Page 12 of Emerald Waves
“Oh yes, um, why?”
“I said your name twice with no response. Do you have a headache? Where’s the medicine?”
He was worried. About me?
“I’m fine. Just lost to my thoughts.” Though since coming around from the fall, they were a lot less erratic and far more…sensual. Lordy, the floodgates hath opened.
Caro stood still for a few moments. “You’re right. I don’t feel any negative energy through our connection. My apologies, it’ll take a bit of getting used to for me.”
“What will?”
“You. Your thoughts and feelings. Mannerisms and such, though I must say you’re not as frantic as you had been.”
Maybe that fall righted my brain?
No, it was you and I finally coming together as one.
Dragon, I’ll never let you down again.
Nor will I ever leave you, human.
I had a dragon and a dragon mate.
“What is all that noise?” Pounding and saws and hammering.
“That is the repair men fixing the door I destroyed to get to you.”
“What about the cameras?” I hopped up. “It takes a specialized team to fix the system.”
“Deep breath, Emerson. I destroyed the roof top hatch. When I got here I tore the hatch from the structure to get inside. The main camera system wasn’t damaged, just the roof top connections. Ionus contacted them and they’ll be out tomorrow to repair them.”
I forgot, Ionus was the one who handled vetting the contractors for the system I’d designed.
“Mable was insistent on coming inside and seeing for herself that you’re alright. She’ll be here any…” the alarm on my phone sounded. “Moment.”
“I let her in.” I loved this system and the fact that the app was easy to use from anywhere. If cell service was down, it automatically connected me via satellite.
“Emerson!” Mable exclaimed and hurriedly set the bag on the table. The apartment above the archives was a modest one bedroom and bath. The walls of the living area consisted of built in shelving units covered in books, with a simple couch in the center of the room. Many lonely nights were spent in that very spot, my nose buried in books to stave the loneliness off. “When I heard you’d been injured I was beside myself.” In a surprise move, she hugged me. Mable wasn’t usually a hugger. “And you found your mate. Damn fool had been right under your nose for decades.”
Caro actually blushed. It was the cutest thing I’d ever seen, especially on a man his size.
Where did that come from? I didn’t use words like cute.
“Something like that. Thank you for bringing the food over, Mable, and in record time. I can assure you Emerson will be taken much better care of.”
And likely never out of his line of sight.
Did I just giggle?
Has my body been invaded by aliens?
I probably had a book about it in the archive room.
And another giggle. No wonder they both stared at me as though I’d grown a second head. I very well might have.
We’re just happy, dragon. We’re fine.
Enjoy it, Emerson. We both waited far too long to find our happiness.
