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essence, sought its own, and with her dragon so close to the surface, she became so transfixed by the droplets that she had to grab her jaw and turn her head away. On the floor, discarded cushions were scattered haphazardly. She bent to pick them up and put them forcefully back in place, dislodging Tee from her spot.
    “What’s up?” Tee shifted on the edge of the couch and gave her a raised-brow, curious look. “My spidey sense is telling me something is wrong.”
    Tee was a human, and after Tee had paired with Leo, a dragon, she’d developed increased levels of empathy. Lucy, Alec’s mate, and also a human, had developed heightened intuition with jewels. A nice trick for the former thief.
    Jane flicked off the TV and stared hard, her forehead furrowing in concentration. “What happened?”
    The water on the glass was making her nuts. Mei picked up the empty ice cream containers and pitched them in the living room trashcan. She wiped the water from her palms on her skirt, feeling it seep away with longing and regret. Images of blue waves ran through her head, and for a moment, she was weightless and carried away from her troubles. One foot in the human world, but the rest of her just wanted to be away…
    She could go to the ocean.
    She’d avoided it before because she knew they would track her there like a heat seeking missile. What did it matter now? Li would find her no matter what she did, and this way she’d pull the threat away from Darius and the King.
    “Mei?” Jane stood next to her. Her long brown hair was pulled tight in a ponytail, and her face freshly cleaned of the professional makeup she wore each day as Alec’s new Managing CEO of the casino. “You’re…disheveled. What happened?”
    Mei turned to Tee, and her dragon fixated laser sharp and furious on her. Tee, the two-time, talk-to-Darius-behind-her-back betrayer. Tee, her supposed best friend. Tee, who’d she trusted and let sleep in their spare room for years while Tee saved money.
    “You.” Mei’s hands balled at her sides.
    “Me?” Tee looked confused, her angled Paiute cheekbones pulled into sharp relief on her face. “What’d I do?”
    “You told him all about me. You told him to annoy me with other women to get my attention.” Her words were loud and staccato in the living room. Ice formed in the air between her and the couch and fell to the carpet like a minced snow cone.
    Tee’s expression shifted to guilt. “I was trying to help. The poor guy. He’s desperate.”
    Anger coursed through her, and again the air between them frosted. “You had no right to push us together. You have no idea what you’ve done.”
    “Okay,” Tee said, placating. She towered almost a foot over Mei, even in her bare feet. “I’m sorry. I’ll find him tomorrow and tell him I was wrong about everything.”
    Her dragon didn’t hear the apology, only saw the fragile human bones on Tee’s long brown arms. Bones she could snap in two with one bite. Excitement pulsed under her skin, as if her dragon banged on the window of her frontal lobe for release. Ice coated her fingers, and the air around her grew cold.
    Do it, her dragon hissed. Make her pay.
    “Calm down, Mei.” Jane put a firm hand on her shoulder. Mei threw her off with a sharp windmill of her arm.
    Tee shifted to the side. “I’m sorry,” she said again.
    Mei hissed in response, letting her dragon sliver to the forefront, seconds away from jumping from her skin and wrecking the low ceilinged apartment.
    “That’s enough.” Jane narrowed her eyes, and the dry wind essence of her storm dragon filled the room. The blankets lifted off the couch, and the cushions rose and danced as if on a puppet wire.
    Mei saw the movement, but it made little impression. Her attention was entirely on Tee.
    “Honestly,” Tee said, “it was just a silly conversation. I had no idea it would hurt you.”
    “You took his side over mine,” she said.
    “What?” Tee looked stricken. “No. I