she could. She’d filed insurance claims online for the house and car, corresponded with Timmy’s teachers about his school work, chatted by email with Joy Patterson about the boys, and been encouraged by Joy’s stories of Drake’s conquests at cooking class.

Joy thought she’d found a keeper, and Ronnie hoped it was true.

The fact that Drake was a dragon shape shifter was a detail she didn’t want to share. She still had a ton of questions for Drake but Timmy had confided that Drake didn’t use cellphones or email. Drake called Timmy at regular intervals, which pleased Ronnie, and Timmy had declared it was because Drake was deep undercover in a covert op.

She’d dug up all the references to dragons she could find online, particularly the recent stories about the Pyr. She developed a profound dislike of Maeve O’Neill, who seemed determined to twist everything about the Pyr to make them look bad. She’d watched the YouTube videos, including the new one of the night Drake had tried to rescue her. She could hardly watch the fight between him and Jorge, especially given the beating he’d taken. Every time she heard her own urge to him to intervene, she wanted to weep at her stupidity and what it had cost Drake.

The way he hesitated instead of lunging right after Jorge told Ronnie that he had suspected what would happen.

But he’d followed her request.

She felt terrible about that and wished she could tell him so. She had to wonder whether it was important that she no longer had his scale and hoped he’d grown back another to replace it and complete his armor.

But there was no sign of Drake, only the reports of him talking to Timmy. Dr. Wilcox was increasingly agitated about having him come in for more tests, but Ronnie wasn’t lying when she said she didn’t know where he was. The infected nurse was still in isolation, as well, although they didn’t tell Ronnie much about her condition.

She replayed Melissa Smith’s specials a couple of times and wondered how much that reporter really did know about dragons. There was a kind of intimacy, a comfort, between her and the opal and gold dragon who appeared in her television specials. The woman’s dismay had been clear when that same dragon had been injured on the air in October, and Ronnie wondered whether he’d healed.

The hospital had kept the media at bay until they lost interest, and Ronnie doubted that her testimony to the police had been much help in locating the perpetrators.

She was considering the merit of contacting Melissa Smith herself and maybe offering

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