The Dragon Marshal's Treasure by Zoe Chant

Author:Zoe Chant [Chant, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zoe Chant
Published: 2018-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

8

Theo

Someone finally thawed the ice prince.

That was what Colby had said to Jillian, punching Theo’s arm with a more open friendliness than he’d ever shown before. Theo could see why. All that polished perfection he’d always aimed for—it had kept a distance between him and his team. He knew how they could see through all that gem-cut armor now. Jillian. They could see the best parts of him shining clearly out of her.

He’d gone to show her the closest thing he had to a home, and she’d brought him even closer to it.

Before they could even reach the car, he wrapped his arms around her. She responded instantaneously, stepping further into his embrace and rising up on her toes to kiss him.

“I want to take you to dinner.”

“It’s four in the afternoon.”

“I want to take you to a very late lunch.”

He felt her smile against his mouth. “What if I just want you to take me to bed?”

“I’ve seen television,” Theo said stubbornly. “Courtship involves dinner. I know our relationships is unconventional by human standards, but I want you to have every moment you could ever expect.”

“And some I couldn’t, if this conversation is any indication.” She leaned more fully against him, her soft, warm body flattening against him, her generous hips tantalizingly close to his cock. “Do you know what dating has that we don’t have?”

Theo tried to think, which wasn’t a simple process with Jillian stretched out next to him, her fingers brushing idly through the fine hairs on the back of his neck. Heart-shaped boxes of Valentine’s Day chocolates. Engagement rings in crème brûlée. Dubiously comedic misunderstandings. He thought he could remember hearing something that might be relevant.

“A Facebook status?”

Her body shook, her laughter reverberating against his chest. “Uncertainty.”

“I’ve never been surer of anything in my life.”

“Neither have I,” Jillian said, now looking up to meet his eyes. She radiated seriousness: this was the look of a woman who convinced stingy city councils to cough up amenities for the poor in their district. She would not be a dragon’s mate if she could be opposed lightly. “I like that this isn’t exactly normal dating. I like knowing that, unlike my dad, I’m not going to cycle through attraction and flattery and flirtation and then have to start all over again. There’s nothing you have to do to impress me.”

“I’m beginning to believe people really do think that.”

“Your friends?”

He had always thought of them as his coworkers, his colleagues. “Yes,” he said, and then said the word just to try it out. “My friends.” It felt true. “Does this mean you don’t want dinner?”

“No, I’m actually pretty hungry. I just don’t want you to think I have some imaginary checklist where you have to be careful to hit every box.”

Theo mimed crumpling up and tossing a piece of paper. “No checklist.”

“Then you may take me to evening brunch.”

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Jillian lit up when she saw the variety of the menu. “I didn’t know it was possible to get all this on the same continent, let alone in the same diner.

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