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“That hasn’t exactly worked out badly for you, boss,” said Rollo. “Seems Bloom has taken more than a little shine to you again,” he said.
. “A shine, huh? Well it took some working up to, I can tell you that much,” Dax offered.
“ “Isn’t that always the way it is with woman?” Rollo responded.
“Can’t argue with that. Although I think Bloom and I have had to work out more than our share of misunderstandings.”
“Misunderstandings huh? Look who’s suddenly all positive. You gotta admit, that is some serious spin you are putting on it.”
They all laughed a bit at that before Rollo continued. “But I am convinced that that is the norm when dealing with woman. Not sure how it magically is supposed to disappear when you find your mate, but I figure if a mountain man dragon shifter like you, with a face like that can find a mate, then I am all set.”
Dax glared at him a moment before he burst out laughing. “Am I really so hideous to look at?”
It was Rollo’s turn to laugh. “But seriously, congratulations man, I know nothing is easy when it comes to mates. I can attest to that first hand.”
The other members of the pack knew enough not to tease him too much about it, he figured, not while it was still relatively new. It hadn’t even been a year since Tonya had more or less just up and abandoned him and the boys.
“So are you going to fill her in completely now on the investigation?” Rollo ventured.
“We have an understanding now,” Dax said in measured tones.
“Gotcha,” Rollo said. “Let me know if I can help out with that. She’s probably going to have a lot of questions.”
“Maybe after this latest drama is a little further in our rearview mirror, ya know? But yeah, you know Frederick’s time will come.”
Rollo just nodded, his face a stoic mask now.
“Speaking of handling things, Jack is getting that SUV fished out of the river, right?”
“Yup, as we speak, I believe.”
“And the one guy we have down at the jail’s not talking, right?”
“Depends on what you mean by ‘talking’,” Clint was saying.
“He kind of won’t shut up about seeing some dragon or other?” Clint joked as if he had no idea what the guy had been talking about. “But no. He claims he was just muscle. And he is convinced he saw some mythical beast.”
“He did,” Dax said distantly. “Okay, fine. Get Etta, or Lora, or a fae over there to wipe that little detail out.”
“Sure thing, boss. I’m on it.”
“And the other guys are dead, is that right?”
“Yeah, we got one dead and hung up in a tree, and then we pulled one body out of the river, so that leaves one unaccounted for, but I imagine he’s dead too.”
“If not, he’s halfway across the country by now,” Clint laughed.
“Cool, so hopefully, that’s the end of that and things will start to settle down around here again.”
“We can only hope,” said Rollo. “Then we can get back to finding Frederick.”
“You know we are all with you on that, buddy,”
“I know, boss.”
They exchanged a fist bump.
Rollo added, “But our eyes and ears on the street say the talk of Supernova has been more sporadic…so, hopefully, it was just a minor thing and soon to be forgotten.”
