Chapter 83: Living in Limbo

The waitress stared at him as if he had two dragon heads. Did she discern that it was him who had flown overhead? No, she couldn't possibly know. Even if she had believed what she was seeing, no one else would. But what was she doing here at Renjer's business?

"Seems like we keep bumping into each other," he said, then cringed. As far as she knew, they'd only met at the diner - why did he think she'd remember him out of the dozens of people she waited on every day. Not like she knew he was a dragon who had come to rescue her.

Her eyes widened like she recognized him. "Oh hey, yeah, I guess." She rubbed her arms and smiled. "What are you doing here?"

"Sir, I tried to stop her," Sarah, the receptionist, wrung her hands.

He waved her off and punched in the access code that would take him and Megan up to the top floor where his office sat along with a handful of his brothers. "I work here."

"At one of the firms?" Her brow furrowed and she bit her lip as though she were nervous.