Page 7 of Dragon Keeper

Sloan just looked at him. Just at him. It made his heart beat faster, heat rising in his body. Sloan looked very much like his brothers, but to Tyr, he stood out like a beacon. He was so beautiful it hurt.

He cleared his throat. “So now that you know what happened to Myk and his family, what are you going to do?”

Sloan tilted his head. “I’m not sure.” He glanced at his brothers. “Cosmo has asked us to stay for a few days, so we think we’ll do that and decide where to go from here.”

“How lovely. I can bring one of my bees to show you! Perhaps tomorrow.” Was that too forward? He didn’t want to seem bothersome.

Sloan’s smile widened. “I would love that.”

Both of his brothers looked at him oddly, but no one said anything. They just nudged each other.

“Well, I need to eat up so I can go do some planting,” Myk said. “I’ll come back tomorrow too, just to hang.” He beamed. “It’s so damn good to see you guys. I wondered if you had made it across the veil. The Unitas clutch and mine and the Santa Fe clutch all made it right here, but we’ve heard rumors of others across Lunastra.”

“Yeah?” Riley seemed interested by this. “That’s cool. Like, getting to explore a whole new world.”

“It seems to interest Sloan,” Brayden said.

Sloan rolled his eyes at his brothers. “Hush, you. Let’s sit and eat. I, for one, can’t wait to try the honey.”

That had Tyr flushing hot again, but he didn’t mind.

He wanted to watch Sloan eat just as much…

Chapter

Three

“So what’s the deal, bro?” Riley asked him when they were settled into their rooms for the night after they talked to Myk.

Sloan paused in taking off his shirt, blinking. “About what?”

“Well, we saw Myk, we learned what’s left of his family is safe, and we can see this place is in good hands. Fae dragons as guardians. That’s pretty cool.”

“Yeah, so?”

Riley stared at him, eyes flashing. “So when are we leaving?”

Oh, he so didn’t want to have this conversation. There was no way on earth he was leaving. He wasn’t walking away from that little beekeeper, not for love or money. His soul had been caught, fascinated. Maybe mated.

He was going to have a really hard time explaining that to his brothers, though.

“Well, I don’t know; I kind of want to check things out. This is such a new situation.”

Now it was Brayden who looked at him, eyebrow arched. “Uh-huh. What part of it is new?”

Oh, come on, Bray. Help me out.

Not a chance. Work for it.

“Well, obviously the fact that Myk’s in a whole different universe? There are these new triplet dragons who are all these different colors and have fae in them. I mean, come on. There’s not a single part of this that isn’t new, right?”

“Not a single part of this that isn’t new? All right, I’ll play. I’ve got nothing better to do. What’s so fascinating about all this?” Brayden was just being a shit now.

“Well, you don’t find it amazing?” Sloan knew he sounded absolutely idiotic. He could hear it in his own voice, that he was just being a dipshit, but he didn’t quite know how to say. ‘Look, I’m going to stay with the pretty little dragon.’

You cannot possibly be in lust with a dragon that you just saw through the window.

I’m not in lust with the dragon I saw through the window, Brayden.Much.