Red, that was why I dreamt about Blake having red eyes. I shook my head. “What is he doing?”
“He is submitting.” My father gaped and pulled his hands through his hair. “How well do you know him?”
“He came with his father to the other side and helped us get back to Paegeia.”
“How long ago?”
“Five months.”
“F…. five months?” My father sounded shocked. “Elena, they were supposed to bring you back when the threat was eliminated.”
“Yeah, well, not as easy as you thought it would be. We had rogue dragons on our trail. We almost died. If it wasn’t for Blake and his dad, we wouldn’t even made it back alive.”
“Robert found you?”
I nodded. “I don’t know how, but yeah. He used his son to get closer to me. I still don’t know if he meant all the things he said or if it was only part of the mission.”
“He was nice to you?” My father frowned again.
“Super nice. I fell hard, but I don’t know if his feelings are the same. He is still nice to me.”
My father huffed as a small smile played on his lips. “He submitted long before now. I never imagined the Rubicon could submit like that.”
“Wait, it’s not normal for him?”
“He is the alpha of the dragons. The most hard-headed and stubborn of them all. I thought he would’ve at least put up a fight.”
I shook my head.
My dad smiled. “He really cares about you to submit, just like that. It’s not in them.”
“Will they take it as a claim?”
“I don’t know. We never had a Rubicon before him that showed us their other side, their gentle side. He is half Metallic after all. I just don’t know if Paegeia will accept it.”
I sighed. “So there will not be a fight?”
“No.”
I blew out a breath and wanted to grunt. “You want to tell me I trained my ass off for nothing?”
My father laughed. It came from his belly and he kept laughing louder. I joined him. It faltered into a few chuckles and giggles.
“I dreaded today, and that is what he was planning?”
“I doubt he knew he could do that, Elena.”
I didn’t know how I felt about it.
My father rubbed my arm. “I wish your mother could see you. We wanted you so badly, but the time was so wrong. We did not know who was going to betray us, and when it happened, I still refused to believe it.”
“I heard. Goran was your best friend.”
“We lost him somewhere along the line. I do not know who he is anymore.”
“Who he is?” My face slackened. “You are not dead.”
My father closed his eyes and opened them. He cupped the one side of my face. “I’m still alive behind the creepers. He is planning something evil and I don’t know what. All I know is that it involves the wyverns. I learned the hard way that they are not like other dragons. Whatever happens, never trust a wyvern.”
