Finding the Dragon (Dásreach Council Book 1) by Josette Reuel Read Free Book Online

passing traffic in the middle of the night. As Nat rolled the spare tire to the front of the car, Rogue struggled with the jack as a truck pulled up behind their stranded vehicle. A young man stepped out of the stopped truck, his cowboy hat sitting on his head and his boots looking scuffed and well worn.
    “Y’all need some help?”
    “Sure, that would be great?” Rogue replied.
    “Rogue!” Nat said under her breath and grabbed her by the arm as she started to head towards the man. “We don’t know him.”
    “No worries Nat, it’s just southern hospitality.”
    ***
    Kai’s phone rang. He pulled it from his pocket. Seeing Charlie’s number he pressed his finger to the screen to answer.
    “Go.”
    “Kai, something’s up.” Charlie said through the background noise of passing traffic and the wind whipping across the phone’s mouthpiece. “I’ve been following the girls, but I had to keep a bit of distance because there’s not a lot of cars on the road this time of the night. Then, all of a sudden I was passing them. Their tire blew Kai.”
    “What! How in the world did their tire blow? I thought you checked out Alvena’ s friend and she had just had her car worked on? I would never have left her if I knew the car wasn’t safe Charles.”
    “I know and she did Kai.” Charlie responded with aggravation. Using his first name may have been going too far. Kai thought. But, I need him to understand the severity of this. If something happens to Alvena…
    “I don’t think there is any way the tire would have blown out like this on its own. Luckily, there was an exit right after I passed them and a large wooded area along the road.” Charlie continued. “I parked my bike and ran through the trees. I’m watching them right now, but there is some country knob helping them change the tire." Kai let out some inventive curses. His dragon roared, not at all happy at the idea of some stranger near his mate on the side of a dark road.
    “Do you think someone did something to the tire?”
    “I don’t see how. The only thing that seems plausible is that someone shot it out, but how would they have done that? I was behind them, but not by that far. I would have seen someone set up to shoot at them.”
    “Shite! Should you intervene?”
    “No. The traffic has picked up a bit and I don’t see anyone else stopped but this guy and the girls. But, I really don’t think he is the one that did it. The panther says he’s irrelevant.” Charlie and Kai sat in silence until Charlie spoke.
    “Kai?”
    “Yeah?”
    “Who is the tall one with the blond hair?” Charlie asked.
    “Oh, that’s Nat, why?”
    “She’s mine Kai. The panther says she’s mine and I agree.” Silence once again resonated from both sides of the phone. “Kai, make sure she sees my mark?”
    “Absolutely, my friend… absolutely.”
    Kai was shocked that Charlie thought one of Alvena’s friends was his mate. For two of them to find their mates so close together after all of this time searching… Destiny and the Great Spirit were definitely finally helping them out. Knowing that Charlie would be protecting his own mate, helped Kai calm his dragon and their instinct to shift and fly to Alvena. Not that Charlie wouldn’t protect the lasses without one being his mate, but there is just something about a Dásreach male’s protective instinct when a mate was involved.
    Charlie growled.
    “That prat is lucky her other friend isn’t my mate. With the way he’s flirting, he’s lucky my mate got back in the damn car. Don’t worry, Kai, I’ll stay with them.” He said with another growl.
    Kai thought about Alvena and her friends on the side of the road and what could have happened if her friend hadn’t been so good at controlling the car. Kai was beginning to think he hadn’t been crazy after all for having Charlie meet him at the Memphis airport and then follow them. However, Rogue had obviously stopped the car safely or Charlie would have