He laughed.
“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have done that last night. Would it help if I tell you I suck at thinking things through?”
His jolly spirit was back.
“I believe everything happens for a reason. We somehow would get our happy endings, Lucian. I don’t know how, but we only have one life, right? Well, some of us, one extremely long life.”
He chuckled.
“Everything will happen the way it should. Life can’t suck that much.”
“You really believe that?”
“Yeah, I do. Or maybe I’m just losing it all together, I don’t know.”
“I hate you feel sorry about that kiss. It was amazing until reality kicked in.” He wrapped his arm around me and hugged me tight against his chest.
“Okay, fine, I’m not that sorry then.”
His chuckle reached my ears. “That is better. Our secret, and I mean secret, Elena, if the Rubicon is going to find out about this he will skin me alive.”
“I thought you were not afraid of him?”
“Yeah, well, a part of me is.”
“If it’s life threatening, then yes, I’ll take it to my grave.”
“Great.” He sighed.
He left that afternoon and I felt lighter that we had this conversation, but I still liked him a lot more than I should.
Even if his kiss didn’t leave me with a buzzing sensation afterward. I thought about Blake again. It still hurt when I thought about the intimate side of him, but time would heal that, too.
On Monday, Armand took me in the simulator and everyone came as their curiosity was killing them.
The Rubicon didn’t scare me like he had the other times, but it was scary that he focused his attention solely on me now.
He didn’t yield this time. I couldn’t get on his back and my energy in the game depleted, meaning that I died.
It was a start
After that, I faced him every single day.
He really was a significant beast, but his red eyes still freaked the living crap out of me.
My birthday was a month away,and the king wanted me to claim the Rubicon on my birthday.
Great sixteenth birthday gift. A non-refundable one.
It was going to be held inside the colosseum in Tith and the press already gossiped about it in the tabloids.
They hadn’t got a glimpse of me yet, but I guessed I would see what the beast was going to do now that his days were numbered.
My time with Armand ended, and I did not know who my last trainer was.
I was going to meet her today.
Dad didn’t come to fetch me like he had the other times, and I met them in my training gear inside the arena.
