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“No offense, Nicole, but we’ve got some urgent shifter business to attend to. Let’s make a move on it, all right?”
Nothing.
At this point, I seem to be frozen in place. I press my hands more tightly to Lee’s body. His scales feel strange to me, but it’s still comforting somehow. This is something I never got to experience before. When we were together, he was just Lee. He was just a human. He was just the man I loved. He was just...himself. Things were simple, but wonderful, and then everything changed.
I think back to that moment, to the moment when he asked me.
I have something to tell you...
The words hit me in the heart. At first, I thought he was going to tell me he’d found someone else, that our relationship was going to end, but he didn’t.
I’m a dragon shifter...
We mate for life...
You’re my other half, Nicole...
Marry me...
I had been scared. He had given me too much information at once and I simply couldn’t handle it. If he had asked me on a different day than he dropped the “I’m a dragon” bomb, maybe I would have reacted differently. I’ve had a decade to think about it. I’ve had ten years to consider my reaction and how poor it was.
“Lee, man, come on.” The woman sounds irritated now.
“Hey,” suddenly, Jeremy’s voice goes soft, as if he’s realizing I’m having some sort of internal crisis here. “Marta and I will be waiting for you inside.”
“We will?” She sounds surprised. Then, “Of course. I mean. We, uh, yeah. We’ll wait for you guys inside.”
The door opens, but before it closes behind them, I hear her asking, “What the hell was that about?”
Lee doesn’t wait. As soon as the door closes, he shifts into a man and I begin freefalling. I don’t close my eyes. I don’t flail around. I just fall through the air, slowly, slowly, until he catches me in his arms.
“Open your eyes, Nicole.”
His words hit me in the heart, and I obey him instantly. I don’t want to, but I do. Lee has sort of always had that effect on me.
“Why didn’t you get down?” He asks, looking up at me.
“I didn’t want to stop being on you.”
“You were thinking about something.”
“Yes.”
“What?”
I lick my lips, wondering if I should actually take a risk and be truthful. I’m not exactly anyone’s favorite person these days. Do I really want to tell Lee I was thinking about what could have happened between us? Is this really the right time for that?
“Nicole,” he says, and his voice is a little deeper this time. “Look at my eyes.”
I listen once more.
“We don’t have time for games. I know you’ve had a chaotic day. You’ve had a hard couple of months. I get it. But we’re about to go into my place of business. We’re going to listen to some secret information that it’s incredibly sensitive and I need to know that you’re on board with what’s happening. Can I trust you?”
“Yes.”
“Then what’s got your mind so jumbled? Are you just tired from today?”
I could say yes.
