Protected by the Dragon by Kayla Wolf

Author:Kayla Wolf [Wolf, Kayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9 – Jessica

It took Jessica a long time to get to sleep that night. She lay awake, gazing up to the sky, trying to count the stars long enough to get drowsy. She got into the thousands before it even seemed to put a dent in her feelings. Why did she have such strong feelings for this dragon? She’d known him barely a few days—they’d talked so briefly, had so little to do with each other, and yet she couldn’t get him out of her mind. Was it really just infatuation—just sheer, dumb animal magnetism? Was she reading a bunch of positive qualities into his behavior just because he happened to be extremely good looking, just because her body was drawn to his? A flash of the memory of their night together made her blush.

But no—it couldn’t just be that. She’d experienced infatuation, short-term crushes that burned brightly then disappeared within a few days. This didn’t feel like that. He was something else. He wasn’t like any of the wolves from her hometown—there was no arrogance in him, no sense of competitiveness or possession. When she’d run away, his only concern had been her safety. He was kind—he listened, he cared, he paid attention to the things he said and worried about the impact they had on her. He was—good. But he was a dragon. But he was… a good dragon? Was there such a thing? Her upbringing screamed that that was impossible—that the only good dragon was a dead one. Could her upbringing have been wrong? Could her pack be so deluded? They’d been hidden away in their tiny little prison of a town for so long that maybe the truth had escaped them completely.

She fell asleep eventually, and slept hard, haunted by disturbing dreams of Samuel’s face covered in scales. She saw her father’s wolf form leaping onto the back of a dragon, then saw a horn like the trophy kept by the pack ripped from the back of Samuel’s head. And finally, she saw the humans she’d met—her new friends, the ones who’d shared their food with her—standing by a fire, watching sadly as she was dragged away and slammed into a cage with steel bars…

She jerked awake, twitching and whining in her sleep, her fur in disarray—she’d clearly been tossing and turning for hours. It was just after dawn, the sun low in the sky but climbing, and a thin fall of snow had turned the ground a strange color. It was beautiful, and she took a moment to steady her breathing before she got up and padded down to the stream to drink. Her mind was still turbulent, racing—but she was beginning to find a way through the labyrinth of thoughts. Being outside of the village had shown her that things weren’t quite so simple as her family believed. Human beings weren’t so bad. And neither were dragons—or at least, the one she had met seemed okay. Perhaps she needed to investigate further. Perhaps

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