Page 50 of The Good Daughter


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I got up and crossed the little room, gingerly picking my way around piles of stuff from previous occupants that didn’t bear looking at too closely. On tip toes, I grabbed the bars of the window and dragged myself up, finding purchase with my toes on the brickwork of the wall, until I could see out of the window.

My heart skipped a beat and the breath was stolen from my lungs.

Outside the window, clinging to the wall with its clawed feet, and looking straight at me, was a dragon.

The End

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The Dragon Protector

Dragon’s Birthright #2

by H.P. Mallory & J.R. Rain

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ONE

PEN

My face is my prison.

Yes, my mother might have blessed me with her beauty, but she’s also handicapped me with her curse.

I slip the hoop through my ear, strands of delicate chains dangling from my lobe.

They feel like shackles.

Janie, my sister, attempts to catch my eye in the mirror from where she’s sitting behind me on the bed, but I avoid her. It’s easier to keep my gaze on her foot bobbing up and down, the light catching on the glittery blue polka-dots on her socks.

“Why don’t you just quit?”

The question startles me into looking at her fully in the glass, my brush in hand only halfway raised. “What?”

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