Midlife Dragon Daddy (Midlife Shifters Book 10) by J.L. Wilder

Author:J.L. Wilder [Wilder, J.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J.L. Wilder
Published: 2021-08-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Two

HALEY

“Hey, you’re up.”

Ryker turned around. He’d been rummaging in the fridge. He was still moving carefully, thanks in part to the tight bandages wound around his arm and torso, but he was on his feet. “Never been more grateful for the dragon than I am today,” he said. “I was in bad shape, huh?”

“If you were a human, I think you’d be laid out for weeks,” she said. “Honestly, even with your quick healing, I’m surprised you’re up already. You’re not pushing it, are you?”

“I’m all right,” he said. “Really.”

“Well, if I see you bleeding through that bandage, I’m going to make you lie down again.” She eyed the open refrigerator. “You’ve got your appetite back?”

“With a vengeance.”

“Let me make you something.”

“You don’t have to do that.”

“Don’t be stupid,” Haley said. “You’re hurt. Sit down. I’ll get us something to eat. Do you know what you want?”

“No, anything’s fine,” Ryker said.

She nodded. “There’s spaghetti in here. I could heat it up. Maybe add a little olive oil, and...” She pushed a few things aside. “Hey, fresh mint!”

“I forgot how you used to do this,” Ryker said, moving aside and taking a seat at the table.

“How I used to do what?”

“Make meals out of just...nothing. Leftovers and scraps. You’re a whiz at it.”

“I hate to think what you’ve been eating for the last ten years,” she said with a laugh. “TV dinners, I’ll bet.”

Ryker laughed too. “There have been a few TV dinners,” he admitted. “I never did learn to cook. But I guess it was always obvious to me that I wouldn’t be able to live up to the meals you used to make, so I didn’t see a need to bother.”

“That’s right,” she agreed, dumping the spaghetti into a colander and turning the tap on the sink to hot. “You wouldn’t. If anything, you should have kept me around for my cooking prowess.”

She glanced at him quickly to see what his reaction would be. Would the conversation devolve into awkwardness and anger again, as it so often had?

But he was still smiling. “I think if I was going to keep you around, it would have been for your sexual prowess,” he said. “Though I have to say, you seem like you’ve learned some new tricks since you’ve been away.”

She shrugged. “I haven’t,” she said. “I’ve only had a couple of one-night stands, and none of them was anything to write home about. I feel weird saying this, but the best I ever had was always you.”

“Are we actually getting along?” he asked.

She sighed and turned off the tap. She couldn’t face him while she said what she had to say next. “I think we are,” she said quietly. “Ryker, when I saw you on the ground today...I don’t know. I didn’t think anything could hurt me that much.”

“Hey.” He was standing right behind her, unexpectedly. She hadn’t heard him get up. His arms snaked around her waist. “I’m okay,” he said. “Everything’s okay.

“I can’t believe you fought those grizzlies for us.

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