FIRE IN HIS SPIRIT (Fireblood Dragons Book 5) by Ruby Dixon

Author:Ruby Dixon [Dixon, Ruby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fireblood Dragons #5
Published: 2018-07-10T16:00:00+00:00

Like most of what's left in post-apocalyptic Louisiana, the store's a real mess. Part of the roof has caved in and the parts that didn't cave in look as if they've been flooded. The floor is covered with dried mud and spilled items. No food, of course. Anything edible was picked over a long time ago.

I've seen worse, though. "I bet we can find something here," I say brightly, smiling at Vaan.

He just frowns at me and taps his mouth, our signal to indicate he didn't grasp my words.

"It's okay," I tell him, giving his arm a pat. He'll figure it out soon enough. "Just follow."

"Follow," he echoes agreeably, and it's a word he’s heard a lot in the last few days. He touches my hand and then laces his fingers through mine, and I feel my cheeks heating at that small caress.

Okay, so we've been hand-holding a fair amount lately. Mara doesn't seem to mind, and I don't care if it seems weird. I enjoy it. I love touching him. There's something so damn nice about being touched by someone else that I find myself more and more addicted to it.

Mara glances over at us and then heads into the store. No, I realize. It's not that I want to be touched by someone else. I want to be touched by him. Maybe I'm the addicted one and he's just humoring me.

The thought makes me smile.

We make our way inside the store. There's the usual clutter of junk and debris at the front, and I poke a few questionable piles with sticks to make sure that we're not stepping into a snake nest. There are no aisles any longer, dried mud and a mess obscuring what I remember were once neatly delineated departments. Mara wanders off, and I see her at one point sticking a wrench into the folds of her baggy clothing as she glances around. A weapon. I say nothing—I can't hate on a woman trying to protect herself.

Eventually I find a section with faded pictures of men on the walls and the circular racks that used to hold clothing. They're mostly bare, but there's a lot on the floor here. Mara wanders back as I use a stick to pick through a pile. "Help me look for a pair of jeans for him? If we can find something that's not rotted we can use the sinks in the back to wash them off."

"Provided they work," Mara says, but she pokes one pile with her stick, prying something free and making a face. "I think this is a diaper."

"No diapers." I glance over at Vaan. He's watching us with a crease on his forehead, as if he can't quite figure out what we're doing. "Gonna be hard enough to get him into a pair of jeans."

"Mm." Mara works quietly, digging through a stack and prying out a pair of denim shorts that look as if they won't fit a child and then tossing them aside. She moves over to a display table and sits down, wiping at her brow.

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