Chapter 2-1
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Chapter 2
They released the white dragon with a warning and instructions. Should he return to the border of Snowdonia, there would be another perimeter watch who would not spare his life. He was to go to the Embassy in the city and wait there to speak to someone. There, they might be able to arrange for him to build a home for himself on the Territory.
Layla didn’t like it, but she knew this all had to end. Wiping the white dragons from the face of the earth served no purpose. Hell, they would probably miss one and the dragon would later rise to enact a cruel revenge on them all.
She officially watched too many movies with her brother.
That was where she sat, on the couch with Rhys and a trashcan sized bucket of popcorn situated between them. On the too large television screen, a new movie about mummies and curses flashed from scene to scene. Layla didn’t catch a whole lot of it. She wasn’t a huge fan of the actor and her mind seemed to want to focus on something else entirely.
The monster inside her wanted Drake. It wanted to roll him over, nibble until it drew blood, and feel him as he pounded inside of her. Layla wanted no such thing and it drove her mad when she was in his presence. Before the perimeter walk, before the white dragon, Drake had just been a simple nuisance. He made her feel soft and vulnerable.
Seeing him negotiate with the white dragon like a true leader had moved things inside of her. It had aroused her monster. She wished that her beast would return, would tell her right from wrong. All she had to go on was her own conscience versus the monster under her skin. Most of the time, the monster was right when it made decisions in the heat of battle or when it sized up another’s beast.
But that didn’t always mean she gave it what it wanted, the beast too often wanting to draw blood. This would be one of those times. Layla would travel to the States with the dragon man, but she would not give in to the monster lurking inside of her and its dark cravings. She didn’t want to know if she would enjoy it.
She didn’t want to fall for him.
He would only become a liability to her stone heart.
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