Carnelian Dragons: Sard

**Snowed In With Her Hot Dragon Shifter Ex…**

Julie gave herself to a gorgeous dragon shifter she trusted completely. Only his powerful hands ever touched her innocent body. Only his red gemstone eyes ever saw beneath her clothes. Their one night together fulfilled her wildest dreams and made her believe true love lasts forever.

The next morning, he broke up with her to marry someone else.

Now, almost two years later, he’s turned up again on her doorstep.

She tried to slam the door in his face, but he pushed his way in and pressed her against the wall.

“I accept your declaration of love,” he told her arrogantly. “I’ve come to claim you for my own.”

"Never!" she replied.

Right then, from her upstairs nursery, came her secret baby’s cry…

**…And His Secret Baby!**

This delightful, highly dramatic, spicy novella finishes the 7 Virgin Brides for 7 Weredragon Billionaires series with a bang. Set a short time after the end of the Onyx Dragons series, this story features fan-favorite “bad guy” dragon shifter Sard Carnelian, the heavily pierced aristocrat and rival CEO. Originally released as ~Snowed in on Valentine’s Day~, it’s a complete standalone romance with second chances, secret babies, single beds and swoon-worthy happily-ever-afters. You will love this book!

Sard gritted his teeth against the searing pain in his chest as he soared over northeast Portland.
Liquid dripped down his wrist, and he balled his fist, then forced the zipper of the leather jacket up to his neck. The jacket was too small for his great chest, powerful even in human form, and the constricting fabric helped bind his wounds.
Shifting into dragon form would be even better, but he couldn’t do it. As a human, he was a little speck soaring over the city. As a dragon, he was large enough to show up on scanners.
A male dragon wasn’t as large as a female, of course, but he would still easily be noticed. For the same reason, he didn’t dare go to any dragon medical facilities. His appearance would be reported, and then there’d be no escape.
This attack had surprised him, but he’d already handled it pretty well, he thought. He’d had to deviate from his goal and had led his pursuers back toward his old office building outside Longview, Washington.
“Boss?” his previous employee, Syenite, had crackled softly in his earbud communicator when he’d gotten within range of the building.
“I’m not your boss anymore,” he’d growled, the communicator picking up his voice easily over the icy wind.
“Yes, sir,” Syenite had said, ignoring that. “We didn’t know you were coming back to Earth, or we’d have prepared—”
“I’m not flying to you,” he’d said truthfully, although he had intended to make his pursuers think so.
“We see you’re in distress. Please endure a little longer while we mount a counterattack.”
“Nonsense. Don’t get yourself involved in my affairs.”
“But, Boss—”
He’d pulled the communicator out of his ear and thrown it into the Columbia River. This was close enough to fool his pursuers. He’d dived and hidden in a human park until everyone—his old employees and his new pursuers—had lost track of him.
No one would imagine that he, a former heavyweight CEO and beloved aristocrat of the dragon empire, would lower himself to hunching inside a yellow, plastic twisty slide! Although some of the bulky, wrapped-up children who wanted to go down the slide had run away and cried to their confused parents, no one ever came to check on him. Truly, he was masterful in his deception.
After his pursuers had become fully engaged with his old office, he’d doubled back, and now he was almost at the original goal of his journey. Over the rushing, chilly February wind, he listened for any ships creeping up behind him, but there was nothing.
He, Sard Carnelian, had thrown them off! Of course, without a single instant of doubt, he’d known that he would succeed!
He landed on the front step of the town house. It was an unfamiliar location, but the red heart decoration with sparkly letters hanging from the door confirmed to him that this home was hers.
Julie’s radiant face glimmered in his mind. Her thick brown hair with dark purple streaks spread over the pillow as she gazed at his nude body admiringly…her adorable, freckled cheeks flushed as she yielded to his thick cock…her velvet-brown eyes filling with tears as she suddenly hid her face in his shoulder and murmured that she loved him and only him…
He swelled with purpose as he walked forward and raised his fist to smash through the door.
Then he checked his movement.
~What is wrong with you?~ the ghostly memory of his Julie demanded, her eyes flashing as she crossed her arms. Every day, she had sparred with him, stood up to him, enticed him with her inner fire until he couldn’t go a single hour without thinking about her. ~Come in like a normal person. Or isn’t a great big dragon CEO capable of doing that?~
Of course he was capable of following human norms. He searched for a door knocker and instead found a small button—a doorbell—and pressed it.
Hmm. Did it work?
He pressed it several more times. A faint, muffled noise came from inside. He straightened, his heart soaring as he held his jacket sleeve closed so he didn’t bleed out on her doorstep. Look at him, following human norms unprompted! He imagined her soft, shy smile, the one that he’d seen only once, while they were tangled up in the bedsheets together on the best morning of his life, as she now gazed on him again. He grinned. He’d dreamed of this moment for two full years. And now, here he was!
She was going to be so surprised.