Page 100 of Destined By Dragonblood
“Relax, Grandpapa,” she said, her voice snippy. “While I appreciate your protective instincts, I don’t need you to hold my hand. I’ve done well enough without you since birth.”
Talk about a dagger to the chest.
She shrugged, too damn privy to my emotions. “Go on, Tiggy, you little love bug. I know you want to.”
Tiggy leapt toward me but drew up in front of my legs, tongue lolling as he smiled up at me.
“Good boy,” I murmured, crouching down to scratch behind his ears. He flipped onto his back, big brown eyes begging me for tummy scratches. “I’m going to spoil you rotten, yes I am.” I chuckled as he sneezed, giving him exactly what he wanted.
Primrose snickered. She’d propped herself against the kitchen counter to watch me with her dog—my dog. Another sip of her coffee, and she straightened her old robe that fell to mid-thigh. “I’m leaving today.”
I’d sensed her itchy feet but hadn’t realized the extent of her drive. “Where are you going?” I asked while standing, Tiggy laying his head on my bare foot.
She glanced out the windows, at the snow-covered foothills falling below us. “I’m not sure, but now that you’re here…I feel as though something is calling me out there into the endless world.”
“It’s hardly endless,” I grumbled, trying to swallow down my disappointment she wanted to leave after our just having found each other.
“You need the cavern to yourselves for a while.”
Yessss.
“You have to bond properly, and I have no desire to be around for that.” She shuddered.
“We’ll be discreet, I promise. Please stay.”
Primrose snorted. “Vanni is hardly discreet. He was just lying up there with his penis stiff as a rod, his attempt to cover that monster with a single hand laughable.”
“What?” Anger and instant lust raced through me. My cock went hard in a blink.
“He and your female were kissing.” She waved her hand. “Doing…things.”
“In front of you?” I couldn’t keep the anger from my voice even though the memory of touching and fucking roused me.
“Ashley hopped off him the second I walked in and buried herself under the sheet.”
“Did you knock first?”
She tipped her head to the side as though baffled by my annoyance. “Why would I knock in my own home?”
I heaved a sigh. “You’re not ready to expand your horizons, Primrose. There’s so much you don’t know about people. Privacy.”
“I’m going.” She glanced out the window again.
Feeling her stubbornness, and well aware who she’d inherited that character trait from, I didn’t bother arguing. I pressed against my hard length, wishing the damn thing away, but it was no use. “Where does the pull come from?”
“The south.”
I considered her words while sifting through her excitement, anxiety, and desires. While I had been certain Elijah and I had been the last dragonblood to roam the earth, I’d found that to be far from the truth. Perhaps there were two worthy of her blood, an alpha and beta who would match her drive and intelligence.
“There was a Blood Born clan in the Grand Canyon before my birth,” I finally said, expecting the words would send her southward before the sun sank.
Her head jerked toward me, her thoughts without doubt flying as fast as a dragon’s wings would shoot her away from me.
“You’ll shift to make the journey?” I asked, swearing I could feel her desire to leave immediately.
“I can get there faster if I do.”
Rather than lecture her about men, relationships, and taking things slow, I held out my arms.
