“She mentioned me?”
“Your name has come up.” He opened his bag. My gut flipped at that. “But I got a feeling she didn’t want to speak about you.”
I sighed.
“What happened?”
“She didn’t tell you?”
“Nope, the reason I have a feeling.” He took out clean pressed clothes and put it back in his closet.
“She is angry at me. Which I can’t stand.”
“She is pretty.”
My eyes flickered to him, and I glared at him.
He laughed. “Really? You think I’ll do that to you. I should, but I won’t. For me there are plenty of fish out there, but I’m afraid that is your whale.”
“She is what she is.”
“So what happened?”
“Paegeia happened, that’s what. She hates me because I lied to her. The worst part is that I tried to tell her and then her father interrupted. She is so the opposite of me though.”
He chuckled.
“Is she okay?”
“Yeah, she is struggling with the concept of dragons. Refused to call them what they are. She keeps speaking about beasties.”
“Oh, fuck.”
He laughed. “Don’t worry, we’ll get her there.”
“Oh, no. You are sitting this one out.” The fear of Elena falling for Lucian turned my gut into many knots. I didn’t like that. It put me on edge and I was already on edge.
“Blake, you are going to need my help. I know you the best.”
I closed my eyes. “I swear if she is going to fall for you, Lu—”
“Relax, she won’t. I got a feeling her heart already belongs to you, she just needs to process.”
“You said she doesn’t want to speak about me.” My eyebrows tugged.
“Because she feels betrayed.”
“Yeah, and now the ancients have banned me from seeing her.”
“They are old farts. They never stopped you before.”
“Yeah, that was before.”
He looked at me. There was still a slight tremble in my hand.
“The darkness?” he asked.
“It’s gone when I’m near her. It’s hard to explain. And now they want to keep me away from that.”
