Valentine (The Dragon Kings Book 3) by Kimberly Loth

Author:Kimberly Loth [Loth, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

VAL WIPED HIS sweaty hands on his jeans. He’d never been so nervous before. Sid grabbed the bag of food from the backseat.

“You okay?” Sid asked.

“Uh, no. She said she never wanted to see me again.”

“Look, Aspen hated me when we first met. At least you know Hazel likes you. You’ll be fine. Just relax and act like you did on the airplane.”

Val nodded, still worried. “Explain again Aspen’s cover story for us.”

“We’re a family that acts as liaisons for the dragons. You and I are third cousins, and we’re leading the search for the human killer.”

“What’d she tell her about the mark?” That was the one thing they didn’t cover in the conversation at the restaurant while they waited for their food.

“If they talked about it at all, Aspen was going to play dumb. Tell her that it had to do with the dragons, but the dragons wouldn’t tell her what.”

“What if she doesn’t want to see me?” Val had never been so insecure in his life.

Sid put his hand on Val’s shoulder. “Relax. It will be fine. Seriously. Look, if she’s trying to avoid you, then you need to do something for her that no one else can so that she has to turn to you. With Aspen, I introduced her to myself in dragon form because that’s what she wanted. What does Hazel want?”

“To find Rowan.”

“There’s your answer. Offer to help her search. If Aspen’s right and Skye and Rowan were kidnapped, you can help her find clues. Be sneaky about it if you have to. Act like you aren’t supposed to involve her. It will gain her trust.”

Val followed Sid into the house, and they set out the food. Val had no idea what it was, but it smelled good.

Aspen bounced into the room and slid her arm around Sid’s waist before giving him a quick kiss on the lips. “Did you get me orange chicken?”

“Sure did. But you have to share this time.”

She snatched the box out of Sid’s hand and grabbed a pair of sticks off the table. “Nope, this is all mine.”

Val envied the easy way in which they bantered.

“And mine,” squawked Runa as she flew into the room and landed on the counter behind Aspen and stuck her head in the box.

Aspen jerked the box away. “Hey, get off.”

“But it’s my favorite.” Runa had a smear of orange sauce on the bottom of her jaw.

“Go to the table, missy.”

Val had been so distracted by Aspen and Runa that he hadn’t seen Hazel. But as she quietly slid into a chair across the table, his eyes met hers, and she gave him a tight smile.

He took the rest of the boxes and spread them out. He sat next to Hazel but didn’t look at her. Instead, he looked at Aspen, who was using the sticks to eat her food while trying to keep it out of the mouth of Runa.

Val picked up another pair of sticks and turned to Hazel. “How do we eat with these?”

Her face softened.

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