Claire used her mother's distraction to gobble down the buck's hind quarters, but Petra was entranced by the promise of gold, already stretching her wings to join her mate.
The lode was just where Chris remembered, but his perspective was now much different. He'd feared that someone might accidentally discover it while he was occupied with building their new home, on top of his other distractions. But his sense for that most precious metal was true, and heightened as a full dragon. It told him the deposit was safe and undisturbed since his last visit with Michelle.
In a slight bend in the gushing melt-water stream, the tip of a large granite outcropping defied the tumbling water. A pool had formed beside it due to the turbulence caused by its immovability, though it filled and emptied wi
