Kidnapped by the Dragon by Kayla Wolf

Author:Kayla Wolf [Wolf, Kayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

He almost blew his cover completely during the council meeting with all the other families from the valley. It should have been a walk in the park. The dragons from this family—the royal family—they all liked him just fine. He’d talked politics with Alexander, gone running with Samuel, had a long conversation about long-distance flights with Helena… Stephen was another question entirely. He’d decided not to think too much about Stephen—he just needed to give him time. Older dragons took a while to get warmed up to people. He should know. Jessica liked him, Lisa liked him, Art… well, he didn’t know whether Art liked him. Bears were hard to read, and Art had made himself pretty scarce since Owen had moved in. But he had no reason to suspect he disliked him. The family was more than willing for him to stay—all he needed to do was charm the council members. But there he stood, like a mute statue, hardly able to string a sentence together.

It was because of last night. Stupid. Deeply stupid of him to have made the move he’d made on Angela. What had he been thinking? Of course, she’d taken him up on it—with more enthusiasm than he’d expected if he was honest, and that knowledge made his chest burn with something he’d never encountered before, never had any experience with. And Owen was very old, and very experienced, and very surprised to find that there were feelings he hadn’t yet encountered. But—it didn’t make sense. He’d had the best training in the country—probably the best in the world, if he was honest—in controlling his emotions, overcoming them, conquering them, banishing them to whatever stupid place they’d come from. So what had happened? Why had the silver eyes of some she-wolf seemed to put cracks in the central pillar of his being?

There had been half a dozen dragons there, all in their human shapes—and all at varying levels of comfort with those shapes, he’d managed to notice. They’d all talked at length about trivial stuff, and he’d sat, twiddling his thumbs, heart pounding sickly in his chest. He couldn’t help thinking about Angela. No matter how hard he tried, his mind kept going back to her. Was she awake yet? Had she realized he was gone? Did she miss him? Was she worried about what it meant? What was he going to say when he ran into her? Was he strong enough to turn her away, to freeze her out the way he froze out every other person he met?

”Owen?”

Alexander had been staring at him—he’d sat up with a guilty start, feeling foolish. The dragons were all waiting for him to introduce himself. He almost forgot his cover story—then stammered his way through a fairly shoddy rendition of it. Dead family, wandered in a grief-stricken daze through the continent for a few months, blah blah. He’d always been a good liar. Nobody in the room suspected him of bullshitting them… they might’ve thought he was a bit weird, but the dead family thing ought to explain that.

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