Page 69 of Bully Billionaire Dragon

“What are you doing here?” I stutter out, still trying to catch my breath.

Carnelian roars at me.

“Run!” Taylor calls out as she tries to get inside, but Carnelian flies in between her and the door.

I know now what I must do, and I hate that this is the way Taylor is going to find out about me.

Knowing that my skin will turn me invisible, I shift. My bones crack, and slight pain fills me before my dragon is fully out.

My dragon roars, drawing Carnelian’s attention to me, but he looks around, confused.

“Where are you hiding?” Carnelian calls out in his dragon voice, but I stay silent.

His dragon is bigger than mine but smaller than Lex’s, so I know I can take him physically, but mentally, he is crazed.

“I bet if I hurt your girl, you’ll come out.”

Carnelian turns back toward Taylor, who is huddled up against the side of the house, crying.

Seeing the fear in her eyes causes me to lose it.

I run at Carnelian and claw at him.

He cries out as I gouge a chunk of his scales with my claws.

He turns back towards me with slitted lids.

“You coward,” he roars. “Show yourself.”

I know he wants a fair fight, but I use my invisibility to my advantage. I fly into the sky and then shoot down and tackle Carnelian to the ground.

At the impact, he turns back into his human form.

He screams up at me as I hold him down with my claws.

“What do you want?” I roar into his face and Carnelian just smiles at me.

“I can’t understand you,” he sing-songs into my face.

Shifting back into human form, I hold Carnelian down by the throat.

“What do you want?” I scream.

Carnelian looks me up and down as best he can from his angle.

“I have to stop you two from mating. It is thy will.”

I frown before Carnelian tosses me off of him, and I hit the deck at a weird angle.

Stunned from the pressure, I gasp out.

The pain is sharp, but not as bad as getting the wind knocked out of me. It will surely bruise, but I try and get up.

“Don’t hurt him,” Taylor yells out as she runs at Carnelian, hitting him over the head with a deck chair.

Carnelian hisses as he falls, and I turn back into my dragon form. There is slight pain, but I’m not focused on that as I run at Carnelian. I am a step away from him before he shifts as well and we collide.

We claw and fight one another, battling in the yard.

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