Page 18 of Marked By His Alpha Dragon's Desire

He took a deep breath. “No, I’m not. At least not entirely.”

Oh shit. I was right. I hated being right. “What about everybody else in this town?”

He winced. “They aren’t human either.”

“What—am I the only human in town?” Was that why everyone was weird around me and why they went quiet when I walked into a room?

“You’re the only human not mated to a shifter.”

I swore it was like a record scratch in my brain. “Wait. What? What is a shifter?”

“Why don’t I start at the beginning?” he said. “You can ask questions as they come up. I just want to say that I should have told you this before last night. I’m very sorry about that. It’s just—”

“Raphael, if you had tried to have this conversation with me last night, I wouldn’t have let you. I’m pretty sure I attacked you.” More like I couldn’t keep my hands off him. Something wild had come over me last night. I wasn’t complaining. It had been worth it.

He chuckled. “Yeah, you were a bit overtaken.”

That was being polite about it. I wasn’t ashamed of my behavior. It had been amazing and so incredibly worth it, even if I had looked like a crazy person.

Raphael ran his hand through his hair and down his face. “I’m a dragon. My brothers and I are all dragons. We came from one clutch—kind of like triplets. All three of us were hatched at the same time.”

“Wait—you were hatched? Like, from eggs?”

His face strained and he nodded.

“AmIgoing to have eggs?” I wasn’t dumb. I was an omega, he was an alpha. We had sex. Multiple times. We used protection each time after the first one, but hot damn, it had been an intense night. My face heated just thinking about it.

Raphael winced. “I mean… maybe? When I turned twenty-five just a few weeks ago, my dragon came out for the first time.”

“I bet he’s beautiful.” I reached my hand across and squeezed his. In the throes of passion the previous night, I swore I could picture his dragon. At the time, I’d thought I’d just gone mad with lust, but perhaps it was something else?

“I’ll show him to you soon. My brothers and I each left our hometown in search of our mates. We all wanted to find our omegas, or in Brock’s case, his Alpha. I came here because I was drawn to this town. Drawn to you.”

“What is everyone else in town?” They couldn’t be human.

“Your friend Theo is a bear.”

“What? I would have guessed wolf.” Theo had that wolfish behavior about him. Then again, what experience did I have with it?

“He’s a bear. Tyler is a wolf. Most everyone is either a wolf or a bear, and Tyler is their Alpha.”

I nodded. “That’s why everyone goes to him with questions.”

“Exactly.”

“This is a lot… But it makes sense.”

“I’m sorry.” Raphael brushed his thumb over my knuckles, and my skin tingled under his touch.

“For what?”

“I should have told you before we mated.”

I raised a brow. “I think we already covered the fact that I jumped you. I want to see your dragon.”

“Sure, we can do that—”

“Now. Please. I just need to see him.” I didn’t know why, but intuition hadn’t steered me wrong before. After all, it brought me here.

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