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I shook my head. “I’m not sure if maybe my brain is protecting my fragile psyche right now or maybe it’s a dream?”
“It’s not a dream.”
Looking over my shoulder I saw the doors, the ones leading me out of this habitat and maybe to forgetting any of this happened. Did I want to forget?
When I glanced back over at Landry, who was now fully dressed and watching me, I realized this wasn’t something he had done lightly. No, I couldn’t run. I had to understand not only how the hell this was possible, but why me, and why he thought I was his mate.
“I could do with a strong drink right about now.”
Landry visibly relaxed and smiled. “Let’s go downstairs and I’ll get that for you.”
Once again, I found myself following the man.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Why wasn’t I screaming?I’m broken, clearly.
Landry kept looking over his shoulder at me, worry evident in his gaze, but if he was expecting me to know what to say he was crazy…no, maybe I was crazy? That’s it, I hit my head on the pavement outside before I arrived and I’m in a coma.
“You’re trying to find an excuse for what you just saw aren’t you?”
My eyes widened. “Are you an alien dinosaur that can read minds?”
His booming laughter wasn’t what I expected and for a brief moment I let myself appreciate how beautiful he was.
“Have a seat, I’ll get us a drink.” He walked back to the bar…when did we get back downstairs?
“I’m going to speak to you in terms human science has dictated.” He held up a hand. “Dinosaurs is what humans called us, and scientists named each breed so to speak.”
Made sense I guess, I mean now that I thought of it, who decided we were called humans?
“I am what humans refer to as an elaphrosaurus.”
“Oh…you sort of looked like a velociraptor kind of…I’m not very savvy about dinosaurs. Want to talk fabrics and I’m yourguy.” I shook my head at my stupidity and chugged half the drink Landry gave me as soon as it was in my hand.
“I’m not insulted. One thing I will tell you is the movies don’t get it right most of the time. And they’ll never get my species right.”
“Why’s that?”
He rested his ankle on his opposite knee and sat back, relaxed as if he were telling me a weather prediction.
“Fossils. You, humans, collect them and study them to understand dinosaurs. They have found some fossils related to my kind but do you know what they have never discovered?”
All I could do was shake my head, suddenly I was absorbed, desperate to know everything.
“A skull.”
“So up there…in the place you…you had a head?—”
He chuckled. “Yes, we have heads but none have ever been found so all the illustrations you search for aren’t accurate. Some are damn close but nope, we are the headless horsemen of dinosaurs.”
“Interesting.”
I sipped my drink and watched as he slowly rose and moved over to the couch I was sitting on.
“At your shop, when I asked you out so abruptly was the moment I knew you were my mate.”
“Okay.”
