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sinking.
    “You mean…oh, crud.”
    She nodded unhappily. Then she closed her eyes and blew out a breath, and the air in front of her went frosty. Ice crystals formed and drifted down to the ground.
    She knelt down over a puddle on the ground and blew on it. A very thin skin of ice formed.
    She stood up again and sighed. “Yep, ice dragon. Weak, wimpy, ice dragon who can barely make a snowflake.”

Chapter Four
     
    Well. It made perfect sense that he’d never heard of her, then. Of course the registry wouldn’t have listed her as a potential match for him. Ice dragons and fire dragons didn’t mate. Not that they couldn’t, it just wasn’t done. The last time an ice dragon and a fire dragon had got together, it had ignited a war between their two clans, and large parts of Italy had burned down. Of course, that had been five hundred years ago, but dragons had long memories.
    She was all wrong for him.
    So why did she feel so desperately, urgently right?
    “You…you saw my eyes go red back the restaurant,” he protested. “Only fire dragons do that. Ice dragons’ eyes go blue.”
    She shook her head. “I didn’t grow up with dragons, remember?” she said. “I grew up with humans and wolf shifters.”
    “Ah. I see.” What to do, what to do? He should fly her back to her place and resume his search for an appropriate mother for his young. He should never see her again.
    Yep. That was what he should do.
    He stood there, staring at her lean body, her wild tousled hair, the delightful freckles standing out on her pale skin. He admired the curve of her small breasts and the sexy bump in her nose, and imagined another dragon claiming her.
    Hot rage shot through him, and before he could stop himself, he let out a small jet of flame from his nostrils. It flared red and yellow before it vanished.
    Cadence didn’t notice. She was staring off at the city skyline, standing out in sharp relief against the setting sun. After a long, long moment, she looked back at him. “How did you find me here?” she asked, her voice distant and sad.
    “I was trying to find you. The waiter told me you’d left in a cab. I called the cab company, and they insisted they hadn’t sent a cab to your area, so I went out looking for you.”
    “Well, thank you for that.” She looked at the dead man’s burned body and shuddered. “I can’t imagine what would have happened if you hadn’t come.”
    “Anyway,” he said. “I wanted to tell you the reason I reacted that way to the waitress. She didn’t just wander by and spill that soup by accident. She’d been hitting on me all afternoon – even followed me into the men’s room.”
    “She did not .” Cadence’s eyes flashed angrily and went reptilian for the briefest moment – blue, with vertical black slits for pupils.
    Was she jealous? And why did he like the idea so much?
    “Oh yes she did. Offered to show me a good time right there in the bathroom stall, if I could see my way to leaving a very generous tip. I threw her out, and she came by my table and dropped a napkin with her number on it on my lap. When she approached you, I saw her deliberately spill the soup on you.”
    “Then your reaction was completely understandable,” she said. “I appreciate you letting me know. It was just that between the way you treated Daisy when I first got to the restaurant and the way you reacted with the waitress, I assumed you were…well, a rich, condescending jerk. Not my type.”
    He nodded. “I can see where I gave that impression. I really did think that Daisy was your employee. You haven’t been around dragon clans, so our ways are going to take some getting used to. The Dominus and his family are dragon royalty, and there is a certain formality maintained between us and our servants. It’s not meant to be rude, it’s simply tradition.”
    “I understand. Not that it matters, I guess, because of the whole fire and ice thing. Damn it.”
    “I know,” he sighed. “This is