Dragon's Mail Order Bride (West Coast Water Dragons Book 2) by Kayla Wolf

Author:Kayla Wolf [Wolf, Kayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal & Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Adult Themes, The Dragon Shifters Mate, Supernatural Fantasy, Protection & Safety, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Multicultural & Interspecies Relationships, Romantic Schemes, Dangerous & Deadly, Romantic Suspense, Mystery & Intrigue, Mythical Creatures, Action & Adventure, Violence & Crime Story, SciFi Fantasy Romance, Hearts Desire, Futuristic, Beautiful & Feisty, West Coast Water Dragons Series, Dragon Shifter Romance
Publisher: Kayla Wolf
Published: 2020-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9 – Bryce

Bryce walked his friends back up through the sand dunes, his heart pounding with the adrenalin of the near miss. That could have been bad. What if they’d casually told Jasmine the truth—that they’d been living on the peninsula for almost half a century, longer than she’d even been alive? They probably wouldn’t have been that stupid. They would have noticed she was human—shifters could recognize each other, after all, and humans were easily noticed by virtue of not giving off any of the signals that other species of shifters did—and as a general rule, humans didn’t know about dragons. But that would have raised more questions. Questions he wasn’t comfortable answering in front of Jasmine. She was already suspicious of him, after all. He’d seen the way she looked when he avoided her questions, or when he didn’t answer her questions with the amount of detail she’d prefer. This little encounter was going to be particularly hard to explain.

”You want to tell me why there’s a human sunbathing on our beach?” Harvey asked in a low voice as they headed through the sand dunes and towards the house. “A human nobody’s met, and nobody knew was going to be here? A human who’s apparently staying with you?”

”Her name’s Jasmine,” he snapped, a little defensive. “She’s not just a human, she’s my…” He hesitated. “My guest.”

”She’s very lovely,” Emerson said brightly, his eyes aglow. “Is that a coincidence?”

”You know how much trouble we’ve had with strangers,” Harvey said through gritted teeth, his mind clearly in a very different place to the much more romantic Emerson’s. “I can’t believe you’d invite some random woman to the peninsula without even mentioning it to me. I’m meant to be in charge of security around here. Did you even tell Lachlan? Does he know?”

”No,” Bryce admitted, gritting his teeth as he opened the gate for his friends. “Not yet. I’m getting to it—I just …” He took a deep breath, annoyed by how disconcerted he felt by the interrogation. “Come and have a cup of tea and let me explain, alright?”

He glanced around the cottage as his friends stepped inside with him, hyper-aware of all the little changes that Jasmine’s brief presence had created… the extra breakfast dishes in the sink, her jacket on the back of the chair, her phone sitting on the table. As he glanced at it, the screen lit up, and it vibrated with what seemed to be yet another message from someone. Friends back home, perhaps, worrying about her? Or—and his jaw tensed a little at the thought—was her old boss, the man she’d spoken of with such disdain and resentment, still trying to make her life more difficult?

His friends were waiting for him. He cleared his throat, turning away from the phone, and resolving to check in with Jasmine about it later. For now, he put on a pot of tea, avoiding eye contact with the two men who were waiting, eyebrows raised, for him to explain exactly what was going on.

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