Tempt the Dragon--An Afrofuturist Paranormal Romance by A.C. Arthur

Author:A.C. Arthur
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2020-10-30T13:38:07+00:00

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“You lied to me!” Mel yelled in his face before planting her hands on his chest and pushing him away from her.

He stumbled back a couple steps, more because he needed the space between them, or he just might shake some sense into her head. “You almost got yourself killed!”

More yelling. They’d returned to the Office less than twenty minutes ago. Bleu had been there in the yard with clothes for everyone who’d shifted in the forest, but Aiken had only grabbed sweatpants and running shoes. He’d had to be fast because from the moment his beast had touched the ground she’d jumped off its back and run toward the house. But she hadn’t gone to his suite, which would’ve been more private, and a lot more comfortable to have this fight...or, ah, conversation they were having right now.

“The next time I tell you to shift, that’s what the fuck I expect you to do!”

“You’re not the boss of me,” she shot back.

“That’s a real mature reply. You could’ve died in that fire. The heat alone could’ve suffocated you in your human form because of your stubbornness. If you’d let your dragon take complete control, your body would’ve been prepared to withstand the heat.”

She would’ve known that if she’d accepted the Drakon part of herself. The part he’d said he wouldn’t push her to acknowledge. Dammit! How could this one woman make him so completely crazy?

His nostrils flared as he fought to control his anger, fingers fisted at his sides while he watched her walk around the pool table. She grabbed a stick from the cue rack, holding it in her hands like it was a baseball bat and she was ready to take a swing. “You’re not in charge here, regardless of the fact that I’m outnumbered by big bad dragons. We’re supposed to be working together to bring Duncan in and that’s not what happened tonight.”

Okay, she wanted to talk about the parts of the plan he’d left her out of instead of her long-lost dragon that stood between them like a boulder. That was fine. As long as they didn’t talk about the stark fear that still had his heart thumping wildly because he’d thought he might lose her. Folding his arms over his bare chest, he leaned back so that he was sitting on the arm of one of the recliners across from the pool table.

“We had a plan and we executed it.” Knowing that was a cryptic reply, he was fully prepared for her to grit her teeth and howl with rage. He was betting if he was standing closer to her right now, she would’ve just cracked him over the head with that stick.

“Right.” That clipped reply came with a stiff nod that clearly said she didn’t believe him. “You said we were going to talk to Montoy to see what he knew about Duncan. You told me it had to be done that way because Theo had some type of tenuous truce with the vampire.

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