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Burned out and numb after a year without painting, she clings to a final, desperate artwork featuring a majestic dragon in storm clouds. When her phone rings, gallery owner Jeff reveals the painting has sold to a mysterious bidder for twenty thousand, forcing Naomi to confront both the sudden turn of luck and the complicated feelings left by her gallery connection.","Mated to the Storm Dragon  \nBy Zoe Chant Copyright Zoe Chant 2017  \nAll Rights Reserved  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTable of Contents  \nChapter One: Naomi  \nChapter Two: Gregory  \nChapter Three: Naomi  \nChapter Four: Gregory  \nChapter Five: Naomi  \nChapter Six: Gregory  \nChapter Seven: Naomi  \nChapter Eight: Gregory  \nChapter Nine: Naomi  \nChapter Ten: Gregory  \nChapter Eleven: Naomi  \nChapter Twelve: Gregory  \nChapter Thirteen: Naomi  \nChapter Fourteen: Gregory  \nChapter Fifteen: Naomi  \nChapter Sixteen: Gregory  \nEpilogue: Naomi  \nA note from Zoe Chant  \nMore Paranormal Romance by Zoe Chant  \nIf you love Zoe Chant, you’ll also love these books  \nThe Christmas Dragon’s Mate  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nChapter One: Naomi  \nNaomi Edwardson stared at her phone, willing it to ring. The only thing that could help her now was a miracle...  \nHer rent was due in less than a week, and this month they’d cut her hours again at the shitty retail job she’d been forced to accept just to stay afloat.  \nLong ago, at college, she’d dreamed of the magical life that was waiting for her. Back then, her head had been filled with images of magic and beauty, and she’d spent nights painting and days studying and tutoring. Back then it had felt as if she’d never run out of energy or inspiration.  \nBut that was then. Now she was broke, and most days she ended up so exhausted she wanted to cry. During the nights, her worry of how to pay her rent kept her awake. Now she hadn’t painted in nearly a year.  \nAt first, that was what had hurt the most of all. But these days all she felt was numb.  \nShe’d been young and stupid back then, thinking that her dreams would be enough to find a job she loved. Instead, she’d ended up working retail with a manager who kept staring at her boobs instead of her face, and with hours that continually got cut. Every spare moment, she spent tutoring the children of the rich in art, who’d much rather play with their iPhones than pay attention to Naomi.  \nIt’s over, she thought as she stared tiredly at her phone. It won’t ring, which means that no one bought that painting. But I’ve known all along it wouldn’t sell. Nothing I’ve tried to sell has.  \nIn a last act of desperation, she’d begged a favor from her old acquaintance Jeff who owned a gallery. He’d added the last painting she’d held on to to his current exhibition—only because he liked her, as he’d told her several times. He really didn’t think the painting would sell, because people were so over unicorns and princesses and sparkly fairies.  \nNaomi hadn’t needed to see his face to know that he was sneering. She’d been so tired it hadn’t even hurt to hear his opinion of her art.  \nIt was art, she thought dimly, a small spark of rebellion still left in her heart. And it wasn’t a unicorn... Her painting showed a dragon, a majestic, powerful beast soaring among storm clouds.  \nIt wasn’t the sort of subject she usually painted. She liked landscapes: the play of light on stone, the green of leaves changing with the seasons, the secrets of light and wind and time that could turn a rock into a fascinating artwork of nature.  \nWhere had the dragon come from? Naomi couldn’t say even now. But she’d painted it in one final, desperate outburst of creativity, before the endless rut of work, work, work killed the final spark in her heart.  \nSuddenly, her phone’s screen lit up. She stared at it, her heart speeding up, barely daring to believe it.  \nEven if it’sjust a few hundred... I’ll be able to make this month’s rent. Please, please, please, she begged quietly as she answered the call.  \n“Naomi! Girl, are you in for a surprise!” the voice of her friend Jeff came through the phone.  \nIn the background, she could still hear the soft music and chatter that meant that he was at the gallery’s opening event.  \n“Has it sold?” Naomi asked anxiously.  \nJeff chuckled.“Has it ever! 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