Page 43 of Red and Her Dragons (Dirty Paranormal Fairytale Haremlan 4)

I met his serious gaze. “Which part?”

“You belong to me now. There is no going back,” he said.

I smiled and kissed him once. “Guess you’ll have to learn to share then.”

He growled.

I laughed.

He really made it fun to goad him on. But there was a seriousness in my words that I hadn’t realized was truly there. I could only see us working out in one way, and that was if I could have all three of them. Him, Jax, and Bret.

For me, there was no question. The problem was if three, hot as hell, possessive dragons could learn to share.

16

JAX

Boredom was not my thing. And I was miserably full of it.

After having done enough rounds of my patrol that I had grown dizzy, I landed on a mountain clearing that was high enough I could keep a bird’s eye view of the world below me. But the forest was filled with a whole lot of nothing, and I had grown tired of my watch.

For such a dire situation, there was a lot of hurry up and wait. And that wasn’t necessarily my team’s fault either. There was too much waiting for my taste. And with not so much as a hint of something happening—movement, lights, anything—I was growing tired.

Sleep had been a fleeting thing as of late and the exhaustion was catching up to me. Though I understood I needed to stay alert, my eyelids grew heavy. However, what rest I could get was spent dreaming of Emily.

My thoughts became full of the fiery redhead that had captured my heart and attention as my mind tried its best to lull me off to sleep.

Things finally felt normal with her back in our lives. Like old times. But so much better. Though she was always beautiful, she had become even more so in her absence. Rowan, or whatever his name was, didn’t realize what he had. And to treat her like she was no better than the dirt under his feet.

The idiot.

If I was ever lucky enough for him to come my way, I was going to make sure he knew exactly what he did, how wrong his actions were, and then I would ensure that he didn’t have the ability to lay another finger on someone else again. Especially Emily.

The image of her smile came to mind. How warm and bright it was. And the way her eyes crinkled at the sides when she laughed as well… How could anyone ever do anything except love her and maybe even worship her just a little bit.

Okay, a lotta bit.

She deserved to be worshiped. That and so much more.

Man, I thought we had lost her forever. I had never been more grateful she was back. She would likely never know the impact her presence had on the three of us men. Especially Marcus. He wasn’t the same after she left. It was hard to watch the man I had looked up to and considered my brother struggle with her absence in the way that he had.

Maybe someday, hopefully soon, we can all be open about our feelings. Then she might decide to stay and never leave. At least, never again. Not like in the way she had the last time. We could be free together, and happy.

I let out a wistful sigh as my eyes narrowed on the woods. My eyelids were becoming hard to fight. And just as I was about to let them win, a strange glow caught my attention.

I widened my gaze and studied the area a little more intently. There was nothing but tree and shadow. No movement. Nothing out of place. I figured the light was not only a figment of my imagination but a result of my exhaustion. And with a shrug, I returned to my thoughts of Emily.

That was until the strange thing happened again.

This time it was a soft bluish light that flickered in my periphery. Farther away than the last blip that had caught my attention. The object was only visible if I didn’t look directly at it.

Several more appeared throughout the woods. Flickering and blinking in and out of sight.

I huffed a frustrated sigh. My thoughts of Emily would have to wait. I had some investigating to do, and if my intuition was right, I wasn’t going to like what I was about to find.

I stretched my wings and climbed back to my feet. Dots flickered more and more. The lights filled a good portion of the woods. All moving toward the Cabin. That didn’t bode well.

I launched into the air and flew close to the area where I had last seen the lights. I stayed close enough to the treetops I could keep an eye where the dots were appearing and low enough I could gain a solid idea of what I was dealing with. Hopefully, with luck, whoever was responsible for all the lights wouldn’t be able to see me, and that was where I held all my cards.

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