Page 29 of The Dragon's Mate

Bishop joined Kaida, leaning down to pressa kiss against her cheek. “It’s good to see you.”

“You as well, my bear.” Kaida touched Lila’schubby thigh and the baby gave her a wide smile. “She’s getting so big.”

“Four months old now,” Bishop said proudly.“She said daddy the other day.”

“She didn’t,” Ava said with a laugh. “Honey,I know you want Lila’s first word to be daddy, but she can’t talk yet.”

“It sounded like ‘daddy’,” Bishop said. Hegrowled to Lila and the baby kicked her feet happily and squealed with excitementbefore pulling on Bishop’s short beard. He growled again and nuzzled her cheek.

I want to hold the hatchling!

Kaida soothed her dragon. She wanted tohold the baby too, but it would be rude to ask. Still, she couldn’t stopherself from running her finger along Lila’s chubby thigh again.

“Honey, give Lila to Kaida to hold,” Avasaid.

Kaida glanced at Ava and the redhead smiledat her. “Only if you want to.”

Bishop held Lila a little closer. Willowlaughed. “Am I the only one who finds it adorable that Bishop never wants to shareLila with anyone?”

Bishop rolled his eyes before handing Lilato Kaida. Her dragon purred to Lila and Kaida allowed the sound to escape fromher throat. The baby’s eyes went wide. She stared at Kaida before looking atBishop. He growled soothingly and Lila turned her gaze back to Kaida. Shetouched Kaida’s mouth and when her dragon purred again, Lila giggled.

“What is that noise?” Willow asked. “It soundslike purring but…isn’t.”

Kaida cleared her throat. “Uh, that’s me.My dragon, uh, makes that sound sometimes.”

“Cool,” Willow said.

Kaida kissed Lila’s head as the chubby babyrelaxed against her. Lila touched Kaida’s hair and Kaida pressed her nose againstthe top of Lila’s head and inhaled deeply. God, she wanted her own hatchling.Her stomach ached and her dragon made a soft noise of sadness.

Even if she found a mate from one of theother clans, the odds that she would conceive were incredibly low. The factthat Sika had conceived was a damn miracle. Her hatchling would be the firstborn to their clan in over a decade and the entire clan was on pins and needleswaiting for the hatchling to be born.

We might have a hatchling, her dragon said.

The hope in its voice made her chest ache.

Perhaps, shereplied.

“You okay?” Bishop’s voice rumbled out,low enough that only she could hear.

“I’m good.” The door behind her opened andshe smelled Bren’s scent. Her dragon surged forward, purring and squealing andacting like an idiot. Her arms tightened around Lila and the baby made a squeakof discomfort that had Bishop immediately reaching for her.

Kaida relaxed her grip and kissed Lila’shead. “Sorry, Lila.”

Lila stared over Kaida’s shoulder at Brenas Bishop said, “Detective Matthews? What are you doing here?”

“Didn’t I tell you?” Willow said with asmall grin. “Bren called this morning and asked to chat with you. He’s yourtwo-thirty appointment.”

Taking a deep breath, Kaida turned to faceBren. He was staring at her and Lila, and she could smell both his lust and hishappiness at seeing her. It made her dragon giddy – hell, it made her giddy – andshe eyed the human with barely controlled lust.

He was wearing jeans and a blue dress shirtthat complimented his eyes. The charcoal gray sport jacket he wore hugged thebroad expanse of his shoulders. His tie was burgundy with small blue squares ina diamond pattern. She had a sudden vision of that tie wrapped around his wristsand her headboard while she rode him. What would he look like naked? Would hemoan when he was in her pussy?

Bishop glanced at her, his nose twitching, andheat made her cheeks flush. Bishop could smell her lust for the human and shehad no idea how she was going to explain that. She swallowed hard as Lila lether head clunk down against Kaida’s upper chest. She giggled again beforerubbing her cheek back and forth. No doubt the baby could feel thevibrations. Her dragon was purring so loudly that it was almost impossible tokeep the sound inside.

“Hey, Kaida,” Bren said.

Bishop grunted in surprise. “How do youknow her?”

Ava joined them. “Hello, Bren.”

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