Dragon My Heart Around (Providence Paranormal College Book 4) by D.R. Perry

Author:D.R. Perry [Perry, D.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Kimiko

At the door, Gomer waited to escort me via the back stairs to my room while Blaine went up the showy staircase with Mrs. Harcourt. Usually, eavesdropping was one of my favorite pastimes. The thought of listening in on whatever chewing-out Blaine would get made me vaguely ill.

I ran the bath again, stepping out of the shoes and the dress. The contents of the turquoise clutch went back in my own handbag, locked in the drawer again. A search of the drawers didn’t turn up anything like the cozy flannel pajamas I would have put on back home after a night like this. So I selected a raw silk nightgown in dusky pink and hung it on a hook in the bathroom. I would enter the data about the shooting and try talking to Ismail after my bath.

I’d fallen asleep in the tub. A knock on the bathroom door startled me out of the tepid water. I toweled off quickly, then slipped the nightgown on and opened the door. Instead of the Brownie or Gomer, or even Ismail, it was Blaine. He’d changed his pants but had no shirt on. His skin was smooth, no hint of scales. It was also flawless, like his well-defined muscles. I hadn’t imagined a bookwyrm would look so manly without a shirt, dragon shifter or no.

“How did you get in?” I glanced past him, rubbing my arms at an unexpected chill in the air.

“Nature’s hang-glider.” He jerked his chin at the balcony doors. “Much safer than your Spider Kim act.”

“Yeah.” I brushed past him to grab the bathrobe I’d left on the bed, and our arms touching sent a shiver across my skin and a heated flush up from my center. I wasn’t cold anymore, but I put the bathrobe on, anyway. “What did you come here for?” I couldn’t look at him when I said it and fiddled with the key on its chain instead.

“That LORA app…you said it was running something.” His gaze bounced around the room, alighting just about everywhere except on me.

“Oh.” I shouldn’t have been disappointed. “Okay.” I headed to the nightstand, shielded it with my body, and reached in for my phone. I needn’t have bothered. Blaine wasn’t looking. I stepped in front of him, clasping the phone in my hands between us. “Um, can I ask you something?”

“Um, yeah. You just did.” He smirked, finally meeting my gaze. He put his hands in his pockets. “But you can ask something else.”

“You’re supposed to find out why I’m here, and how I broke in.” I took a deep breath, feeling like I was about to step off a cliff or out of a plane and plummet to my death. “And I just opened a locked drawer in front of you. You didn’t try to peek. Why?”

“Because you were going to tell me something back at the park.” Blaine pulled his hands out of his pockets and opened one, revealing a small black orb on a silver chain. He touched it, setting it alight with some kind of Extrahuman energy.

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