Strays by A.J. Thomas

Author:A.J. Thomas
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 9781640806658
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2018-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

THE MAN in the black polo shirt looked human, handsome even, until Jory took in his golden skin and dark, catlike eyes. Jory had seen him slice through Louise’s shoulder with retractable claws that looked like they belonged on a prehistoric predator, flinging her aside like she weighed nothing. He stared between her prone body and Jory for a moment and grinned. “Who would care enough about one little human to issue him his own guard dog?” he asked. He chuckled and surged forward.

Jory wasn’t fast enough to dodge. He grabbed him, wrapping his fingers around Jory’s throat and hoisting him off the ground.

He’d expected its claws to cut through his flesh, just like he’d done to Louise, but instead the touch burned. The golden man pulled him close, sniffing his cheek and ghosting his tongue over the surface of Jory’s skin.

Jory tried to pry the man’s fingers off his neck, tried to get away, but he might as well have been trying to break granite by hand.

“Not human, then,” he said, his tone strangely curious. “Something else entirely….”

The way the man’s voice seemed to echo around the street, coming from everywhere all at once and making his head throb. With his vision going dark around the edges, Jory kicked at the man’s legs and clawed at his fingers, finally wrapping both of his hands around the man’s wrist. This man, this thing, felt like a pure blue flame, burning hotter than anything Jory had ever seen. Instead of zeroing in on an injury via the millions of little sparks that always led him to an infection, he widened his focus, taking in the man as a whole.

Not a man. Not even close to a man. Jory could feel Mal’s hellhound forms, each canine shape superimposed over his humanish soul, but they were all something that he could perceive on the same scale. This was so massive, Jory wished that he could step backward just to see his entire shape. He towered over them, stretching nearly three stories at his highest point, with long wings, claws, and teeth.

“You’re… a….” He was being strangled by a dragon.

Ignoring the way the energy seared his blood, he focused on the whole form and let some of that fire flow into him.

“You arrogant whelp,” the dragon growled, his voice distinctly less human. “You know that you can’t even contain a fraction of my power, don’t you? The only thing you can gain from challenging me is death.”

Jory tried to block out his sneer. Mal swore he was an incubus, that he should be capable of draining the life from someone else, but he’d never dared to try. Even draining a bit of damaged energy from a child hurt, but it was that or suffocate. The dragon growled, but as the fire filled his entire body, it drowned out everything else. The power roared through him, threatening to tear him apart from the inside.

For a moment, when the world went dark, Jory figured he was done.

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