Page 7 of Her Dragon Daddy Disaster
“No, we absolutely donot,” she growled. “I don’t know why you think you can just waltz in and think I still care, but you’re wrong.”
My dragon pushed harder, insisting she was my mate. That she did want us. She was only hiding it.
Mate.
I wondered for a moment about how I might have missed that sign all those years ago. Had I ignored it? Or had something changed?
Sitting back, I studied her, comparing the image in my mind with the one standing in front of me. There could be no doubt. Somethingwasdifferent. The question, of course, waswhat? It wasn’t that she was almost six years older. It was somethingelse. A heavier force of personality. A way of carrying herself. It just didn’t line up with simple age.
No, she had changed. More infuriatingly, I couldn’t place what it was.
“I’m sorry for leaving,” I said to her, thinking perhaps she might open up.
“Just shut up.”
“It was abrupt, I know, but at least now you understand why.”
She blinked in astonishment, the perfectly schooled “agent” face dissolving however momentarily. “I do?”
“Yes.” Wasn’t it clear? “I’m a dragon. I had to return to our homeland.”
“That was years ago,” she hissed. “You could have come back. Or hell, I don’t know,left a note. Not that I wanted you to. W—I’m fine without you.”
Now, what was she about to say, I wondered idly, pausing to let her anger cool.
She mostly ignored me, but I caught her giving me the odd glance when she thought I wasn’t looking.
I was about to ask her what had changed when Hendricks returned.
“Get him up,” he said unhappily. “POTUS wants to see him.”
“Good,” I said, happy to be moving forward with the mission forced upon me.
A host of guns were instantly refocused on me as I stirred but did not move. I smiled back at the agents, wondering if theyknew just how much I enjoyed their attention. Not that any of them needed to know it was for all the wrong reasons. They assumed I was someone important.
If only they knew the truth.
A part of me still burned at the knowledge that I was sent not because I mattered but because the sovereign viewed me as expendable. I knew because she’d said so to my face.
“Peace,” I rumbled at them all, clamping down at my hatred for the Ruler of All Dragonkind, for the time being at least. “I’m here for peace, everyone.”
As always, my eyes came back to Sarah, focusing on her, lingering. I was almost done with the mission that had been forced upon me. Then I would return home and never see her again.
Unless …
A broad toothy grin spread across my face as an idea came to me. A perfect idea, so simple I wanted to hit myself for not thinking of it sooner.
It was beautiful. I could fulfill my missionandthe raging desires of my dragon.
All in one go.
Chapter Three
Levi
Iuncoiled abruptly, rising to my feet with a swiftness powered by my newfound excitement at what was to come.
Any pistol that had been wavering even slightly came back up with sharp precision. I kept still. Sarah was too close to me. I couldn’t risk one of them trying to shoot methroughher.
