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    Defending the Dragonlady
    Defending the Dragonlady
    Defending the Dragonlady
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    Defending the Dragonlady

    By Kary Rader

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    Chris Lachey is about to find out that there are far scarier things than planning the office Halloween ball—like sinister pranks, death, arrests, and falling in love with your coolly beautiful boss, the company’s feared Dragonlady.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBoroughs Publishing Group
    Release dateOct 30, 2015
    ISBN9781942886921
    Defending the Dragonlady
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    Kary Rader

    Kary Rader is a stay-at-home mother of three, avid reader and slave to the characters and worlds inside her head.Always creative, she's drawn to stories with fantastical worlds and creatures. With a little bit of magic and divine guidance, there isn't anything that can't be accomplished with words. It's the power of words that creates and destroys.Vanquishing evil and injustice while finding eternal love in the process is all in a day's work. And with the help of her critique partners and master cartographer imaginary places come to life.Let the fantasy begin...

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      Book preview

      Defending the Dragonlady - Kary Rader

      Chris Lachey is about to find out that there are far scarier things than planning the office Halloween ball—like sinister pranks, death, arrests, and falling in love with your coolly beautiful boss, the company’s feared Dragonlady.

      PRAISE FOR THE DataMatch SERIES

      Incredibly fun read!

      —Singles Titles

      What a cute novella. Looking forward to more from this series.

      —L. Reads

      What a wonderful story, with such a surprise twist!

      —Christine Ashworth, author of Guarded Star

      DEFENDING THE DRAGONLADY

      Kary Rader

      DataMatch Success Story No. 5

      www.BOROUGHSPUBLISHINGGROUP.com

      PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, business establishments or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Boroughs Publishing Group does not have any control over and does not assume responsibility for author or third-party websites, blogs or critiques or their content.

      DEFENDING THE DRAGONLADY

      Copyright © 2015 Kary Rader

      Smashwords Edition

      All rights reserved. Unless specifically noted, no part of this publication may be reproduced, scanned, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Boroughs Publishing Group. The scanning, uploading and distribution of this book via the Internet or by any other means without the permission of Boroughs Publishing Group is illegal and punishable by law. Participation in the piracy of copyrighted materials violates the author’s rights.

      ISBN 978-1-942886-92-1

      To all those whom fear has sought to cripple: May you be fashioned into a

      mighty dragon and may you always have the last laugh

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Epilogue

      Sneak Peek: Marrying Mr. Scrooge

      About the Author

      DEFENDING THE DRAGONLADY

      Chapter One

      The Past Comes Back to Haunt

      He’s out, Millie. Got out three days ago.

      My whole body seized up in terror. My first instinct was to grab my car keys and flee as fast as I could without looking back. Blood pulsed in my ears and my heart raced.

      But I couldn’t run. I’d worked too hard and done too much. I rose slowly and carefully from my desk chair but froze halfway to my office door.

      Millie…?

      The sound of the old nickname swept over me in a wave of dreaded nostalgia. I felt the familiar bands of anxiety attempt to hijack my breath. No. I would not allow this. Not now. My heart lurched in my chest. I forced oxygen into my lungs. Millie Bresden was gone, dead. It was as if his attempt on my life had succeeded, and now in her place was me, Molly Dresden.

      Are you still there, baby?

      I’m here, Mama. I held the phone to my ear with a trembling hand, but my voice came out sure and confident. The last five years had taught me to hide my fear, to hide any emotion. This moment was what I’d emotionally trained for.

      What’re you going to do?

      That was a question loaded with unthinkable possibilities. Even though I’d planned for this day, knew it eventually would come, I didn’t feel ready. I’m not sure what could’ve prepared me for it. Nothing.

      But he said he’d come after you.

      The frantic worry underlying her tone knotted in my brain. I closed my eyes to regain my composure. David was out of prison. Released early.

      I can’t run anymore, Mama. I ran from South Bend, and I’ve made a life here in Chicago. Let him come.

      But, honey, he said he’d kill you when he got out. They were supposed to call you and warn you.

      I’m sure they couldn’t find me. I closed my eyes. And shook my head at the irony. As you know, I’ve been off the grid.

      After the trial, I’d packed up my belongings, left my family and what few friends remained, moved, changed my name, and altered my appearance.

      Now, six years later, I looked far different from the girl I’d been, but it was more than that. I was changed on the inside, too. Shelly, my counselor and now best friend, had helped me transform from the cowering battered girl into the woman I was today. The sudden urge to call her overwhelmed me, but I held the need in abeyance until I could ascertain the risk.

      Have you seen him yet?

      No, baby. His mama went to get him day before yesterday. Gerald called me this morning, wondering if I knew.

      Gerald was David’s uncle, his father’s brother, and one of the few in town who’d believed my story. One of the few in town who hadn’t hated me for sending their local hero to jail and ruining his—and their—chances for college football glory.

      I guess they thought my broken bones, bruises, and punctured lung were symptoms of some strange anomaly and not the near deadly beating their hero had been capable of.

      "David’s telling everybody he found the Lord in prison and wants to make things right. They say that’s how

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