Dragon's Fake Wedding Date - Riley Storm Page 0,1

up being the photographer when he proposed? That would just be the sweetest, cutest thing ever!

“Hi,” Gayle said back after an eternity, wondering why Mikey still hadn’t said anything.

The trio stood at the door awkwardly for another long handful of seconds, until Karen nudged Mikey with her hip, and Gayle’s boyfriend jerked his head up.

“Can we come in?” he said, his face stretching in what might have politely been called a smile. “We need to talk.”

Boy, he’s so nervous he looks like he’s sweating. This must be it!

In her own home wasn’t precisely where Gayle had imagined getting proposed to, but maybe Mikey had something special in mind. She didn’t want to ruin it, so she stepped back from the door, gesturing graciously for the pair to enter.

They walked back into her living room, which was off to the left from the front door. At his urging, Gayle took a seat in the center of her couch, while Mikey and Karen stood opposite her. He wanted her seated, in preparation. So adorable!

Except, the coffee table is in the way. Is he going to move it? What’s going on here?

Then, they all just waited. In silence. Gayle wanted to speak up, to say something, but this wasn’t her time, wasn’t her moment. She had to wait for Mikey to make the next move. Didn’t she?

Then Karen nudged Mikey. Again. With her hip. Again.

It was a strangely familiar, almost intimate gesture. Gayle hadn’t quite caught it the first time, so caught up in seeing Mikey and thinking of a ring, but this time it happened right at her eye level.

“Um, so listen, Gayle,” Mikey said, and her attention snapped back to her boyfriend. “This is, well, it wasn’t planned. Nobody expected it, you know.”

Gayle’s smile faded, slowly being replaced with a frown at the odd, uncomfortable stammering from Mikey. Surely, he’d rehearsed what he was going to say a hundred times, right? Was he just making this up as he went along?

“What are you talking about, Mikey?” she asked, interrupting him, hoping to give him a chance to recover and find his stride. This wasn’t the proposal she wanted or had dreamed about.

Maybe it’s not a proposal after all.

Mikey fell silent, looking everywhere around her house except at Gayle. He was actively avoiding looking at her, and that started to make Gayle feel uneasy.

“It was a surprise,” Mikey said and then stopped.

Beside him, Karen sighed, and Gayle switched her focus to her friend, wondering if she would be able to help Mikey get himself together.

There was movement between the two, and Gayle watched as Karen slid her fingers through Mikey’s, holding them tight in a move too natural to not have been practiced.

“Listen, Gayle,” Karen said, smiling widely. “I don’t want you to get mad over this, because you’re my best friend and I love you, but you need to know. Mikey and I are in love, and we want to be together.”

Gayle went still. The wall clock off to her right ticked loudly as each second went by. With a slow strangeness, Gayle turned her head to look at it.

6:52.

She watched it for a long time, the long, thin second-hand moving swiftly around in a circle.

Silence reigned.

Mikey and I are in love and we want to be together. The words echoed in her head.

Silence filled the room.

We want to be together. Her eyes dropped back to their clasped hands, fingers intertwined comfortably with each other.

Gayle stared in silence.

Karen opened her mouth to speak.

Gayle shot to her feet.

“What the fuck?!”

Chapter Two

Rann

The loudest sound was that of his teeth grinding together.

With an effort, Rann relaxed his jaw, forcing himself to be patient as the team deployed, surrounding the condemned warehouse down near the rail yard. It was hard though. A lot was riding on this raid.

His informant had called up Rann earlier that day with word that unusual activity had been spotted at the old two-story building that originated in the early days of the small mountain town of Five Peaks. It was the best tip that he and the other dragons had been given about vampire activity in weeks.

They needed it. All their patrols and searching had been for naught. Ever since Pietro had managed to kill two of the vampires in a brutal fight, there had been zero sightings, zero information that might lead the dragons to find the creatures from the Otherworld.

It’s high time we kicked their asses out of here. They don’t belong on Earth. That’s our domain, and

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