Of course. But she probably wants to kiss us too.
Ignoring his dragon, Aaron headed in the direction of the Protector’s IT specialist, Nathan. He needed to focus on helping Sid. After all, Aaron had just returned home to Stonefire less than a year ago. Was it too much to want to merely enjoy his friends and family and forget about females? They only brought trouble and he wasn’t sure he ever wanted to face it again.
Chapter Seven
Gregor frowned at the computer screen. There had to be at least a hundred files to sort through.
While he appreciated Arabella’s hard work, finding something to help Sid might take longer than he liked.
His beast spoke up. Acquiring what we want most in the world is almost never easy.
It’s not about me, dragon. The longer it takes to sift through everything, the longer Cassidy risks an episode that might steal her sanity.
Then we’ll just have to stay close to her side. Even if she sleeps in the surgery most nights, we can stay in the same room.
She probably won’t go for that.
So? We won’t give her a choice.
Gregor smiled at his dragon’s confidence. You have a lot to learn about the human sides of females.
Since his beast huffed and fell silent, Gregor opened the first file and scanned its contents, about the adverse effects of a specific sedative.
As he finished the first and worked his way through five more files, he rubbed his temples. Each case was idiosyncratic and spoke of rare reactions to drugs, not unlike with humans. All dragon-shifter doctors were partially trained at human universities, so Gregor was quite familiar with human biology. Maybe one day his kind could start up their own universities and instill the desire to share knowledge amongst all dragon-shifter doctors.
Or, even better, establish some sort of professional network to help answer questions and lend assistance.
But all of that had to wait. Helping Cassidy was all that mattered.
Just as he opened the next file, he glanced at the clock in the corner of his computer screen. It was time to check on his most important patient.
Exiting the room he used for research, Gregor rushed down the hall. While he’d hoped to have something to share with his doctor, he wasn’t about to lose hope.
Entering her room, he found her asleep on her side. With a hand under her cheek and her mouth slightly open, Cassidy looked as if she didn’t have a care in the world.
His dragon spoke up. We need to work harder. Our female deserves the same peace when awake.
Oh, so now you want to win her approval?
Cassidy’s eyes fluttered open. When she met his gaze, she smiled and the sight stole his breath away.
He quickly recovered to catch her words as she said, “I’m surprised Ginny let you in here when I was sleeping.”
Moving to the side of her bed, he brushed a section of hair off her face. “Oh, aye? She can try to keep me away, but I have a special touch with older females. After all, Lochguard has plenty of strong, older dragonwomen who run the clan in the background. If I can handle Lorna MacKenzie, I can handle your Ginny.”
Cassidy snorted. “Lorna MacKenzie has known you your whole life and probably has some weakness when it comes to you. Ginny doesn’t and she’ll do what’s necessary.”
“Right, I’m sure she’s a secret black belt who can pin me down.”
She rolled her eyes. “Enough about Ginny. Did you find out anything yet?”
The eagerness in her voice stoked his inner fire to find an answer. “No, but Arabella found me plenty to look through. As I thought, the reactions that seem isolated sometimes have a pattern. Two cases concerned an allergic reaction to a certain sedative.”
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nbsp; Sid raised her brows. “The dragon-slumber drug?”
He shook his head. “I haven’t found anything about that yet. Still, I bet the more I comb through the records, the more patterns I’ll find. Once we get you well again, maybe we should ask Arabella to look beyond the UK. Combined, we can put together some kind of reference for dragon-shifters.”