He narrowed his eyes offering me an exhausted look. “Unless you would have wanted to be interrupted last night, I thought it best for me to stay down here.”
I barked out a laugh and shook my head, realizing the bastard had yet to sleep. Masculine pride filled me a bit thinking about how good I’d made her feel and how I’d marked up her sexy little body.
“Any chance you think she won’t want to go to school today?” He continued.
I grinned, “I think if you let her sleep, she won’t mind at all. We need to make a decision on this school stuff. The twins were telling me that she’s been getting dirty looks from a lot of the humans, I am worried it's going to escalate.”
“Monday is her last day, if that’s what she wants,” Marco took a sip of his coffee.
“We may have a bigger issue than that.” Henry stated, walking into the kitchen fully dressed, “I can’t believe it slipped my fucking mind, but yesterday when we were leaving gym, those two asshole FBI agents showed up to talk to Maya.”
Marco froze as a low sound broke from my throat, “Bradley and Darren?” I had already looked them up after they’d stopped at school looking for her on Wednesday.
“Yep,” Henry nodded. Before Marco could say anything, I was out the door and shifting. As a shadow dragon, my shift came far easier and more quiet than the others, allowing me to soar through the sky essentially invisible. I could feel frustration through my bond with Marco but he didn’t issue a command to come back. Which was a solid fucking idea considering I wasn't sure I would even follow it. It felt like only minutes of gliding, my dragon thrilled to be let out especially after having marked our mate last night, but he still had complaints. Now he wanted her to see him, because for whatever fucking reasons our dragons really thought that was important.Cocky showoff bastards.
I landed silent in a forest outside a quiet highway motel that was about fifteen minutes from Maya’s school. Glad that I could shift easily with clothes on. Of course I knew exactly where the fuck they were staying. I may not have had a chance to place a tracker on them yet, but as I rounded the motel I found their black SUV and ducked down to place one underneath it. When I stood, I narrowed my eyes at the third motel door and walked right up to it, knocking because this wasn’t going to require much effort.
I nearly rolled my eyes when I heard the click of a gun safety and the door opened to reveal Bradley. I reached forward, angled his gun up and crushed it. Offered him a disinterested look as he paled and stumbled back. Rookie. Darren on the other hand, who was damn well aware of the supernaturals in the area, sat on the edge of the bed and offered me a smile.
“Pack up your shit now, you're leaving,” I drawled, feeling annoyed I wasn’t back in bed with Maya or at least drinking coffee.
“What the hell?” Bradley muttered, as I shot my hand out, grabbing his shirt, to stop the lanky bean-string of a man from starting something he couldn’t finish. Darren muttered a curse at his partner and stood, crossing his arms.
“You know we can’t do that,” he stated evenly, “we have to look into this. Although after hearing Maya’s story and paired with the lot of you involved, it’s not very hard to figure out what happened.”
I growled and he threw his hands up. “Hey, you know I don’t get involved in that supes political bullshit. My wife is one of you.”
“So then you know you need to leave,” I offered, releasing Bradley. He gasped for breath, falling on the floor.
“We can’t until we have something,” he offered quietly.
I shook my head, inhaling, “You have exactly twelve fucking hours, understand?”
Darren’s jaw clenched as I looked down at Bradley. “You may also want to update him on how things go around here, because if I was anyone else, that gun wouldn’t have been the only thing crushed. Understand?”
Darren nodded as Bradley offered me a searing expression. I left the motel room and pulled out my phone, seeing that I’d been able to easily connect to their two devices. Now I would receive any texts or calls going in and out. My shift back into my dragon was easy and I’d been confused on why he was so eager to get back until the backyard came into sight.
Maya stood on the stone porch in an oversized shirt and sweats, rubbing the sleep from her eyes as she looked skyward. Instead of shifting, I stayed in my dragon form landing easily as a smile broke out onto her face. She was instantly running across the yard as if she was approaching a fucking puppy not a god damn dragon. I huffed at that thought because we really didn’t want her seeing us as cute and cuddly but it was better than her being scared of us.
“Atlas!” she chimed, I bent my head down as she came to stand right in front of my snout, her hand soft and small on my nose. “You are so beautiful.”
I wanted to laugh at that but my dragon produced a low rumble that had her running her hand gently across my scaled face, removing any of the frustration at being called beautiful. I really didn’t mind, it was all him. After a moment, I managed to convince him to shift back as she made a surprised sound, my form dissolving and reforming into how I looked normally.
Her eyes flashed over me as a small pout formed her lips, I was confused until she said, “Why didn’t you shift back naked?” The laughter burst out of me.
“Sorry, Angel,” I barked out a laugh and picked her up, my hands on her ass as she wrapped herself around me like a monkey. “Some of us have the ability to shift easily with clothes on.”
“That’s disappointing,” she mumbled, I smiled but groaned at how I started to get hard.
“I’ll make sure to shift without clothes on next time,” I winked as she wiggled against me causing me to let out a low rumble.
“Where did you go?” she asked, tilting her head, “You smell funny.”
I knew she was talking about the FBI agents and it thrilled me that she was becoming more intune with her magic. “I went to go have a talk with those assholes that bothered you at school.”
“The FBI agents?” She wrinkled her nose as I nodded. Some men would have probably shied away from telling her that they’d gone to scare them, but I didn’t. I was totally okay with telling her and I never wanted to bullshit Maya. Sure, there was a learning curve, but I didn’t think for a minute that she couldn’t handle it.
“Yep,” I confirmed as I set her down in the kitchen. Marco shook his head and pulled a blanket over her shoulders.