In the Dragon’s Lair (WINGS OVER ALBION #2) by Joy Lynn Fielding EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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NATE
I’d tucked my head against the wind, yet I knew the instant I
entered the Circus. It was unlike anywhere else I’d been, with three
sections of tall Georgian terraced houses curving to form a perfect
circle. Tourists came to Bath from far and wide to marvel at it. Not
me—I’d never wanted to see the place again.
There had been a time when it was my second home. Now, in the
dark autumnal evening, I found myself wondering which sort of
circus it was. Was I about to be thrown to the lions or simply a
clown? In all honesty, probably both.
I dreaded the prospect of revisiting my past, but I had no choice.
I was there under orders from Bim, the autocratic head of our family,
who also happened to be my grandfather. Recent cyber-attacks on
our family’s banks had been traced to Bath. That didn’t mean the
Fortescues were behind the attacks, though it would be a hell of a
coincidence if not—they were a dragon banking family second in
influence only to my own. My task was to use my connections with
them and find out for certain.
Humans would have involved the police, but we dragons prefer
to settle our own business. There’s a savagery to our dragons that the
modern world can’t tame completely, though we walk among
humans unsuspected. It’s better to keep it that way than face the
threat of capture and experimentation.
Bim had promised a significant reward if I obtained useful intel
on the Fortescues. No dragon can refuse the possibility of more
treasure, but what drove me was deeper than that—I needed Bim to
know I was useful. And so I walked up the path to the once-familiar
house and knocked on the door. Relief flooded through me when a
strange human answered. The Fortescues must have moved, which
meant I could go home without having seen him.
“Can I help you?” The balding man at the door wore an off-thepeg suit, cuffs shiny from wear. It wasn’t how I’d expect someone
who owned this place to dress, and I realised with a lurch that
perhaps this wasn’t a reprieve. Perhaps the Fortescues had employed
a butler during the years I’d been absent.
“I’m here to see James Fortescue?” Damn it, that had come out
as a question, belying the fact I was a thirty-year-old City
professional.
“Nate? Nate Mortimer?”
I peered around the guy in the doorway and found Ella in the
hall, her mouth open as she stared at me. It had been five years, and
though her figure had changed from a gawky girl to that of a young
woman, there was no mistaking those clear blue eyes or the blonde
curls swept up in a sophisticated style. She looked older than she was
—seventeen or eighteen, I thought, unable to remember for sure.
High heels clicked on the marble floor as she came swiftly over to
me. Her black dress ended halfway down her thighs, and the
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