Smoldering Hunger by Grant Donna

Author:Grant, Donna [Grant, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781466883369
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

TWENTY-THREE

Darius didn’t know what to say at first. To watch Ulrik, Con, and Rhi all sit at a table and talk without anyone getting killed seemed almost surreal.

“Darius,” Con said and resumed his seat. He motioned to one of the other chairs. “I didna know you were here.”

“I called to you.” Darius took the chair Ulrik vacated and pushed aside the empty glass. Darius shook his head when a waiter began to walk up.

Con nodded as if he just now remembered. “I was focused on my meeting.”

“And if it had been important?” Darius asked. “Say, that the Dark surround the hotel?”

Con’s black gaze grew cold. “I would’ve handled it.”

“You ignored me when I was trying to tell you I was tracking Ulrik.”

Con blew out a breath. “The simple truth is that I didna want anyone to know I was meeting with Ulrik. I wanted to talk him out of coming after all of you and focus on me.”

That sounded exactly like something Con would do. Darius looked around the room at all the mortals going about their everyday, mundane lives. “He’s no’ going to do that.”

“Nay, he’s no’. He knows by hurting all of you, it upsets me. He wants to rip away my world.”

Darius rubbed his eyes with his thumb and forefinger. “That means Dreagan.”

“Aye. I ken.”

He lifted his head and looked at Con. “What are we going to do?”

“Prepare. We’re dragons, Darius. They can no’ kill us. We’ve hidden for so long and gotten away with our secret. But,” he said, pausing for a heartbeat. “We may be heading to a time where we can no longer hide.”

“We’ll never be able to leave Dreagan. We’ll have to remain and keep others out.”

Con shrugged and lifted his empty glass to the waitress for another. “We do what we must. The Dark have outed us. Some of the humans doona believe the video, but others do.”

“Those that want proof.”

Con gave a nod to the attendant when a new glass of whisky was set in front of him. Once she was gone, he said, “We might as well get used to the attention, but I’m beginning to think we look beyond that.”

Darius, like the rest of the Kings, had been so wrapped up in not being able to shift and fly that they nearly missed the obvious. “Ulrik wants our attention diverted.”

“Precisely. I wanted a face-to-face with him to see if he’d divulge anything.”

“Did he?”

Con’s lips twisted. “Of course no’. But what he didna say was almost as good. I wasna able to get him to leave all of you alone, but we did learn this part.”

“That gives us an edge. It’s only a wee bit, but it’s still an edge.”

“My thoughts exactly.”

Darius eyed Con. “And what was Rhi doing here?”

“Ulrik asked her to come as a mediator of sorts. She listened and will be able to call either one of us a liar if we say something that isna true.”

Darius ran a hand through his hair. “That could benefit us.”

Con merely made a sound at the back of his throat.

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