Princess Lyrian: Dragon Breeze Compilation (Return of the Dragons Book 7) by Rinelle Grey

Author:Rinelle Grey [Grey, Rinelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

“She’s so adorable,” Lisa said, staring at Anarian. “Can I hold her?”

Brad hesitated, but out of all the people crowding around him and his daughter, Lisa was the only one he felt like he kind of knew. Only from her picture in the paper, true. But she was also mated to Lyrian’s brother, making her his daughter’s aunt.

“Sure,” he agreed, handing the baby over.

Lisa cooed over her. Several others, Brad wasn’t sure if they were dragons or humans, crowded around similarly entranced by the baby.

All except for Karla, the human mated to Lyrian’s other brother. She eyed him calculatingly. And her scrutiny made Brad more than a little uncomfortable.

“So, how did you find out about dragons?” he asked her, hoping to break the ice.

She stared at him for a moment longer, then shrugged. “I’m an archaeologist. Someone showed me an artifact and told me I should go to the Dragon Scales, an interesting geological formation nearby.” She smiled then, and the expression changed her face completely. “I woke Taurian without having any idea he was a dragon. The rest, as they say, is history.”

So she’d been as deceived by all this as Brad was.

Somehow, that made him feel a little bit better. Better enough to say, “It comes as quite a surprise, doesn’t it?”

Karla nodded. “How long have you known?”

Brad gave a laugh. “Oh, about three days, or is it four?”

That surprised her. Her eyes widened, and she glanced over at Anarian, then back at him. Her question was obvious, even without asking.

“Lyrian didn’t tell me,” Brad said softly. “In fact, after we’d… mated…” that was how dragons said it, wasn’t it? “She refused to speak to me. I went back to America, to my job. I only found out about Anarian when I came back to Australia after my uncle died.”

“That must have been quite a shock,” Karla said softly.

“That’s an understatement. It never occurred to me that I might be a father.”

“Not to mention the father of a dragon,” Karla added.

“Yeah, even more of a shock.”

Brad remembered how he’d found out, the dragon swooping straight towards the house, spewing lightning, and he couldn’t help an involuntary shiver. Even though he knew her now, even though Kyrian was going to mate with his brother, it didn’t stop any of the fear the memory of that meeting brought up.

“What happened?” Karla asked quietly.

“Is it that obvious?” Brad said jokingly. He told Karla the story briefly, and she listened, her mouth pursed.

At the end of his recital, she put a hand on his shoulder and said, “That must have been terrifying. I know what it’s like to have a dragon coming at you, and it’s not fun.”

Brad stared at her for a moment, then relaxed. This woman wasn’t a threat. In fact, she just might be a friend. “No, it’s not,” he agreed. “Though I think I’m getting kind of used to it now.”

Karla laughed at that. “Probably a good thing, because even though we have a kind of truce with Trima clan, I’m not sure we can count on it staying that way.

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