One Good Dragon Deserves Another (Heartstrikers, #2)

by Rachel Aaron

This being the DFZ, though, the scope of the jobs that came in was much larger. In the month since he and Marci had gone into business together, they’d done everything from banishments to home warding to clearing out an entire warehouse overrun with sentient snails.

Bile rose in her throat. She’d seen these kinds of movies. Nothing good ever happened when you woke up in a room with a drain.

“Can I help it if you make everything complicated?” his brother snapped. “You’re the one who always insists on treating your humans like they’re equals. If you want her to act like a pet, then slap a collar on her neck and be done with it, but you can’t give her freedom and then freak out when she uses it.”

“Maybe I watched too much human television growing up, but I’ve always assumed that not killing your own family was kind of a given.” “Depends on who’s doing the giving,” Amelia said with a wry smile.

“How can you be so calm about this?” “Easy,” Amelia said with a grin. “I’m drunk. You should try it sometime. You clearly need a better coping mechanism.” Chelsie glared daggers at her. “That’s the worst advice I’ve ever heard.” “Never said I was a role model,” Amelia replied with a shrug.

“No offense to your brother, but Bob seems to be an ask-the-impossible, hope-it-works-out kind of leader.”