Ice Dragon: Dragon Shifter Romance (Dragon Billionaire Empire Book 2) by Jada Cox

Author:Jada Cox [Cox, Jada]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9 – Michael

Glass cases of artifacts were spread through the large room. Michael wandered through the aisles, reading the tags of anything that caught his attention. InnoCell was never really in search of any specific types of artifacts, rather just anything that might assist the business overall, make their objectives a little easier, or was too dangerous to be kept anywhere but in a large vault. Like the Charger that'd been dropped on their doorstep.

He walked past devices that made people fly—those were nothing too special, since many magical people and creatures could already do that—and bags that held infinite objects. At the end of the aisle he was currently walking down, he stopped to observe a small black case. Slim like a screen but propped open to show that there was clearly more to it.

The tag read that it was an infinite makeup case. Completely superfluous and useless to the company, but Michael paused, thinking of Laurel. Would she like something like this? He wouldn't call her makeup-obsessed, but she always seemed to be wearing something a little different. If she liked to experiment with different things, maybe she would have a lot of fun with it.

"Are you finding anything to your liking, Mr. Koff?" a woman said.

Michael glanced at her; this was Lydia, and she was standing in the intersection between the aisles, her delicate hands crossed over the front of her blood-red dress. Her eyes were a light gray, speckled with unnatural globes of light. He wasn't quite sure what she was—but she definitely wasn't human.

Lydia tilted her head to examine the artifact he'd found. "Ah, yes. One of our newest creations," she said, and when she smiled, she showed off her sharp teeth. "A suitable gift for a special lady. Do you have someone in mind?"

The makeup case was a ridiculous idea, but Michael's eyes were drawn to it again. As he looked over the sleek case again, his cell buzzed in his pocket. Most likely another text from Laurel, which he promptly ignored without even looking. She'd been texting him a lot, mostly about work-related things and to occasionally check up on him, but after he'd taken her to his secret meadow, he'd started replying to her less and less.

He moved away from the makeup case without looking at Lydia again. "I'm here on behalf of InnoCell."

"Of course, Mr. Koff. Is there anything I can help you with?" she said.

"I'd like to preview your newest line of surveillance equipment. My sources say you have merged the qualities of several old artifacts to create something new?"

"Yes, yes. Our newest recording and detection equipment is the Aural Surveillance Pro, which is modeled after the best available in the human world, but, of course, with a magical twist ..."

She went on and on, and though Michael listened to every word she said, his real focus was elsewhere. His mind kept returning to Laurel, the messages that he'd ignored, and their time together. Ever since then, he'd been unable to stop thinking about her for more than an hour at a time.

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