“Blake?” my father said.
“She needs to know everything, Dad. What she has to do when she gets back to Paegeia. Do what Herbert says. He knows her the best. Just make her used to the idea of the Rubicon.”
“Blake, if she knows you are—”
“Then don’t tell her yet. When we are home, I’ll fix it. I’ll find Matt and get word to Helmut. They need to come.”
“Are you sure?”
“I think it’s better for the bond at this moment. It has taken a lot of strain.”
“What are you talking about, boy?” Herbert asked. “She hasn’t even claimed you yet.”
“Don’t,” Robert said. “You do not know what the two of us caused them tonight. Elena already had a lot of power over Blake. Whenever she orders him, it’s set.”
Herbert looked at me. “In the parking lot, when she told you to go.”
“Believe me, I didn’t want to,” I replied.
He wiped his forehead hard. “Fuck, what does this mean?”
“It means we could’ve broken it. The most important part of the bond is the foundation. We fractured theirs.” Dad looked at him.
“Fracture is sugar coating it, Dad. How the fuck did she get my bracelet?” I asked.
“Your bracelet?”
I pulled off my bracelet and slid it across the table to him as I pulled out the chair and plopped down on it.
Herbert jumped from the chair, staring at it. His gaze flickered to mine, and his eyes squinted. “It’s you?”
“What is me?”
“What are you talking about?” Dad asked.
“Fuck?” Herbert pulled his hands through his hair as he frowned, staring at the bracelet.
“What is me?” I asked again.
He shook his head. “The ones that vowed to protect us all perished two years ago. An unknown force kept warning me whenever danger was near.”
Dad and I looked at each other, eyebrows knitted. I looked back at Herbert. “What do you mean?”
“It happened twice. The moon-bolt sees everything, and she risks her life by letting me know as she reveals herself to Fox where she is every single time she gets in contact with me. Her family flees as much as we do. The times she didn’t, my appliances warned me.”
“Your what?” Dad asked.
“I don’t know how else to say this. Something is interfering with the TV and the actor will tell me to go, that they are coming. If Elena has this, and it belongs to you, it means that she didn’t have an imaginary friend when she was little, Blake. She saw you. You gave her your bracelet.”
“If I gave her….”
“You are going to?”
I squinted.
“It’s you. You keep warning me. You are keeping her safe too, you just don’t know it yet.”
“How?” Dad asked.
