He stepped closer to me. “You thought outside the box and didn’t panic. Those are the skills you will need to survive thislifestyle.”
Lifestyle. Being a dragon. And a fire druid. We hadn’t talked about that yet, the fire druid part. I think it was too much for both ofus.
The close proximity of his hips to mine had a searing heat running down my spine to my groin. I broke out in a sweat as a slow grin crept across Logan’sface.
“What?” I asked, as I fanned myself desperate forair.
“Your heat has begun.” At the word “heat,” my dragon rustled inside of me, begging to breakfree.
I placed a hand on my hip and looked him up and down. He was the finest male specimen I’d ever seen. “You better do something about it before I light on fire,” Ipanted.
“As you wish.” He scooped me up and took my hot lips into his coolmouth.
He just made another unknowingPrincess Bridereference.Sigh.I was keeping himforever.
* * *
The next twodays were filled with lots of sexy Logan time, and lots of Sophie kicking my ass time. Separately of course. My dragon stayed happily in her human skin “cage” after Logan lulled her to sleep each night, keeping my heat at bay. Gear had run into an issue getting my car. He was followed trying to come back, so he headed to Utah to confuse them. Eva still wasn’t answering our calls, but we left coded voicemail messages hoping she would get the point and come back—that we had a better way to find the remaining skyborn, than just looking blindly. Meanwhile, I’d been learning basic things about nature from Isaac, about different tree species and how to recharge in Mother Earth. I was now barefoot most of the day. I had to hand it to Sophie, she’d been teaching me some worthwhile skills. I even took Ruben down in a drill one morning. That man was the biggest person I’d ever met, so I was prettyproud.
I was just walking back to the house I shared with Nadine—or that I used to before I shacked up with Logan at the waterfall—when shouts stopped me in mytracks.
“Enough torment, Danny. I’m sorry.” Keegan’s voice was allgrowly.
Danny sighed. “Keegan, what kind of relationship can we have without trust? Not one that will last, that’s forsure.”
“I do trust you! I took a magical oath to keep the Skyborn secret. I couldn’t have broken it if I wanted to!” Keeganshouted.
Danny’s voice was low, controlled but emotional. “Idon’t trustyou. Not with my heart. Not after you so casually tossed me aside, and then picked me back up only at the request of youremployer.”
Keegan must have been in shock. He didn’t speak for a full minute, and when he did it sounded as if he was fighting tears. “Is that what you think of me? Jesus, Danny, I’m in love with you. Letting you go felt like ripping a limb from my body but I was bound to my magical oath. I’m sorry I hurt you, but can’t you move pastit?”
Silence.Holyshit.
“I don’t know,” Danny said in a smallvoice.
Keegan growled, an honest to God wolf growl. “Well, let me know when you do!” I heard the crunching of dirt and the ripping of bones. Keegan wasshifting.
I was about to walk back the way I came and come back later when Danny turned the corner hard and nearly walked right intome.
“Shit!” He grabbed his chest. “You scared me,Sloane.”
“Sorry,” I mumbled, trying not to meet hiseyes.
He sighed. “You heard that? WithKeegan?”
I nodded. “I wasn’t trying to listen. I just sortof…”
He shrugged. “It’s fine. I wouldn’t mind having someone to talk to about itanyway.”
I nodded and sat down on the short cob retaining wall. “So … I didn’t join the group until you did. What’s the story with you and Keeganbefore?”
He sat down next to me. “I had a crush on him for over a year. He would always come in to do business with Eva—we’d talk a bit, but nothing serious. I thought maybe he was still in the closet or was dating someone else, until one night he just asked meout.”
His whole face changed then. Danny was a super good-looking guy, and seeing him fully smile, dimples and all, made him that much moreattractive.
“What happened?” I leaned closer. I loved a good relationshipstory.
“Girl, I fell … hard. Hopelessly in love with him right from day one.” He looked sullen now, as if he regrettedit.
