His Burning Heart by Celia Kyle & Marina Maddix

Author:Celia Kyle & Marina Maddix [Kyle, Celia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Real Men Romance™

Dyrk didn’t like the sound of that, and nobody else in the room seemed very keen either. For several long, uncomfortable moments, everyone chewed on Charlie’s story and the possible implications. Instinctively, Dyrk reached for Tessa under the table. Apparently she’d been reaching for him at the same moment because their hands met in the middle. That filled him with a sense of security he’d never shared with a woman before.

So emboldened, he took a bracing breath and spoke in a clear, authoritative voice. “Okay, so we know who were looking for. Now we just need to bring him in.”

“Easier said than done,” Thrett said, reminding him of how Xavier had essentially vanished himself from the face of the planet.

“Have you had any luck tracking him so far?” Grizz asked Dyrk. “It sounds like he’s had a lot of time and money on his hands to work on disappearing. I can tell you from experience, that can go a hell of a long way, but it’s not a foolproof advantage.”

“Here’s what we know so far,” Dyrk’s gaze panned around the room at them all. “With the amount of money he fleeced from Stark Bradford, he’s doing a lot more than just hiding. It’s safe to assume he’s using Stark’s money to fund those prison experiments, if that’s what’s really going on here like we think.”

“Agreed,” Charlie nodded. “It doesn’t fit the profile of someone who just wants to disappear.”

“But why?” Tessa asked, making every head in the room turn to her.

“He’s an evil old dickwad with a lot of money?” Elektra suggested, shrugging her shoulders. “That’s usually all you need in this town.”

“But he was in the perfect position to just be regular evil,” Tessa pointed out, which Dyrk found adorable but also very true. “He could have moved to Iceland and lived quietly on Stark’s money forever. Right? Why go through all the trouble of experimenting on convicts?”

“We don’t have a clue, but we need to find out,” Dyrk said.

“Could be about making more money,” Elektra suggested. “Prisoners are an almost invisible population. It’d be easy for him to get away with that and turn an insane profit with whatever he does with the data he’s farming.”

“He could just be trying to make himself stronger.” Grizz growled, and that thought seemed to make everyone at the table nervous, especially Charlie. “Get rid of all the duds until he perfects the process, leave a trail of other criminal fuck-ups like Danque and the rest until he can use it on himself the right way.”

“What could a dragon do with those kinds of powers?” Tessa asked.

“What couldn’t a dragon do with those kinds of powers?” Charlie said quietly, which made everyone shift uncomfortably. “We have a strong sense of justice. We can breathe fire. We can fly. We’re long-lived…”

“A single snake shifter who underwent that treatment could stun a dragon and make them helpless,” Ragan added, “as Allon already knows far too well. I don’t want to think about what a dragon could do with that firepower.

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