“Probably not.”
She gaped at that. “Seriously? You’d have done nothing to them?”
“Not over words.”
“Not even when they’re insulting you?” she asked incredulously.
It was his turn to lift a brow at her. “Do dragons always attack when they’re being insulted?”
She sputtered.
“I believe they do, me lord.” Halla made herself the size of a large rodent while she floated in the air between them. “It’s a matter of honor for them.”
Nodding at the hobgoblin, she brushed debris from her clothes. “Halla’s correct. We do.”
“Is that why you destroy so many villages whenever you’re off on a furious bender?”
Anger rose inside her at Dash’s question. “I’ve never destroyed any village. I know no one who has ever done such. Have you ever speared a human with your horn?”
Dash didn’t respond, but Halla began to whistle and look uncomfortable.
She arched a brow at his lack of response. “You’ve speared a human?”
Halla cupped her hand around her mouth and whispered loudly, “He’s speared many things, Lady Dragon.”
Dash spoke in that calm, emotionless tone. “Plan to do so again. But I’m not rash enough to run headlong into a group of trained and armed warriors who may or may not be wizards orshapeshifters when my backup is a hobgoblin, whose sole choice of weapon is sarcasm, and a defenseless dragon in the body of a human woman who would have been at their mercy had I failed to kill them all.”
The way he said that made her want to run from him. There was a lot of darkness inside him that she must not forget. Just like the one who’d stolen her innocence. Unicorns were dangerous.
Cold-blooded.
Merciless.
As a human, she was no match for his speed.
And he might spear her, too.
He’s my enemy.
She couldn’t afford to forget that important fact. They weren’t the same. Unicorns weren’t dragons. They were an entirely different species, who valued entirely different things.
At least that was what she’d been told. Truthfully, she didn’t know what they valued. And at the moment, she didn’t care.
Dash shook his head, causing his mane to flow eerily. “Are you ready to continue your journey?”
She wanted desperately to say no. That she could find her own way. But as a human woman, that would take forever on foot.
And those men and others would continue to mock her beloved brother while she dawdled.
No. If the unicorn could get her there without devouring her, she’d be that much closer to finishing this and returning to her own body.
Then she could flash fry the unicorn and return to her kingdom.
I will see this through. No matter what it takes.
And then she’d free herself from this terrifying unicorn. One way or another.
Chapter 4
