and I’ll make sure you get what you want.”
She chewed her lip. As desperate as she was to find Tansy,
she just couldn’t bring herself to make a blind promise and she wasn’t sure
that Tansy would approve if she did. “No. I’ll listen to you and we can
negotiate terms but I’m not going to make an uninformed decision. You can see
how stupid that would be for me.” This time it was Chelsea who closed the
distance, laying her hand on his forearm in some hopeful attempt at making a
connection. “Please Tarkan. I obviously have something you need, you have
something I want, let’s just talk to each other and find the best way to
achieve both goals.”
He was quiet for a while but she did her best to hold his
gaze, silently urging him to trust her, to let her in. Finally he nodded,
moving his arm and capturing her hand in his. “We can’t talk here. Will you come
to the den with me?”
“Um, yeah, I suppose so.”
She wasn’t sure what or where the den was or how they were
going to get there, but if it got her closer to Tansy she was willing to take
the calculated risk.
Chelsea followed him meekly to the shoreline, her hand held
fast and firm in his. As they approached two evil-looking dragons, Ari stepped
out between the monsters, his tall frame barely reaching the dragons shoulder.
“Chelsea? Is everything all right?”
He waded toward her, no better dressed than Tarkan and the
water sheeting off his body had the same effect on her. They were both
gorgeous. Tall, strong, heavily muscled—exactly how she loved a man’s body to
look. She squeezed her eyes shut before the sight of him totally did her head
in. “Chelsea?”
Damn, she had to open her eyes or he’d know for sure she was
losing it. “I’m fine. There’s nothing wrong.”
One of the dragons surged forward and swung his head toward
them. Chelsea screamed, jumped in between the two half-naked men and pulled
them close to her, not giving a second thought to the fact that she was using
the Enforcers as her human shields.
Ari wrapped his arms around her waist and Tarkan pressed
tight against her back and in a split second she went from scared to safe. Then
her physical position registered as the meat in an almost-naked man sandwich
and she had another one of those weird, mini-seizures. Every muscle she
possessed flexed and held. Her nerve endings sizzled, she could feel her
nipples pushing into Ari’s chest and she didn’t even want to think about the
burning ache in her pussy. It was as if she were drowning in pheromones. Or
perhaps she was just drowning in her own stupidity.
Entirely disconcerted by her out-of-character reaction, she
pushed herself away from the Enforcers stepping aside to give herself some
room. Only to come face-to-face with the dragon that had caused the problem in
the first place.
It was close enough to touch and its head from forehead to
chin was longer than Chelsea’s entire body. She wasn’t sure if she was going to
faint, scream, throw up—or all three—when she felt a strong, hard body at her
back.
“Easy.” Tarkan’s arms wrapped around her, trapping her arms
close to her body. “That’s Benmonth. He’s my partner and I’ve told him all
about you. He won’t hurt you, he’s just curious. He’s never met an Earth woman
before.”
Chelsea’s knees were still shaking, so she leaned back
against Tarkan, letting him take her weight as she eyeballed the big, scary,
toothy dragon. “So, are we talking curious as in ‘gosh she’s interesting let’s
get to know her’ or are we talking ‘gosh she smells good, I wonder what she
tastes like and does she come with a dipping sauce?’”
She felt Tarkan chuckle against her back and Ari moved to
stand next to Benmonth, looping his arm under the enormous jaw and leaning all
his weight against the dragon. “They don’t eat people,” Ari said. “The blacks
take their nutrients directly from the ionosphere. However they are born to
fight and you need
She chewed her lip. As desperate as she was to find Tansy,
she just couldn’t bring herself to make a blind promise and she wasn’t sure
that Tansy would approve if she did. “No. I’ll listen to you and we can
negotiate terms but I’m not going to make an uninformed decision. You can see
how stupid that would be for me.” This time it was Chelsea who closed the
distance, laying her hand on his forearm in some hopeful attempt at making a
connection. “Please Tarkan. I obviously have something you need, you have
something I want, let’s just talk to each other and find the best way to
achieve both goals.”
He was quiet for a while but she did her best to hold his
gaze, silently urging him to trust her, to let her in. Finally he nodded,
moving his arm and capturing her hand in his. “We can’t talk here. Will you come
to the den with me?”
“Um, yeah, I suppose so.”
She wasn’t sure what or where the den was or how they were
going to get there, but if it got her closer to Tansy she was willing to take
the calculated risk.
Chelsea followed him meekly to the shoreline, her hand held
fast and firm in his. As they approached two evil-looking dragons, Ari stepped
out between the monsters, his tall frame barely reaching the dragons shoulder.
“Chelsea? Is everything all right?”
He waded toward her, no better dressed than Tarkan and the
water sheeting off his body had the same effect on her. They were both
gorgeous. Tall, strong, heavily muscled—exactly how she loved a man’s body to
look. She squeezed her eyes shut before the sight of him totally did her head
in. “Chelsea?”
Damn, she had to open her eyes or he’d know for sure she was
losing it. “I’m fine. There’s nothing wrong.”
One of the dragons surged forward and swung his head toward
them. Chelsea screamed, jumped in between the two half-naked men and pulled
them close to her, not giving a second thought to the fact that she was using
the Enforcers as her human shields.
Ari wrapped his arms around her waist and Tarkan pressed
tight against her back and in a split second she went from scared to safe. Then
her physical position registered as the meat in an almost-naked man sandwich
and she had another one of those weird, mini-seizures. Every muscle she
possessed flexed and held. Her nerve endings sizzled, she could feel her
nipples pushing into Ari’s chest and she didn’t even want to think about the
burning ache in her pussy. It was as if she were drowning in pheromones. Or
perhaps she was just drowning in her own stupidity.
Entirely disconcerted by her out-of-character reaction, she
pushed herself away from the Enforcers stepping aside to give herself some
room. Only to come face-to-face with the dragon that had caused the problem in
the first place.
It was close enough to touch and its head from forehead to
chin was longer than Chelsea’s entire body. She wasn’t sure if she was going to
faint, scream, throw up—or all three—when she felt a strong, hard body at her
back.
“Easy.” Tarkan’s arms wrapped around her, trapping her arms
close to her body. “That’s Benmonth. He’s my partner and I’ve told him all
about you. He won’t hurt you, he’s just curious. He’s never met an Earth woman
before.”
Chelsea’s knees were still shaking, so she leaned back
against Tarkan, letting him take her weight as she eyeballed the big, scary,
toothy dragon. “So, are we talking curious as in ‘gosh she’s interesting let’s
get to know her’ or are we talking ‘gosh she smells good, I wonder what she
tastes like and does she come with a dipping sauce?’”
She felt Tarkan chuckle against her back and Ari moved to
stand next to Benmonth, looping his arm under the enormous jaw and leaning all
his weight against the dragon. “They don’t eat people,” Ari said. “The blacks
take their nutrients directly from the ionosphere. However they are born to
fight and you need
Similar Books
