Surrendered To The Alpha Dragons (BBW Dragon Shifter Menage Paranormal Romance) (4 page)

Sarah laughed. "You're imagining things."

Anger flared through Jayna. 
What I'm imagining, is moping the floor with your boney ass,
she thought.

Sarah continued to eye her in disbelief, shaking her head. "There is no
way
that they are fighting over you with all the other skinny girls walking around here. They are probably just messing around. Guys like them like hot, skinny chicks." She turned back around and stared at Cody and Ethan, fixing her top so that it would show more cleavage. "Sorry girl, but I'm taking over from here. You can take over for me and serve Brutus whose waiting on his Rum over there." Sarah nodded to a fat slob at the end of the bar.

Then she rudely snatched Cody's drink out of Jayna's hand and sashayed over to the two studs.

Jayna watched in disbelief as Sarah playfully set Cody's drink down and began flirting with the two men, bending so far over the counter, that she exposed her bony ass, to her co-workers behind the bar.

Sarah began flirting with the men, laughing and carrying on, reaching over the counter to touch them, making jokes. Ethan and Cody seemed to not mind Sarah's company and were actually responding to her flirts.

The more Jayna watched Sarah flirt with them, the angrier she got. How dare she?  Finally, Jayna had had enough. Working for Harvey, putting up with her bimbo co-workers.

It was time to take action.

Jayna stomped over to Sarah who was still shamelessly flirting with Cody and Ethan and snatched her by the head.

"Ow!" Sarah cried, surprised by the sudden assault. "Let go of me, Jayna. You're hurting me!"

"Shut up!" Jayna growled angrily, slapping away Sarah's attempts to free herself. "You just couldn't stand that two hot guys were talking to me and not your stupid, skinny ass and you had to go ruin it!"

The bar went completely silent.

Jayna looked around. Cody, Ethan, and everyone else were staring at her. But while most people had shocked expressions on their faces, Cody and Ethan looked amused.

Were they laughing at her for thinking that they were interested in her? Jayna would never know, because Harvey was suddenly there, his bald head red with anger.

Ashamed, Jayna let go off Sarah. Sarah fell away from her sobbing, running into the arms of a fellow co-worker.

"What do you call yourself doing to Sarah?" Harvey growled.

Jayna searched for an explanation. What had she called herself doing?  Attacking Sarah just because she felt that she had disrespected her?

"I was..." Jayna's words broke off.

As if to punctuate her guilt, several of Sarah's blonde hairs fell from her fingers and floated to the floor.

"You know what, Jayna? I don't want to listen to a word you have to say." Harvey jabbed a finger at the front door. "You're outta here!"

*

"Stupid Sarah," Jayna muttered as she walked out of Dixie's with her belongings.

The first time guys, handsome, heart-aching studs, no less, had showed interest in her, someone had to come along and ruin it.

While Jayna was not one-hundred percent sure that they had liked her, now she would never know. To make matters worse, she was out of a job.

I should have just let her have her fun,
thought Jayna with remorse.
It wasn't worth losing my job over my own imagination.

Still, the comments Sarah had made about the guys only wanting the skinny girls and that she must have been imagining that they liked her just because she was plus-sized pissed her off.

It had felt good to pull on her hair and tell her how she felt.

But now how am I going to pay my rent?

Luckily for Jayna, she had a nest egg of money that she had been saving for her new Honda. The bad part of having to use that to survive until she found another job was now that meant she got no car.

And now she had another problem; making it home when her feet were absolutely killing her. Having pulled out several of Sarah's hairs, she could not stick around for a ride home.

Sucking up her pain, Jayna made her way across the street and into a back alley. She quickly made her way through the alley and onto a deserted road stretch that would take her to her hovel.

As she was walking, she glanced up in the sky, noting the full moon. She was thankful for it because on this road, there was poor lighting.

She had walked several steps when she heard an odd sound. Scared now, she spun around. There was nothing there. She continued to scan the area, looking for something, anything.

I must be imagining things.

When she was satisfied no one was following her, she continued on. She made it several steps when she heard the sound again, this time louder.

She spun around again, thinking she'd see some crazy guy running at her. There was nothing.

Whoosh.

There was the sound again. But it didn't sound like it was coming from around her...rather...above her.

Suddenly, a shadow blotted out the moon.

Spooked, Jayna let out a small cry and started running towards her house, her big bouncing within her uniform.

With the whoosh sound filling her ears, she ran and ran as fast as her big thighs would allow. Just when she saw her home come into view, she felt something sharp dig into her shoulders.

Jayna let out an ear-piercing scream.

And suddenly, she was flying.

"What the hell was that?" Jayna yelled at Ethan, her body in shock and trembling from the impromptu, terrifying flight.  "And what the hell are you!?"

She was standing before a strange city that lay nestled in the mountains with the young man, or whatever the hell he was, from the bar. It was only after she had recovered from her shock of being suddenly lifted into the air, that Jayna had realized she was being carried by a large, flying snake.

And she was only more shocked when they had landed and that giant lizard turned into Ethan.

She pinched herself as she waited for Ethan's answer. She had to be dreaming. This could not be real. Except that her pinch felt very damn real.

"I'm a dragon," Ethan replied simply.

"A dragon?" Jayna breathed in disbelief.  There was no such thing! Yet she had seen him change into the handsome man standing before her.

And no wonder why his eyes reminded me of Elroy's
, she thought.
Because he's a snake himself.

Ethan nodded. "We are an ancient race of beings that has been around since the dawn of time."  Slowly, he circled Jayna. "Where do you think the myths surrounding dragons come from? It came from us. It is only in recent times, say the past few thousand years, have we kept our existence relatively low profile."

Jayna's mind spun. "How?"

Ethan grinned at her and gestured at the city before him. "Places like this."

Jayna marveled that a race of ancient beings was hiding out in a city in the mountains. It just seemed too fantastical. Surely, it could not be real.

"And then there are others who have integrated into the human society."

Not knowing why, Jayna asked, "Is Cody one...too?"

Ethan paused, a shadow passing over his face. "He is. And he thought he could take you from me."

Jayna took a step back. Ethan was talking about her like she a possession.

The shadow passed from Ethan's handsome face and he smiled, his icy blue eyes causing a chill to settle on Jayna's limbs. "But I won. And he can't trouble me here."

"Is that why you kidnapped me?" Jayna asked weakly. "Was this some sort of dragon challenge?"

Ethan surprised her when he replied, "In way, it was, yes."

Jayna stood there shocked. So both men had been interested in her after all, but it was all some sort of dragon game. It was all so hard to compute.

"But there is much more to it than you know." Ethan offered her his arm. "Come let me show you the city and introduce you to my people, before I tell you the reason for your abduction."

Jayna stared at his muscular arm. Every instinct in her body told her to flee. He was a freaking dragon for crying out loud. But looking around, she asked herself; where could she run to? She was in the mountains, God knows where, with someone who could fly. There was no way she'd make it several feet.

Knowing she had no choice, Jayna accepted Ethan's arm and let him lead her into the city.

As he showed her around, she marveled at the exquisite workmanship done on the stone and wood buildings that filled the place. Here and there, people, or dragons that appeared to be people peered out at them.

"Here is our church," said Ethan, flourishing his hand up at a big chapel that was made out of marble.

"Dragons go to church?" asked Jayna.

Ethan chuckled. "Some of us do. But we believe in a different deity than the humans do."

From the church they continued on, and Ethan showed her all sorts of wondrous things. After showing her the keep that sat in the middle of the city, a place where Ethan told her the head dragon named Kalak, resided, he took her to a place on the outskirts of the city where a group of muscular, nearly-naked men and one woman, also skimpily dressed, waited.

"My," said the woman, a skinny toothpick with silver hair and a beautiful face, murmured when she set her eyes on Jayna. "This one's a lot plumper than the last one you got."

Jayna had no clue what the woman was talking about, but she was not going to take the insult lying down. "And I'm a lot meaner to," Jayna growled. "So I would suggest you watch who you're calling plump if you don't want to get steamrolled."

One of the men behind the silver-haired woman, laughed uproariously, and her face flushed red.

Beside Jayna, Ethan was grinning. "Jayna these are my warrior brothers and Ashvi, one of the few dragon women left among our kind."

I just insulted a dragon
, Jayna thought with panic. After seeing Ethan in his true form, she had no doubt that that Ashvi could eat her alive if she so chose.

"Everyone, this is Jayna...and hopefully the one."

Jayna's eyes roved over the men, all who had gorgeous muscular bodies, but for some reason, Jayna was not as attracted to them as she was to Ethan.

Then what Ethan had said hit her. He had said hopefully she was the one. What did that mean?

She turned to him. "What do you mean the one-"

Jayna words were interrupted by a loud roar and a whoosh.

Something large fell out of the sky and hit Ethan from behind knocking him to the ground. The dark from and Ethan wrestled with each other. Jayna thought she saw blonde hair somewhere as the two rolled on the ground.

When the two forms finally untangled and they both jumped to their feet, Jayna gasped. It was Cody from Dixie's.

His chest heaving, his blonde hair was in disarray and his expensive suit had rips and tears in them.

"I told you I'd challenge you," Cody growled.

"And I told you'd I beat you," Ethan growled back, preparing to lunge forward.

At the same time, it looked like the dragon warriors were preparing to join in and help Ethan.

Jayna's heart began to pound in fear. Cody was dead meat if they ganged up on him.

But before a brawl could ensue, Ashvi stepped forward between the dragon men and raised a restraining hand. "What is the meaning of this? Why are two dragons at each other throats?"

Ethan glanced with contempt at Cody before addressing Ashvi. "This whelping challenged me when I lay claim to Jayna."

"Wait a minute," Jayna burst in.  "Lay claim to me? I'm not anyone's property!"

And I'm crazy for opening my mouth to a bunch of dragons
, thought Jayna.

But she couldn't help herself, even if Ethan was hot-as-all-hell, he still had no right to kidnap her, thrust her into a world of strange, and then say she was his.

"You're right," Ethan agreed, "you're not mine. But I was going to give you the choice to be mine."

Jayna frowned with confusion. "What do you mean by that?"

"The reason why I sought you out was because I could smell you."

"Huh?"

"You're ovulating."

Jayna thought back to the black blood the day before when she got out of the shower.

"What does that have to do anything?"

Ethan grinned at her. "It's the perfect time for mating."

Jayna's breath caught in her throat. Ethan had kidnapped her to mate with her?

"I'm sorry, you are sexy as all hell, but there is no way I could have sex with you."

"Even if it would save countless of women's lives?" asked Ashvi.

Jayna stared at the silver-haired woman. "What?"

Taking a deep breath, Ashvi explained Ethan's predicament, telling her that a dragon needed a mate every time he last one got too old or died, or they would go on rampages that would leave a lot of women dead.

"So you're telling me, if I don't mate with Ethan, that his inner dragon will go crazy?"

Ashvi nodded. "That's the gist of it."

Jayna shook her head. "I can't do it."

"She's right," Cody said suddenly. "She can't do it because she's going to mate with me."

Cody began making his way over to Jayna but paused when Ethan growled, "Touch her and take your last breath whelp."

Cody appeared unperturbed, motioning with two hands. "Bring it fire crotch."

In response, Ethan sprung forward slamming into Cody's chest, knocking him several yards away. Roaring, Cody sprung back across the distance between them, slamming his fist into Ethan's face. Jayna thought she heard a crack as the two went down to the ground, pummeling at each other.

Cod would gain the upper hand, straddle Ethan's midsection, while delivering solid punches, and then Ethan would do the same to him. The fight seemed as if it would go on forever until a voice cut through the violence.

"Enough!"

Ashvi stood above the two wrestling men, her hands on her hips. "Stop this nonsense now or be kicked out of this city."

Growling at each other, the two separated and climbed to their feet. Blood seeped from Ethan's nose and a bruise marred Cody's cheek. Even still, they were both handsome specimens.

Ashvi looked back and forth between the two. "You both face a dilemma that your inner dragon will not let wait. For two dragons to be going through this at the same time, does not bode well for our kind."

Ethan wiped the blood from his nose and glared at Cody. "So what do you propose we do?"

Ashvi turned and settled her blue eyes onto Jayna. "I say take her. Take her at the same time."