Highland Dragons: 3 Tales of Dragon Romance by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-06-28T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

TRUTH or DARE

Approaching the castle at speed, he realized he should have warned Kate that she would only see battlements and ancient stone walls looming closer, while he could see his way through the solid structure as clearly as if his route were marked on a map.

He landed on the perch outside the window of his tower room, this time on Earth, not Thorgar. It was good to hear Kate laugh and to know she had enjoyed the high-octane thrill of the ride. No finer feelings were at work here. His dragon wanted her, and his dragon was not in the mood to wait.

“Fuck’s sake!” Kate shouted as she tumbled off his neck. “I’ve lost my dragon legs.” She’d landed in an unladylike sprawl on a deep-piled rug and stood up quickly to demand, “Do you have to frighten me half to death?”

“You wanted to go faster,” he reminded Kate in thought.

“Not with a stone wall looming.”

“A wall that conveniently disappeared.”

“Okay, I forgive you, but warn me next time.” Staring out the window, she turned serious. “At least I know how those deep grooves on my balcony ledge happened. Hang on,” she added, frowning. “Have you been spying on me?”

“Is that all you can think of after flying between two dimensions?”

“More convenient for you if I didn’t ask, I imagine.”

“I have not been spying on you. At least, not in the way you think.”

Gathering information did not include him becoming some form of reptilian Peeping Tom.

“Neat trick,” she commented as he willed the walls back into position and returned to his human form. “But what’s all this about being tired after the flight? I feel fine, and you look okay to me.”

“Dragons don’t get tired,” he murmured, reading Kate’s urges and deciding to make her wait.

“Good to know,” she said dryly. “And as a man, how do you feel?”

The question was not about sex. Kate was working. Her quicksilver mind was busily evaluating facts. “As a man too,” he said, “I am tireless.”

“And modest,” Kate observed, but her cheeks were blushing red. “Anyway, we should get down to business. It’s obvious from your inspection trip just now to the portal that you’re expecting trouble, and I want to help.”

“You?” Pulling his head back, he gave the virago he had somehow invited into his life a cynical look. “What part do you think you could play?”

“Depends on what type of trouble you’re facing.”

“Trouble involving the supernatural should be beyond your skill set. Is it?”

“Should be,” she agreed.

“What’s that supposed to mean? Are you going to give me trouble?”

“Would you like me to?”

The challenge in Kate’s eyes was real enough, but her mouth was soft and vulnerable.

“I would like you to,” he confirmed. A tussle between them could be fun. “Why are you frowning?”

“Trying to work how much of this I can use in my article.”

“Very little, I would have thought.”

“Shall we start with some background on you? After all, you interrogated me while I was asleep.”

“This is payback?” Or was it a delaying tactic? Kate was clearly apprehensive when it came to thoughts of sex.

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