Total pages in book: 74
Estimated words: 71497 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 357(@200wpm)___ 286(@250wpm)___ 238(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 71497 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 357(@200wpm)___ 286(@250wpm)___ 238(@300wpm)
“Are you ready, Daddy?” Naked as the day he was born, Kenzie carefully handed over the mug before he started rocking back and forth. “I’m ready because I don’t need to put on clothes just to take them off.”
“Very good point.” Giving him a quick kiss to make him giggle again, I nodded toward the back of the house. “And thank you for my coffee.”
“You’re welcome, Daddy.” Bouncing, he gave me a beaming smile. “I like taking care of you.”
“You take very good care of me.” Following him through the house, I did my best to look relaxed and confident. “Now take a deep breath before you start floating away too.”
That had him laughing as we headed out the back door. “I’m not a mage with a cold, Daddy. I fly. I don’t float.”
That was good to know.
“But how do you fly without being seen?” As odd as the town was, I hadn’t actually seen any dragons over the mountains, so I knew there was some kind of trick to it.
My naked cutie hopped off the back porch, too excited for stairs. “The mages have a spell that keeps us invisible when we don’t want to be seen. It’s like a battery we have to recharge once a year and mine is on my birthday so I don’t forget.”
That was good to know and something I would have to put in my calendar too.
Kenzie the dragon didn’t need to make international news just because he lost track of what day it was.
“Good. That’s one less thing for me to worry about.” I’d find a new one to take its place, so the list wouldn’t go down at all but he didn’t need to know that.
“That’s wonderful.” Kenzie finally stopped bouncing and took a deep breath, closing his eyes and looking perfectly at ease. It seemed like he hadn’t been exaggerating his comfort with being naked outside and I couldn’t help but imagine him just as comfortable with his friends around.
Yep, I was going to have to keep that in mind too.
Dragons equaled naked.
When he opened his eyes and smiled, his sparkle was back. Just knowing it was his dragon side coming to the surface had me marveling.
A fucking dragon.
“How about you sit on the steps, Daddy?” Frowning thoughtfully, Kenzie scrunched up his face. “And maybe set the coffee down? Just for a second?”
That probably wasn’t a bad idea but it made me chuckle. “Yes, no burns we don’t want to have to explain.”
I’d never live it down in town either.
“No burns. No worries.” Nodding to himself, Kenzie took another deep breath. “I’m going to shift into my small form first so you can see what it looks like. Then when you’re ready, I’ll show you how big I get.”
Small then big.
Got it.
“Is that going to be hard on you?” What had I read about shifting and magical creatures that might actually be sound knowledge? “Is this something we should stretch out over a few sessions so you don’t wear yourself out?”
How much of this was magic and how much was physics I’d have no way of understanding?
Would he make himself sick doing it too much?
I felt better when Kenzie started shaking his head, but I didn’t like how little I knew about the process.
The whole fucking thing needed to come with an instruction manual.
“No, Daddy.” Kenzie responded so easily I knew he wasn’t just trying to make me feel better. “I’ll burn more calories when I’m bigger, but that’s it. I might get tired if I went back and forth a lot, but I’ll be fine.”
Okay, I’d need to give him a few snack reminders throughout the day and probably make sure he had more food at lunch…and possibly an earlier bedtime. I could do that.
“Alright.” Smiling and hopefully not looking like it was forced, I made an exaggerated motion to set my cup down. “All set.”
He grinned like he thought I was ridiculous. “Thank you, Daddy.”
Before I could think of another way to tease him or a silly comeback, he scrunched his face up and there was a flash of light like all his sparkling went off at once.
And then there was a fucking dragon.
Kenzie was a fucking dragon…subtle ridges around his head and even a pair of wings tucked close to his body.
Kenzie was a dragon.
I knew he’d said it several times and all his friends had said it. Hell, it’d even sounded logical at a certain point, but the reality didn’t set in until I saw a small, probably two-foot-long, perfectly sculpted dragon sitting on the lawn where Kenzie had just stood.
Putting the coffee down had definitely been a good idea.
I really should’ve asked more questions.
Kenzie the dragon stayed so still I almost wanted to poke him and see if he was real, but after a few long moments, his tail swung back and forth. In any form, Kenzie could only stay still for so long and soon he was shifting from side to side, probably doing his best not to jump around.