To Wed A Dragon: BBW Dragon Shifter Paranormal Romance (Weredragon Warriors Book 2)

TO
WED A DRAGON

By

Natalie Kristen

WEREDRAGON WARRIORS

To Date A Dragon (Book 1)

To
Wed A Dragon (Book 2)

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© 201
6
by
Natalie Kristen

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This
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are
used fictitiously or are the products of the author's imagination.
Any resemblance to actual locales, events, establishments or persons,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

About
this Book

Curvy
paramedic Nora Garcia isn't one to run away from danger and
difficult, hopeless situations. So when she hears a cry for help one
night, she rushes headlong into the alley with her pepper spray at
the ready.

But
what she encounters isn't just a pair of common thugs. In fact,
there is nothing common about them at all. Too late she realizes she
has run into monsters who are not just brutal and deadly but who
aren't even human…

Edriq
Haeken is a warrior, a defender and protector. He will do everything
within his power and beyond to protect the innocent from
cold-blooded, savage killers.

Duty
comes before everything else, but when he saves a gutsy, feisty human
woman one night, his dragon realizes that it has found its mate.

Can
a fragile human female accept the claiming fire of his dragon?

Can
he trust her with his secrets and let her into his dark, dangerous
world?

Will
two independent, headstrong people finally admit that they have found
their perfect match?

*
* * * *

CHAPTER
ONE

Edriq Haeken stood at the
front door of the mansion and checked his weapons again. His guns,
knives and other weapons designed to cause irreparable and
irreversible damage to a body were holstered and carefully hidden
under his leather jacket. He would never use any of these deadly
weapons on innocent civilians of course. These sharp and shiny
objects that were designed for death and destruction were reserved
for those pieces of shit, a.k.a. Slayors, who hunted and targeted
innocent civilians.

Edriq stepped out onto the
porch and frowned up at the night sky. It was full dark outside, and
a lone star was twinkling like a diamond in the sky.

Twinkle, twinkle, little
star,

How I wonder what you are…

Edriq tried to shake the
catchy tune out of his head but it stuck fast to his brain like gum
to the bottom of your shoe. The more you fought it, the harder it
stuck. Resistance truly was futile in this case.

Edriq knew all the cutesy
nursery rhymes and songs by heart. He used to sing them to Tessa
when she was a wee babe. He wasn't a great singer, but the little
girl didn't seem to mind his gruff, out-of-tune crooning. In fact,
she seemed to find her Uncle Edriq's deep voice soothing and she
would fall right asleep in his arms. He still played patty-cake with
Tessa sometimes, even though she had informed them all in a very
important voice that she was a big girl now. Only big kids go to
school, she said, and since she attended kindergarten, she was a big
kid.

Tessa was five, going on
fifty.

Tessa was their princess.
Yep, the little girl ruled the three big men in the house, but it was
also her royal title. She was the daughter of their leader and king,
Rohan Draek. Mrs Vomae, their housekeeper, often remarked that the
little girl had Rohan, Zul and Edriq neatly wrapped around her little
finger.

Edriq came back into the
house and zipped up his leather jacket to conceal his weapons.
Beside him, Zul popped his gum and tapped one combat boot impatiently
against the gleaming marble floor.

“Stop knocking your
big, dirty boot against the tiles. Mrs Vomae is going to throw a fit
if she notices even one scratch on the floor,” Edriq warned.

Zul made a face but he ceased
his rapid-fire tapping and straightened up. He definitely didn't
want to get in Mrs Vomae's bad books. The housekeeper was a stickler
for cleanliness and she kept the mansion in tip-top, spanking new,
picture perfect condition. She was also an excellent cook, and she
always made sure their stomachs were filled with wholesome,
nutritious, protein-rich foods. No mean feat in itself, since Zul's
stomach seemed to be a bottomless pit.

Of the three of them, Zul was
the youngest warrior. The guy was built
like
a mountain, with thick shoulders and bulging biceps.
He
had a smart mouth and a cheeky, risque sense of humor and was
sometimes mistaken for an overgrown teenager. But Zul was no
awkward, inexperience
d
teenager.
Far
from it.
He was one of the bravest solders and fiercest warriors of Draca.
And
w
hen
it came to killing Slayors, the guy was a lean, mean, killing
machine.

Edriq
and Zul had been Rohan's royal guards in Draca. Rohan was their
king, their boss, their friend, their brother-in-arms. It was at
Rohan's insistence that Edriq and Zul finally moved into the
sprawling mansion. Despite Rohan's denial, Edriq shouldn't shake the
nagging suspicion that Rohan had purchased the majestic, humongous
residence with the intention that the mansion serve as a command
center or a shelter for their people if the war with the Slayors
escalated.

They thought they had left
the war on their home planet, but the war had pursued them to Earth.

For
more than half a century, the surviving Dracans lived quietly on
Earth and did their best to rebuild their lives.
They
acquired new skills, found jobs and some even set up shops and
businesses.

Like
Rohan. With his sharp analytical mind and business acumen, Rohan had
set up a very successful company, or rather companies.
In
the human world, Rohan was the chairman of Draek Holdings, a large
investment company. His company owned the Blazing Beans coffee chain
and the FabFit fitness chain. Edriq was in charge of the fitness
chain while Zul took care of the Blazing Beans outlets.
Their
staff included Dracan as well as human employees,
and
for a time, it was a productive, peaceful existence
.

But
now
everything
they had worked so hard for was at risk. Their hard-won peace and
security, their lives and families.

T
he
Slayors
had
found them. The Slayors had
come
to Earth to wipe out
all
the surviving Dracans.

Not
gonna happen.

Not
on
my
watch
, Edriq swore.

CHAPTER
TWO

Edriq
looked up when he saw Rohan coming down the stairs
with
Amelia.
Rohan and Amelia had
just tucked Tessa into bed.

They'd had a lovely dinner
with the family. Everyone sat around the kitchen table and ate,
chatted and laughed. They looked like any other happy, normal
family.

But normal families relaxed
in the living room after dinner and went to bed after dark.

Not them.

Once their little princess
was safely cocooned under her fluffy, pink covers, Rohan would leave
the house with Edriq and Zul.

The night was just beginning
for them. The three of them would hunt the Slayors and destroy as
many of these cold-blooded, ruthless creatures as possible. They had
no choice. It was kill or be killed, hunt or be hunted.

Edriq, Zul and Rohan were all
that stood between their people and their enemies, the Slayors. The
rest of the Dracans who were living on Earth were civilians. The
Dracans had been a dragon-shifting people, but as the Dracans adapted
to the confusing and fast-changing landscape on Earth, many of them
stopped shifting and simply let their dragons lie dormant. Most of
the civilian Dracans could no longer shift into their dragon forms.
They forgot how to call up their dragons, how to fly and breathe
fire. They just wanted to live quietly and peacefully on Earth with
the humans.

But the Slayors would hurt
the humans as they hunted the Dracans. They would cut a swathe
through the defenseless humans to reach their targets.

The Slayors had pursued the
surviving Dracans to Earth and now these brutal, savage killers
hunted the Dracans by night. The Slayors' sensitivity to light meant
they could only move around comfortably when darkness fell.

Unlike the Dracans, the
Slayors had retained their ability to shift even in the Earth's
atmosphere. They were after all the hardened, pitiless and soulless
soldiers of the Syndor army. The Slayors would slither among the
shadows and creep into the homes of innocent Dracans. And they would
slaughter not just the Dracans, but their human mates, family and
children.

For many years, they had been
safe on this strange, fascinating, endlessly changing planet. Edriq
had always thought of Earth as an alien planet and the humans as
amusing and hospitable aliens.

But all that changed after
the princess was born.

After Tessa came into their
lives, Edriq began to think of Earth as more than just a temporary
hiding place.

For better or worse, this was
their home now. Their future was here. Tessa, their little
princess, was born here, of a Dracan father and a human mother. Her
birth mother passed away when Tessa was born but Tessa now had a
wonderful, loving stepmom, Amelia.

But before Amelia came along,
Tessa had her Daddy, Uncle Zul and Uncle Edriq. What a family they
were.

Three Men and a Baby.

Yup. That was them, all
right. Rohan, Zul and Edriq had watched that movie together and
identified completely with the three helpless male leads in the
movie.

Three clueless males, check.
One brawling baby, check. Juggling milk bottles, check. Diaper
accidents, check. Singing lullabies to the infant every night in
barbershop style, check.

They sure had fun, didn't
they?

How time flies when you're
having fun.

Now they were Three Men and a
Little Lady. And another Awesome Lady.

CHAPTER
THREE

“Is the princess
asleep?” Edriq asked as Rohan joined them.

Despite
being
tough, rough warriors,
Edriq and Zul could
never
help the soft,
goofy
smiles on their faces whenever they mentioned the little princess.
They adored the little girl, and she adored them right back. They
were her favorite Uncle Edriq and Uncle Zul.

Rohan and Amelia nodded
together. Rohan and Amelia had gotten married in a simple ceremony.
Tessa was so excited when she learned that her beloved kindergarten
teacher, Miss Amelia, was going to be her mom. Amelia had been
Tessa's hero even before she fearlessly faced off against a vicious
Slayor General and saved Tessa's life.

Zul and Edriq respected and
loved Amelia. As the mate of Rohan, Amelia was their queen, the
queen of the Dracans.