Page 7 of Accidentally a Dragon Daddy

Damon was there when I closed my eyes.

Not when I opened them.

The sun was up, and I was sleeping sideways across the bed under a tangle of sheets. I slowly blinked away the fog of sleep, unwilling to move. Things ached. My core was sore. And between my legs …

I sat upright in a shock, looking around as I remembered why things were sore and just what I’d done the night before.

And who.

“Damon?” I called into the silence. I couldn’t hear anything besides my own breathing. “You there?”

There was no response.

Frowning, I looked at the bedside tables, but there was no note there either.

“Great,” I muttered, pulling the sheets up over my breasts, fully self-conscious now. “Just great.”

A quick search of my place showed he wasn’t there. I was, in fact, very much alone. Shame started to settle around my shoulders. Getting up from the bed, I tried to shake it off by showering. At least ridding myself of the remnants of the night before would help.

You don’t need to feel any shame. It was good. Really, really good. You’re an adult. You can do this if you want.

The attempts at self-positivity weren’t working. Not today. Although I wasn’t a connoisseur of it, it wasn’t my first one-night stand.

But it had been the best. Perhaps I wasn’t feeling shame, but rather sadness. Sadness he didn’t want to stick around for more.

Inadequacy, then. That must be it, I told myself as I put on my shower cap and got in, letting the heat and steam do its best to cleanse my body.

After getting out, I dried off and mindlessly reached for my brush to run it through my hair. I frowned as my hand grasped empty air. I looked down at the bin where it was supposed to go. It wasn’t there. Glancing around, I found it on the other side of the counter. That wasn’t where it went …

I rolled my eyes. “Really, Damon?” I said, shaking my head as I recalled his long, thick hair. “You couldn’t stick around, but you not only helped yourself to my brush, you couldn’t put it back? Good riddance, I say.”

It wasn’t much to go on to help me feel better, but it was something. Coffee would also help. Coffee and then back to work.

Because the last thing I needed right then was to sit at home and stew.

Chapter Five

Damon

The giant neon lettering on the side of the building was visible even through the rain.

Rutt-Tayo Labs.

I stared at it, fingering the keycard in my hand that should let me in and give me access to the data I needed. I’d accomplished that part of my mission the night prior. Hopefully, it was the place we’d been looking for. If it wasn’t, I would feel bad about the death of the human.

But only briefly. It was what I was trained for. What I was best at. Besides, in a way, no humans were innocent. They weren’t rebelling against their government, demanding the return of our heir.

That was enough for me to deem them all complicit in one way or another. Even ones like Elanya. I smiled at the memory of the first part of my mission, two nights earlier. She had been an unexpected delight. I’d expected to find a bimbo at the club. But it was so much better.

My dragon growled in agreement, the rumble echoing in my chest with a double-edged meaning. It was tired of waiting. It was time to be about our mission.

I approached the side door, my suit plastered to my skin, thanks to the rain. There was no avoiding it, but it didn’t matter. If I could get inside without setting off the alarm, which the keycard should allow, then there would be no time for the humans to stop me.

Swiping the card through the slot, I waited for the light to turn green. When it did, I yanked open the heavy steel door and slipped inside. There would be security watching on the cameras, I was sure of it, but I hadn’t forced my way in at all. That should delay them.

Hopefully.

Then again, if the information on where the humans were keeping Vicek was stored there, the security was likely to be top notch. It had taken us months to even get that far tracking down our kidnapped heir. While the main dragon forces waged war along the coastline, others, master spies and assassins like me, had begun infiltrating all levels of human society to try to track down the missing dragon.

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