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who?” she asked, confused.
    “Dragus,” I laughed.
    Her eyes popped wide, “You’re kidding?” Her
nails were all but forgotten. The file was placed back inside her
pocket and she stood up out of her chair. Then she began to pace
the floor.
    “No, Lydia. I swear it was him!”
    “That explains why he was so formal with you.
He knows you too Charity,” she beamed. Lydia walked back and forth
in front of my desk, pacing as she spoke. “It’s been said that the
powerful ones, like the Krieger , have had their destiny’s
chosen for them from the beginning.”
    “What do you mean?” I asked, confused. Lydia
sat down and rolled her eyes at me.
    “When a Krieger is created, they are
given powers beyond our imagination. This is because they are
warriors. The first warrior, Akalika, held all the abilities. Only Krieger make other Krieger . Their blood is so
powerful, that they pass down their powers to each new warrior,
like a father to a son. It’s been said that Akalika had the ability
to sense his lover before he even knew her. This special power has
manifested over time to include, the ability for a Krieger to track his bonded mate anywhere in the world and contacting her
in her human dreams.”
    “Is that why he kept calling me ‘my lady’? It
was like I was already royalty to him,” I asked. The thought of him
knowing me also embarrassed me quite a bit. If he had known me, why
didn’t he say something?
    Lydia laughed, “Could be why he’s sending a Nachtmann to watch over your home, too.”
    “Well, I don’t know him. If he thinks he can
control me just because of a dream almost three hundred years ago,
he’s got another think coming.” I clinched my fist and promised
myself not to think of that damn dream again. The one thing I
didn’t want to deal with was an obsessive warrior trying to boss me
around.
    Dragus planned on sending someone to the
house to watch over me. I’ll show him. Whoever shows up, I’ll just
send them on their merry way back to town. Wait! Ha! Dragus didn’t
know where I lived. Well, on second thought, he was a Krieger , he’d find out.
    “Charity,” Lydia sighed. “You need to get to
know him. It’s fate! Do you have any idea how long he’s been
waiting on you?” Good Lord, did that woman just swoon?
    “You really believe he knows about the
dream?” I was skeptical. This was the first I had ever heard of the Krieger background. Of course, I haven’t been around a lot
of them. So I was clueless about Lydia’s observation.
    “Well, yes,” she laughed and then took off
through the door, but turned around just before leaving. “From what
I know, he will not be able to be away from you. Once they find
their mates, the warriors cannot be away from them. Think that over
and get back to me.” Her tinkling laughter echoed through the room
as she walked out into the club.
    Disgusted, I scooped order forms up off the
desk and made my way over to the liquor locker. We kept the booze
locked up nice and tight; hence the name “liquor locker”. I paced
through taking stock of what we had and what we needed. The whole
time, I couldn’t get Dragus’ voice out of my head. When I closed my
eyes, I saw his brilliant blue stare, piercing my soul. The last
thing I needed was to obsess about the Krieger that marched
into my office proving he was a tough warrior. I already knew how
tough they were.
    For some reason, he irritated me. I know he
was from my dream and I had actually liked him all those years ago.
But now, I am my own person. I don’t need a warrior trying to tell
me what to do. Oh who am I kidding? Although he irritated me, I
actually thought he was an intriguing, handsome warrior. Forcing
myself to push him to the back of my mind, I grabbed the step stool
and used it to reach the bottles of vodka on the top shelf. I
continued taking stock; trying not to think of dreams and blue-eyed
warriors.
     

Chapter 2

    Dragus
     
    I don’t know what stunned me more, the