Deceived (Shifter's Vault Book 2) by Maggie Alabaster

Author:Maggie Alabaster [Alabaster, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-01-10T16:00:00+00:00

14

Bain

"Shit." I walked slowly around the totalled car in the hope of finding something to salvage. A knife, a water bottle. Anything.

Knox crouched beside the dragon’s body. In spite of the blood, his arm seemed to be fine. "There's enough undamaged skin to get a few scales."

I nodded and looked over to where Viva sat beside the road, under the only tree for several metres. Hair came loose from her ponytail and ruffled in the light breeze. She wore very little makeup, but needed none. She would be drop dead gorgeous in a paper bag, with bed hair and a scrubbed face.

"We can split some between the five of us," I said. "The rest can go to people who need it." I thought back to Pete, the hunter killed by the sand dragon who got aggressive before shedding her skin. Dex made sure his family were comfortable, but a few more of the valuable scales wouldn't hurt.

"You're really going to skin that dragon?" Viva asked. She rose to her feet and moved closer. She stood with her hand shielding her eyes.

"You don't have to watch," I said. "If we leave him here like this, he'll be skinned by whoever comes along next."

"I suppose so,” she conceded, “but I thought it might be more important to, you know, find a way back to the city." She cocked her head and frowned at me and Knox.

"Slade and Greg will be working on that," Bain said. "The Watcher would know better than anyone who might come along."

"That's what I'm worried about," she said.

When I gave her a questioning look, she added, "In case whoever comes wants us dead."

"Right." That was something to worry about, but not unless it happened. "Lucky we can look after ourselves."

I crouched beside Knox and peeled back the dragon’s hide while he sliced carefully.

"I don't suppose dragons are good for eating?" Viva asked. "That would keep us for a while."

I glanced back up. I assumed she was squeamish, but it seemed I was wrong.

"They say it tastes like chicken, but I've never eaten it." The irony of eating an animal that wanted to eat us first wasn't lost on me. I wasn't sentimental about dragons, and I certainly wasn't squeamish.

Viva snorted. "Save me some breast meat then."

"That's the best kind." I gave her a lingering look.

Her face turned slightly pink in the most adorable way possible. I'd seen her completely naked, but for some reason this was more endearing. And hotter.

Although, pretty much anything was hotter than the terror of walking into that bathroom to see the would-be assassin holding her under the water.

I hadn't even stopped to think. I just pulled out my knife and drove it straight into the other man's back. Before he even hit the floor, I grabbed Viva and pulled her out of the bath.

For a devastating few seconds, I thought I was too late. My heart stopped.

Then she gasped for breath and my heart started again, this time at breakneck speed. Another few moments and I would have been too late.

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