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“Whatever you need,” Felix replies.
I take a deep breath, fueling my composure and driving in the decision I've made. If I have to produce children to preserve the dragon species, I'll do it on my own terms. “Don’t try to convince me to sweep her off her feet. She’s only meant to produce children for me.”
“Of course,” is Felix's reply from behind me.
With that, I march over to the lift. It takes me up to the fifteenth floor of the castle, where Brantley guards the surveillance room.
“Aragon,” he greets with a curt nod.
“Hey, buddy,” I reply. “Is Aidan inside?”
The warrior dragon shifter nods. “Yeah. He's on duty.”
Heading inside the room, Aidan sees me and instantly jumps out of his chair.
“Aragon!” he exclaims as he embraces me, slapping my back with jest.
Usually, I'd be more cheerful to see my best friend. Right now, however, I'm a man on a mission.
“I need to find someone from the human world,” I reveal, taking out the photograph. I toss it onto the desk and point at it disdainfully.
Aidan instantly goes to work, tapping on the keyboard, and he pulls up the screen connected to the satellite monitoring the Earth's hemisphere.
“Name?”
“Yazmine Hendricks, age twenty-eight,” I give him.
Aidan nods as he types in the details. When the high-tech screen pans over California, I pinch the air to zoom in closer as it hovers over a building on the city's outskirts.
I know little about the woman who's meant to be my mate. It's not that I'm interested, and it's not her dark head. I focus on it when the camera zooms into the building that appears to be a lab.
Instead, I notice something alarming in front of her. Leaning closer to get a better view, I recognize the giant bone on a metal table.
“Aidan,” I wave him over before pointing at the screen. “Is that what I think it is?”
My best friend joins me at the screen and gasps. “That's not—” His voice breaks off as he shakes his head in disbelief, turning to me.
My heart races in my chest while I watch the woman pour liquid on the bone.
A bone that resembles the structure of a dragon's forearm when the flesh has been peeled away.
I know what it is because the Aurora Museum displays the bones of our forefathers—those who died in battle, leaving only the eternal frame of their dragon skeletons.
The human is onto us. I must get to her before she discovers our existence is real.
Chapter 4 - Yazmine
The eerie hours of the early morning aren't as frightening as the nightmare I had. Driving through the empty streets, I make my way to the lab, groaning when I stop the car and realize I’m still in my pajamas.
“Shit,” I murmur under my breath as I grab my handbag and step out. It’s not like I have to concern myself with the walk of shame I’m about to make. But I’ve never gone to work treating it like a slumber party before.
Not that this visit to the lab is anything but serious. Haunted by the image of a fire-breathing dragon’s face—up close and very personal, I might add—I need to put my suspicions to rest.
At least, the suspicions of my partner, James, who seems convinced that the fossil we extracted in New Zealand belongs to a dragon. A species that doesn’t exist. Unlike dinosaurs that we’ve seen in the past, the fossil lying on the table baffles my mind.
I flick on the light switch, illuminating the room with brilliant white light. My heart skips a beat when my eyes land on the ivory bone in the center of the room, the image of ghastly sharp teeth flashing to my mind.
I take a deep breath, grab a lab coat, and fling my bag on the desk. Determined to uncover the truth about the bone, I start up the particle accelerator before proceeding to the enigma of a fossil.
