The Gentle Dragon

Kaylani is the last water dragon, or she was, until a scientist began creating hybrids from dragon DNA. She has been unable to have her own children, even after mating with the earth dragon, Avani. He is now mated, so having a dragon baby is no longer an option. Instead of having her own child, Kaylani adopted Naida, a hybrid created in a laboratory by the mad scientist Oliver using her DNA. Everett is a human who has become a doctor to the dragons. He switched his focus from humans to dragons, shifters, and eventually, hybrid and elf anatomy. He has worked to find ways to save the hybrids, whether from explosives in their brains, from shifting into deformed creatures in a hybridization gone wrong, or correcting the DNA of the ones whose injected DNA is incompatible and will kill the hybrid when they shift for the first time. Kaylani recognized Everett as her mate the first time she saw him. Unlike the other elemental dragons, she has no intention of fighting the mate bond and would love nothing more than for Everett to claim her. Everett, however, doesn't feel worthy of the gorgeous water dragon who looks like a goddess. Still, her intelligence and kindness keep drawing him to her, almost as much as the mate bond pulls her to him. They work well together and have opened a school for laboratory-created dragons and hybrids, as well as other pure shifters, to help them understand themselves better and ensure a positive future. Can Kaylani convince Everett to claim her, taking her as his mate? Or are they destined to work side by side, never knowing the true love that comes from the dragon bond?