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    The Dragon Queen’s Fake Fiancé: Dragon's Council, #2
    The Dragon Queen’s Fake Fiancé: Dragon's Council, #2
    The Dragon Queen’s Fake Fiancé: Dragon's Council, #2
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    The Dragon Queen’s Fake Fiancé: Dragon's Council, #2

    By Mina Carter

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    Duty or Love… she can't have both.

    Dragon Queen Cadeyra has been brought up to do her duty, no matter the personal cost. But that doesn't mean she can't get a little… inventive.

    When a prince from a foreign land visits and she gets wind he intends to court her, Cadeyra needs to get engaged and fast. But who can she ask to be her fake fiancé who won't let the honor go to his head?

    The only person she needs protection from… is him.

    Former general, and one of the feared Blacks who police draconic society, Sawyer has always known Cadeyra is his mate. When she starts talking nonsense about pretending to be engaged to throw an ambitious dragon prince off the trail, he knows one thing for sure—the only man she's getting engaged to… is him.

    But events take a turn for the worse when the court is attacked; first by basilisk, then by magic. Someone wants Cadeyra dead.

    Can Sawyer get to the bottom of the attacks in time? Or will he lose the only treasure that's ever mattered to him…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMina Carter
    Release dateDec 6, 2017
    ISBN9781386454335
    The Dragon Queen’s Fake Fiancé: Dragon's Council, #2
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    Mina Carter

    Mina Carter was born and raised in Middle Earth (otherwise known as the Midlands, England). After a slew of careers ranging from logistics to land-surveying she can now be found in the wilds of Leicestershire with her husband, daughter and a cat who moved in and never left. Suffering the curse of eternal curiosity, Mina never tires of learning new skills which has led to Aromatherapy, Corsetry, Chain-maille making, Welding, Canoeing, Shooting, and pole-dancing to name but a few. A full-time author and cover artist, Mina can usually be found hunched over a keyboard or graphics tablet, frantically trying to get the images and words in her head out and onto the screen before they drive her mad. She's addicted to coffee and Dairy-lea cheese triangles.

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      Very short story but I loved it nonetheless. The characters were awesome, the ending was sweet and I'm excited to read more. I fo think this author has a habit of creating stories that are like halfway finished. I know there's a second to this somewhere and I would've liked them to be one story. (This was only 10chapters with less than 100 pages of actual reading)

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    The Dragon Queen’s Fake Fiancé - Mina Carter

    Chapter 1

    Abird in a gilded cage, that’s all she was .

    Dropping onto her favorite couch, Cadeyra, Cadie to those few she called friends, groaned with relief as she kicked her shoes off and wriggled her toes. After a full morning of meetings and appointments, she’d finally managed to snatch a little break for herself, retreating to the small sitting room just off her office and firmly shutting the door against the world and all the pressures it placed on her. And since she was the White Queen, ruling over dragonkind, those pressures were considerable.

    Kicking her shoes under the couch, she checked the clock on the wall in the hopes that she had time to take off her bra as well and truly relax. But the clock was a bitch, time marching quickly toward her next appointment, one with her advisors regarding the state visit from the prince of a minor country from Eastern Europe. Cadie sighed and reached for the coffee pot on the small table in front of her.

    No escape from the bra, at least for now, which was a good and bad thing. Usually taking the damn thing off was the sign she was done for the day… no sense in confusing her body, not when it already felt like she was running on empty.

    Pouring a mug of the dark, aromatic liquid, she sat back and cuddled up in the embrace of the comfy, squishy sofa and wrapped her hands around the warm china. Brain out of gear, her gaze wandered to the large floor-to-ceiling window in front of her. The mid-afternoon sun warmed the carpet in neat squares, the smallest of dust motes—impossible to eradicate in a building as old as the palace was, despite the diligence of the household staff—dancing freely in the air. For a moment she wished she was one of them, able to dance in the warmth and light without worrying about anything.

    Lifting the mug, she took a sip of the hot, bitter coffee and closed her eyes in bliss. She lived for moments like this—simple things like a comfortable, old chair and time to herself. Most days she was bustled from place to place, constantly watched with every action scrutinized. At every engagement and appointment, she was only shown the newest and the best. Stiff, uncomfortable chairs that had never been sat on and newly decorated rooms. She’d been an adult before she’d realized that not everywhere smelled of new paint.

    Her gaze wandered up as she drank her coffee, savoring the sound of people not talking at her, and looked out the window. The sky was blue and clear. Sudden longing hit her. All she wanted to do was walk over, push the window open and fly. Escape the demands of the crown, if only for a little while.

    Closing her eyes, she smiled. She could already feel the wind under her wings and across her scales. Buried deep within, her dragon stirred, trumpeting its pleasure at the idea of a flight. It uncoiled enough to push scales against the inside of her skin, ready to break through if she gave the slightest hint that ditching her afternoon’s appointments, including the meeting with her advisors, was in the cards.

    For a moment she stayed perfectly still, temptation beating at her. It would be so easy… And when was the last time she flew? It was a few months ago, for sure, in the spring sometime. Her eyes snapped open. Had it really been that long?

    A sound outside the door snapped her back to reality. Sending a quick reassurance to her dragon that they would fly again, and soon, she focused her attention on the door as it was pushed open after a short, firm knock. The figure that walked through the door had her breath catching in her throat for a moment before she locked the reaction down.

    Sawyer Stone.

    Black dragon and one of the feared Council of Twelve, who both policed and kept their kind safe from feral dragons and wyverns, he wasn’t just dangerous, he wore his lethality like a mantle. Tall, broad shouldered and heavily muscled with close-cut dirty blond hair, his craggy good looks had had most of the women at court twittering over him at one time or another. He wasn’t a pretty boy like some of the blacks, but the aura of power that clung to him like a fine cologne more than made up for it. At least in Cadie’s book it did.

    Keeping a neutral expression, she leaned forward and put her mug down before the tiny shake in her hands gave her away. If royal white dragons had a weakness, if she had a weakness, then Sawyer was it. He’d arrived at court a few years ago, and instantly she’d been smitten. What girl wouldn’t have been? He was a former soldier, a general no less, and a war hero to boot. Queen she might be, but that didn’t make her any less of a woman.

    She’d hidden her attraction though, acting the brat around him and the rest of the blacks sometimes. Anything to hide her feelings for the tall, handsome black dragon.

    Pulled the short straw again, Sawyer? she asked with a smile, a little joke to hide her nervousness around him as she rose to her feet. The Council of Twelve always assigned her one of their number as a bodyguard, which, since his arrival, had been Sawyer. Occasionally they would assign the lone female among them, Adra, to her… but that was rare and usually when Sawyer was out of town.

    He shrugged, walking toward her. Heat hit her, everything female within her taking notice of the way he moved, the controlled slide of powerful muscles under the skin of his big frame as he came to stand before her. She hid her hands behind her back. The nerves were new, the heat was not, but it had increased by a hundredfold since Sawyer kissed her a few weeks ago.

    And it had been a scorcher—hot enough to ignite the slumbering fires of attraction within her as he’d pulled her into his arms and kissed her breathless right in front of half the council.

    Then… nothing.

    He hadn’t mentioned the kiss since, or given any other indication anything between them had changed. Hell, to look at him now, with his polite expression, she might as well not exist as a female. She’d already figured he’d only kissed her to take the heat off her cousin, Calan, when he’d arrived with his mate, Saskia. She’d been so excited that one of them had found their mate, she’d wanted to talk to the other woman, find out all about her… without realizing right away that she was being pushy. Rather than point it out to her quietly, he’d distracted her to allow the new lovers to get away.

    Then he dropped Cadie like a hot cake.

    Pride still hurt, she lifted her head a little. Perhaps she wasn’t his type? Some men were attracted to her because she was queen, but perhaps he was too much of an alpha male for that? Her mood took a nosedive. Perhaps he didn’t want a relationship where the woman was more powerful than he was? Because, for all the blacks were feared and dangerous, she was a white… and the most powerful of them all.

    The advisors are ready for you, he said, flicking a glance over her. Somehow, his gaze found her bare feet

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