Trapped by the Dragon by Riley Storm

Author:Riley Storm [Storm, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: High House Press
Published: 2020-01-31T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Rane

His eyes flickered open.

It took several long moments after that for his brain to process everything, to catch up with the events of the night before and lay everything out for him. Rane rolled over, desperately hoping that Natasha would be asleep on the bed next to him, but it was as empty as it had ever been.

“Damn,” he swore, looking up at the ceiling helplessly.

He knew she felt something for him. That her attempt to end things with him wasn’t based on her true feelings. Rane could feel that in his very core in a way he simply could not explain.

“But how do I convince her of that?” he asked himself, swinging his legs over the side of the bed.

He was still dressed in his clothes from yesterday. Disrobing, he headed for the showers, eager for hot steam to clean away his dirt and perhaps his pain as well. There was still a lingering hurt from what he’d seen the day before.

Never had Rane thought that Altair would be the one to break. The storm dragon was so very stoic and composed, he never seemed to reveal any sort of weakness or hurt.

Perhaps that’s the problem. He’s pent it up inside so much, it can only come out when the rest of his consciousness is asleep.

Rane wasn’t sure how to go about changing that, but he knew that they would have to. All the dragons had suffered trauma, even him, though his was a drop in the bucket compared to some who had fought on the frontlines and witnessed many horrible things. They were hurting, and at some point, they were going to need to find a way to heal.

That, however, wasn’t Rane’s responsibility. He had neither the experience nor the knowledge to handle that. But someone would have to before a real problem arose from it.

Hot water poured from the overhead showerhead and scalded his skin, burning away any last vestiges of sleep and also heating his muscles, releasing some of the tension that had been building.

You need to tell her.

“I know that,” he told himself, slamming a fist against the tiled wall, careful not to use too much force to break it. “But it’s not that easy.”

Speaking was easy. Rane could physically talk. But the act of telling Natasha, of revealing to her how he felt, that was far from easy. Simple, yes, but rarely were simple and easy the same thing.

Yet the way things had gone down the day before…how much longer could he keep going on like this?

Rane wanted to tell her, to put it out in the open. It was likely, he assumed, that her fears stemmed from the feelings she was having, without understanding why. Rane at least had Damien to talk to, to tell him he wasn’t the first to feel this way, that it was, for whatever reason, normal.

Unfortunately, Natasha and Anna hadn’t had a chance to talk, to exchange notes on how they were affected by the dragons. He

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