Rancher Dragon by Terry Bolryder (best ereader for manga .TXT) 📕

As he stepped past Beck, there was a loud hiss, and Gary the raccoon emerged long enough to grab the engagement ring box from Beck’s hand. Gary looked at it for a moment in his tiny, black raccoon fingers, then glanced over at Clancy and brought it to him, earning a snack from Clancy in return.

Beck scowled. “You reward this varmint when he steals from me? Real classy.”

Clancy just grinned. “Not this time. I just got your ring box back. Thought you might want it.”

Meanwhile, Sierra had leaned down and was holding a hand out to Gary, who seemed to be eying her curiously while he munched his treat.

“Come here li’l guy,” she said. “I won’t hurt you.”

To Beck’s surprise, the raccoon approached her and, even more surprising, let her pet him on the head.

“Well, I’ll be damned,” Clancy said. “He likes you.”

“Ain’t no surprise there,” Beck said, grinning as he leaned down next to her. Was there any way someone could not like his mate?

Tentatively, Beck reached out to pet the raccoon, who was now nuzzling Sierra’s hand. As soon as his hand was within an inch of Gary’s face, however, the raccoon hissed fiercely and scampered away, disappearing into the bushes.

“Damn Gary,” Beck muttered, scowling.

Sierra laughed. “He’ll warm up to you eventually.”

“Should have seen the first time Marian met him,” Harrison said, chuckling as he and Reno set up the table. “Scared the hell out of her.”

Everyone laughed at that, and together they set up the rest of the picnic things under the perfect blue Texas sky.

As they were all sitting down to eat, Beck cocked an eyebrow at Harrison. “I was going to ask. Been any more word on basilisk activity?”

“Nope,” Harrison replied. “Haven’t been any sightings lately, what with the weather being so nice and all.”

Sierra looked confused. “Wait, so that one you fought, is it just underground over there, waiting to come back up?”

Harrison laughed. “No. Funny thing about basilisks is that they never show up in the same place twice.”

“Damn annoying and unpredictable more like,” Beck said with a grunt.

“Don’t worry, Beck,” Reno said, grinning wolfishly. “If any come back, I’ll take care of ‘em this time.”

Beck scowled.

Clancy laughed. “I’d like to see that, a wolf trying to defend a mountain dragon.”

A laugh came from the other end of the table, and to everyone’s surprise, Dallas was chuckling.

He looked up, finding everyone’s eyes on him, but didn’t say anything.

“That’s what you laugh at,” Reno said, unamused and cocking an eyebrow. “Not a peep for days, and then you laugh at a joke making fun of wolves.”

“It was funny,” Dallas said, shrugging and going back to his food, leaving Reno looking mildly offended.

Beck fought back a smile as he leaned down to kiss Sierra. He loved the way the ring looked on her finger, loved the way it felt to be next to her.

Now that her lifespan was tied to his, he could also look forward to a future with her. A quiet homestead, he and Sierra tending it for the rest of their lives.

Beck didn’t think there was anything that could sound more wonderful than that. To top it all off, he’d never thought the coin he never planned on giving to another person would one day bring him to the person he’d spend forever with.

A dragon talon for a mate.

It was the best deal of his life.

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Zach, Isaac Morningstar III, touched the chunky iron chain around his neck as he caught his reflection in one of the dingy shop windows he passed. Anger contorted his expression as he withdrew his fingers and started again down the street of the bad neighborhood he’d been dropped in.

He was still getting used to the modern world since he’d been woken up some months ago, but even he knew this wasn’t the type of place he would ever have chosen to go back to when he had full access to his dragon powers and a massive treasure trove that allowed him to live in comfort whenever he felt like being in human form.

And yet here he was, leveled, humbled, shackled by this collar until the oracle who watched over shifters was sure he could be “trusted”, barely able to partially shift, with no money and nothing but the clothes on his back.

Despicable state of events.

Not that he blamed the oracle. In his day, hundreds of years ago, dragons had been more akin to powerful, despotic demigods who terrorized humans when it pleased them and roamed the countryside freely. In human form, they were often dukes or lords with power to match, able to hide in the countryside in a massive estate if they so chose. To hell with caves.

Here, dragons had been remodeled to become something much more civilized. Now they worked in pairs, enforcing the laws of the shifter community and protecting shifters and humans in their area.

Protecting them.

The thought was ludicrous. Zach had never in his life met someone he wanted