Page 23 of Dragon Keeper
“Triplets?” Riley’s eyes went wide. “Whoa.”
“Indeed.” Poe and Cade had been triply blessed by the goddess.
Tyr could only hope he would be just as blessed someday.
I think we will be, Sloan told him.I don’t see how a mating like ours could not bear fruit. But if it doesn’t, it doesn’t matter. You’re mine now.
His scales rattled, making Brayden and Riley look at him with their eyebrows up, and his cheeks heated.Thank you, mate, I needed to hear that.
Sloan smiled slowly.Now this is where you tell me that you feel the same way about me, but it doesn’t matter if we have babies or if it’s just us.
Are you kidding? I stormed the guardian house for you. You’re mine now too.
“Okaaaay,” Riley said, his tone dragging the word out. “Can we go do something else now? I’m tired of watching you guys give each other sappy looks.”
Brayden unfolded slowly and stood up. “Maybe you and I should go do something else, Riley. Leave these two alone. They have a mate bond to be getting on with.”
Riley tilted his head, clearly considering that. “Which sounds fair. What do you say we fly back up to the guardian house and get them to introduce us to these Santa Fe brothers?”
“Sure.” Brayden gave them a broad wink. “We’ll be back for dinner at the tavern around when?”
Tyr blinked. “About sundown?”
“Excellent. Come on, bro.” Riley looked like he was going to stride out of the gardens in a hurry, but then he seemed to remember the bees and he strolled, which was nice of him. The bees approved.
Honestly, so did Tyr.
Chapter
Eight
“Okay, so you’re telling me that you’re the guardian of the village.” Sloan was sitting down with Cade, who Tyr had introduced him to, in order to discuss security. Because he couldn’t just leave his whole life behind; he was built to be a protector.
“Yes, I think you could say I’m sort of like the local police. Is that what your people called it on Earth in the human realm?”
“Sure. I mean yeah, that’s what they’re called, but you’re not, like, meant to keep other beings from coming through the portal.”
“No, that is Cosmo and Cullen and Corbin’s job. They have the guardianship of the veil. I watch over the village, and now I have help because some of the big alphas from up at the Rocky Mountain clutch are doing flyovers with me and taking shifts.”
“All right.” He pondered that because he wasn’t entirely sure what he would do to make himself useful around the village.
He’d met a lot of dragons at the tavern the other night when he and Tyr and his brothers had gone to dinner, and all of them had been incredibly friendly except for Harden. They’d seemed a little bit suspicious, but everyone had also made it veryclear that they really didn’t know what to do with them. It was awkward, and he really wanted to find a way to be helpful so that assimilating into dragon society was a little bit easier.
“What can I do to help?” he asked.
“Well, my thought is that you and your brothers can patrol the area between us and the seaside village, which is something that I have trouble covering. It seems prudent to do it that way because Tyr is your mate and his sister lives down in that village. Therefore, they would be more likely to accept your family as helpful.” This big guy was hilariously pedantic.
Sloan raised an eyebrow, a habit that he knew his brothers really hated, even though they did it themselves. “Do they not have a watch?”
“They do, but they’re mer-dragons for the most part. and they patrol the seas. They don’t necessarily take to the skies very often, and I think that it’s a dangerous situation to leave themselves that open.” Cade got this stubborn look on his face.
And that was fair enough. Sloan appreciated the idea that Cade was willing to let him horn in on the man’s business essentially. “I think that sounds very decent, and like something that my brothers and I can do, for sure.”
Cade chuckled. “I think your brother Riley’s occupation is going to be causing trouble.”
“He didn’t mean to set the fire.” Riley had been experimenting with his flame because in the human realm it had been awfully hard to do anything without being noticed. He’d been melting a rock, which then had set a little bit of a blaze in the meadow area. Which was easily put out by one of the water dragons, but it was still kind of a scare.
“I know this well, and the elders were not upset. It’s perfectly understandable that a dragon who is new to our world and to being free with showing who they are is going to experiment.But you have to admit Riley is the one of you who is quick to do things without thinking.” Cade sipped his mead.
