“How was it?”
Wait for Blake.I stopped. “Wonderful. It felt so real.”
“Yeah, that makes it so special.”
“So he was really there?”
“He was. He felt it just like you.” He bent over and kissed me on top of my head. “I’m glad that you are okay?”
“Me too. I just don’t want the abilities again.”
Dad chuckled. “You won’t. The dragons are the carriers. That is why the Dragonians have them. They are not your pets, Elena, and you are not our possessions, you hear?”
It was the same thing my father had told me. I nodded.
He winked, got up, and walked to my door. He stopped as he opened it and turned around. “Rest. I’ll ask someone to bring you something to eat.”
“Thanks.”
My father closed my door. My eyelids fluttered. They felt so heavy, and just like that, I drifted away.
I got stronger.Ben came every day to check up on me.
In less than two days, I was up and walking around. I didn’t feel any different, to be honest, even though I had a dragon.
Blake was still sleeping inside the arena. He hadn’t transformed back to his human form and guards kept a watch over his sleeping figure.
Lucian had told me it was the most vulnerable time in a dragon’s life during the Denting process, and Paegeia always guarded them in a safe place, especially if that dragon was the alpha.
Everyone was obviously still in shock that he just submitted. Lucian didn’t know he could do that. Just like my father had told me.
“He’s part Metallic,” I said.
“His Chromatic part is stronger.”
“Well, he submitted without a fight.”
“He made the choice because you were not ready.” Lucian made it sound as if it was my fault.
“I didn’t ask him to submit!”
“You didn’t have to. You could’ve told your father that you were not ready.”
“It’s not my fault. I was going to fight. I was ready to fight. He didn’t.”
“I just don’t know what this will do to his reputation. He is the alpha of all the dragons. They might see him as weak.”
“Guys and their reputation. There is nothing wrong with submitting. It’s twenty times harder than fighting.”
He sighed. “I’m sorry. It’s how dragons will look at it.”
“Well then, they are stupid.” I wished he could leave. He was really pissing me off.
“You really didn’t know he was the Rubicon?”
I glared at him.
Lucian laughed.
