Page 65 of Been There Dragon That
“The hunt? The alpha? That’s what you call Col? Is he in charge?”
“Yes. All males in our tribe have pledged loyalty to Col,” he said, rising from the bed and pulling on a pair of gray sweats, leaving his chest bare for her to admire. “We’re going after Tai and his pack today. The wolves that attacked the cabin.” He slipped his feet into a pair of unlaced black combat boots. “Glad the women were able to get you to shop. The cabin will look better. More like a home.”
Rylee stared, taking in the whole crap-ton of information he’d dropped like it was nothing. They had an alpha. Like a pack of … animals. Which made sense, they had animals inside them. And they were going hunting.
She wasn’t going to get to keep him in bed.
She wasn’t even going to get to stay in bed.
“The wolves?”
He looked at her, his eyes sparked with gold. She’d gotten used to seeing it whenever his emotions were up. She liked it.
“Yes. Tai is leading them. He never should’ve been allowed to leave Mystery alive in the first place. That mistake will be corrected today.” He leaned over the bed and kissed the top of her head. “Tor is on the steps about to knock. Could you please get dressed so I don’t have to murder my friends for looking at what belongs only to me?”
Her face heated. She flashed him a daring smile and yanked back the blankets, revealing her very naked body. “This?”
She loved the way his heat flared, warming the room like she was inside a sauna. His eyes became like molten steel—white hot. Then he growled, deep and low and rumbling.
It made her horny and wet and needy. Did he really have to go unload furniture right this second?
Thunk. Thunk. Thunk.
The knocking on the front door made him look up for a moment.
“Rylee,” he said, fangs lengthening in his mouth like a vampire from a supernatural TV show.Holy shit. Wrath had actual fangs.
But she wasn’t scared. In fact, she was surprised to find herself even more aroused. Was it a dragon thing? Was he changing? Would he bite her? Did she want him to bite her?
Thunk. Thunk. Thunk.
“I’m not stopping you,” she said, her tone light and teasing. She couldn’t stop staring at his fangs. What would it feel like if he did bite her? What would it mean?
He noticed and covered his mouth with his hand. “Forgive me.” When he removed his hand, the fangs were gone. Only normal human teeth showed. “I can explain—”
“Are you like a vampire?”
One of his eyebrows quirked. “I don’t know what that is.”
Thunk. Thunk. Thunk.
“Tor, fucking give me a second,” he bellowed at the open bedroom door and then looked back down at her. “What is a vampire?”
“They bite people and drink their blood.”
His stunned expression made Rylee snort out a laugh. “They aren’t real. They are scary stories people have made up. Course I used to think werewolves and dragons were fake too, so who knows.”
Thunk. Thunk. Thunk.The knocking was more insistent this time.
Wrath growled and then stomped out of the room. She heard the door open and him talking to someone. Several someones.
She slipped out of the bed and into clothes so she could help or watch the procession of furniture. She could barely remember what she’d ordered. Naomi and Penny had kept on telling her things she would need—like they would be hers. Like she was staying here forever with Wrath.
She was, wasn’t she?
She wanted to stay with Wrath. Even after the big reveal that he wasn’t quite human. That most of them weren’t.
Being anywhere else, going back home, none of it sounded right. Being with Wrath. That felt right.
