Taken by the Dragon King by Mac Flynn

Author:Mac Flynn [Flynn, Mac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mac Flynn

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

I nudged Mia’s arm with my elbow and nodded at the solitary man. She followed my gaze and pursed her lips. Her eyes flickered to her brother, and she slightly jerked her head toward the stranger. “Is that him?”

He noted where she indicated and studied the man for a moment before he nodded. “That’s him.”

Pennae grasped my arm with both hands and bit her lower lip. “So, what do we do now?”

Ethan straightened the collar of his filthy, paint-splattered shirt and offered his arm to me. “Shall we?”

I blinked at him. “Shall we what?”

He nodded at the man. “Go see if he’s willing to talk.”

Mia stepped between us and glared at her brother. “You will not put her in danger.”

“I think that’s for the pretty lady to decide,” he insisted as he leaned to one side and caught my eye. “Besides, isn’t her betrothed in more trouble?”

I stiffened my jaw and held my hand out to his. “Lead the way.”

He grinned at his sister before he skirted around her and grasped my offered hand. Together we strolled through the tables. The other patrons hardly paid us any mind, but a strange itch teased the back of my mind. My heart fluttered a little as we came closer to the hulk of a man. He was even bigger up close and must have been well over six and a half feet tall with a broad chest.

He hardly looked up at our coming as Ethan bowed his head. “I’m sorry for the intrusion, but we couldn’t help but notice that you were alone.”

The man sneered at us before he returned his attention to his mug. “And I want it to stay that way.”

“Come come, now,” Ethan scolded him as he scooted onto the seat opposite the man, and I followed. He swept his arm over the establishment. “We’re all friends here.”

The man scoffed. “You’re no friend of mine.”

Ethan’s grin widened as he drew up his other sleeve and revealed a tattoo in the shape of a seagull. “Aren’t we?”

The man lifted one massive eyebrow and looked up at Ethan’s face. His muscles tensed, and mine responded in kind as the fight-or-flight responses battled inside my head. I breathed out when a broad grin spread across his face, but somehow the tension in my heart didn’t go away. “I guess we are. Never seen anyone with a Gull tattoo before ‘cept me.”

Ethan held out his hand. “Ethan’s the name.”

The man grasped it in a sturdy handshake. “Draven. Now then-” He drew his arm back and nodded at the tattoo on Ethan’s arm. “Where’d you get the idea for that?”

Ethan tapped the side of his nose. “I’m always up for a pint, and there’s no better place than the Gull.”

I tried to focus on the banter between the pair, but my heart captured all my attention. The flutter had become a hard thump, and I felt as though something gave it a squeeze every now and again. My eyes inadvertently fell on the floor some ten feet away from us.

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