“Medakkaru can speak with his dragon, and Kimora—that’s me by the way—is the passenger of this… great body.” She paused as Medakkaru took another lahkoma drink. “Should I say this is my body? That I own you now, Medakkaru?”
He coughed, which made his brothers and cousins chuckle, but his parents and friends were aghast.
“Frigging woman! You can’t go around wagging your tongue telling the shifters you own me!”
“Oh, I don’t?” Her voice went lower.
“I didn’t say you don’t own me, but should you tell them that when it’s obvious?” Medakkaru’s face reddened. Well, that was Kimora being embarrassed but was dying inside with thrill that Medakkaru did subtly tell her he likes her, too. At last. She wanted to jump and run around the palace’s training ground for feeling so gleeful she could hardl
