Page 22 of Bite Me

“Now that you have found your mate, they will be more desperate to take her and attack in full force.”

Umm, excuse me. Found his what now?

Battle of the Danish

Ninsy was being super weird. She was kind of an odd duck anyway, but who wasn’t? Now she was all mysterious because what’s his name… holy crap, she had made out with the dude twice and hadn’t even asked his name.

Ky. He’d told Ninsy to call him Ky.

“Did you just say he’d found his mate? You don’t mean me, do you?”

Ninsy came over and put her hand on Jada’s cheek. A soft energy, like Ninsy’s tea, warmed her from the inside.

“You are his mate. Feel it in your soul, dear one. It is a great gift from Inanna and her dragon. You are blessed.”

Her blessed? That was a riot. She’d been damned from birth.

“Thanks, but—”

Ky growled behind them and in an instant a huge blue dragon filled the café with its body. The tables and chairs squashed beneath his body, and Jada had to duck to miss his tail.

Okay, so she’d think about being someone’s mate later.

“They are here.”

Jada slapped her hands over her ears. Not like that would help. “Ack. You can’t hear my thoughts now, can you? Get out of my head.”

Was this what had happened to all the dragons’ mates? They were driven insane by having a dude in their head all the time?

Ninsy conjured up a shield and a sword out of thin air. “It is not even dark yet. How are they out in the daylight?”

“I’m not in your head. I’m merely speaking into your mind.It is the only way I can communicate with you in this form.”

Demon dragons appeared out of the tiniest of shadows. In the corner of the café, next to a plant, under a chair. A black creature slithered up any space that wasn’t in direct sunlight. There were three or four times as many as had attacked her on the street a week ago.

Oh hellfire. They were all going to die before she figured out if she wanted to be Ky’s mate or not.

Definitely not.

Well, maybe.

He was a good kisser.

Which wasn’t really important at this particular moment. So why couldn’t she stop thinking about it?

The beasts snarled and snapped their jaws. One rolled its head like a crazy demon and spoke in a possessed-by-the-devil voice. “Give us girl. We go.”

Ky responded to that by swinging his tail and chopping off the demon dragon’s head. Poof. Just like that, it was a stain on the floor.

The other bastards hissed and snarled and basically lost their shit.

“Jada, behind me.” Ky snatched her with his tail and shoved her across the counter and into the kitchen.

Demon dragons leapt into the air, their wings flapping, fire spurting from their mouths. There were so many that in an instant they covered Ky’s entire body.

He slashed and turned them into blocks of ice, but there were too many. Ninsy’s sword cut them down, but as soon as she felled one, another and another took its place.

They both bled from deep gashes the demon dragons gave them and burns covered Ninsy’s arms.

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