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to see her again, you’ll sign the paperwork I have here now.” Danburn said nothing as Conrad produced several sheets of folded paper from his pocket. “Just sign where the markers are and this will end nicely for all of us. Julia is currently hidden away and ready to be given back to you once you do as you’re told and put me and my company in charge.”
    “Really? Then let me talk to her.” He was shaking his head even before Danburn finished speaking. “So, on blind trust that you have her, I’m supposed to just sign off on this paperwork and let you ruin me. Because as much as I don’t trust you now, I doubt that things will get any better between us. How much more are you going to try and get from me, Conrad? Millions? More? Tell me.”
    “You never know what I might want in the future from you. I might just let you off with only making you pay me an upfront amount of five million, or I might want five mill a month for the next fifty years. By the way, that’s in the paperwork too, that I can get money from you whenever I see fit.” Danburn said nothing as the man stood there. “Well?”
    “Well what?” He asked him if he was going to sign the paperwork to get Julia back. “No. I don’t work that way, and if you thought I did, then you’re stupider than we all thought. And let me tell you, I knew how stupid you were from the beginning. Who builds a housing development like this? There are no roads here. No kind of entertainment for the masses. Or did you expect them to spend all their time fixing up the pieces of shit that you sold them? That’s it, isn’t it?”
    “I don’t really care what they do with their time so long as they don’t come to me whining about what I did or didn’t do. That’ll be your problem from now on. But back to Julia. You’d just let her die? Because you think you’re better than me? I think not.” Danburn didn’t answer him. There was no way that he’d kill her, he knew that for a fact. Nor did he have her hidden away. “I can’t believe the great Danburn English would just let a woman die over money.”
    “You are. Not me.” He stood there for several more minutes, and could tell that Conrad was nervous. For the first time that day, Danburn felt within his element. Wanted to shout to the world that things were going his way for a change. As he rocked on his heels, waiting for the man to take some sort of action, he kept an eye on Noah as well.
    Noah was an immortal, much like he was. They could die, yes, his father had proven that for them, but it was harder to do so and they lived forever. Noah, because of his relationship with Danburn, would of course live forever too. But he did have limitations that Danburn didn’t. And they were great.
    Noah couldn’t change into a dragon, for one thing. There wasn’t any magic that he could use, as Danburn and his kind could. And for most shifters he knew, with age came the added abilities afforded to them. More magic being one of them. So he kept an eye on his friend in the event that Conrad got any dumber. He didn’t want anyone to get hurt if he could help it.
    Danburn, with just a wave of his hand, could kill a waterway or give it as much life as it could hold. His scales, in his dragon form, could heal lakes and oceans, as well as the earth surrounding it. His castle, the one that he’d built when he’d come of age, was the result of some of that magic. It was the main reason it butted up against the large mountain. He was, when you thought about it, a part of the waterways that ran beneath the mountain as much as he was the stone and grounds around it. It was safe there, not just for him and his mother, but those that lived and worked there. Danburn took care of his own.
    The Feds moved just past the doorway as Conrad started naming off all the things that he was going to take from him. Danburn knew that Noah had called them in, and now that they were here, he could do just what he’d been asked to do. Get