Page 25 of The Dragon's Mate

“I guess humans and bear shifters have somethingin common after all,” Bren said.

Sika blinked at him. “Bear shifters?”

Kaida cleared her throat and Sika sat backin her chair before saying, “Oh yes, bear shifters. Such as myself.”

Bren’s bullshit detector blipped outanother series of high-pitched noises.

“You should probably go now, Sika,” Kaidasaid. “Jarvis will be looking for his omelet.”

“Yes, in a minute.” Sika was still studyingBren. “May I ask you a personal question, human?”

“Sika…” Kaida said.

“Yes,” Bren said. “If I can ask you one.”

“Deal,” Sika said.

“Sika, no,” Kaida said.

“It’s fine, Kaida. There’s no harm in askingone question,” Sika said. “Right, human?”

“Right,” Bren said. He turned his smile upto ‘killer charm’ and aimed it at Kaida. To his disappointment, it seemed tohave zero effect on her.

“You’re so handsome when you smile,” Sika said.Her face beamed with delight as she grinned at Kaida. “Isn’t he handsome fora human?”

Kaida’s cheeks went bright red. “He’s, uh,okay.”

“I usually win the ladies over with my sparklingpersonality rather than my okay looks,” Bren said.

Kaida blushed even more and Sika giggled. “Doyou have a girlfriend, human?”

“I don’t.” He took a quick look at Kaida.She was staring at Sika with murder in her beautiful golden coloured eyes.

“I’m surprised.” She examined Bren’s hairand his shoulders before eyeing his body. “You are handsome and, for a human,you have a pretty large body.” She reached out and felt Bren’s bicep. “Ooh,and you’re muscular too. Why are you not mated? Do human females not enjoy astrong and muscular male?”

“Um, women seem to like it when a guy keepsin shape,” Bren said.

“Hmm.” Sika’s gaze dropped to his crotch.“Is your,” she pointed at his dick, “on the… smaller side?” She held her thumband forefinger a few inches apart in case he couldn’t figure out what she was saying.

“Oh my God, Sika!” Kaida’s face was so redthat Bren wouldn’t have been surprised if he saw smoke coming out of her ears.

He did a double take…wait,wasthatsmoke coming out of her nose?

Before he could take a closer look, shespun around and stared at the cupboards.

“Sorry, that was rude,” Sika said. Her ownface was a little pink and she rubbed compulsively at her belly.

Secretly amused by the bear’s question butknowing that Kaida was upset and Sika was embarrassed, Bren said, “I have a busyjob so that doesn’t allow me to date much.”

Not a complete lie. Not the complete trutheither, but he didn’t need to try and explain to a bear shifter he’d just met aboutthe intricacies of online dating and how horrifying it was.

“It’s time to go now, Sika,” Kaida said.

“But I haven’t asked the human my personal question,”Sika said.

Kaida spun around and sank into the chair,glaring at her best friend. Glancing over Sika’s head at Tyler and Corey, shelowered her voice. “Asking the human his dick size is not a personal enoughquestion for you?”

“I… well… it wasn’t the personal question Imeant to ask,” Sika said.

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