QUOTE : Maybe I’d better start at the beginning…”<br /><br />“You’re gonna want to sit down,” Jim told the dragon. “Once she gets going, it’s hard to stop her.”<br /><br />“Silence, demonic one,” I said, smiling at Bastiano. If I thought he looked surprised at the news that we weren’t there to banish him, he was downright flabbergasted by the time I was done relating the pertinent events of the last few months.<br /><br />“You were the mate of the green wyvern—I am glad to know that Drake still has charge of the sept—but now you are Fiat’s mate?” he asked.<br /><br />“In name only. Fiat tricked us into that situation. He’s…well, you know what he is.”<br /><br />Bastiano nodded. “Cruel,” he said.<br /><br />“Bastard,” Jim said with a sniff.<br /><br />“Evil to the core,” said Rene.<br /><br />“Looks like a porn star,” added Uncle Damian. “Don’t trust men who look like they make their livings with their dicks.”<br /><br />A slight flush rose on Bastiano’s cheeks.<br /><br />“Present company excluded, naturally,” I told him, shooting my uncle a glance.