Only For Her Dragon (Dragon Guard Series Book 6) by Julia Mills Read Free Book Online Page A

her heart run the show. Had given her head a rest. And it felt good… really good .
    Tea poured and Aaron’s shirt back on, the two retired to the deck behind the house. Several seconds of companionable silence passed before Charlie asked her first question. “How old are you?”
    As soon as the words were out of her mouth, she wished them back in. Thankfully, he chuckled, lessening her embarrassment.
    Dad always said my mouth was gonna be the death of me.
    “I’ll be a hundred and one in about six weeks.”
    “ Holy …seriously?” Charlie spun in her seat to face him.
    “Seriously.” He leaned towards her and laid his hand on hers. “I will always be honest with you. I’m truly sorry we had to keep secrets from you, but that’s all in the past. You ask, I’ll answer.”
    “Cool, but back to your age… Sam said you guys live really long lives and age slowly, but I guess I had no clue you were that much older… I mean you were… Well, hell, there’s no way to say this delicately. I had no clue you were that much older than me.” She stopped and then immediately continued, “Are you the oldest?”
    He smiled and shook his head, obviously enjoying her questions. “No, I’m actually one of the youngest you’ve met. As you know, Aidan and I are twins. I was born first, so technically Aidan’s the youngest of our Force.”
    Charlie slid back into her seat, deep in thought. One of her favorite quotes from freshman English came to mind, there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.  Nobody said it better than Shakespeare. It was one thing to have Sam tell her how old they were, it was another thing completely to get the information straight from the horse’s… oops … dragon’s mouth.
    Apparently, she was lost in thought, because the next thing she knew Aaron was kneeling next to her chair and asking, “Are you okay? Did I freak you out?”
    “No, not at all. Just thinking,” she quickly answered. “You’re gonna have to excuse me. I’m the daughter of a cop and a doctor, so it may take a beat for me to absorb everything.”
    “I understand.” He stood and held out his hand. “Will you take a walk with me?”
    Taking his hand, Charlie stood. “Sure.”
    As they approached the steps leading to the yard, Charlie stopped and pointed at the daisies in the large terra cotta pot. “Did you do that?”
    “Guilty.” She enjoyed the shy look of a little boy busted that crossed his face.
    When her feet hit the grass, she pointed to the rose bush. “That too?”
    “Yep. That too.”
    “Thank you,” she chuckled.
    He shrugged. “I was trying to think of anything that would make you forgive me and at least speak to me. Did they work?” he asked as they started towards the trail behind Sam’s cottage.
    “They are beautiful, but I have to admit that I thought Sam had sent Lance over to plant them as an apology.”
    “You were half right,” he responded.
    “How did you know I liked daisies?”
    “I saw…It was a guess.” He quickly corrected.
    “Nope, you don’t get off that easy, dragon man. What were you going to say?”
    He sighed and glanced ahead before looking back at her and finally answering. “One of the days when I was at the hospital with Devon while Anya was in a coma, I passed by the nurse’s station. You were there. One of the volunteers was passing out flowers. Her cart was piled high with a variety of blooms, but out of all of them, you leaned down and smelled the daisies. Figured that was important, so I tucked it way.”
    Charlie was amazed to think that he’d noticed one insignificant event and even more that he’d remembered it. Something deep inside her heart that had been stirring since they kissed at Devon and Anya’s wedding clicked into place. She wasn’t sure what it meant, but knew it was something she’d have to think about when she had some time alone.
    They walked on, talking about anything and everything. She