Lucian was right. Weed fucked up all my senses and I shouldn’t have smoked that two rizlas That he thought she didn’t know I was the Rubicon was alarming. No, Dad would’ve mentioned something already to her, Jako would. Why did he get that feeling then?
Mia came back,and I was desperate to speak to her. After Art of War I got a chance.
“Hey, Blake. Did you miss me?”
I smiled. “She getting any better?”
“She is. She is a fast learner. Look at the beautiful departing gift she gave me?”
I looked at the symbol on the brooch below her shoulder. It was a gracious gesture. “Can we speak for a minute?”
“I have time. What do you want to know?” We walked over to the bleachers and I sat down with a sigh.
“Speak to me. What is on your mind?”
“Does she know I’m the Rubicon?”
Mia stared at me and smiled. “Her dad asked me not to mention it yet as she struggles with dragons and he didn’t want to mess that up for you, whatever that means. But I got a feeling she doesn’t.”
“Why do you say that?”
“Well, she speaks about you as if you are two entities.”
“She spoke about me?”
“The Rubicon most of the time, calling him a beasty.” She raised her eyebrows.
I laughed. It sounded so wrong.
“She refuses to go into the simulator, no matter how hard I negotiate. She’d rather train for three hours than face you in a virtual world for an hour.”
I nodded.
“Why do you ask?”
“Lucian got the same feeling that she doesn’t know.”
“Then ask him to tell her.”
“No, Herbert might have a point. She needs to discover this one herself.”
“If you guys think it’s for the best. She reminds me a lot about her father. She had his demeanor too, but when she is serious, oh, man, it’s Catherine Squires through and through.”
“Please don’t say that?”
Mia laughed. “She is not her mother, Blake. She is light. I can see why you are so crazy about this girl. I’ll keep my eye on the prince if I were you.”
“Yeah, he told me.”
She raised her eyebrow. “He owned up to it to you?”
I nodded. “But he said he would never do that to me.”
“He wouldn’t. Elena is a bit upset with him about some place he took her to during the weekend.”
“Yeah, to come see the Shifters play and I fucked that up too.”
“Stop fucking things up. You are your worst enemy.”
