Stealth and the Dragon (Redwood Dragons Book 7) by Sloane Meyers

Author:Sloane Meyers [Meyers, Sloane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“Absolutely not!” Elise said, standing with her hands on her hips. “There is no way I’m letting you just waltz up to an army of evil shifters and wizards who torture and kill people with no remorse.”

“I’m not walking right up to them. I’m sneaking up to them. They won’t even know I’m there.”

“The answer is no,” Elise said, trying to keep her voice from shaking with emotion. She could hardly believe that her son was sitting there with a straight face, asking to walk right into the lions’ den. Literally, the lions’ den! There were lion shifters in Saul’s army, after all. Or so she’d been told. Nick crossed his arms and gave her a defiant look—the same look he used to give her as a toddler when she told him he could not have ice-cream for dinner.

“I’m a dragon. I can do whatever I want,” he declared.

Out of the corner of her eye, Elise saw Holden wince, then frantically shake his head “no” at the boy. Elise walked right up to her son, grabbed his left earlobe, and twisted it hard.

“Ow! Mom!” he protested, pulling away.

“Dragon or not, I am still your mother and you still live in my house. If you want me to continue to put a roof over your head and to feed that dragon appetite of yours, you will do as I say. Do you understand?”

Nick whimpered and nodded his head.

“Now go to your room. I want to have a word with Holden.”

Nick scurried off to his room, suddenly happy for the chance to get away from his mother’s presence. Elise turned her gaze sharply on Holden, who winced again.

“Elise,” he said. But she held up her hand and shook her head.

“No. I’ll do the talking. And let’s go to my bedroom where we’re out of Nick’s earshot. I guarantee you he has his ear pressed up against his bedroom door right now to listen.”

Holden followed Elise to her bedroom without another word, shutting the door behind him as Elise whirled to face him. The sight of him in her room, leaning easily against the closed door, took her breath away. For a moment, she forgot to be angry. His bicep muscles flexed slightly as he looked over at her with intense, searching eyes. Elise had a crazy impulse to rush across the room and throw her arms around him, kissing him with abandon. There was just something so sensual about having him in her bedroom. She should have known better than to bring him in here.

She pushed away her thoughts of romance and tried to remember that he was only in here because she needed to make it very clear to him that she was not okay with his putting ideas of grand adventures into her son’s head. She was here to protect Nicky, not to think about how sexy Holden’s muscles looked in the soft light of her bedroom.

“What were you thinking?” she asked, putting her hands on her hips again and trying to look as stern as possible.

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