I Dream of Dragons by Ashlyn Chase

Author:Ashlyn Chase
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Published: 2016-04-04T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Chad was waiting by the front door when it flew open and a young couple raced up the stairs.

It was the younger Arish girl, but he hadn’t seen the boy before. Ah, young love. So impatient.

Chloe tromped in behind them, followed by an extremely short fellow. He wasn’t a child, since he sported a full beard. “Hmmm… Who could that be?” Chad wondered aloud—well, as “out loud” as a ghost gets.

The little man froze. “There’s a spirit here,” he said, rolling his r’s the same way the new Irish tenants did.

“You can see me?” Chad asked. He floated right in front of the man.

“I can see you and hear you—although I wish I was only hearin’ you, spirit. You sound like a man, but you’re wearin’ a necklace and a long frock. Are you one of them cross-dressers then?”

At first Chad was offended, but then he laughed. This dude was obviously some old square from another country. “They’re called love beads and my pants are bell bottoms. I died in the sixties.”

Chloe’s eyes rounded. “Lucky, are you talkin’ to a ghost?”

“Apparently your buildin’ is haunted,” he said to Chloe. He turned back toward Chad and asked, “What is your purpose here, spirit? Be you friendly or…otherwise?”

“I don’t see why my purpose is any of your business. Who are you, and what are you doing in my building?”

“Ah, I see. So it’s like that, is it?”

“See what?” Chloe asked. “What is he sayin’?”

The little man put a hand on her arm as if to stay her questions. Then he bowed to Chad and introduced himself. “Me name is Lucky, and I come from Ireland on an important errand.”

“What kind of errand?”

“’Tis really none of your business, though I don’t suppose I can stop you from overhearin’.”

“You got that right.”

Chloe took a step toward her brother’s door and knocked.

“Not yet,” Lucky said. “I’d like to finish me conversation with the spirit first.”

Chloe, who had previously seemed fearless, knocked frantically on her brother’s door.

“I’m comin’, I’m comin’…” Rory called out from inside the apartment.

At last his door swung open. “What the feck, Chloe?”

Chloe pushed her way in and slammed the door behind her.

Ignoring her, the little man continued talking to Chad. “All right. I suppose like others in this country, you don’t believe in leprechauns, so let me save you from wastin’ your breath. We’re real. We have powerful magic. And ’tis true, we have pots of gold to protect. And that’s why I’m here. Me brother Clancy’s gold was stolen. Me other brother, Shamus, convinced us the dragons took it, so we ran them out of Ireland.”

“Drove the dragons out, Saint Patrick style?”

“Somethin’ like that. Have you heard them talk about where they might have hidden some gold coins?”

“No. And furthermore,” Chad said, “the dragons have been a groovy addition to the building. I don’t want to see them hurt. It seems like you’ve done enough, driving them out of their homeland, so why don’t you just be cool, go back to Ireland, and leave them alone?”

“Well, here’s the thing,” Lucky said.

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