Dragon's Chase ( Paranormal Protection Agency #6 ) by Mina Carter

Author:Mina Carter
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Sword & Sorcery, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romantic Comedy, Witches & Wizards, Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy, Werewolves & Shifters, Paranormal & Urban, Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Blue Hedgehog Press
Published: 2014-05-22T04:00:00+00:00

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A pastry. She wanted a pastry.

Duke sighed and turned around, almost running down an old woman carrying a pet Chihuahua under one arm.

“I’m so sorry,” he said, moving quickly to avoid spilling hot coffee all over her. She looked as human as her dog was canine, but she gave him the gimlet eye anyway. He scanned her with his non-human senses, no sense in getting sloppy. There was always the possibility she was a skin-changer under the layers of a human disguise.

They were harder to spot than most paranormals since they were human. At least until someone looked deeper and saw the evil that lay hidden at the core. Skin-changers were invariably on the dark side. Something about the magic that had wrought the original enchantment. Bad mojo like that could infect a bloodline for generations.

“Grrrrrrr….”

The woman might have been all human and unable to sense what he was, but no such luck with the dog. Not only could most canines and felines sense something beyond his human form, but small dogs, like this one, had that small man syndrome thing going on. It curled its lips back from its teeth in warning, madness in its beady little eyes.

“Oh, shush up, Caesar.” Its owner ordered, running a heavily be-ringed hand over the tiny furry head. “The nice man didn’t mean any harm, so you leave him be.”

Caesar. She’d called it after an emperor. No wonder the furry little runt had delusions of grandeur.

“Grrrrrr…yap yap yap!”

The thing started to bark, standing up in its owner’s arms to yap at him. It had murder in its eyes. Duke had no doubt that, if it got free, it would try to sharpen its teeth on whatever part of him it could get to. Probably his ankle, before he kicked it into next week.

“Caesar! Bad dog!” The woman chided, trying to pull the tiny little muzzle around so she could look the dog in the eyes. Try as she might, its gaze remained fixed to Duke. He smiled, baring his own teeth, and for a split second, let the fangs of his dragon form punch through his gums. At the same time he slid into the creature’s mind, which turned out to be a roiling mass of doggy insanity, and fed it images of what he really looked like.

Faced with the very real possibility that this was a larger predator that could actually eat it whole, rather than a product of its own tiny, mad little brain, the Chihuahua yelped in surprise and backed up under its owners armpit. If it could have disappeared up its own asshole, it would have.

“I’m so sorry,” the woman babbled, trying to hold onto the struggling dog and smile up at Duke at the same time. “He’s not normally like this. He’s a real people person.”

“No problem at all.” He gave her a reassuring smile and put a hand out to stroke Caesar, and got a whimper from under her arm. “Usually they take to me right away.”

“I wonder if he’s getting sick….

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