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Chapter One

Jose Santos waited inside a small room, one adjacent to the ballrooe to run

He'd never understood why people wanted to live cheek and jowl around and banishingworked with the humans in the US Forest Service for over a decade, he still barely understood them

And yet here he was, inside a hotel in South Lake Tahoe, about ready to pick a hunate and increase his kind

His inner dragon—the second personality inside his head—spoke up Remember, you can't fuck this up today or you'll dash Gaby's dreams

Ah, yes Gabriela, the little sister who had entered them both into the yearly lottery, one she couldn't enter herself since it had to be all the un she didn't askhere

You had the chance to back out last month, but you didn't And we both knohy

Da too much

Every dragon-shifter lived to find their true mate, the one that stirred their inner beast and kicked off a mate-claim frenzy when kissed

However, despite the reater Lake Tahoe area every year, Jose had never so rowl and tell them to leave him the hell alone

He had no tolerance for the dragon groupies that caon-shifter to kiss or fuck Entire tourist cooal He was surprised the huovernment hadn't stepped in to intervene, especially since, in recent years, it'd forced on clans in the area to keep more and more to themselves to avoid the hassle

Not that dealing with the groupies was his problem to solve Jose only wanted the chance to spot his true roup of hu themselves at him