Her Forbidden Alpha Dragon (Paranormal Women’s Fiction): Cress Dragon Shifters Book 3 by Haley Weir

Author:Haley Weir [Weir, Haley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-11-01T16:00:00+00:00

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Lyra

I spend the night sleeping in the corner of one of the underground subway tunnels to avoid drawing attention to myself on the streets. I can blend in perfectly well as a human, but I know that being a single female alone on the city streets at night isn’t a wise idea. I can totally defend myself and stave off any attacker, but I risk revealing my dragon nature if I have to get into a fight with anyone. So, in order to avoid all of it, I simply tuck myself into an empty corner and try to block out the sound of the trains coming and going.

After getting a little sleep, I only feel mildly better. When I wake up, I take a minute to think about what I’m going to do now that I have no place to stay and no one to go back to. The only job that I’ve ever had is warrior and guard to an alpha dragon. I'm pretty sure that I can’t put that on the human job resume.

Unlike my little cottage in Cress—which I was just beginning to become quite fond of—I can’t just help myself to a place in the city to fix up and live in. Here, I need money. And the only way to get human currency is either to steal it or work for it. I may not be bound by a human code of ethics, but I’m pretty sure that stealing is wrong no matter what species you align yourself with.

Unfortunately, my dollars are about to run out. There are no woods to hunt in here, so if I want to eat, I need to make some more money to buy food. I have no possessions to sell and nothing to sustain me for very long. I guess that makes my choice of what to do next pretty clear.

I step back up onto the street to search for a job to get by on. I have never felt more hopeless or lost in my life.

Even after the coup, at least I still had Nolan—kind of—but now I have nothing.

I walk around the streets, watching the city come alive again in the early morning. The city never really seems to stop or pause for rest, not even in the depth of night. It just seems to slow a little but never really stop. The humans all looked like little ants scurrying around when I sat above the city on the church steeple as a dragon. But now that I am walking among them, they seem more like a mass of tired zombies, all trying to get through their days at record pace instead of stopping to notice the world around them. I won’t be able to do this for long—I miss the wilderness and space to spread my wings. And I miss the slower pace of Cress, with its quiet nights and the feeling of working to accomplish something, instead of running around in a wheel toward nowhere. But for now, this is where I am, and my stomach is reminding me of what I need to do.

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