Jako stared at me for the longest. “I’m not here to hurt her. I have enemies.”
“You better kill them when they come for her. I’m done running.”
“You have my word.” I laid down in front of the steps and tugged my paws closer to my chest.
“You’ll have my backup,” Emanual said.
“Mine too,” Lucian second.
“Lucian, no,” I begged.
“I’m not sitting this one out.”
“I’ll handle him. Without Dimitri he is useless.”
“Something tells me they are not coming alone.”
Dad looked at me and sighed. They all went back inside.
“So this guy is like Goran?” Ben asked, now in his Swallow Annex form.
“Yeah,” I said.
“Don’t play with him, Blake, kill him fast.”
I nodded and rested my head on my paws. The dragon law was there for us. There would be no hearing.
The hours ticked by and the orange and pink sky turned into a midnight blue stretching out to black with sparkling stars, our ancestors that looked down upon us.
A few choppers interrupted the peace. The lights kept dangling over my body and lit up the courtyard.
Ben growled at them, and I gurgled.
“Ignore them.”
“He is going to find out that you are not planning to show.”
“Then let him. The faster he comes, the better.”
I could only imagine what they were broadcasting. How I was probably trying to fool everyone so that it was an easy kill.
Where was the fun in that?
27
ELENA
They cut my training with Devon short today. King Helmut begged for his help on this one and he was somewhere outside with the beasties protecting me.
The tightness of my stomach was going to cause a panic attack, not that I knew what one felt like, but one was coming. I could feel suffocating fear lingering in my chest.
A gigantic beasty landed a couple of minutes ago. The windows groaned as his paws touched the ground. Everyone outside stood on alert and Dad left my room for a few minutes. The queen came to keep me company.
“You okay?”
I shook my head as I sat on my bed, hugging one of the throw pillows. “What is happening?”
“We got a threat on your life. It’s only formalities, Elena.”
