The Care and Keeping of Dragons
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Neuvillette knows little of what it means to be a dragon; he has spent his entire life among the people of Fontaine. Everything he does know about dragons, he has uncovered himself through trial and error and the occasional bit of obscure research. But this, at least, he recognizes.
Mating instincts.
By protecting him, the duke is behaving like a dragon seeking a mate, and that has triggered Neuvillette’s own instincts to judge the duke’s adequacy.
When Wriothesley begins acting like a dragon courting his mate, Neuvillette finds himself torn between duty and desire.
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- Part 1 of The Care and Keeping of Dragons
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For so many years, he’s been alone. Now, not only does he have Wriothesley, his husband and mate, but he has the promise of a family and a child, two things he never thought he’d have.
“Look at you.”
He glances to the side, where Wriothesley leans naked against the bathroom threshold, a grin curving his lips and a liquid warmth smoldering in his eyes. “What about me?” he asks.
Neuvillette and Wriothesley make time for each other while Neuvillette is pregnant with their first egg.
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- Part 2 of The Care and Keeping of Dragons
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They lay together on the couch, the house strangely quiet. Wriothesley watches his thumb moving back and forth over Neuvillette’s body. Remembers the way his hands disappeared in the bathwater. He wants to think it was just a weird trick of the light, but Wriothesley isn’t in the habit of lying to himself.
Maybe there’s something wrong with him. Maybe Neuvillette’s gift of humanity is unraveling somehow. That’s terrifying. It would mean humanity was conditional or limited by time. Or that something can undo that gift. Something? Maybe someone.
When Wriothesley begins experiencing strange changes, he and Neuvillette must investigate the cause or risk losing each other forever.
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- Part 3 of The Care and Keeping of Dragons
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All his interest sharpens on the tea shop around him. Not a minute later, Wriothesley’s grabbed a shopping basket and filled it with five different tins. He stares at his new collection, a little baffled by his behavior, and then catches another new scent. Vanilla and almond. Without thought, he crosses the shop to find the tea in question, mindlessly putting it in his basket along with the others.
More. He needs more. There have to be more teas here he hasn’t had before, and he finds them with a single-minded intensity.
Getting used to being a dragon is complicated, especially when Wriothesley's new instincts get a little out of control about tea in particular.
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- Part 4 of The Care and Keeping of Dragons
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The bathroom door opens. Wriothesley glances over at Neuvillette—and then looks again, mouth going dry. His heart starts pounding. Because Neuvillette is wearing nothing more than his spats and polished work shoes, his hair in a braid that hangs behind him, doing nothing to hide the lithe lines of his body, and he—he’s watching Wriothesley with his chin upraised and a small, curling smile on his lips.
“Hello, beloved,” he purrs, liquid and warm.
Neuvillette and Wriothesley enjoy a honeymoon at last.
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- Part 5 of The Care and Keeping of Dragons
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“You smell delicious,” Neuvillette says, and his teeth follow the path of his tongue—a little mindless, like he’s lost himself, like he can’t help himself. “You smell—” He jerks back.
Lifting a brow, Wriothesley cranes his head to look up at his mate, his husband. “Most people don’t jerk back from delicious like that,” he says.
“You smell like heat and sex, Wriothesley.”
Neuvillette sees Wriothesley through his first heat as a dragon.
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- Part 6 of The Care and Keeping of Dragons
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Astrée frowns, mouth working, trying to figure out a reply to that. “But you dress like a prince,” she says at last. And then she startles a little. “Oh. Oh. You dress like a prince but you’re a girl.” At least, she thinks Aunt Furina is a girl. Everyone says Aunt Furina is a girl. She used to be Lady Furina, before the prophecy came true. Now, she’s just Aunt Furina. Her frown deepens. “Are you a girl?” she asks, a little hesitant, a little unsure.
“Most days,” Furina replies. “Enough days that it’s fine for you to assume I am. But you don’t want to be a girl most days. Do you?”
Astrée scowls. “What, like there’s a secret third thing?” she demands.
After getting into a fight with a teacher at school, Neuvillette and Wriothesley's child, Astrée, learns some interesting things about dragons and gender.
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- Part 7 of The Care and Keeping of Dragons