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“You!” Sterling was scared for a second before he puffed out his chest. “I have you breathing fire on film. Let me go, or I’ll ruin your business and end yourcareer.”
Blaise chuckled. “You saw me turn into a dragon and you still think you can threaten me? You’re a special kind of stupid, Sterling.” He leaned close and hissed, “It’ll be harder to threaten me when you’re dead.” The man’s eyes widened. “Yes. I could kill you for what you did toMaggie.”
“No!” Sterling bolted toward the open window. There was a good five feet between the metal catwalk and his escape plan. He struggled to climb over therailing.
“Don’t do it,” Blaise warned. “You’ll never makeit.”
“Of course I will. And when I do, I’m going to broadcast your secret all over the news.” He gestured to Blaise’s naked body. “They’ll have to blur much of this out, of course, but I’m sure Joel has been recordingeverything.”
I glanced around for Joel, who I’d all but forgotten during the confusion. He was cowering behind me. “Get away from me, you rat bastard.” Then I realized he wasn’t holding a phone or his computer. When I scanned the table, I realized they had both been a casualty of Blaise’s firestorm. I laughed and jerked my head to the burnedpile.
Blaise smirked. “Apparentlynot.”
Sterling’s smile faltered. “It doesn’t matter. I’ll tell them everything and they’ll believeme.”
“And what’s to stop me from turning you into a shish kabob while you sleep?” Blaisewhispered.
His eyes widened with fear, and then he turned and made a daring leap for the window, which fell hopelessly short. I watched as he clawed at the air, falling so quickly Blaise couldn’t save him, and the other dragon didn’t try. He was too busy breathing over Ira. I looked away, afraid of what I’d see. Instead, I offered Blaise a pleading look. He shook his head and I knew Sterling had perished. I didn’t know what todo.
Apparently, Ira didn’t either. When he saw his partner in crime fall and land with a resounding thud, he winced. Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out a pistol and stared at me. The dragon seemed to think the guy was going to shoot me and moved in between us. I knew better. Ira was a coward, not a killer. “I’m not going down for all this,” he said simply before holding the gun to his temple and pulling thetrigger.
The shot rang out and reverberated through the huge empty building. I closed my eyes and winced. Then I felt familiar hands on my skin, and in my hair. I felt puffs of warm breath against my cheek as he pressed his lips to my temple. My tension melted. Opening my eyes, I whispered, “I thought I’d never see youagain.”
“You wish,” Blaise teased. “Let’s get you out of here. You feelokay?”
I shook my head and my eyeswatered.
“No?” He ran his hands over mylimbs.
“It’s not that.” I swallowed hard and felt my cheeks heat. “I really have topee.”
15
Blaise
“Better?”I asked when we climbed into thecar.
Maggie stared into the building. The bodies were still inside. “What happensnow?”
“You mean with the crime scene?” I askedquietly.
She nodded. “Yeah.”
I inhaled sharply. “Well, we wait for the police to arrive. I expect a lecture for going in to retrieve you without police backup, but I think we both know why that wasn’tpossible.”
“Why wasn’t that possible?” Malcom chirped from the backseat. “That would’ve beensmarter.”
With a smirk, Maggie turned to her father. “Go back to sleep,Daddy.”
He huffed and crossed his arms over his chest. “I can’t believe I slept through every bit ofit.”
“You did?” She gave me the side-eye.
Malcolm nodded. “I fell asleep so fast and hard, I’d swear I wasdrugged.”
I coughed a few times. “I’m sure you were just overtired from all the excitement. Happens to the best of us.” I winked atMaggie.
With a yawn, he murmured, “Maybe I will rest my eyes for a minute.” It seemed within seconds, he was asleepagain.
