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demanding. You’re a big bad dragon. You can handle it. Sounds to me like you guys were made for one another.” In human form, he was a glorious being, but I’d seen him go full-out dragon with the silvery scales and fiery breath—again, glorious, but not my type.
    “You must.” It was as close to a whine as I’d ever heard from the great warrior, a being that chose to live high above the clouds rather than in the castle he’d been given on the land below because he felt he could protect his world better while living above it. “I cannot trust that Jene won’t kill me.”
    “Wow!” I shook my head. “That’s probably a big con on the getting married thing. She must really hate you. What did you do to her?”
    He snarled. “I did nothing. She’s a female who enjoys power, sometimes too much. That is something I respect in a way, but if she found herself in a position where she could take over my world, I have a feeling she would.”
    I clicked my tongue. “Ambitious, is she? Well, I’m sorry, but I still can’t help you.” A picture of Jake flashed in my head. I don’t know why, but his image gave me a brilliant idea. “I have a boyfriend at home, and I don’t think he’d understand.” It was a lie, but I needed all the ammunition I could get.
    “He is your mate?”
    I smirked. “Not in the way you understand the word, but yes, we are close.”
    “I will fight him for you.” He gave me a determined look.
    “Uh, no. Not going to happen. Look. Man up, or dragon up in your case, and handle the situation. You’re running a world. Just tell them the wedding is going to have to wait until the new government is installed. Any reasonable person will understand.” It dawned on me that dragons were about the least reasonable creatures that existed in our universe.
    “You will not marry me?” He suddenly looked defeated.
    “Hey, you’re a good-looking guy and all, but I’m going to marry for love. Or something close to it.” I wasn’t sure I believed in happily ever after. My relationship history was rocky at best. The last two romances I had been in were miserable toward the end, and I was beginning to wonder if maybe there was something wrong with me. But I wasn’t so desperate that I’d marry a dragon. And honestly, while I admired his muscle-toned body and beautiful silver hair in an aesthetic way, Ginjin didn’t do a damn thing for me otherwise. And if I were to marry someone, I had to at least be attracted to them sexually. “So that answer would be no.”
    “I wish you to leave now.”
    I shrugged. “Okay.”
    “I will speak to your mother. Perhaps she can reason with you.”
    My head snapped up. “What? No. I told you, I have someone.” Besides, my mother would never go along with it. Would she? God, she was always about the greater good and keeping the peace. No, no. Even she wouldn’t wish a dragon on me. Dread formed in the pit of my stomach.
    If she even tried, I’d pull in my sisters and brother. They wouldn’t let it happen. What the hell was I saying? I wouldn’t let it happen. Stop being an idiot.
    “Ginjin. It’s a waste of time. I will not marry you for any reason. I’m outta here. Oh, and by the way. One of your dragons was trying to steal something out of a church in Montreal. I killed him. But his body was picked up by a large group of your people. Dragons that didn’t show up on our radar until after the fact. Maybe instead of trying to ruin my life, you could check into that.”
    I pushed the button on the watch and stepped through the portal, but not before I heard him say, “We will see, Guardian.”
     
     
     
    “He said what?” My sister Gillian howled with laughter. “That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in weeks.” She dabbed a tear with her napkin. She’d set up a tea tray with strudel for her and our sister Mira in the TV room. A big screen on the far wall played Practical Magic , which meant one of them had had a bad day. It was their