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  Table of Contents

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Epilogue

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  CHAPTER 1

  CHAPTER 2

  CHAPTER 3

  CHAPTER 4

  CHAPTER 5

  CHAPTER 6

  CHAPTER 7

  CHAPTER 8

  CHAPTER 9

  CHAPTER 10

  CHAPTER 11

  CHAPTER 12

  CHAPTER 13

  CHAPTER 14

  CHAPTER 15

  CHAPTER 16

  CHAPTER 17

  CHAPTER 18

  CHAPTER 19

  CHAPTER 1

  CHAPTER 2

  CHAPTER 3

  CHAPTER 4

  CHAPTER 5

  CHAPTER 6

  CHAPTER 7

  CHAPTER 8

  CHAPTER 9

  CHAPTER 10

  CHAPTER 11

  CHAPTER 12

  CHAPTER 13

  CHAPTER 14

  CHAPTER 15

  CHAPTER 16

  CHAPTER 17

  CHAPTER 18

  CHAPTER 19

  CHAPTER 1

  CHAPTER 2

  CHAPTER 3

  CHAPTER 4

  CHAPTER 5

  CHAPTER 6

  CHAPTER 7

  CHAPTER 8

  CHAPTER 9

  CHAPTER 10

  CHAPTER 11

  CHAPTER 12

  CHAPTER 13

  CHAPTER 14

  EPILOGUE

  CHAPTER 1

  CHAPTER 2

  CHAPTER 3

  CHAPTER 4

  CHAPTER 5

  CHAPTER 6

  CHAPTER 7

  CHAPTER 8

  CHAPTER 9

  CHAPTER 10

  CHAPTER 11

  CHAPTER 12

  CHAPTER 13

  CHAPTER 14

  CHAPTER 15

  CHAPTER 16

  CHAPTER 17

  CHAPTER 18

  CHAPTER 19

  CHAPTER 20

  CHAPTER 21

  CHAPTER 22

  PROLOGUE

  CHAPTER 1

  CHAPTER 2

  CHAPTER 3

  CHAPTER 4

  CHAPTER 5

  CHAPTER 6

  CHAPTER 7

  CHAPTER 8

  CHAPTER 9

  CHAPTER 10

  CHAPTER 11

  CHAPTER 12

  CHAPTER 13

  CHAPTER 14

  CHAPTER 15

  CHAPTER 16

  CHAPTER 17

  CHAPTER 18

  CHAPTER 19

  CHAPTER 20

  CHAPTER 21

  CHAPTER 22

  Epilogue

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  CHAPTER 1

  CHAPTER 2

  CHAPTER 3

  CHAPTER 4

  CHAPTER 5

  CHAPTER 6

  CHAPTER 7

  CHAPTER 8

  CHAPTER 9

  CHAPTER 10

  CHAPTER 11

  CHAPTER 12

  CHAPTER 13

  CHAPTER 14

  CHAPTER 15

  CHAPTER 16

  CHAPTER 17

  EPILOGUE

  The Dragon’s Mate

  Elemental Dragons Book 1

  Emilia Hartley

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  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

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  Chapter One

  Anya hesitated in the passenger seat of her father’s giant SUV as she looked up at the massive, old building ahead of her. It wasn’t a seat she occupied too often anymore. She had been out of the house for years now and nearly had a bachelor’s degree under her belt. The only reason she’d taken the ride her father offered was because they happened to be going to the same place now.

  It felt odd to be working at the same place as her father after she spent most of her years working against just about everything he believed in. She knew this was the opportunity she’d been waiting for, the internship that would set up the rest of her life. For the Guardians of Existence, this place was a ticking time bomb.

  The Guardians of Existence, an international organization with branches everywhere there were dragon shifters, told the world they would keep order against magic and its chaos. The organization told the world that they protected humanity from the dragon shifters. While dragons were forced out of the closet after the Welsh Occurrence, the day that a Welsh red dragon took vengeance upon a city for his mate’s death, the Guardians of Existence promised the world that they’d always been there. The Guardians, or GOE as it was referred to today, became globally funded and recognized to protect humanity against another Occurrence.

  Her father happened to be an agent of that organization.

  Anya was a bit more skeptical of GOE’s doings. Her father called her a dreamer or an innocent, from time to time. She liked to think of herself as a champion. Dragon shifter rights in the US were woefully lacking. They couldn’t hold jobs in the US, which meant they couldn’t afford to live. If a dragon shifter was seen as disrupting the peace in the slightest, GOE agents had every right to detain or deport the dragon with no trial or investigation whatsoever.

  The US was a nation founded on liberty for all. People sought out the New World with hopes of finally finding freedom. Why, in this day and age, was that freedom suddenly restricted to a certain type of people? Anya threw herself into her Public Relations degree and happily shouldered the minor in dragon history. Soon, she would have that degree in her hands and she’d be able to move on to her Master’s.

  “Are you going to get out of the car?” Her father asked patiently. He probably thought she was afraid of the dragon shifters inside the building. She’d never actually met one face to face. “Or, should I take you home?”

  Anya shook her head. If the world can accept her parents’ marriage, they would learn to accept dragon shifters, too. She gripped the door handle. This building, this Embassy between dragons and humanity, was just the first step. Her internship here would build the foundation she needed to change the world. The first Embassy had recently been built in Wales, the red dragons’ reaction to the recent White Dragon Uprising that had plagued the city.

  The old building before her, with its strong columns and green copper roof, would stand as the meeting place for dragons and humanity in America. The red dragons had sent over an Ambassador to help build it and form relationships across seas. It’s been a stroke of luck or fate that had brought the Ambassador and the American Dragon Leader together, binding them as mates. It was a love story that Anya wholeheartedly bought into; it was good press for the new Embassy.

  Her car door swung open, her hand slipping away. When she saw the face outside her door, her stomach dropped. It took some effort to keep her face from doing the same.

  “Howard Beauchamp!” Her father greeted the man standing outside her door with enthusiasm. Of course, her father approved wholeheartedly of the fellow GOE agent. So much so that her father often hinted at a relationship between her and Beauchamp. She had to hide her gag from him every time.

  “Agent Forrest,” Beauchamp said with a nod of his head. The agent offered Anya his hand to help her out of the SUV.

  She didn’t need it. Her skirt was short enough that she had free range of movement and she’d worn flats because she knew she’d be climbing stairs. Yet, as Beauchamp stood outside her door and his eyes moved over her bare legs, she wished she’d worn a Hazmat suit instead. With a little hop, she jumped out of the car without flashing the Agent.

  “As much as you two should catch up, I need to steal Agent Beauchamp for a briefing,” Agent Forrest said as he came around to her side of the SUV.

  Anya felt her heart leap with relief. She was safe from Beauchamp for the time being. She did have the sneaking suspicion that her father had requested the younger agent as his partner on this assignment only to push the two of them closer.

  If Nathan Forrest truly thought a relationship between her and Howard Beauchamp would ever happen, then he had another thing coming. She’d sooner turn into a crazy, old cat lady than… she felt bile rise in her throat as she even thought about it.

  Beauchamp said his goodbyes, attempting to reach for her hand even though she pulled it away several times. In the end, she gripped her purse strap with both hands to keep him from touching her and watched her father and the agent disappear into the small trailer parked behind the Embassy. It was a small, travel trailer packed with GOE issued computers and technology.

  In other words, a safe haven for the GOE agents to hide from the dragon shifters inside.

  Once Alone with her thoughts, Anya chewed her thumbnail. The old building was at the tail end of the renovations process. People were moving furniture into the building. The other day, some GOE agents had dropped off some old files that she’d been tasked with photocopying for the Embassy’s records. It would be a boring day, but she had hopes that her work would get more exciting as the Embassy grew.

  Her flats were silent on the stone stairs. The man at the door didn’t hear her coming up behind him until she was at the door. His skin was the color of dark bronze and his giant hands were in the process of getting a stiff dummy through the two sets of doors. Anya paused, a smile crossing over her face.

  The sharp lines of his jaw cut a strong profile, clenching as he growled at the dummy in his hands. His shoulders were broad and his arms thick. Anya’s eyes continued to rove over the man’s body, taking in the denim taut over the curve of his ass. It wasn’t until his face shifted and the rising sunlight glinted off his eyes that her breath caught in her throat.

  Color raced over his eyes, reflecting light the way a cat’s eyes did in the dark. This man was not human. Anya tried to force down the dancing feeling in her stomach. She brought her chin up and moved towards the doors. Her eyes slipped to the side again and she couldn’t help but take in the straight line of his nose and his full, lower lip. Her skin tingled when she stepped
closer to him.

  For a reason she could not define, she reached forward and pulled open the door the dragon shifter was struggling with. His head shot up, lips parted in surprise. When his gaze met hers, she felt a fire ignite inside of her.

  His eyes were dark, but she swore she could see flecks of every color shimmering in them. She caught the flash of green and the hints of gold. Anya knew he would mean trouble, but that didn’t stop her from smiling at him.

  ***

  It was one of those dewy kinds of mornings where there was a cool moisture to the air. Later, the sun would peak and the pavement below would make the air unbearably hot. They would need some kind of laughter to get them through this kind of day.

  At least, that was Luc’s reasoning behind what he was doing. He’d gotten up early and flown out to the Embassy before anyone else woke, having two tasks to attend to that day. The Embassy had come a long way in the past month, taking up more and more of Liana’s time. Luc figured his leader’s mate could use a good laugh, too.

  It had been easy to carry what he needed while in dragon form. It was a bit cumbersome in his human form, getting him caught at the front door of all places. A young woman approached and held the door open for him, but when he looked up, his brain stopped altogether.

  Her hair was a soft fall of curls that settled around her chin and there was a splattering of dainty freckles over her nose that Luc couldn’t help but stare at. They were dark on her coffee colored skin. The short skirt of her coral colored dress did nothing to help his addled brain. Her legs were long and smooth, Luc’s brain sending him inappropriate images of them wrapped around him. He felt his brain jumble like someone had put an egg beater directly into his skull. She smiled up at him and it only made it worse. The ability to form words left him completely. All Luc knew was the thumping beat of his heart inside of his chest.

  “What do you need the dummy for?” The young woman’s golden-brown eyebrows slid together in confusion while she held the door.

  For a moment, Luc’s brain refused to process her words. They both paused, unable to speak while the moment grew awkward.

  Luc normally wasn’t like this. He could normally spin lies and half-truths off the tip of his tongue, leading everyone in circles so that they never knew what he was really up to. It was years of practice, really. But, this petite woman had his tongue in a knot.

  Once he hauled the dummy through the door, the intern lingered. Luc couldn’t help taking in her thin legs and the tiny paw print tattoo above her ankle. It was such a silly thing, but it made him smile. He imagined this woman not in a professional dress, but in a pair of loose jeans and one of his shirts while surrounded by a small pack of dogs. It was a happy image and not one Luc should have allowed himself.