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libido. And the faster I dealt with those problems, the sooner I’d get to jump Davis. Now that was motivation.
    “Do you have materials in your room that might shed some light on the pendant, the prophecy or the fact that I just turned into a dragon?” I moved up closer to him and slid one hand over his arm. He felt tense under my touch but it was the kind of coiled strength that promised a release of energies that I was fairly sure would be a great deal of fun.
    His head dipped forward, then hesitated mere inches from kissing. His pause left me wanting to jump and claim the temptation. His lips quirked up and he sighed a warm breath out. “Maybe. Hey, I don’t even know your name.”
    “You didn’t think it was important,” I teased.
    He dipped closer once more, this time not stopping until I was almost breathing from his lips. “That was then.
    This is now. Will you tell me your name?”
    “Amethyst.” The dragon’s voice chimed through my mind.

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    “Amethyst?” My dragon had a name? I felt kind of weird having a name for my current dip into insanity, but on the other hand it sort of made sense too. Unfortunately it also made the whole situation too real. The panic I’d been holding at bay welled up.
    Davis pressed his lips to mine, breaking me from the rising fear. His kiss was light but sparked my arousal up a notch. Before I could take control and deepen the kiss, he drew back and said, “Amethyst is a pretty name.”
    “What?” Oh, he thought my name was Amethyst. “No, that’s not my name. My name’s Toni.”
    “But…you just said it was Amethyst.” I couldn’t help but laugh at his confused look. “That’s the dragon’s name.” Weird as it was for my other half to have a name, I wanted to be clear with Davis about her being separate from me. Or at least as separate as two personalities sharing one body could be.
    “She has a name?”
    I cringed a little at my new dual-personality reality.
    Apparently stealing his life’s work was what had changed my life, possibly forever. “When you asked for my name, she answered. It surprised me and I repeated it.”
    “You just learned her name? I take it you weren’t a dragon prior to stealing the Tawasuyus? ” He was really taking this well, a little too well, even for a dragon expert. He should be freaking, maybe not as much as I was, but at least some. “Why aren’t you freaking out? Exactly how many dragons have you met?
    And how did you know this dragon is a she?” He shrugged. “You’re my first dragon. I’m handling it because I’ve dreamed it a thousand different ways, and being female makes sense since she is you.” His gaze darted away. “Shouldn’t we be going inside?” He waved L. Shannon
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    toward the path that probably led to the back entrance of the hotel.
    His back was too straight and his body too tense.
    Different from how he’d been when we touched. And why had he backed off? My nerves tightened. Maybe it was a little too convenient that he studied dragons. Maybe he was a threat. Here I was trusting him, far more than I would any other stranger. Hell, more than I trusted most of my acquaintances. “Wait a minute. You’re not telling me something.”
    “Hurry up, Toni. What if the gun-toting lunatics know where I’m staying? Even if they don’t know now, I imagine it won’t take them long to find out.” He had a good point, but this was too important to let go. I sped up to reach his side and grabbed his arm to stop his flight.
    He stilled under my hand and slowly tipped his head down to meet my gaze. “I looked.”
    “What?” He looked at what? I mean I knew he looked at me standing naked and I was glad he could tell I was female, but that wasn’t what he meant.
    Amethyst’s thoughts flowed over me. “I do not wear clothes. I have no reason to hide my femininity.”
    “Oh. You scoped out my dragon.” I punched him in the arm. “Perv.”
    His face bloomed a cute pink.
    I bit back