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“Let’s go find her,” I stood and stomped my feet, forcing blood to circulate away from my dick. “And, ah, where are we?”
As we walked toward Jay, Lux filled me in. We were still in Drukpa’s fortress, though Lux had renamed it Fort D, the d standing for dragon (not my initial assumption). Drukpa had been a well-known human trafficker and a generally unliked guy. Eventually, someone would show up to claim his underground empire, but for now, Jay paid off his surviving minions. The dead were hidden in plain sight, chill’n and unmarked in the morgue, where, hopefully, they wouldn’t be discovered until long after we’d gone.
Caoimhe and Tenzin were back with Cikku, where they would remain for the foreseeable future. After I passed out, Cikku brought us our stuff and took Tenzin to a human hospital. It would be months before he could shift and fully heal.
“I would say don’t laugh when you see Tyson,” Lux added. “But please do.”
We rounded a corner, and a massive red-scaled dragon tail and three claws stuck out of a door.
“He can’t…” I got the two words out before my laughter interrupted me.
“Feck me, it’s not that funny,” Tyson’s voice came from the room. “And it’s already gotten smaller! I can fit through doors now.”
I raised an eyebrow.
“Tyson didn’t spend much time in Drukpa’s anti-shifting spell,” Lux explained. “Only his leg and tail got caught. We really must enjoy this while we can. It really is shrinking fast now.”
“Fecking Dodo Bird.” Tyson tried to swing at us as we hopped over his overgrown appendages, but his massive leg, which looked like a kid glued it poorly to his human body, kept him pinned in place.
“I mean, it’s less convenient and less fun than your dick, Og,” Lux stage whispered. “But it is a statement.”
Tyson growled and lunged, but his dragon leg hit the wall first, then the ceiling. Chunks of plaster rained down on us, and the fire prince hissed like a snake.
Lux and I burst out laughing.
“Hey, fight after we finish the video!” Jay yelled. “This is the only security room I’ve found.”
I controlled my laughter and observed my surroundings. A collection of monitors, which reminded me of the British Museum, came into view. Rehan leaned against the wall, just out of Tyson’s reach, while Jay sat in the room's only chair.
The water dragon passed me a coffee, then Lux, before returning to his spot. Jay turned in her chair and smiled. I pursed my lips, mentally arming myself for another fight. Her smile fell. Lux kicked me in the shins, but I didn’t change my expression. I just sipped my coffee.
Jay crossed her legs, and I couldn't help but admire their shape.
“I get it,” she said, pulling my gaze to her face. “And I don’t expect anything to change until I can back up my words with actions, but I will do better.”
I snorted. “Just like that?”
Jay wrinkled her nose. “I mean, we had to get our asses handed to us by a two-bit mage with a bunch of toys.” She turned back to the screen. “And, there are these four dragon shifters who’ve been wearing me down for weeks, but I’m sure they have nothing to do with it.”
Lux grinned, and Tyson snorted. I shifted my weight from foot to foot, feeling like I missed something while I slept. Before I could ask, Jay pressed play on the computer. The same video came up on every monitor.
Gold. Coins, bars, and dangling bobbles filled every corner of a large square room. My dragon leaned forward, and a glob of drool ran out of the corner of my mouth. Diamonds sparkled outof display cases. Runes glowed along the back wall, and I forced myself to look away from the massive display of wealth to study the collection of artifacts displayed from floor to ceiling.
My human mind joined my dragon. Our new collection.
Jay’s magic, in the now familiar shape of a portal, shimmered to life in the video, distracting me. She and the same man in a ball cap stepped into what had to be Drukpa’s vault.
The lighting dimmed and brightened as I assumed alarms fired and a hazy gas released into the air. Jay and the man poked around the room for a few minutes, utterly unaffected by the gas, before finding a piece of Gorm’s Casket on the back wall.
Two of Drukpa’s minions came into view in gas masks. One fired a gun while the other sent a bolt of orange power toward the intruders. Jay put her hand up, and both the magic and the bullet slowed before reversing direction and whizzing back to their makers. The minions dropped while Jay and the man made their exit.
Jay paused the video and turned back to us. “So, the man in the video is Bradly Cooper. He is, in fact, my actual ex, I think. Though he’s a bit young to be the old man who said he gave me dragons.”
I raised an eyebrow. “And how did you learn this?”
Jay wrinkled her nose. “Long story short, my accountant. Turns out, I added him to my financials and don’t remember it.”
I sighed. “So, all of this could have been avoided if you just communicated better?”
