Her Dragon Captor (Her Dragon King Duet Book 1): 50 Loving States, North Dakota Pt. 1
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Rising…
My eyes suddenly find the padlock on the door leading to the basement.
But no, it couldn’t be. Could it?
The baby moves again, and this time, it’s way beyond squirming. I watch as he does a full on one-hundred-and-eighty-degrees turn underneath the skin of my stomach. Like he’s lining himself up. It doesn’t hurt, but holy Fenrir Wolf does it look and feel strange.
I need some help. I can’t do this alone.
Okay, forget trusting Damianos. I’m desperate.
I grab the cast-iron frying pan off the stove and hit the padlock with all my wolf strength. That does it. I tear the broken lock off its new hinge, twist the privacy lock on the knob below, and yank the door open.
I’m immediately hit with a wall of Damiano’s fire scent along with an underlying, but fairly strong body odor.
“So you got magic tricks,” I call down the stairs. “Good one. But can you come up here? I swear this baby is about to come flying out of my vagina like ‘welcome to show!’”
No answer.
And I don’t understand. I really don’t understand why he would be ignoring me. But a very, very bad feeling invades the extremely small part of my gut not currently taken up by the dragon king’s big-ass baby.
I don’t want to go down the stairs.
But something is telling me I have to.
“Damianos?” I call, my voice small as I grab on to the rail and start making the trek down with the contorting XXL medicine ball inside my stomach.
No answer.
“Damianos?” I demand again after I somehow make it to the bottom of the stairs without falling.
Still no answer.
“Damianos, why are you—”
I stop when I see the man chained to the wall, with shackles on both his wrists and his ankles. There’s not one, but three thick strips of duct tape over his mouth.
He’s sickly thin and only wearing a pair of loose pants.
Like Xenon when we found him….
But not quite. He doesn’t look like Xenon. He looks exactly like Damianos if he suddenly dropped a massive amount of weight.
The shackled dragon’s head lolls to the side in a way that makes me suspect he wouldn’t have been able to respond even if his mouth wasn’t duct-taped shut. He stares back at me out of one glazed eye. And his face…his beautiful, perfectly symmetrical Greek statue of a face…it’s been beaten to a pulp. There are also cuts all over his body. Like, actual stab wounds, deep and painful-looking. Along with bruises.
I have no idea what’s going on, but this man has obviously been beaten, stabbed, tortured, and starved. For weeks.
No, for months, a voice says inside of me, starting to put two and two together.
I take a step forward, unable to tear my eyes away from the pitiful sight of the male who looks exactly like my dragon king underneath all those wounds. No, it couldn’t be…
But the single glazed eye proves it.
It’s brown and matte.
Not golden and glowing.
My heart drops to my feet with a sickening thud. I’d been right, I realize in that moment. I’d been right all along.
Damianos suddenly deciding to turn over a new leaf and becoming my most adoring stan… It was too good to be true. I had been right about that.
The man I’ve spent the last three months with….
The one who made me laugh….
Who told me such great stories…
Who sexed me so good….
And eventually, set me free, because he cared more about my safety than his heart…
That hadn’t been Damianos. At least not the Damianos who got me pregnant three months ago.
This was.
Thank you SO MUCH for reading part one of the HER DRAGON KING duet! I know this is such an awful place to leave it. But I promise you’re going to want to find out how this epic story ends.
Click here to read the final book in the Alpha Kings saga, HER DRAGON KING!
So much love,
Theodora Taylor
P.S. - If you haven’t already read the other books in the Alpha Kings saga, check them out below!
The Complete World of HER VIKING WOLF
ALPHA KINGS
Her Viking Wolf (Chloe and Fenris)
Wolf and Punishment (Janelle and Mag)
Wolf and Prejudice (Alisha and Rafe)
Wolf and Soul (Tu and Grady)
Her Viking Wolves (Tiara, FJ, and Olafr)
ALPHA FUTURE
Her Dragon Everlasting (Fensa and Xenon)
NAGO: Her Forever Wolf (Halle and Nago)
KNUD: Her Big Bad Wolf (Layla and Knud)
RAFES: Her Fated Wolf (Myrna and Rafes)
Her Dragon King (Ola and Damianos)
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Her Viking Wolf
Wolf and Punishment
Wolf and Prejudice
Wolf and Soul
Her Viking Wolves
ALPHA FUTURE
Her Dragon Everlasting
NAGO: Her Forever Wolf
KNUD: Her Big Bad Wolf
RAFES: Her Fated Wolf
Her Dragon King
THE SCOTTISH WOLVES
Her Scottish Wolf
Her Scottish King
Her Scottish Warrior
BROKEN AND RUTHLESS
KEANE: Her Ruthless Ex
STONE: Her Ruthless Enforcer
RASHID: Her Ruthless Boss
THE RUTHLESS NAKAMURAS
Her Perfect Gift
His Revenge Baby
12 Months of Kristal
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Her Russian Billionaire
Her Russian Surrender
Her Russian Beast
Her Russian Brute
THE VERY BAD FAIRGOODS
His for Keeps
His Forbidden Bride
His to Own
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HOLT: Her Ruthless Billionaire
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About the Author
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