He stared with knitted eyebrows at me, and the disappointed glazed his eyes.
“Don’t, please. I fucked up, okay.” I sat down on the edge of my bed, resting my head in the palm of my hands, staring at the carpet.
“Talk to me. Who is Dimitri?” Lucian came closer and went down on his haunches.
My gaze flickered to his. “Someone that can become a second Goran. His magic is powerful.”
He brushed his hands through his hair. “Fuck, Blake. How did you get into this mess?”
“My dad.” I sighed. “He borrowed money from the wrong people and begged me.”
“You didn’t.”
“No, I didn’t. He took my mom and sister. I signed a blood contract so he can’t harm them ever again, and he erased my fathers addictions, brought the old Sir Robert back. I’m bound to it. I don’t want to do this, but he will take Elena. He is that good, Lu.”
“What does he want you to do?”
“Don’t ask me, please,” I whispered. “It’s evil and sadistic. Before Elena, it helped to soothe the darkness, but now, it might twist it.”
“Then don’t do it.”
“What fucking choice do I have!”
“Be her dragon and protect her.”
“I told you, she doesn’t want to see me.”
“Maybe not your human form. She doesn’t even know what your dragon form looks like. He wouldn’t come if you are there, and if he does, you deal with him.”
My eyebrow raised. “Kill him?”
“Just the one who has control over this dark one. He might thank you for that.”
“The hold will break over my dad, Lu.”
“It won’t if it’s a blood contract. You really should pay more attention during class. The only way out of one is to kill the person you made it with. Why do you think Paegeia’s law forbids blood contracts?”
My eyebrows furrowed as there was finally light inside this dark tunnel. “Are you serious now?”
“Yes, and if he is threatening the only person who can keep you from becoming dark, I’ll hold the fucker down.”
My lips curved. Lucian hardly cussed.
“Let me help. You don’t have to do everything alone.”
I nodded.
He got up, took out his Cammy from his back pocket and dialed his father. King Helmut’s hologram appeared. “You alone?”
“Yes, in my office, why?”
“Where is the princess?”
“Busy with tutoring. What is it, Son?”
“Her life is in danger, Dad.”
“In what way?”
