Lachlan (Snow Dragons Hunting 1) by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer [Mortimer, Carole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carole Mortimer
Published: 2025-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

“Not your finest hour, brother,” Hunter drawled as he went ahead of Lachlan up the stairs to where their rooms were situated.

Lachlan carried an unconscious Belle in his arms. His face had shifted back to normal, but he retained his powerful dragon strength in his human form. Not that Belle was heavy to carry, because she certainly wasn’t. Lachlan could feel his dragon’s restlessness at realizing how little she weighed.

“You encouraged me to show her the truth,” he now defended.

Hunter winced. “Yes, but I thought you might reveal a talon or two, not just shift the whole of your face in front of her and almost shock her to death.” He pushed open the door to Lachlan’s suite of rooms before standing back and allowing him to enter first.

Lachlan felt his dragon’s purr of pleasure as he carried Belle into his personal space. A pleasure he echoed.

“Find Ben McGregor,” he instructed Hunter after his brother had pulled back the duvet, allowing Lachlan to place Belle in the center of the huge four-poster bed. He debated removing her jeans, sure that they must still be slightly damp from being exposed to so much snow. Her jumper and underwear should have remained dry. “Turn around,” he instructed his brother.

Lachlan waited until Hunter had turned away before unfastening Belle’s jeans and pulling them down her legs. He efficiently removed her socks at the same time before tucking the duvet around her shoulders and neck to keep her warm. He did so without allowing his hungry gaze to linger too long on Belle’s bare legs or the pink cotton bikini panties she wore.

Lachlan straightened, but his possessive gaze remained fixed on Belle as she slept. “I want that journal back in our possession before Belle wakes up.”

Hunter still stood on the other side of the bed. “Your mate is beautiful, Lachlan,” he murmured.

“She is,” Lachlan agreed proudly.

“I think,” Hunter continued slowly, “that she’s also open-minded where the existence of dragons is concerned. But maybe go a little slower next time, hm?” he added ruefully.

Lachlan sighed. “My partial shift earlier also proves that her belief in the myth of dragons and then actually finding herself face-to-face with one are two distinctly different things.”

His brother grinned. “Yeah, that was obviously a bit of a shock when Belle only thought we might be related to the dragons in Sister Agnes’s journal.”

Lachlan smiled slightly. “It’s good to know that she became a nun and eventually abbess in charge of the whole convent.”

Too often, the people they helped either to escape becoming a human sacrifice or from some other life-threatening situation went on to live their lives without the Drake brothers ever knowing what had become of them.

It was so long ago, and Sister Agnes had been dead for centuries, but at least they now knew that young woman had chosen to live out her life at the convent they had taken her to, and that she had made a success of it. At that time, becoming an

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