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happened to be.
    “Relax, the dizziness will pass.”
    A woman’s voice, low, sultry and strangely familiar, caught
his attention. A dark-haired beauty kneeled next to him, grabbing his shoulder.
    His heart rate kicked up as he recognized the person
speaking to him. Like a vision from his past, Amanda Sugar was back from the
dead, staring at him not as a pretty teenager but as the very grown-up stuff of
fantasies.
    He swallowed. “Amanda?”

Chapter Three
     
    “I was once called Amanda. Now I am referred to quite
differently.” She extended her hand to help the human male to get off the
ground. “But you may call me Amanda if that is what suits you. Everyone else
will refer to me as Princess. It is my name and my title. You see, you are not
really speaking to Amanda. You are speaking to a dragon. I share her body now.”
    Dean, as her memories told her he’d been named, took her
hand. His blue eyes were huge and his mouth hung open as he regarded her.
    He can speak to us , Blue said to her, yawning widely
before settling down to sleep for the rest of the day. And we lost Dore .
    That is too bad. He will be missed. Sleep well and thank
you for your service .
    This male could communicate telepathically? She never would
have guessed that to be the case, but then again, her own vessel had been
horribly limited when she had arrived.
    “What do you mean, you were once called Amanda? And that I’m
speaking to a dragon?”
    “I am not Amanda any longer.” Well. That didn’t happen to be
entirely true, only Dean didn’t have to know that. “I once was but now I am the
princess of dragons.”
    The human male smelled good, even though his body was
covered in dirt, sweat and all manner of disgusting crud. He required a bath.
    “You did something to Amanda?” He kicked the water barrel
beneath the sleeping hold. “So not only did I let her father and mother down,
but I didn’t just kill Amanda Sugar, I left her to be somehow violated by the dragons.”
    “Dean Andrews, you take a lot of responsibility on yourself.
Amanda Sugar is not harmed and even had she been, it would not be your fault. This
is the side of human beings I do not grasp. Even living with Amanda I cannot
make sense of it.”
    “Dragons. It’s not bad enough that you fly around destroying
everything in your path, you now invade bodies too.” He looked up at the sky. “Why
would you take our bodies? You have your own. Something wrong with them?”
    Princess smiled at the small-brained human. She had to be
calm and patient with them, as they were so limited in so many ways.
    “We take your bodies for many reasons. The first is the ease
with which we can communicate with you through them. How else should we speak
with our servants if we are not able to form your words?”
    Dean shook his head. “Try not having human slaves. How about
that?”
    She ignored him. His railing about things he could not
change would not be noted. “The other reasons that we take your bodies are
complicated. But the top two are thus. First, only some of us can do it. The
topmost of our kind can human join. It’s a show of rank.”
    “You can’t know how ridiculous you sound to me.”
    “The feeling is mutual, small thinker.” She continued. He
had asked a question—he would get the full answer whether he liked it or not. “The
second reason is that we like how your bodies feel.”
    She ran her hand up her human arm. Goose bumps appeared and
she shivered. So much pleasure could be found in the body she possessed.
    “My own nerve endings are not as sensitive as yours. You
could cut off my wing and I would not feel it as intensely as the cutting off of
a human arm. The feelings are…enticing.”
    “Of course you do this—of course you do.”
    The human made no sense. “I’m not following this
conversation.”
    Human beings were such complicated, emotional creatures. They
did not take proper care of themselves. For instance, as Princess she would
never have