Draconians: Complete Series (BWW Dragon Shifter Scifi Romance)

by Grove, Scarlett

  “Well, I’ve had a long day. I already spent several hours at the lab. It’s time for me to go home and rest. Nash doesn’t like it if I exert myself too much at this stage in my pregnancy.”

  “I’ll walk you back down to your apartment,” Loretta said to Tabby. “Help you find the way.”

  The girls all left together.

  “Had a great time today. I’m so glad you guys are so nice,” Tabby said to Loretta outside Tabby’s door. Loretta opened her arms and gave Tabby a big, warm hug. Loretta had the southern charm to match her southern accent. She might be a whiz with math and money, but she was also a really sweet girl.

  “I did, too. Let’s do this again soon, maybe tomorrow,” Loretta said before saying goodbye and turning away down the corridor.

  Tabby went into her apartment and sat in the living room, facing the big wall that looked out onto space. Her life was more complete than she ever expected it to be. It was strange and wonderful and exhilarating.

  Oro stepped out of the bedroom, naked and with wet hair. She smiled at him, slightly embarrassed to see him that way. The Draconians didn’t seem to mind their nakedness at all. They had played the entire game of Draconian basketball in the buff.

  He flicked the spot at the base of his neck and his uniform reappeared. She was glad that he covered himself, because she didn’t know what she would do if she had to look at him like that. His hard, chiseled muscles and thick, long shaft made her mouth water. After last night, she was still a little sore and wasn’t sure if she was ready for another round quite yet.

  “I’m glad you’re back. I have something I want to talk to you about,” Oro said, sitting beside her on the couch.

  “What is it?” she said, her curiosity piqued.

  “You did such a fantastic job helping me with my mission, the commander and general have helped me come up with an idea of how we can utilize your expertise.”

  “I wouldn’t call hanging out around gangsters expertise.” Lexi and Loretta were both experts. Lexi was a chemist and Loretta was a financial whiz. Tabby was just a girl from the ghetto who spent too much time with the wrong people.

  “It is expertise. We would like you to head up a task force in researching the dark internet where the techno-drug users congregate. We want to infiltrate that world so we can pinpoint the source of the corruption.”

  “The only way to get in there is to take the drugs,” Tabby said, shocked and appalled that he would suggest such a thing.

  “We have a way of allowing you into the system without using the drugs. It’s completely harmless. We would never suggest anything that would hurt you.”

  “Oh, okay,” she said.

  “Since you understand and have experience with people like Leo Hendrix and Juan Norte, you will have more insight into their organization than anyone else. We have intel that can help you, but none of us have your experience.”

  “So you want me to be like a virtual spy or something?” She liked the idea the more she thought about it. In fact, it was exactly the kind of thing that she wanted to do. “That sounds amazing.”

  Tabby liked action. She wanted to be involved. She was at her best thinking on her feet and making quick decisions. Oro was offering her absolutely everything that her heart could desire. He’d given her a luxurious apartment, love, closeness, friends, safety, and now he was giving her the most kick ass job that she could imagine. She got to be a techno-spy. Awesome.

  “I’m glad you agreed.” He brought her into his arms and she leaned against his chest. He explained to her more of the details of how her task force would work, and she listened to him speaking as they sat on the comfy couch and looked out into space. A few days before, Tabby never would have imagined that her life would be so complete and so full of love.

  Stealing that motorcycle and joining the Draconian mating lottery had been the best decisions she’d ever made.

  Alien General’s Wife

  He's her last hope ... and she might be his.

  A devastated woman ...

  When Indigo Robertson learns that her name has come up in the Draconian mating lottery, the timing couldn't be worse. The benevolent dragon shifter aliens need human women to replenish their DNA ... but their ancient enemy, the Mulgor, have followed them to Earth and invaded.

  The news that she's been matched with a Draconian warrior comes just after the Mulgor kill Indigo's entire family. Filled with grief and guilt, she can't allow herself any happiness. Not even with a seven-foot-tall, sexy as hell dragon shifter.

  A determined alien ...Vlosh Torr can't afford distractions. The highest-ranking officer in the Draconian military, he is charged with driving the Mulgor invaders from Earth. But he cannot resist the lure of his resilient little wife, her sexy curves, and the roar of his inner dragon.

  Two crucial battles Vlosh must fight the Mulgor while he courts a mate who's fighting her feelings. But when Indigo makes an important discovery, will it mark a turning point in their relationship ... and the campaign to protect Earth?

  Chapter 1

  Indigo Robertson sat on the lumpy futon in her dorm room, reading a romance novel about aliens from far-off worlds. It had been written a decade ago when the idea of aliens had still been science-fiction. Everything was different now.

  Her roommate Molly burst through the door and flopped on her bed across from Indigo’s. The willowy blonde was Indigo’s complete opposite. While Indigo was curvy with cocoa skin and kinky black hair, Molly was fair and skinny.

  Indigo might be curvy, but she was on an athletic scholarship for tennis. She blamed the extra padding on her heritage, but the truth was, it was all muscle underneath.

  Molly sighed. She had a date almost every night with a different guy. Molly wasn’t easy, but she did have a lot of guys buying her dinner. Not that Molly ever ate anything.

  “I really liked this one,” Molly said. “Why do guys have to be such jerks?”

  “I have no idea. I don’t even bother,” Indigo said.

  She hadn’t had a boyfriend since high school and didn’t want one either. She was too busy with her schoolwork and tennis practice to get involved with the annoying dudes around campus.

  Since the economy had gone into recession several years ago, the only guys who ended up in college tended to be entitled, self-absorbed jackasses. Unlike Molly, Indigo didn’t want to have anything to do with that scene.

  “But don’t you ever get lonely?” Molly asked wistfully. She brushed a long strand of blonde hair out of her face and flopped on her back on her fluffy pink comforter.

  “I have you,” Indigo said. Molly could get a little obnoxious with her flighty wistfulness, but she was a good friend and a sweet girl. At the end of the day, Indigo really did love Molly. They’d been roommates for two years and had become best friends despite their differences.

  “Indigo, you’re so sweet. Any guy would be lucky to have you.”

  “They’d have to catch me first,” Indigo said, holding back a snort. She set the romance novel down on her nightstand. Her book boyfriends were all that she could handle right now. Human men just couldn’t compare.

  After the Draconians, the dragon shifter aliens, had landed on Earth and offered advanced technology in exchange for human cooperation in their mating lottery, millions of girls had lined up for their chance to win.

  When Indigo had turned eighteen, she’d entered the mating lottery herself. The seven-foot-tall dragon shifters not only offered five hundred thousand dollars to the family of any girl who was chosen, they were also superfine in every way imaginable. Indigo had never seen a Draconian up close, but from what she’d seen on television, those guys left human men in the dust.

  Since the advanced technology that the Draconians had brought to Earth had sent the human economy into turmoil, people needed the money from the mating lottery more than ever. Indigo’s parents certainly could have used the cash, but she hadn’t been genetically matched with an alien.

  She was offered a ten
nis scholarship to her university, and she’d jumped at the chance to get a college education and play her favorite sport. Maybe after college she would even become a pro, who knew? For now, she was focused on her studies and planned to become a fitness trainer.

  In the last several months, the Draconians had become more involved in Earth society after a series of terrorist attacks. But things still hadn’t improved all that much on a day-to-day basis for the average human. Molly clicked on the television with the remote and started flipping through channels until she landed on the news.

  Breaking news: the Earth is under attack. The Earth is under attack. An unknown alien species has landed on the planet. Several cities have been bombed. New York. London. Paris. Stay indoors and stay tuned for updates.

  “What the hell?” Molly asked. “Have the Draconians turned against us?”

  “Why would they do that? They want to mate with our women. They need us to revitalize their DNA and save their own species from extinction. Hurting us would hurt them.”

  “These are different aliens?”

  “I guess,” Indigo said below her breath. Things had been bad enough since the Draconians had arrived. Human consciousness had to expand to incorporate the reality of alien life forms.

  Not only did aliens exist, they were seven feet tall, hunky, and wanted to make babies with human women. There had been mass hysteria and fear of global nuclear war. When the Draconians offered advanced technology to humanity in exchange for entering the mating lottery, the gap between rich and poor had widened more with each passing year.

  Now, humanity would have to contend with a new alien species who obviously wanted to do them harm. Indigo shook her head and bit her lip. This was totally messed up.

  “Change the channel and see if there’s more information somewhere else,” Indigo said to Molly.

  Molly flipped through the channels and landed on another news station showing a video of a group of aliens shooting up a university in Chicago. Indigo and Molly went to school in Los Angeles. Chicago was thousands of miles away, but that was nothing for aliens who had traveled across the universe to destroy them. Who knew how long it would take for the aliens to arrive at their door?

  “Are those lizards?” Molly said, her face full of terror.

  Indigo stared at the television as the video played over and over again. A group of giant lizard-men wearing skintight orange uniforms walked into the University of Chicago and shot up the students there. It was a bloodbath. The lizard aliens’ laser rifles were more powerful than any weapons humans had. Their skin seemed to be impervious to bullets. They were unstoppable.

  “Why do they want to hurt us?” Molly said, her voice quivering.

  “I don’t know, Molly,” Indigo said, standing from her own futon to cross the room to where Molly sat shivering on her own bed. Indigo put her arm around her friend and held her close. Molly seemed to be on the verge of a breakdown.

  “Why is this happening? Why is this happening?” Molly repeated the phrase over and over again as she rocked back and forth in Indigo’s arms. Indigo patted her friend’s hair and tried to calm her down, but Indigo was freaking out, too. Just when she thought she was getting her life under control, a new species of aliens landed on Earth and started killing college kids.

  In the midst of Molly’s whimpers, the lights blinked out. Screams and shouts erupted from down the hall of the dormitory. People were starting to panic.

  This is bad.

  Really bad.

  Indigo knew that she had to be the one to help people who weren’t as strong as her. People like Molly. But what was she supposed to do? She was a twenty-one-year-old girl herself. She had no experience with fighting aliens.

  “We need to get the hell out of here, now,” Indigo said. ”Where your car keys?”

  Molly handed Indigo the keys, and Indigo yanked Molly up from her bed. Her friend was stunned and could barely move. She was shivering and crying, nearly hysterical. Indigo had to get her out of there fast or whatever was making the rest of the dormitory scream their heads off would get to them, too.

  Indigo looked Molly in the eye, then slapped her across the face. She didn’t want to hurt her; she just wanted to stun her into silence.

  “Pull it together, Molly. Let’s go.”

  Molly sucked her sobs back and nodded her head, holding her cheek where Indigo had slapped her.

  “Okay,” Molly whispered, following Indigo to the door.

  Indigo peeked through a sliver of the open door. It was dark in the hallway, aside from the overhead emergency lights that glowed red over the bodies of panicked college students running back and forth. A boy Indigo knew from one of her exercise science classes passed, and Indigo reached out to grab his arm.

  “What’s going on? Are they here?” she asked him.

  “I don’t know. I don’t know.” The boy was terrified, shaking his head back and forth. He yanked his arm away and ran down the hall.

  “We can’t go that way,” Indigo said, closing the door. She went to the window and opened it, looking outside. There were emergency sirens blaring, and she could hardly hear herself think. An emergency ladder under the window extended to the ground below.

  “We’re going to have to climb down,” Indigo said.

  “I can’t,” Molly said, shaking her head vigorously.

  “If you don’t come with me now, I can’t protect you.”

  “Okay, I’ll try.”

  Indigo pushed the screen out of the window and swung her leg over the windowsill, hooking her foot in the first rung of the ladder. She slowly lowered herself down and waited just below the window to make sure that Molly made it out.

  “Come on, Molly,” Indigo urged, her voice sharp and demanding. She wasn’t going to leave her friend there to die at the hands of some freaky lizard-men.

  Molly was still crying, but she lowered herself out of the window and climbed down behind Indigo. They both made it to the damp grass. Students ran screaming in every direction. The emergency sirens wailed through the night air.

  Indigo grabbed Molly’s arm and ran across the lawn to the parking lot. She pressed the button on Molly’s car keys and her car’s lights flashed. Indigo unlocked the door and shoved her friend inside. Molly hadn’t stopped crying for a second.

  Somebody had to keep their cool. That certainly wasn’t going to be Molly. Indigo jumped into the driver’s seat, jammed the keys into the ignition, and pulled out of the parking space with the sound of screeching tires. She threw the car into drive and sped out of the parking lot and onto the street. Indigo flipped on the radio, hoping to get more information about what was happening.

  Most of the radio stations were silent. That couldn’t be good. She had to think. Where should she go? What should she do? She continued flipping through the radio stations until she landed on one that was still broadcasting.

  What we know now, is that the Draconians’ ancient enemy, the Mulgor, have landed on Earth. They have already invaded numerous cities throughout America and the world. These creatures are seven feet tall and look like lizard-men. If you see these creatures, do not approach them. Do not allow them to see you. Go into hiding. Get as far away from populated areas as you possibly can. Los Angeles is currently under attack. We will continue to broadcast as long as we can. Stay safe. God be with you.

  Chapter 2

  Indigo sped through the night with Molly curled up and whimpering in the passenger seat. She had to think fast. Where could she take them? The one thing that came to mind was her parents’ house in the valley. She hadn’t seen her parents in a few weeks and wanted to make sure they were all right. She tried to call them on her cellphone, but they didn’t pick up.

  The freeways were jam-packed with people fleeing the city as fast as they possibly could. LA traffic in the middle of the night wasn’t any better than LA traffic in the middle of the day.

  Her priority was getting Molly somewhere safe where she could rest and stop crying for a minute.
The lizard-men probably weren’t interested in San Fernando. At least, she hoped they weren’t.

  The traffic started to ease up as they passed Burbank, and Indigo was able to speed up until she made it to her parents’ neighborhood. She parked Molly’s car in the driveway. Both girls climbed out and walked up to the front door. Indigo rang the doorbell and waited, but no one answered. Her parents’ car wasn’t there.

  Indigo pulled her key out of her pocket and shoved it in the front door. All she wanted to know was that her parents were safe. She pushed the door open and stepped into the pitch black entrance hall of her parents’ home.

  “Hello? Anyone home?” Indigo called. All that she heard in response was silence. “I think they’re gone,” she said to Molly, who was still whimpering and shaking.

  Indigo flipped on the lights and walked into the kitchen, where she found a note on the linoleum countertop.

  Indigo,

  If you’re reading this, that means that you fled the city. We’re sorry we couldn’t wait for you. We are going up to your grandfather’s old cabin in Tahoe. Please meet us there. We left an extra gun in the box under the bed.

  “They’re gone,” Indigo said, sliding onto the stool pushed up against the counter.

  “What are we going to do now?” Molly whimpered.

  “My parents went up to my grandfather’s cabin in Tahoe.”

  “We’re driving to Tahoe?”

  “I don’t see what else we can do. My parents left an extra gun in the gun safe under their bed.”

  “You have guns?”

  “You don’t live in a neighborhood like this without owning a gun,” Indigo said. Molly was from an upper-middle-class family from the east side of the San Francisco Bay area. She had no idea what it was like to grow up in a place like this. Her parents would have cashed out the cabin a long time ago if her mom’s rich sister hadn’t insisted they keep it for vacations.