“I will not die today. Nope, not happening.”
A loud sound almost like a roar came from somewhere above. Oh, God! Were the two dragon shifters back? She risked looking up over her shoulder, and her heart nearly dropped out of her chest.
A huge dark colored dragon was heading her way. It looked different from the other two dragons in color. Three fucking dragon shifters! How could this happen? She was a no body, a lonely librarian. What was it about her that drew these creatures to her? That’s it! She was definitely changing her bath wash when she got home.
She was stuck on the side of a mountain. So what choices did she have? Try to climb back up and make it to the cave? Keep going down the side. Or maybe if she stayed still long enough that she would blend in with her surroundings and the new dragon would fly by her?
Unfortunately, while she was trying to decide, the dragon decided for her. He came toward her at an angle, turning so that his underbelly faced her. A scream bubbled up within her as she watched in horror as a claw reached out for her. Callie tried to cling to the rocks jutting out, but it was no use. The claws scooped her up like swatting air.
Great! Kidnapped by another damn dragon. This time she would not pass out or be passive about it. She was furious.
“Let me go, you big pigeon!”
Callie screamed at the dragon and hit the claws holding her. She didn’t care if it dropped her. She wondered if it planned to do what the other two dragon men had planned. Not happening.
“Put me down! I mean it!” She tried to wriggle free.
The dragon glanced down at her and made some kind of huffing sound as if he was irritated with her. Oh no, he didn’t.
“If I’m causing you problems, just let me go.”
The dragon rolled his eyes at her and turned away. That was... he was acting like a human. Well, he was a shifter, so he would have a man’s characteristics. She would show him just how annoying she could be. When he turned back to his human form, she would have a surprise waiting for him.
*****
Viper fought his growl that wanted to break free. Callie was struggling to free herself from his hold, and it worried him. She could injure her hands or break her arm. Worse, she could cause his grip to loosen and she could fall to her death. He was determined not to let that happen.
It never occurred to him how a human might view him. He always kept his distance in the past. He tried to imagine what Callie was feeling. She was human and facing what she must’ve considered a monster. No, make that two monsters. She would never view him the same after today and would most likely have nothing to do with him when she was returned home. That thought hurt him deeply.
It was probably for the best. Callie was a gentle and kind female. She was soft-spoken and he couldn’t remember a time she had ever raised her voice.
“Let me go, you big pigeon!”
She surprised him when she screamed and hit his claws. He barely felt her, but it was so unlike her. This was a different side to the timid librarian. He liked the fire she was showing, so did his dragon, who let out a soft purr to calm her. She didn’t know what it was and kept calling him names. Some of them were creative.
“You’re just an overgrown lizard with a small penis!”
He growled at that. That was going too far. Her insults died down and he knew she was growing tired. They couldn’t stop yet. The ones that took her would look for her and would catch his scent. They would follow. He changed directions, moving away from Arizona, which was where they would assume he would take her. Next, he needed to cover their scents.
Chapter 16
“You have got to be fucking kidding me!” Callie yelled at the dragon that had just dumped her in an enormous pile of mud. At least she prayed it was mud and not some dragon dung.
She tried to stand, but the slippery stuff made her lose her balance and she fell back on her ass. Oof!
“I am not liking you much at this moment,” she muttered as she crawled onto her hands and knees.
“That’s too bad, because I like you a great deal,” a deep masculine voice said.
Callie stopped her struggles to look up. She was utterly stunned to find Viper standing there, knee-deep in mud, and completely utterly naked. Like naked. Not a stitch on him. He was big everywhere.
She turned her head to the side to study him and watched as his long, thick cock rose from half-mast to full-on flaming mast. A throat clearing had her refocus her attention, and she raised her head to stare into his handsome face.
“You... you’re... like the others. A dragon shifter?”
“I am a dragon shifter, but I’m not like the ones who took you,” he answered her.
“What’s the difference?”
“The one that took you is rogue. They do not abide by any laws, human or Drakonian. Rogues will hunt, rape, and kill with no conscience at all.”
“But you’re not a rogue?”
“No.”
“What are you then?”
“We’ll discuss this later,” he said as he scooped a hand full of mud and put it on top of her head.
“Hey! I’m trying to get this shit off me.”
“We need to get as much mud on our bodies to hide our scent and leave before the rogues find us. I haven’t taken us far enough from them to deem it
