I saw Robert staring at his son, and Blake shook his head. He got up.
“Blake.”
He spoke to his father in Latin, speaking in a harsh tone, and left.
“Where is he going?” I asked.
“He needs air. This is difficult on him, Elena.”
I huffed.Difficult on him. How did he think I felt? He made me fall in love with him for nothing.
I folded my arms. “Who is my mom?”
“I’ll get to that, but you need to know first about why you are here. The reason we run every three months is because of who you are. I made a vow to keep you safe until it’s time to go back to Paegeia.”
“Dad, Paegeia is a make believe world.”
Dad looked at the table. His shoulders slumped. “It’s not. It’s real.”
My jaw pumped. “Invisible walls don’t exist.”
“They do in a magical world?” Robert answered.
My gaze flickered to Blake’s dad. “Magical world?”
“Magic exists. Thousands of years ago, your world and our world were part of each other,” Robert answered. “Humans got greedy and wanted the magic all to themselves and started killing many beings that were connected to it.
“So we had to protect the magic we had by erecting the wall. You are human, but through your blood flows magic and the humans with the magic are what we call Dragonians.”
“Bear, you remember nothing?” Dad asked.
I shook my head.
My dad rubbed his face.
“So you tried to tell her?”
“Yes, I tried, Robert.”
“Too bad Tanya fucked it up.”
“Don’t. You do not know what she went through when Kate died.”
“She had a genuine bond, so I can only imagine, but it gave her no right to leave her. I would’ve stayed.” Robert tapped with his finger on the table.
“Yeah, and maybe that is the reason he didn’t tell you.”
“Who?” I asked Robert.
He looked at Dad.
“Your biological father,” Dad answered.
My gaze flickered to Dad. “What?”
“Nobody knew about your existence because of how important you are to Paegeia. Your parents ordered us to keep it that way until it was safe to take you back.
“But with Fox on our tail every step of the way, he drove us deeper into America and made it harder to connect with the news of Paegeia.”
