After breakfast they went to the beach. The sun felt deliciously warm. Liam stayed in his dragon form, ignored his other toys, wrapped his forelegs around bunny and fell asleep. He napped and woke, and napped some more, while Mommy read and occasionally frowned at him. Once she asked, “Are you okay, Peanut?”
He nodded and yawned. He was just tired.
Later in the day, Liam rolled to his feet as a motorboat chugged up to the nearby pier. Daddy stood at the wheel, looking satisfied. Mommy scooped Liam up and walked down the pier. Daddy lifted them both into boat, and Liam stared with interest at the soggy suitcase and two metallic containers.
Daddy kissed Mommy. When it was Liam’s turn, he lifted his head for his kiss.
“Did you get it all?” Mommy asked.
Daddy nodded. He threw open the suitcase and the containers.
A bolt of pure love hit Liam.
“Wow!” Mommy said. “We’ve sure got a lot of treasure.”
“Wait a minute.” Daddy sounded amused. “What do you mean ‘we’? I thought this was my treasure.”
“Technically, I don’t think that’s possible anymore.” Mommy sounded smug. “We’re mated, married, and as I just realized the other day, we have no prenup.”
“You just realized that the other day, did you?” Daddy laughed.
Liam couldn’t stand it any longer. He wriggled to get out of Mommy’s arms. As she bent to let him go, he scrambled over to the suitcase as fast as he could and dove into the gold coins. Picking up one coin after the other, he stared at them in complete fascination. Feeling giddy, he rolled around him.
These were the best toys ever.
Now both Mommy and Daddy were laughing as they watched him.
Daddy said, “I’m not sure either you or I own that treasure anymore.”
Liam clutched as many coins as he could in both paws and hugged them to his chest as he gave his parents his best, sunniest smile.
About the Author
Thea Harrison resides in Colorado. She wrote her first book, a romance, when she was nineteen and had sixteen romances published under the name Amanda Carpenter.
She took a break from writing to collect a couple of graduate degrees and a grown child. Her graduate degrees are in Philanthropic Studies and Library Information Science, but her first love has always been writing fiction. She’s back with her paranormal Elder Races series. You can check out her website at: www.theaharrison.com, and also follow her on Twitter @TheaHarrison and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheaHarrison. You can sign up for Thea’s newsletter at http://theaharrison.com/contact-requests/.
Look for these titles from Thea Harrison
THE ELDER RACES SERIES
Published by Berkley
Dragon Bound
Half-human and half-wyr, Pia Giovanni spent her life keeping a low profile among the wyrkind and avoiding the continuing conflict between them and their Dark Fae enemies. But after being blackmailed into stealing a coin from the hoard of a dragon, Pia finds herself targeted by one of the most powerful–and passionate—of the Elder Races.
As the most feared and respected of the wyrkind, Dragos Cuelebre cannot believe someone had the audacity to steal from him, much less succeed. And when he catches the thief, Dragos spares her life, claiming her as his own to further explore the desire they’ve ignited in one another.
Storm’s Heart
Serpent’s Kiss
Oracle’s Moon
Lord’s Fall
Kinked
ELDER RACES NOVELLAS
Published by Samhain Publishing
True Colors
Meeting your soulmate? Great. Preventing your possible murder? Even better.
Alice Clark, a Wyr and schoolteacher, has had two friends murdered in as many days, and she’s just found the body of a third. She arrives at the scene only minutes before Gideon Riehl, a wolf Wyr and current detective in the Wyr Division of Violent Crime—and, as Alice oh-so-inconveniently recognizes at first sight, her mate.
But the sudden connection Riehl and Alice feel is complicated when the murders are linked to a serial killer who last struck seven years ago, killing seven people in seven days. They have just one night before the killer strikes again.
And every sign points to Alice as the next victim.
Natural Evil
Devil’s Gate
Hunter’s Season
AMANDA CARPENTER ROMANCES
Published by Samhain Publishing
A Deeper Dimension
The Wall
A Damaged Trust
The Great Escape
Flashback