A Dragon for Christmas: Shifters for Christmas #2 by Chant Zoe

Author:Chant, Zoe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Garrett narrowed his eyes as the woman stood before him, an unfriendly look on her face. He couldn’t sense any immediate threat from her – but then again, there wasn’t a lot most shifters could do against him, unless they caught him by surprise before he had a chance to shift.

Or they have dragonsbane on them, he thought, almost reflexively rolling his shoulder at the memory of the pain of the bullet that had gone through it a few years ago. It had been a long time ago now, but the pain still felt fresh in his mind. It had been unlike anything he’d ever felt before.

An ordinary bullet would have caused an injury, of course, but unless it hit a vital organ he would’ve been able to shrug it off for at least a while. But a bullet covered in dragonsbane was a different thing. Dragonsbane slowed his healing almost to that of a human’s, and caused a range of other nasty side effects besides. But dragonsbane also had a very particular scent, and his dragon senses could detect nothing of the kind on the woman in front of him.

“Is there a reason why you’re here?” he asked, trying not to sound overtly hostile despite the fact he wasn’t feeling too friendly right now. The woman had frightened his mate, after all.

“I could ask you the same thing,” the woman spat. “I don’t recognize you. Why are you interfering?”

Garrett shook his head, raising his hands. “Wait a minute – interfering? With what?”

“Don’t act like you don’t know.” The woman bristled, resembling her mountain lion form more than a little, before deflating slightly. “Though I suppose it’s possible you don’t. Most of the shifters who come to stay here from far away don’t know.”

Garrett wasn’t really feeling patient enough to deal with cryptic messages or vague implications right now. “What are you talking about? Tell me plainly, or leave and don’t come back. You scared the hell out of my mate.”

The woman glanced through the glass doors to where Georgia was still standing in the kitchen.

“Your mate is human? Well, I didn’t know that, did I? I just wanted to tell you to keep your nose out of my business with Barston.”

What business? Garrett was about to demand, when he suddenly realized what she must be talking about. “Has this got something to do with the wolves who almost killed someone yesterday?”

The woman snarled. “They didn’t almost kill anyone. No one was hurt at all.” She took a deep breath and seemed to pull herself back slightly. “Not that I completely approve of what they did, either. I told them to go cause some trouble. I didn’t specify what. Maybe they went too far. But it did make the resort look unsafe.”

Garrett’s dragon reared up, furious. This is who is responsible? We should make her face justice, right now!

“Look unsafe?” he growled, and the woman looked up at him, fear glimmering in her eyes as she sensed his dragon’s rage.

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