Flames & Fervor (Clashing Claws Book 1) by Daniella Starre

Author:Daniella Starre [Starre, Daniella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Damon King

I didn’t want to have to force her to stay here. I didn’t want to have to muzzle her. Most of all, I didn’t want Miguel’s fears to be realized.

But, here we were.

Audrey’s eyes widened in shock and then narrowed in suspicion. “What’s that supposed to mean? You want to keep me here against my will now? Bind and gag me?”

“Of course not,” I said, trying to smooth things over. “I think you can understand where my worry stems from.”

“I do,” she admitted, “but that doesn’t mean that I have to stop living my life because I discovered your secret. Let’s just say that if there are several dragons from the Fanged Serpents that are going around slashing people to death, that others will find out about the dragons.”

“It’ll be the last thing they ever find out,” I pointed out.

Her face blanched. “I need to get out of here,” she said.

She rushed past me, and I didn’t stop her. I could smell that Francesco was right around the corner. He was dying to talk to her face to face, and he deserved to. Maybe her savior would be able to talk some sense into her.

As for me, I was beside myself, sick with worry. An icy dose of fear was trying to douse my inner fire, but I would never allow that to happen.

A low growl formed at the base of my throat, but I suppressed it. It could too easily give way to a howl. Yes, dragons howl too, not just wolves. A howl right now would only frighten Audrey all the more.

Her fear. I felt it as keenly as my own. Giving her my blood meant that we had bonded. I had been too afraid to mention that part to her. In a few days, my blood would pass through her system. That bond would either strengthen or fade away. Either she would love me or hate me. Honestly, I was fine whichever way the chips might fall.

Or so I told myself. She might be a human, but she had some power to her, an inner spark of her own. She wouldn’t lie down without a fight, and I had a feeling that when she did return home, she’d make sure to go nowhere without her gun. Not that she would have much luck with a gun against a dragon. Our hides are too thick. Bullets can’t penetrate them. A grenade might possibly do some damage. Our claws are made of a material that isn’t found anywhere else in the world. Only that can slice through us. Well, they say diamonds are the Earth’s strongest mineral, so maybe a diamond blade could kill us. Possibly.

The hum of faint voices came to me from the hallway. Audrey and Francesco were talking, as I suspected they would. Good.

I left her room. In the hallway, Audrey glanced at me. She already looked more calmed down. I fumed to myself. Why had I been the one to set her off? I hadn’t meant to upset her.

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