Page 36 of The Mating Magic
Evie decided nothing was a goodstart.
Overhead, a cobalt blue and silver dragon and a dark green dragon flew fast and furiously toward them. One turned human, hurling toward the ground at a lethalspeed.
“Lacey,” she screamed. Oh dear goddess, her sister had come here as dragon, but couldn’t hold her form as she entered the biosphere surrounding theswamp…
Suddenly the blue dragon dipped below Lacey and caught her in his claws. Everyone craned their necks, even the baby, looking upward as the blue dragon descended, and gently deposited Lacey onto theground.
Naked.
A flush suffused Lacey’s face as she realized she was nude and lacked the magick to clotheherself.
Drust shifted into human form and then waved a hand. An elegant cobalt blue gown covered her sister’s body, but not before Evie spotted the flare of pure male interest in Drust’s blueeyes.
Lacey plucked at the fabric. “A gown? In this swamp? Are we attending a ball orsomething?”
Drust blinked, and for a moment, Evie saw a shadow in hisgaze.
“Jeans and a T-shirt,” please,” she toldDrust.
He waved a hand again and a cobalt blue T-shirt and jeans appeared onLacey.
“Thanks,” shemuttered.
“You are welcome.” His gaze glinted. “Although I do prefer you nude. You are quite lovely to gaze upon and without clothing or magick, I sense you will get into lesstrouble.”
Evie bit back a smile as Lacey scowled. “In your dreams, wizard,” her sister toldhim.
She spotted Evie, rushed over and hugged her. Lacey smoothed back her hair. “Are you allright?”
Evie nodded. “Chase is back to being an ordinary dragon. It worked, just as you said itwould.”
Lacey sighed and hugged her again. “Thanks to the Book ofShadows.”
“What Book of Shadows?” asked a deep malevoice.
Oh damn. Evie swallowed hard as Drust confronted them. Chase went over, slid an arm aroundher.
“Uncle Drust, leave Lacey alone. She helped me recover from the potion. What happened was an accident. She intended noharm.”
Lacey regarded the wizard with some wariness. Drust’s blue gaze glowed as he rested a hand on Chase’sshoulder.
“I am glad you are restored to yourself, Chase. It would have greatly pained me to destroy you. However, you will leave this matter to me regarding thebook.”
She feared for her sister, who looked unafraid ofDrust.
They were interrupted by a woman who materialized out of nowhere. Lovely, with soft green eyes and blonde hair, she looked younger than thirty and the glow surrounding her assured Evie this woman was also animmortal.
“Ciara,” Xavier murmured, shifting the baby’s weight in his arms. Judging from the heated desire in his eyes and his tender expression, the new arrival must be the wizard’smate.
Unlike her mate, Ciara wore a simple green silk gown that flowed around her ankles. “There you are,” she cooed to the baby. “Did Daddy take you to see the nicealligators?”
The babybabbled.
Nice alligators? The ones that nearly killedChase?
But all attention riveted to baby Sonia as the child’s babbles sounded more distinctly like words. Ciara and Xavier beamed at eachother.
“Her first word,” the Crystal Wizard declared. “You can do it, Sonia! SayDada.”
