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I grinned like an idiot.
Elena really liked me, and I laughed when Herbert told her that one day she would meet someone really nice that would make her forget all about me. Poor girl—she did not know. Neither did Jako Lemuir.
I watched from the woods as he drove Elena back home. He was a dragon all right. I got a great whiff of his scent when Elena opened the door to climb in.
I had to follow. They couldn’t stay that far. I kept running, staying on the edge of the woods. I obviously couldn’t keep the pace. Herbert’s truck was faster than my legs, but I got both of their scents now. So I followed that.
She lived far from school and around three in the afternoon, I finally reached their farm house.
Jako had parked the truck in front of a red barn. I tuned in to find out which room was Elena’s.
Herbert was speaking to someone in the room downstairs.
He was in a meeting, nothing ‘high security’ at all. He was trying to sell an idea.
Elena was quiet, but I could hear muffled music and something told me she had her earphones on.
It came from one bedroom upstairs. The one whose window faced the woods.
I still couldn’t come near her, and I did not know how to break this fucking bound of staying away she’d put on me.
I didn’t think it would work. I mean, I only met her three days ago, and she already had this effect on me.
My phone buzzed in my pocket and I knew Herbert’s enhanced hearing would pick up someone in the woods, so I declined my father’s call and made my way back home.
When I was a few miles away from the farmhouse, I phoned Dad.
“Blake, where the hell are you?”
“Followed Elena to see where she lived. We need to talk. You will not like it.”
I put the phone down and headed back home.
I walked in the front door around five.
“How far does she live?”
“A few miles out of the city. Herbert is paranoid like crazy.”
“You would be too if you had to protect the princess with no backup, while there is a colony of wyverns on your trail.”
“She doesn’t know a thing?” I blurted it out.
My father’s body stiffened as I plopped down in the chair of the dining room.
Dad picked up one of the take away boxes and handed it to me.
I missed Pete’s cooking.
“How do you know this?” Dad put down a glass in front of me and opened the bottle of Coke and poured me a glass.
“Discovered it today when I spoke to her more. She opened up a bit, but she has immense walls around her.” I shoved the burger into my mouth.
“You sure she does not know?”
“I mentioned the wall and Tith. She thinks it’s some sort of city in Boston wherever that is.”
