“As long as she is fine. What happened?”
“Something we thought Dents always had control over. You released all your abilities on her.”
I gaped. “How can she still be alive?”
“She isn’t the carrier. She felt what that power feels like for a second. The burden to carry it. Helmut thinks it’s teaching her what you are to her. Not just what she is to you. Everything is so mutual with Dents,” Dad said.
“What time is it?”
“Just after two.”
Great. Six hours to go.
“The Dent?”
“Yeah, take it to your grave.”
Dad nodded.
“What about the Dent?” Emanual asked.
“Nothing?” Dad answered, and my lips curved.
“If you know the procedure and what takes place, Bob, and you are not telling me—”
“You think I know the procedure. I was asking if the bond was strong.”
“Then why did Blake tell you to take it to your grave?”
“He’s part of a Dent now. Wouldn’t surprise me if he was going to become paranoid after this.”
“Haha,” I mocked and Dad chuckled.
I nibbled on a fourth plate and discussed what took place the past almost two weeks.
Elena got a postponement of the interview on Kevin’s show that she had to do on one condition. I had to do this with her.
“Whatever, I don’t care.”
I could feel both their eyes on me. They needed to get used to it. A lot of things were going to change.
I still couldn’t shake off the feeling of how real the past almost sixteen years felt. It wasn’t. It was hardly two weeks.
Dad took me to the war room and showed me what she was working on the past two weeks. She was really talented. Half of the wall had an outline of some war scene with dragons and mountains. Dragonians sat on top of their backs. The other side and the top of the wall were still barren.
“She saw him, Blake?”
I looked at my dad. “I figured that much? Did he give her some answers to why all the secrecy around her birth?”
Dad nodded. “He told her I was never on that suspect list. He didn’t tell me because he knew I would abandon you and Sammy to raise her.”
My eyebrows squinted. “Would you?”
He shook his head. “I would’ve come back as soon as they eliminated the threat and raised her with you and Sammy, in her world.”
Imagining us growing up together. It would’ve been so different. She would’ve known me the same way I knew her. “Too bad he didn’t trust you with that.”
“He’s human. Doesn’t matter how old they are, they are still idiots at times.”
