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“I can make that flight in about twenty or thirty minutes,” he assured her.
Kaia tried to do the math. If Grey could fly to her place in about thirty minutes, it would take her approximately one to one and a half hours in her car, depending on traffic. She breathed out her relief, regardless. At least Greyson had said he could make the flight. That was heartening. Yet, in truth, she half expected Grey to ask her to relocate. She was a bit disappointed that he hadn’t. But Kaia was all too aware that it might be too soon, even for a dragon.
He wasn’t coming in hot on this.
She wondered if there was a reason she was missing, but she wouldn’t push him. It wasn’t the time, anyway. It would just waste the precious seconds they did have together.
“If I call you to hang out, you’ll fly out to see me?” she asked.
“Call me, and I’ll be there in twenty-nine minutes max,” he teased. “That’s better than being stuck in traffic in bigger cities,” he pointed out.
Neither one of them mentioned that a dragon’s thirty minute flight was probably doubled, if not tripled, in a vehicle. This meant that no matter what happened between them, Kaia would need to change jobs one day. She couldn’t ask Grey to relocate his entire thunder and company.
Unless he was okay with flying to and from work every day … Did dragons even do that? She wasn’t so sure. Kaia shook her head before turning toward the sun. Maybe this was a problem that would never actually be a problem. She was taking it on faith that their new relationship would last, but then again, it might not.
All they had was this moment in time, and Kaia was going to soak in as much of Greyson’s presence as she could. And that started with them making love by the beautiful, cascading waterfall.
TWENTY-TWO
GREYSON
Greyson paddled the canoe back toward the little cabana, and together, they returned the canoe to the waiting imp. Grey tipped the creature generously with candy corn. Deep in thought, he planned out the rest of the day and evening with Kaia. He couldn’t rent another cabana for them. He actually wanted to top that. He needed to ask Portia what was plausible here in the resort that he could wow Kaia with.
Just as he was about to take Kaia’s hand in his, the quiet resort was disturbed by a loud and terrible growl.
He stilled, recognizing the sound for what it was.Fighting dragons.
“Stay here,” he instructed Kaia before taking off at a run, following the sound of the fight.
“Grey! Wait!” Kaia shouted behind him.
He couldn’t slow down to explain. He needed her to stay put. In a dragon fight, there could be a whole lot of collateral damage. The fire wasn’t exactly an easily controlled force once it was unleashed. Greyson knew Richard and Jorge were already shifting and throwing flames at each other by the flashes of fire across the sky ... and in a crowded resort, no less.
When Grey finally rounded the corner and spotted the action, he was shocked to see Kaia had kept pace with him. He started to tell her to leave, but he stopped short when he spotted his father making his way to the dragons, readying himself to shift.
“Dad!” Grey shouted. “Don’t.”
The thought of his father fighting two dragons to bring them to heel made his stomach hurt. Dad hadn’t been in a fight in years, and though he was a tough old man, Grey feared the two fighting dragons would easily turn their anger toward its real source.
The Alpha and CEO.
His father.
Grey just couldn’t let that happen.
Over the shoreline and above them, the two dragons ripped into each other. The scent of blood filled his nostrils, and he wanted to shift and join the fight, but it wasn’t his place. He looked at his father, but the older man really didn’t seem to want to stop the fight. He was watching it all unfold with a bored look on his face.
“Dad?” Grey said. “I’m going to fight in your place.”
“Like hell you will,” his brother Jaymes roared in a loud voice that was definitely out of character. “It’s way too dangerous. You could be killed.”
“Umm, no offense, Grey, but I totally second that,” Kaia said, her eyes wide with fear. “I don’t want you high up in the air, trying to fight offtwodragons. That’s just totally insane.”
He cupped her face in his hands. “As much as I appreciate the sentiment, I have to do this.” He kissed her gently. “I’ll be fine. I’ll come back to you. I swear it, Kaia.”
“You know I’m a witch,” she whispered. “I can hex you if you don’t,” she added.
He kissed her again softly before taking off at a run. He shifted on his way to the fighting dragons. It was a sight to see. One second, Greyson was there, and the next, a massive dragon flapping his wings on his way into the aerial battle.
