Pet Rescue Panther by Zoe Chant

Author:Zoe Chant [Chant, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

It had been a long time since Ben had traveled to his father's lair, but as they drove deeper into the mountains, down smaller and smaller roads, he was unsurprised to find out that he still vividly remembered the way. He might be only half dragon, and not enough to have gotten the dragon-shifting part, but certain things were stamped into his DNA. His dad was the head of their clan, and just as dragons could always find their hoards, a part of them would always yearn, like a compass needle pointing north, for home and clan.

Ben thought about his collection of exotic weapons back home. He didn't really think of it as a hoard, and he didn't seem to have the same quasi-mystical attachment to it that true dragons did to their hoards. But he still liked collecting things. And all his years of traveling around the world had left him feeling unpleasantly rootless, a feeling that hadn't gone away until he settled down again.

Some part of him was a dragon and would always be.

"I think I liked the mountains around your cabin better," Tessa said. They were driving up a ravine with walls of bare rock on either side that seemed to lean over the road. The sun was already low enough that the road was in shadow. "They're ... I don't know. Friendlier, somehow."

"So do I. But we won't be here for very long."

Assuming they were allowed to stay at all. Ben thought it was flattering Tessa had paid enough attention to the things he'd said about dragons, and about his dad, to grasp the nature of the problem. Her mere presence in his father's lair would suggest that Darius Keegan was trying to hide her from Reive's clan, possibly drawing them into all-out clan warfare. Darius was definitely not going to be happy about it.

But Ben didn't plan to give him a choice. He and Tessa were a package deal now. It was both of them, or neither.

He tried not to think about the possibility that his dad might go for the second option.

"Hey, Ben," Tessa said.

Ben glanced over at her. She'd changed into a pink sweatshirt from the bag of clothes Derek had brought them; it looked good on her. "Yeah?"

"Does Melody have a hoard?"

Melody still hadn't texted them back. Ben was trying very hard not to think about the implications. "Sure she does," he said. "She's a dragon. They all do."

"But I've been over to her apartment loads of times, and I never saw any sign of anything like that."

Ben smiled. "What were you expecting to see?"

"Well ... gold, and jewels? That kind of thing."

"All hoards are different," Ben said. "It's not about money. Dragons hoard the things they value. What does Melody like best, in all the world? What's her apartment full of?"

Tessa stared at him. A small furrow appeared between her brows. "Books?"

"Yep."

"She ... hoards books?"

"Yeah, you've been to her apartment, so you know what it looks like, right? Bookshelves all over the place.

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