Page 28 of Bewitching the Dragon
Rahu scowled. “You’ve never warned me away from women before.”
“Okay, first, that isn’t true. I warn you away from women all the damn time. Second, this one is different. She’s human—”
“Nope. Not even close.”
Ketu sighed. “Shethinksshe’s human. And third, she’s being hunted by warlocks—and possibly dragons.”
“All the more reason to get close to her so I can protect her.”
Antoinette stepped into the kitchen. She wrapped her arm around her mate’s shoulders and gave him a peck on the cheek before turning her attention to Rahu.
“Ketu’s right. Right now, I think the best thing is for you and Ketu to focus on finishing that deck so you can go home to your own colony.”
Rahu scowled. “I don’t want to go home. I want to protect Becca.” Gods above, even to his own ears he sounded like a petulant child. All he’d needed to add was, “And you aren’t my reeve, so you can’t make me.”
Before he could decide whether to point that out to her, Delilah and her mate, Trennon Redd, the former reeve of the New Orleans colony, breezed in through one of the French doors that opened onto the wrap-around porch.
Delilah stopped short two feet inside the house. Trennon barreled right into her back and dropped the handles of the two roller bags he’d been lugging behind him.
“Why do I sense magic that isn’t mine in this house?” Delilah asked with her gaze on the ceiling.
“Because dragons live here,” Antoinette said.
“Not that kind of magic,” Delilah said. “My kind.” She stabbed at her chest with her thumb.
“You’re a dragon too,” Rahu pointed out.
“And witch,” Delilah clarified. “More witch than dragon.”
“Pretty sure it’s fifty-fifty,” Antoinette said, “since your dad is a dragon and your mom is a witch.”
Delilah flapped her hand, dismissing Antoinette’s very valid point. “At any rate, I still sense magic that isn’t mine.” She wandered around the room with her head tilted and her brow furrowed. “But it’s…weird.”
“You can sense her?” Rahu glanced at Ketu. “I thought those concealment spells went with her wherever she was?”
Delilah snapped her fingers. “That’s it. Concealment spell. Well, a broken one, at any rate.”
“Broken?” Ketu said, narrowing his eyes at Rahu.
“Before we get into that,” Antoinette said, “what are you doing here?”
“We live here,” Trennon said.
“No, I mean now. I thought you were going to be in Alaska for a month?”
“Oh, that.” Delilah cleared her throat. “Well…”
“We got kicked out,” Trennon announced, sounding almost proud.
“Of the entire state?” Antoinette stared at the two of them. Trennon shrugged. Delilah rolled her eyes.
“Apparently, the fact that it was still daylight at midnight is not a valid reason for dancing naked in the streets.”
“And they were beginning to suspect us of having something to do with those ‘unidentified flying objects’ everybody kept reporting,” Trennon said, barely containing a giggle.
“You were flying around humans?” Antoinette demanded, her eyes bulging.
“Hey, what else were we supposed to do? It literally doesn’t get dark at this time of year. Hard to conceal your dragon form when it’s daylight all the time,” Delilah argued.
