I’d love to adopt a handful one day myself.
Shaking off the thought, I decided I needed to get out of my head, so I let out a warning chirp. Jed and Beshiro had ridden with dragons enough times to be able to interpret that intohold on tight.
As soon as I felt them grab onto my spikes, I dove down sharply, making Beshiro scream, and Jed let out a laughing, “Whoop!”
I chuckled, although it sounded more like guttural growling in this form, then I let out another chirp before doing a quick spin. The vampires were harnessed tightly enough to my back that they wouldn’t fall off, so there was no danger at all.
And even if they did fall, I’d be able to catch them with no problem.
When they both screamed, I laughed harder and was happy when the two of them started laughing too.
This was fun, and I was glad to share it with my vampy friends.
I flew quickly back up to Roman, circled around him, and gently knocked his wing with mine. I kind of expected him to growl and snap at me like any of the adults I’d known growing up would have, but instead, he shot me the dragon version of a grin. It made me grin back.
Sometimes I forgot how different Roman and Dad were when it came to flying together. They never snapped at me or made me feel unwelcome. They never made me feel bad for wanting to play around. In fact, both of them started more than half of our tag sessions and other flying games than I did.
I nudged Roman’s wing again, then turned quickly and took off as fast as I could fly. I had no doubt he’d come after me.
Jed and Beshiro let out more screams of joy, and I growled with them, loving the feel of the air beneath my wings and the wind whipping across my face.
I heard Roman roar behind me, and I laughed again, knowing he was trying to catch up.
I was smaller than him—and a lot smaller than Dad, since he was the biggest dragon I’d ever seen—but that meant I was faster. Roman had the brute strength needed in a fight, but I had the speed needed in a race.
Glancing back, I saw him at least a hundred feet away, and it made me chuckle again.
After a few minutes, I slowed down to give him a chance to catch up, then just when he thought he was going to tag me, I took off again to the sound of whoops and cheers from my vamp riders and disgruntled noises from his riders.
But when I glanced back at Rome again, I saw a big smile on his handsome dragon face.
I wasn’t surprised to see my dad waiting on the roof of the tower for us when we came in for a landing.
Since the tower was a humongous building that housed many businesses, apartments, and who even knew what else, its width and length were also huge. Which meant the roof was just as big, seeing as it covered the entire building.
There was plenty of room for several dragons to land at once, even if Dad was among us in dragon form. So Roman and I were able to land side by side.
We both lay on our bellies so it was easier for our vampires and Tan to climb off of us, and once all the harnesses and bags were untied and moved out of the way, we both shifted back. Jed passed me my bag of clothes without looking down at my naked body, which I appreciated.
And I did my best to not look at Roman.
We’d shifted in front of each other enough times that I’d gotten a look a time or two, but there was no way I was going to get caught taking a peek with nosy Jed and my father standing right there. No matter how much I wanted to.
And booooooooyyyyy, did I want to.
So badly.
Even when we were flying, I’d been tempted to lean over and give him a good lick.
I could only imagine what I’d do—and how my body would react—if I looked at him right now and saw all that skin and took a peek at his di—
Nope.
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
No thinking sexy thoughts with all these people around me.
Nope.
