Fire Dragon's Baby (Dragon Shifter Scifi Alien Romance) (Elemental Dragons Book 1) Read Free Page A

would erase the past, and she would be reborn as someone who was capable of being loved.
    Kicking off her comfortable but fashionable shoes as she walked across her shaggy carpet, Celeste made her way to her kitchen to pour herself a drink. She undid the top button of her jumpsuit and took a sip of raspberry gin. Drink in hand, she walked across the fluffy rug and gazed out the bank of windows across her wall, taking in the view. With a sigh, she pulled her long tresses out of her work bun. The thick auburn locks waved down her shoulders and curled around her curves.
    The world continued on outside her apartment. People finding love. Achieving their dreams. Living the good life.
    “TV on,” she said to her home holocom system.
    The screen appeared against a wall of her apartment. A Draconian basketball game was playing. It had become a popular sport in the post Mulgor era. She let out a long breath and strode across the room to sit on her couch. Almost all the DNBA players had found mates. There was even a popular reality TV show starring one of the players and his mate. The whole world got to watch as they went through the mating ritual. The naughty bits stayed behind closed doors, of course.
    Celeste tapped the holocom bracelet on her wrist to check her mating lottery app. Still nothing. She really needed to stop thinking about it. Maybe she should ask for a promotion at work. It was getting to be about time for her to move up in her career. It would mean greater responsibility, like being able to head projects to discover more about genetic abnormalities in babies, and greater compensation.
    Celeste took another long sip of the strong, sweet pink drink, and curled her feet up under her on the couch. She liked her job, and she wouldn't mind moving up. She just felt lost. Surely there was someone out there for her. He just hadn't found her yet. With every day of waiting she lost a little more hope. She put down her glass and leaned her head against her hand, watching the DNBA players fly around their Draconian basketball arena. Slowly her eyes began to close.
    Her wrist holocom chirped with a message. She slid her finger across flesh to bring up a message. Her heart lurched.
    You've been mated!
    A torrent of excitement and terror spiraled up inside her, and she felt flushed and numb at the same time. She flicked her finger across the three dimensional hologram to read the details. The first thing she saw was his face. She gasped and dropped her arm. He didn't look like any Draconian she'd ever seen. His eyes shone pure black like two jet stones. His skin was rugged and tinted red. Celeste had grown up seeing the seven-foot-tall, devastatingly handsome, broad-shouldered Draconian soldiers and generals on the holocom. They were all clean cut, organized and dreamy as hell. The expression on this man's face was harder and darker than anything she'd ever seen on even battle-hardened Draconian soldiers in the ongoing confrontation against the Mulgor.
    He had a sharp handsomeness that reminded her of the Draconians she knew. But there seemed to be a kind of raw power inside this man that jumped out of the holocom and grabbed her at her core. She bit her lip, looking at him again. She scrolled down, reading on.
    His name was Salvatt Dorr, the Fire Prince of Galaton. Galaton? That far-flung planet with those barbarians who killed each other for positions of power? This couldn't be happening. All she wanted was a mate and a family. She didn't want to be transported to the other side of the universe to live with this terrifying dragon. She'd always imagined living the good life with a DNBA player like that girl on TV. Staying here on Earth or visiting the exotic Draconia. She'd never dreamed of anything like this.
    She stood from her seat, walking to the window. Anxiety coursed through her veins. Her heart raced. Was she having a panic attack? Celeste leaned against the window wall and looked out at the city beyond. She'd wanted a