The Dragon's Witch Mate

CHAPTER: 8

Liam saw Elvis coming down the stairs dressed in a nice pair of jeans and a black T-shirt. His hair was damp from the shower. "Are you heading out?" Liam asked him.

"Yep, I heard that Zara was going to a party and so I thought I would show up and keep an eye on her as well," Elvis said.

"Is Clover going too?" Liam asked more out of curiosity than anything else.

"No. I heard she was going to her best friend Tanya's house tonight." Elvis tried to look offended when he continued, "I did ask if I could go there, but Tanya refused and she is very protective of her friend Clover," Elvis said.

Raising an eyebrow, Liam said, "So I am guessing you have been flirting with the females at that school pretty heavily if she is worried about you hurting her friend."

Elvis chuckled. "Tell Stuart I won't be home too late."

Grabbing a beer from the fridge, Liam sat on the couch, glancing over the files, trying to figure out how he was supposed to get close to Vienna after basically being shot down this afternoon. Hearing Stuart pulling up the car in the driveway, and come to the living room, he looked at the clock. "What are the lawyers doing at this unearthly hour, May I ask?"Liam said.

Stuart shrugged. "I think some of them have their dates coming up at court so they are trying to look busy and important." He then asked Liam, "Any luck on finding out who or what that guy was?"

Liam shook his head. He is not one of the dragons who left with Mackenzie. Deborah has informed that Mackenzie has been trying to recruit people from other species, but there is a rumor he might be a demon."

"s**t!" Stuart said, rubbing the back of his neck. "There are only a few species that have red eyes and demons are the most common, and the most dangerous..."

His sentence trailed off, both of them thinking the same thing. Nothing that has red eyes would be easy to guard witches against, especially those witches, who don't know how to use their abilities. 

"Oh, Elvis went to a party that Zara was going to so he could keep an eye on her," Liam informed Stuart.

Stuart nodded and Liam grabbed his keys to the SUV. "I am going to swing by the girl's place and see if there is any trace of our new friend over there," Liam told Stuart.

When Liam got to the house, he parked around the corner. He got out of the SUV and took a short walk around the block. Letting his dragon come near the surface, he did not detect anything other than humans in the area.

Once he checked out the neighborhood, he leaned against his SUV. Most of the lights were off at the house. With no one around Liam decided to use his dragon gift to look around inside the house. Liam's gift was the ability to turn himself into a dark mist, a shadow. Humans normally did not notice him, but anything else could detect his scent and know that he was there. Turning into a shadow, he slipped into the girls' house. It was quiet. Vienna and the younger two girls, Tiara and Ziva were apparently in bed. Sliding down the hall, he followed Vienna's scent to her room. Listening for a moment, he heard her steady heartbeat before he slowly let himself into the room.

Quietly gliding across the floor to her bed, he watched as the moonlight played on her dark hair. Vienna was lying on her side, one leg poking out from the covers. Liam smiled and reached out to caress her cheek. She moaned softly and rolled onto her back.

At the sound of her moan, he felt his body react. His eyes traced the shape of her leg that was exposed to him. He decided it was best to leave before the other two girls came home. Sliding out of her room, he paused in the hall and found himself in front of the youngest sister, Ziva, as she rubbed her eyes. She had stopped.

Standing still, he knew her sense of smell was not strong enough to sense him. When she finished rubbing her eyes, she looked up at him, and Liam could swear she saw him. 

She blinked her big blue eyes, before quietly whispering, "Why were you there in my sister's room?"

Could she possibly see him? Liam wondered.

"Will you get me a glass of water?" she asked, trying to reach for him. Her hand went through him and Liam realized that somehow, this little girl really could see him. He worried that she might wake the others, so he materialized in front of her. Bringing his hand to his lips, telling her to be quiet, he took her hand and led her to the kitchen.

Liam was not sure what he found more surprising, the fact that she saw him when he was in his mist form, or that she was not scared to find a stranger in her house? Reaching into the cabinet, he grabbed a glass and poured her a glass of water from the sink.

Taking her back to her room, he found himself almost smiling at the girl when she pulled on his hand, making him look at her. "Yes?" he gently asked Ziva.

She smiled up at him. "Thank you, Shadow Man," she said before turning to go back to her room. Stopping at her door she turned and whispered, "My sister does not like people in her room, Shadow Man. She would be mad if she found you in there." With that she went into her room, closing the door behind her.

Liam returned to the living room and shifted back into the mist form, before sliding through the c***k in the door. Slowly, he glided to his SUV and decided to hang out for a little while. He stayed long enough to see Zara come home. She let herself in the house, with her set of keys, and then he saw a light come on in what must have been her room. Once the light went off, he started the SUV to head back to his place.