Virgo Dragon: Paranormal Dragon Shifter Romance (Zodiac Dragons Book 3) by Kayla Wolf

Author:Kayla Wolf [Wolf, Kayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16 - Conrad

Conrad kept his gaze fixed on the strange display of mugs he was studying, half-listening to Mira speaking on the phone. She sounded upset, though he couldn’t understand a word of what she was saying. He’d have to trust that she’d tell him what was wrong once she’d finished her conversation. Right now, he found his attention being drawn elsewhere. Over by the window of what Mira had called a gas station, two hunched figures were wolfing down two enormous plates of unidentifiable food they’d seemingly ordered from the kitchen here. But it wasn’t the food that was holding Conrad’s attention. It was the bright silver eyes that kept darting his way whenever the two thought he wasn’t looking at them.

He’d been shocked to recognize them as wolves, truth be told. They were wearing such strange clothing compared to the wolves he was used to … not that he was especially used to wolves, of course. The relationship between the dragons and wolves back home was only new one of cooperation and community, and though relations were warming, it was slow going. But these wolves, he reminded himself, knew nothing of that place. What they knew, based on the looks they were shooting him, was that he was a dragon… and that he was a stranger. Was he on their territory, perhaps? Was that why they kept looking at him like that? Or had the stress of the last few days just taken such a toll on him that he was jumping at shadows? Hard to say.

Mira rejoined him, her face pale and her hands trembling a little as she put her phone back into her pocket. With one last look at the wolves, who were both studiously pretending not to know that he was there, he drew her to a table on the far side of the gas station’s dining area, well out of earshot.

“It’s my aunt,” she explained once they were seated, her eyes full of worry. “She said something’s happened, something bad—she didn’t want to talk about it on the phone, but she’d never call me out of the blue like that unless it was something serious. It’s the men. It has to be, right?” She took a shuddering breath, and Conrad reached out to take her hand in his, wishing he could do more to comfort her. “It has to be them, there’s no way it’s a coincidence that she calls up like that the same day as—”

“Easy,” Conrad said softly, squeezing her hands. “We’ll go to her. Make sure she’s okay.”

Mira looked up at him. “How? She lives hours away, and it’s not like we can just run back home and grab my car.”

“We could wait until nightfall and fly,” he suggested. “I understand the ride will be a lot more comfortable if you sit on my back. And if I stay above the clouds, nobody on the ground will be able to see me.”

A faint smile on that lovely face… but her eyes were still worried.

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