Magpies & Mayhem: A Vampire Romance (The Boundlands Series) by Elsie Winters

Author:Elsie Winters [Winters, Elsie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-06-26T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 20

I followed Jordan down the maze of hallways to one of the last doors at the end. He stepped in and to the side, revealing a simple bedroom with a double bed, a wooden desk and chair, cabinet, rug, and private bathroom. I hopped into the room and fluttered up onto the dark gray bed sheets that smelled faintly of him. “You saw what he did to my house,” I said to Jordan, cocking my head to watch him as he lifted my backpack from his shoulders and set it down with more care than I ever have.

“Sid, please trust me. I’ll keep you safe.” He waited until I made eye contact with him and then set his helmet on the bed. He carefully wrapped his arm around Huck, bracing him while he reached behind his head with his other hand to unclip the buckle. The dragon bucked twice and then calmed. “Hah, see? I learn fast, little guy.”

I huffed a laugh at Jordan’s smug attitude.

He wrapped his hands around Huck’s torso, careful to keep his wings pinned, and lifted him from the carrier to set him carefully on the floor. Huck immediately scuttled under the bed.

“He’s gonna pee under there,” I grumbled.

“Then I’ll clean it up.” He reached out to run his fingers down my feathers—oh, heck yes—and then unclipped the rest of the carrier and draped it over my backpack. I gave a disgruntled chirp at the cessation of petting, but he didn’t notice. Instead, he bent to roll up the rug and gathered it and the desk chair to carry out of the room. He came back several seconds later for the desk and lifted it with ease to haul from the room as well. When he came back, he eyed the cabinet and then dismissed it. “I’m not taking the cabinet out, but now he can’t damage the other flammable things. The bedding was made for me specifically, so it’s wool.”

I blinked at him. “You have your own sleeping quarters?” I’d have figured they were just for whoever was working, but they did smell like him.

“Yes.”

“Then why don’t you just live here?” I asked.

“I don’t want to live at work.”

That’s fair. “Is this where you came when you left your apartment after I showed up?”

He hesitated a beat before answering. “Yes.” He turned to the door. “I’m going to go check on your food and see if we have a uniform in your size.”

That gave me pause. “Why do I need a uniform?”

“They’re fireproof. It’ll protect you better,” he said as he walked out, leaving me alone with the chaos demon that was Huck.

Since I didn’t want to risk getting eaten by the dragon toddler while we were alone and the private bathroom was calling my name, I decided it was worth the energy drain to shift forms again. The mattress creaked quietly under my added weight, and I crawled off the bed to peek at Huck. He was curled up in a little ball

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