Total pages in book: 74
Estimated words: 71497 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 357(@200wpm)___ 286(@250wpm)___ 238(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 71497 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 357(@200wpm)___ 286(@250wpm)___ 238(@300wpm)
Why?
“Do you think we’re confusing? I was more worried about Daddy finding new things to worry about like what to feed me. I told him I was an omnivore, but he’s really smart and can always find something new to add to his worry list.” Smart people were frustrating sometimes but I was very lucky to have Daddy.
For some reason that made Alick laugh so hard Boyd had to take over the conversation. “And this is why you are not going to be allowed to be alone with the deputy when it’s time to tell him about The Wight.”
Rolling my eyes, I sighed. “We’re not creatures.”
Boyd huffed. “I’m not going to figure out how to go back in time and choose another word for our community. Blame Old English and German for that, not me. Now, can we move on to when you’re going to tell your Daddy you’re a dragon?”
Ugh.
I’d rather debate old words that didn’t make sense any longer.
“Um, I think he said something about three dates before we have important conversations?” Had the sheriff said that? Someone had said that. “So what counts as three dates?”
“Um.” Alick was wonderful and immediately started brainstorming instead of being dramatic or giggling more. “A date is separate activities like eating or doing something. So you had one when he took you out to dinner. Two when he took you grocery shopping and fed you pancakes. Three when he made you breakfast this morning?”
Sounded good to me.
“So is this like an intervention thing or do we sit down over dessert and coffee or is it a picnic topic?” There might be other options but those were the first that came to mind. “Can you eat stew at a picnic?”
“A picnic?” Boyd finally stopped being dramatic but for some reason he was confused.
“So I can shift when he gets curious.” I thought that should’ve been obvious. “And food makes everything nicer. Oh, a dessert picnic so I can take care of Daddy and then show him my dragon? We could have dinner first?”
He’d like that.
Daddy liked my desserts.
“He’ll think you’re pretty, Lorne. You can shift too.” Daddy was very smart and would probably want to see different types of dragons.
Alick was back to giggling again. “Your Daddy might not want to see shifting right off the bat once he realizes you have to get naked for that.”
That was a very good point.
“You know, he was kind of weird about me being naked and he even put that on a list of boundary stuff he was worried about.” Most of the time humans made very good sense but the weird about being naked thing was very odd.
“Do you think he doesn’t want to see Lorne naked?” That just seemed strange to get worked up about, but Daddy liked to worry. “Lorne’s a very cute dragon and he’s got a nice body. Everyone should want to see him naked.”
Alick was going to have to stop giggling before he’d make any sense at all, so I focused on Lorne, who was smiling. “You don’t mind, do you?”
“No. I like being naked except for not being able to shift and wear my sparklies at the same time…and thank you for the compliment.” He sighed. “The charms to make my sparklies fit both my forms are just too expensive.”
“You’re welcome and you’re right about those charms.” Kind of. Most of his money had just been going to watches and silly things lately, but we’d be able to go over his budget later after we figured out how to tell Daddy that I was a dragon.
“You’re insane.” Boyd had decided that dramatic was going to be his default state because he was back to glaring again. “We’re going to sit in your living room and have drinks and talk to him about it logically. Then if he wants to see you shift, you can go outside and we’ll be there to support him and make sure he knows you won’t eat him.”
“Why would I eat him?” Daddy was smarter than that. “I already told him I don’t like wiggly food.”
If Alick didn’t stop laughing, he was going to have to sit down. He looked like he was going to tip over.
“Meat should be cooked and I don’t know how to cook a chicken, much less a human.” Would they be skin on or off? High heat? Low heat?
“Do not tell me what just went through your head.” Boyd’s eyes were going to stick like that if he kept rolling them. “He’ll have at least a minute of worrying if you’re going to eat him. You’re a fucking dragon, moron.”
“But he’s my Daddy, grumpy.” Boyd was wrong about Daddy. “He’ll worry about something unexpected.”
But having people around to explain things might not be a bad idea.
“Okay, it’ll be a group project and we’ll have dessert.” What kind of dessert went with fun news and a possible heart attack?