Mated to Dragons novel

---- 13. ANGEL I tried to keep my breathing even. It was hard to focus on anything other than the feel of his warm skin brushing against mine as he moved us deeper into the water. I clung to him as the water rose up to my shoulders and then my neck. "Relax," he whispered. It was easier said than done. Lucas gripped my thigh and guided my leg around his waist. This is wrong. "Have you been to the library yet?" he asked me. Inodded.

"Find any interesting books?" Licking my lips, I hesitated before I answered. "There are a lot of books about your world," I told him. "But none of them explains how it was created." "You really want to know?" "yes." ---- His eyes darted over my face and then around us. Lucas focused on me again, his lips twitching. "We used to live in your world," he said softly, making my eyes widen. "Everything was pretty good until some humans discovered our ability to change into dragons.

They started hunting us, killing us off for our dragon skin, and our wings, but what they liked the most was our blood." "w-why?" "Our blood is special," Lucas explained. "It heals humans." My mind flashed back to the first day I met him. He had forced me to drink his blood and the next time I woke up; my injuries had been healed. As if thinking about the same thing, he traced the scars on my back with his fingertips. "More and more of our kind were being hunted.

We were on the brink of extinction ." Lucas paused. "To safe our kind, we made a deal with a witch. She created our realm for us in exchange for a monthly supply of blood. As the years went on, our little town grew larger and larger and before we knew it, we had three kingdoms and a lot of other supernatural beings living in our realm." It was pretty cool if you imagined their world evolving through the years.

I wished the library had a picture ---- book with pictures of how the place first looked before it turned into what it is today. "What kind of supernatural beings live here, besides you and the vampires?" I asked him. Lucas sunk a little deeper into the water. "Vampires, dragons , werewolves , cat-shifters , witches , and so forth." Isilently took it all in. Storybooks were my companion most of the time while I grew up.

I had read about these things, these people in books, and now I was living with them in their world. "What did you do in the human world?" Lucas suddenly asked me. I blinked at him. It was not the question I ever expected him to ask me. Nobody had been interested in learning about me since I got here. "T worked as a cleaner in a restaurant," I told him softly. "It doesn't pay much so I worked odd jobs to get more money in.

I stayed at a shelter because I couldn't afford my own apartment like my friends." "Js that why you hate cleaning?" Inodded. Swallowing , I gripped his shoulders and shifted my legs. It was a mistake because the simple action made me slide a few inches down his body. A panicked gasp