Dating A Dragon (The Mating Game Book 2) by Georgette St. Clair Read Free Book Online

Filmar, from the Filmar Clan. Working with your father’s clan – he has promised them your delightful scaly hand in marriage.”
    Her eyes widened in alarm.
    “Fortunately, they went too far in their attempts to grab you. When they started a sky battle right over human occupied territory, it ended up biting them in the butt. The Dragon Elders received a formal complaint from the governor of North Carolina, and they had to punish someone, so they banned the Filmar clan from pursuing their claim on you.”
    “Well, that’s good news, right?” She brightened.
    “Yes, but that’s just one clan. There are several ice dragon clans who are clamoring for you to be handed over to them, and the Elders are debating what to do next. I told them that you and I are in the courting stage, and that should buy us some time.”
    “Oh,” she murmured. How much time, exactly? How long would Orion get a kick out of angering her father’s clan? How long until he decided she was more trouble than she was worth?
    He met her gaze. “They won’t take you,” he said.
    She bit her lip and nodded.
    “In the meantime, would you like to go on a flying tour of our property?”

Chapter Six
     
    They walked out into the meadow behind the house, and stopped by a clearing with a gazebo and stone tables and chairs. Orion stripped out of his clothes, and Cadence concentrated very hard on looking anywhere but at his muscular naked body, which resembled a Greek statue come to life. Chiseled abs, flat stomach, a dusting of dark hair on his chest, a treasure trail leading down…
    Ahem. She needed to think of something else. Anything else.
    She tipped her head back and looked up at the sky. A perfect day for flying.
    “I wish I could shift. I wish I could fly,” she sighed.
    “You may be able to yet.” He shrugged. “From what you’ve told me, your dragon genes only recently became dominant, so they should become stronger over time. There are things that could help. Meditation, visualization exercises, that kind of thing.”
    “I never needed that for my wolf,” she said. “I just closed my eyes and let her flow through me. I miss having an animal side.”
    “I’d like to see this animal side,” he said, with a gleam in his eyes and a curl to his lip.
    She felt her cheeks heat up in a blush. She thought of Viola, consumed with rage and disappointment. Had he flirted with Viola the same way?
    He was a pretty playboy who drew women to him like flies to honey – and he’d told her quite specifically that he’d brought her here to get back at her family. Nothing more.
    “Ahem. You promised me a flying tour?”
    Instead of answering, he let his eyes go red, and scales flowed over his body. She watched his form melt and shimmer, and enormous wings sprang from his back, and then she was standing next to a twenty-foot-long beast of legend. He stretched out his serpentine neck flat on the ground so she could climb on.
    She scrambled on and hugged him, snuggling into his warmth.
    With a mighty flap of his wings, he rose from the ground. His muscles bunched and released, bunched and released, as his wings beat the air and the ground dropped away. His scales were as smooth as liquid silk.
    They drifted through the sky, and she leaned her head over the side of his neck and looked at the valley below. Oh, to fly like this, by his side.
    Not by his side. That will never happen. He wants a fire dragon for a mate.
    Beneath them, the green fields flowed like an ocean, bunching up into hills, dipping into valleys. They flew towards a steep mountain, drifting through the cool wisps of cloud that ringed them, and then Orion landed gently on the mountaintop.
    She slid off his neck onto the ground, and looked around. There was a cobblestone cabin, with a stone table and benches next to it. The vegetation was sparse up here, but there were tall spindly pines and the groundcover was dotted with purple flowers.
    She felt the air ripple, and turned to