Ancient Protector (Ancients Rising Book 1) by Katie Reus

Author:Katie Reus [Reus, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KR Press, LLC
Published: 2020-06-29T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Star hurried down the stairs at the scent of bacon. After the night patrol shift, she’d showered and now she was starving. For more than food, but that was pretty much beside the point because that wasn’t happening.

“How was patrol?” Aurora asked from where she stood at the stove, making scrambled eggs. A plate of bacon was sitting off to the side.

Star eyed the food, inhaling deeply. “Nothing exciting, which is the kind of patrol I like.”

“I heard a party going on nearby last night.”

“Oh yeah. A bunch of shifters were throwing down about two blocks over and the noise carried.” The noise was better than silence in her opinion. It meant people were living their lives and trying to get back some semblance of normalcy. But after two in the morning, they needed to shut the hell up and go to sleep. Gah, she felt like a cranky old lady some days.

“Have you seen your boyfriend this morning?”

Star jerked slightly as she added sugar to her coffee. “Don’t you start. That dragon is not my boyfriend. And he’s a freaking dragon. Don’t forget it.”

Aurora lifted a shoulder, her oversized sweater falling down one shoulder as she added more cheese to the scrambled eggs. “Pretty sure I’m a good judge of people at this point, and this is a good group of guys. They’re not like Oscar’s clan. Not like the dragons who killed Mom and Dad.”

She bit down hard before pushing out a breath. It was hard to think about what had happened to their parents. Aurora had been so young when they’d been murdered, but Star remembered everything in clear detail. “Maybe, maybe not.” Okay, there was no maybe. They were good guys. She was just letting the past color her thinking.

“Star, it’s not like dragons are the only ones responsible for killing our kind.”

“I know.” And this was a conversation they’d had many times.

“Anyway, since you haven’t seen your not-boyfriend, look,” Aurora said, holding a spatula up and pointing out the oversized window over the sink.

Warm mug in hand, she peeked outside and couldn’t stop the startled burst of laughter that escaped.

Brielle and Harlow each had a volleyball and were tossing them at Lachlan, who was on his back in dragon form. He gently swatted the balls, as if he was a soccer goalie or something. But when he swatted them, the twins raced for them, trying to knock them back at him. It was like a bizarre game of ping-pong. “What the hell is wrong with them? Has the world gone completely mad?” she said more to herself than her sister.

“Pretty sure you know the answer to that.”

She snorted because okay, it was true. “Still, this is…”

“This is your crew burning off some steam.”

“True enough.” Even Taya and Kartini were out there getting in on the action, throwing more balls at the giant dragon. “Where’s Lola?”

“Sleeping. So is Bella. They’re exhausted.”

“They should be. I heard them playing poker until well after one in the morning.”

“Pretty sure they cleaned those dragons out for everything they were worth.

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