Page 28 of Dragon's Honor

“The world is scared,” Finley grumbled.

Ash grabbed her elbow and pulled her back around. “Why aren’t you?”

Finley glanced down at his wrist where a familiar cuff was glowing green. “What the hell?”

Ash released his hold on her and the stones glowing stopped.

She met his gaze. “Why aren’t I what?”

“Why aren’t you scared?”

Finley turned away from him. She grabbed her camera bags and slung them across her body so she didn’t have to worry about them constantly dropping off her shoulder. With her coffee cup in hand, she headed for the elevator.

“You coming?”

Ash followed her onto the lift. Once the doors were closed, Ash looked at her. “Why won’t you answer my question?”

“I never said I wasn’t scared. That night I took that picture…” she trailed off.

The doors opened. Finley headed out onto the street. She didn’t like having an audience for her current day’s plans, but she didn’t want to tell him to get lost.

What she really couldn’t figure out was why he showed up on her doorstep in the first place.

“I get the sense that you’re holding back on me,” Ash said.

“You? The guy I’ve met twice and know virtually nothing about? You’re damn right I’m holding back on you.”

Ash chuckled. “Fair point.”

Finley got into the car she called and scooted over when Ash made it clear he was coming with her. The driver slipped into traffic.

“Where’s your sister?”

“She had a photoshoot, and then she was going to visit her fiancé in Los Angeles. He’s making a movie,” she said.

“You two are close?”

Finley nodded slowly. “Yeah, we’re very close.”

“Does she know about your dragon obsession?”

Finley glanced over at him. “Dragon obsession?”

“It’s not a werewolf on your wall.”

How could he possibly know it was the dragon she wanted to meet more than anything? Though part of her was worried that would just lead to being tied to a post and scooped up by the dragon as a midnight snack.

“She knows enough. I don’t really talk about it because she doesn’t think it’s anything more than a trick of light.” It didn’t bother her much that Olivia didn’t believe. It wasn’t as if she was a hundred percent sure about dragons or anything else really.

Her uncertainty didn’t change the fact that she wanted to be right.

The rest of the drive was quiet. Finley kept glancing over at him. She couldn’t help but wonder what he was doing there with her and what was going through his mind. He hadn’t made fun of her dragon obsession. Instead, he was going with her.

Finley hopped out of the car once they were pulled over at their first stop, a coffee shop called Once Upon a Dream.

Ash got out of the car and came around. “Where are we exactly?”

“I’m looking for someone. There’s this…person who runs a website about all the weird stuff going on. There is picture after picture and YouTube after YouTube video about all this stuff. I did some looking around and managed to find a business name and address.”

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