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of the plate. The beans on the plate started to bubble. “Forget her.” Her teeth gritted together.
    “No.”
    The extent of her jealousy surprised and frightened her. Was this how it was for DRAGON’S HEART Marly Mathews 170
    someone feeling the mating call? She could only imagine how lost her father felt—she could at least sympathize with him when it came to his feelings of losing her mother.
    Her emotions for him were raw. She couldn’t help herself—not in any way. She usually prided herself on her self-control but in this instance, she was powerless.
    “I guess I don’t have to worry about eating cold food when you’re around.”
    She looked down at the plate she still held. The beans bubbled and the toast was getting black around the edges.
    Before she could do any further damage, she placed the plate on the table. “You should eat and get to bed. It’s late.”
    “Are we staying here for the time being?”
    “This cottage is safe. It has been magically blessed. It is on sacred land … we will not be attacked here.”
    “Sacred land?”
    “Our kind cherishes this land.”
    She sat with him while he ate. Scrutinizing his face, she committed each feature to her memory. The cleft in his chin, the dimple in his left cheek.
    He kept his eyes on his plate. “Are you going to stare at me all night?” He raised his head to meet and hold her gaze.
    “I’m attempting to come to terms with having you as my mate.”
    “I don’t look like a troll.”
    “You can say that again.”
    Redness started to creep up his neck to flood his face. “I didn’t sign up for this sort of thing. I never dreamt I’d find someone as horny as you. To make matters worse you are my bloody protector. How do I contact your King and Queen?”
    “You don’t need to know that. You have me as your constant companion. If you need to talk to my leaders, I can relay the message. Besides, I contact their advisors before directly speaking to the monarchs. They have other things to concern themselves with.”
    “I’d have thought I topped their list of concerns right now. They need me.”
    “Indeed. But their people need them, as well. Do you know how many of us
    have died already?”
    “Can’t say I’m privy to the casualty reports.”
    She took offense to the tone of his voice.
    “Ten thousand. Ten thousand of us have died already.” Her hands shook. She
    fought to control her breathing.
    “Ten thousand?” The hand holding his fork trembled for one brief moment. “I
    didn’t think there was that many of you to ....”
    “Sacrifice themselves for the humans that condemned them?”
    “Yes.”
    “There are … and thousands more are willing to put their lives on the line.”
    “I didn’t realize. I’m sorry. I’ve been making light of the entire situation when it’s no laughing matter.”
    “You should have realized that when Denys showed up in your shop hell bent on
    killing you!”
    “I was doing alright before you showed up! I could have handled the situation. I was just about to slam him with a spell to finish him off and you went and ruined DRAGON’S HEART Marly Mathews 170
    everything!”
    “I think you’re being a tad melodramatic. Everything you’d thrown at him
    seemed to bounce right off him.”
    “I told you, the blood on me wasn’t my own.”
    “It would have been. He would have killed you.” She took a deep breath. “I
    think he knows.”
    “Knows what? Everyone knows I’m the one trying to come up with the forbidden
    spell.”
    “He knows what you are to me. He must have gotten a seer to read my life
    destiny.”
    “Well, then, he should already know he’s going to lose.”
    “The future is scaled into different sections. One wrong move could tip the fate of us all into another splintered destiny. I have no way of knowing who will win this war—neither do any of our seers—nothing is absolute, except for my mate—there is only one man meant for me—and it’s you.”
    “That’s