“Yeah, the Fucked-Over Club. Hooray. That makes it so much better.”
She popped him on the arm.
Shocked, he gaped at her. “You have absolutely no fear of me, do you?”
“Should I?”
“Givenmytrack record? Yeah, you should. I live to make meals off tender morsels like you.”
Scoffing, she walked right up and smirked in his face. “Have you seenmytrack record, buddy? Between the two of us, you should probably be the one afraid.”
“Now you’re just trying to turn me on.”
“And that does it for you, huh?”
With a wicked grin, he glanced down at the bulge in his jeans. “Apparently.”
Medea blushed as she realized that he wasn’t joking. He really was turned on.
Even worse? She wasn’t offended by it.
Instead, it sent a wave of unexpected desire through her. And another of great curiosity. One that didn’t really bear investigating. Or thinking about, as it led her thoughts into very dangerous territory.
“So how long has it been?” he asked.
“For what?”
A teasing grin curved his lips. “That long, huh? You can’t even remember what I’m asking?”
More heat crept over her cheeks. “It’s been a while. Hard to cozy up to men you know are only one minute away from death. Especially after you’ve already lost your heart and soul—the last of the good ones.” She gave him a gimlet stare. “What about you?”
“I know exactly how long it’s been since I last slept with someone. I wasn’t asking me about me.”
She snorted irritably at his continued sarcasm. “You’re avoiding my question.”
“I know. And I would like to continue avoiding it, as I just had a nasty altercation over this very topic.”
“Meaning?”
He rubbed at his eye. “I was briefly and I do mean b-r-i-e-f-l-y involved with an Amazon dragonslayer.”
She paused to gape at him. “I beg your pardon… are you insane?”
“Yeah, well, in my defense, it worked out well for both my brothers. They’re quite happily married to dragonslayer dragonswans. In my case on the dating front, not so much. She definitely wanted to skin my hide more than climb it. But she’s the only reason I hung around Sanctuary as long as I did.”
“You were trying to work it out?”
“Not really. Even my masochism has its limits. I was getting ready to leave when you showed up.”
Medea didn’t know why, but she felt bad for him. And a little jealous. But in the end, her curiosity got the best of her as she slowed her stride. “So what went wrong?”
“As long as I was in a human body, she was fine. Sadly, I can’t stay in one. Sooner or later, I have to be what I am. And human’s not it. The moment I shifted and Tis was reminded that I’m an animal, she lost her human mind.”
Medea tried to imagine what he must look like as a dragon. It was hard to think of this insanely hot man with scales and claws. To think of him as a massive beast.
Of course, he was massively large in human form, too. Even his hands were gigantic.
Which made her even more curious.…
