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This is what he thought he was chasing all these years, not really thinking any of it truly was real. Myths, legends, stories.
And yet, ‘paranormals’ apparently didn’t just live in remote areas and lost islands. They were right here among everyone else.
Kymri, his island beauty. Dragon with hot pink claws. Mother of his child.
Life had taken a sudden hard left turn when he took off in his mother’s Cessna. He crashed into a whole other reality. He wondered again if maybe he had lost his mind and was dead or delirious on the beach.
The crash flashed through his mind. He’d seen a woman in the plane. He’d been moved from his seat to the back… where he’d later made love to Kymri for the first time. Was that first memory real or a dream? Had it been her? All this time?
Their meeting, their tentative friendship, their budding romance and then the sky falling down on him and discovering the legend of the dragons was real, not just real, that they were people and his mother was one of them.
This was so fucked up.
He stared at the passing trees lining the road winding through the mountains. He was so fucked up.
His father’s words steam rolled over everything else. They had elicited so much turmoil in him he couldn’t speak beyond, “Why didn’t you tell me this before?”
It was all he could say, again and again. The shock had hit him so hard, and he could see how much it pained Jonathan.
It ripped into his father to have kept this secret from him—that there was nothing he could do about it. It wasn’t a secret he’d ever wanted to keep but held it alone for all of these years while they both grieved the loss of her.
All through their meeting with Mrs. Brandt, she reminded him of Elora in so many ways. He was in a fog.
He needed time to process it. All of it. But there wasn’t time.
Dusk fell as they drove along the winding tree-lined roads to town. It was fully dark when they parked the car outside a club that was already lit up, with patrons lined up at the door. Odson brought them in through the back where the bass of the music beat through the walls and along the floors of offices and kitchens at the back of the building.
“Through here,” Odson said, pulling open a door to music and flashing lights which assaulted their senses.
The place was already full. The hair on his nape rose. He’d spent enough time in clubs to know this one was different. The atmosphere was charged. Odson was unfazed; he worked here, this was natural for him. Kymri and Marli, however, were on their guard.
Odson approached a broad-shouldered man seated at the bar who turned and stood, greeted Odson with a friendly hug, and introduced a petite woman beside him.
Jori glanced back to Kymri, who remained close to him, noting that Marli was no longer with her.
Odson spoke to the guy behind the bar who nodded and waved him back toward the door they’d just come through. “Come on,” he said over the pounding music, leading them and the new couple back toward the office area.
As soon as they were in the quieter space, Odson introduced them all. “Jori Mountainside, Kymri Steelscale, this is Agent Carson Perenga and Lirikai. Carson’s an old friend, works for the GPSA. Where’s Marli?”
“She’s looking around the club, she’ll be back in a minute,” Kymri said.
"GPSA?" Jori asked.
"Global Paranormal Security Agency." Odson answered.
"I see," Jori said adding yet another tick to the 'weird things to remember' list.
Odson turned to Carson, “Remember that island in the middle of the Atlantic?”
Carson nodded, “Trouble?”
“Yeah.”
“What do they need?”
“Intel if you can get it? Three dragon males attacked the island. I want to know where they came from.”
“I’ll see what I can get from satellites.”
