Crystal Dragon's Kiss: Royal Dragon Shifters of Morocco #2: A Red Letter Hotel Paranormal Romance by Ava Ward

Author:Ava Ward [Ward, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ava Ward (Jean Lowe Carlson LLC)
Published: 2019-06-12T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17 – ADAM

Adam ordered dinner at Marnet’s bar, requesting whatever the heavenly smell was issuing from the kitchen plus desert. Their food arrived promptly, personally delivered by Marnet with a wink and a twirl of one waxed mustachio. A delicious-looking stew of red wine and beef so expertly cooked it was falling off the bone, the meal was accented by sprigs of rosemary, thyme, and a fragrant purple peppercorn. Jessup brought them two glasses of Marnet’s best bourbon, plus something called a gin-lemon fizz for Adam as Layla set her spoon to the heavenly broth and began to eat.

“A gin-lemon fizz?” Layla lifted an eyebrow at Adam as she dug into the tender beef. “Is that like a Sloe Gin Fizz?”

“No, it’s a Tom Collins.” He grinned at her as he began to eat also. “They don’t know my favorite drink by that name here in the Twilight Realm, except at the Hotel.”

“I met someone recently in Seattle who said a Tom Collins was their favorite drink.” Pausing her meal, Layla frowned at Adam. “You sure that wasn’t you in disguise?”

Adam blinked at her, confused though he was still smiling as he set down his spoon. “You know I can’t visage-shift, Layla. Ask anyone in the clan. If you met someone in Seattle who loves the same drink I do, I’m sure it’s just blind coincidence. Unless it was Adrian, imitating one of my habits for an alter-persona.”

“No, it couldn’t have been him,” Layla shook her head as their drinks arrived. Jessup handed her bourbon over with a handsome smile, then whisked away to another group. Layla watched him go as she sipped her drink, a fabulously smooth bourbon though not as good as Rake’s secret sauce. The atmosphere was high inside the bar now, like someone had spiked the air with uppers. Bawdy singing had begun outside on the porch and people were dancing in ecstatic frenzy to the band’s music, laughing gregariously. The bar held a wildly happy intoxication and as Jessup passed by again, Layla felt a bold yet innocent aura pouring out of him – whirling that happy frenzy higher. He sang under his breath as he mixed drinks, an enormous smile on his face as if he was loving every moment of wildness inside the establishment.

He winked at Layla as he passed by again, delivering a tray of drinks to the end of the bar, apparently no longer concerned about Adrian.

“Jessup is just sunshine in a bottle, isn’t he?” Layla laughed, watching their cute bartender.

“Not always.” Adam gave her a knowing glance over his bourbon. “Wait until the music changes later. You’ll find no higher highs and no sadder woes anyplace else on earth than inside a Gypsun bar.”

“Gypsun? Is that Jessup’s Lineage, and Marnet’s?” She asked Adam, glancing at him.

“Jessup and Marnet are Tempesti gypsonii, Gypsun Tempests.” Adam smiled at her genially as he swirled his bourbon, then tucked into his stew also, blowing on the spoon. “Most of the people who live in this Quarter of Julis are.

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