Revealing the Dragons (Stonefire Dragons #2.5)

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Author: Jessie Donovan
Tags: FICTION / Romance / Paranormal
on the crowd. Now that the first question was out of the way, her confidence was nearly back to normal. She could take whatever they threw her way.
    Tapping the side of the podium with her right hand, Mel pushed on. “Next question?”
    A bevy of hands shot up again. Melanie pointed to one of the men in the crowd. “You with the green tie, what’s your question?”
    Almost as if they had rehearsed, the crowd dropped their hands and fell silent again. The man with the green tie spoke up. “Is your book just a stepping stone into forcing Westminster to try to change some of the strict laws surrounding dragon-shifters?”
    The same man from earlier inched closer to the front of the crowd. His short, dark hair made his blue eyes stand out, but nothing else about him was striking. His suit and tie combo were similar to all the other men in the crowd, yet his face was hard. The expression wasn’t one she would expect to see on a journalist.
    If his appearance wasn’t strange enough, he had yet to raise his hand to ask a question.
    Then the man’s piercing blue eyes met hers for a split second and the hairs rose on the back of her neck. Even with the distance between them, she swore there was a burning hatred in his gaze.
    A hatred she didn’t understand considering she’d never met the man in her life.
    Tristan squeezed her hand on his arm. Focusing back on the man with the green tie, she brushed aside the feeling for the time being. She needed to make a first good impression with the press. “I’m hoping to catch everyone’s notice with my book. It’s been thirteen months since I last hugged my mother and father because it’s illegal for them to visit me. It’s also been too risky for me to leave while I was pregnant and even more so now that I have young children who are half dragon-shifter. The journalists who came to Stonefire three months ago had special privilege; it’s my hope that the same right is granted to those without political connections in the near future.”
    Mel scanned the crowd. Once she found the man with the dark hair and blue eyes, she kept her eyes trained on him. He was pressing even closer to the podium.
    She said, “Next question,” even though she knew who she would pick, if given the opportunity.
    The man she’d been watching finally raised his hand so she pointed at him. “Yes, you with the maroon tie and gray suit.”
    Even though the man’s expression was neutral, with no trace of the hatred from earlier, her intuition steeled her for the worst.
    The man asked, “The humans and dragon-shifters have enjoyed the greatest peace in decades. Why risk the status quo?”
    Some of the tension eased from Mel’s body. His question was harmless enough. “Just because humans and dragon-shifters are killing each other less now than they have in decades doesn’t mean it’s peaceful. We should be working together for a better future, not hiding away in our own cultures, pretending the other doesn’t exist unless it’s convenient.”
    A male voice in the crowd shouted, “You should have become a politician.”
    Others in the crowd laughed. Mel smiled, but before she could reply, the man in the gray suit and maroon tie beat her to it. “Who wants a dragon’s whore to represent them in Parliament?”
    Tristan growled and she put a hand on his chest. Glancing over at her dragonman, she gave a small shake of her head. Then she looked back at the man in the crowd. “You’re clearly one of those people who don’t have an open mind and nothing I say will change it. I think you should leave.”
    From the corner of her eye, Bram signaled two of the Protectors standing guard around the crowd. The Protectors moved toward the man. They’d barely moved a few feet when the man raised a fist. In the blink of an eye, three people, in addition to the insult-throwing man, pulled out guns and fired. As the sound of guns being fired, mixed with screams from the crowd, Mel barely blinked before Tristan
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