Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates novel Chapter 105

Rain

The day after that stressful phone call, I was trying to take a minute to just enjoy my sandwich. We were all running around like chickens with our heads cut off, trying our best to find out where this dragon may have gotten.

One of them was awake and walking around. It was important to find the shifter, question them, and see if we could try to understand the situation we had found ourselves in.

This was even weirder when I found out I was a vampire and Lia realized she was a witch with genuine magic in her blood.

Dragons were supposed to be extinct! I still couldn’t believe they existed and I might not admit this to the rest of my pack, but I was kind of excited to talk to one. There were so many questions I wanted to ask them, the most important one being whether they did sleep on piles and piles of gold.

Or were the rumors of dragons hoarding gold true?

I was tempted to ask one that to their face if given the chance. Let’s hope they didn’t try to burn me with their fire breath too, unless that was a myth too.

There were so many things we didn’t know about them because we thought they died! I was buzzing with excitement, wondering if I’d finally get some answers to these questions.

Dragons interested me since I was a kid. Guess it was normal for a young boy to be interested in dragons. Knowing that they were still alive was stoking that renewed interest inside me.

Jesse strode into the kitchen, tossing his phone onto the table with a heavy thud. “We’ve got a problem.”

I didn’t look up from my sandwich. My body and mind were still buzzing with excitement and I didn’t want whatever Jesse had to say to bring me down.

“Yeah? Join the club.”

“Rain.” His tone had that low, warning edge, the one that meant he was two seconds from throttling me.

It was difficult not to visibly shiver. When Jesse spoke like that you knew you were in deep shit. But stubbornly my eyes remained on my ham sandwich I had carefully made.

Yes, even I could make a sandwich without cutting off a limb or setting something on fire spontaneously. “Rain…”

He sounded more ominous now. I had a choice; I could either continue to stare at my sandwich and try to eat it or look at Jesse.

If I tried to eat, he might take it and throw it away, making all my hard work useless.

Sniffing, I realized I had no choice in the matter. It was either pay attention to Jesse or risk going hungry. As well as getting a swift smack to the back of my head. He wouldn’t hesitate to smack me in the back of the head if necessary.

I sighed, finally glancing up. “Alright, what now?”

“A dragon shifter was spotted near the old Rosewater territory.” I blinked. “Like… awake and walking around?”

Jesse nodded. “And attacking.”

That got my full attention. “Shit. Who’d they go after?”

“Some poor bastard who got too close. Ended up with a broken arm.” I frowned. “That’s not good.”

“No, Rain, it’s not.” Jesse crossed his arms. “So, I’m thinking maybe we should do something about it.” I smirked. “Look at you, stepping up to take responsibility.”

Jesse rolled his eyes. “I knew you were gonna be annoying about this.”

“Oh, come on, you never wanna get involved in things like this. What changed?”

“What changed,” he snapped, “is that if this keeps happening, we’re going to have a much bigger mess on our hands.” I sighed, pushing my plate away. “Yeah, yeah, you’re right.”

Jesse raised a brow. “Did you just say I was right?” “Don’t let it go to your head.”

“Too late.”

I snorted. “Alright, so what’s the plan? Walk up to it and ask if it wants to chat?” “If it means avoiding a fight, yeah.”

I rubbed my chin. “I dunno. That sounds like a plan. My plan involves a lot more running and maybe a little fire dodging.” Jesse gave me a flat look “We are not dodging fire.”

“No promises.”

He pinched the bridge of his nose. “I swear if I get burned-” “You’ll look rugged.”

“If I get burned,” he repeated, “you’re paying my medical bills.” I laughed. “Wow. That’s some faith you’ve got in me.”

“They are already in the car, Rain. We were waiting on you and that fucking sandwich.” Ducking my head, I decided to send a quick text to Tegan.

Tegan, Dragon shifter seen in public! We are going after it so if you can help that would be great. I’ll send you the location. – R The only response I got from Tegan was a thumbs up but it was enough for me.

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Jesse

I might not have told Rain that his idea to reach out to his clan was a good idea, but it was. We could use all the help we needed. No one knew how to deal with a dragon shifter. They were unknown creatures making them unpredictable.

It was easy to track down the creature. People were posting about it on social media, panicking about this strange scaly person with a tail walking around hurting people.

I didn’t think it was meaning to hurt anyone truthfully. The creature had likely woken up from god knows how long of a slumber and now that it was awake, it was confused.

But we had to stop it-and not just because it was hurting people.

I had more selfish reasons in mind for wanting to stop this creature. The witch council was blaming us, meaning we had to do something about it. If not, they were going to come after us and I’ll be damned if that was going to happen.

The scene we came across wasn’t as chaotic as I thought it would be. This creature was trying to make its way away from the area, tripping and falling in its haste to get away.

Another car pulled up beside us. Tegan, Rain’s vampire clan leader, hopped out and nodded to us. “Let’s go. We may be able to do this peacefully.”

I casually climbed out of the car and shrugged. “It doesn’t matter to me as long as we stop it and bring it back to the witch’s council. They want to question the dragon shifter.

It stopped when it heard us approaching. When the creature started to pull back, I realized it was going to attempt to use some of that fire breath we were told that dragons could wield at their enemies.

I rolled out of the way, wondering if I should shift into my wolf form. It wasn’t something I always enjoyed doing because clothing would rip and replacing it was a pain in the ass.

But if we had too then I wouldn’t hesitate to shift into my full wolf form if it meant keeping myself as well as the packsafe.