“And let her scream her head off. Apparently, she is not doing so well with the dragon part. Jako begged me to keep that part hidden until she is more settled. How long that’s going to take? I don’t know.”
“How did you discover this?”
“I didn’t. My dad did and then he dragged me with him.”
“How is she?”
“Looks like her father, but there is no way she is going to claim me in the next six months, that is a promise.”
“Hey, she exists. That is more than enough for now, Blake. The best of the best will train her. You feel the urge to kill her?”
I squinted at Matt. “Fuck no.”
Matt laughed. “Finally.”
“Fuck off, I wasn’t that bad.”
“No, of course not,” he said with sarcasm dripping off the words.
I stayed with Matt. It was for the best. I gave him the coordinates with Dad’s number and took a shower while Matt arranged everything.
I ate like the beast I was and afterward crashed on a bed in one room.
Matt was still on the phone with Dad when I drifted away.
I dreamed of my Never-breath. But it wasn’t the girl with the red hair and the freckles. She became Elena.
I didn’t even give her time to say hello. I just kissed her.
There was no current this time, but I didn’t care. She was my home home. I needed to fix it.
ELENA
Two days have passed,and most of my questions revolved around the Rubicon. Robert answered every one of them. He knew him well.
His height was something that made me want to reach for a brown bag, and apparently, he was still growing.For the love of blueberries, how was I going to tame him?
Robert also knew plenty about my father and mother. Why didn’t they trust him and then he answered that part, too? They must have thought that he was one of their suspects who could betray them as the woman that saw things, didn’t see the person. She only saw it was one of their closest friends, and Robert was really close to my dad.
From what I gathered, every Dragonian, human with magic, had a dragon. They must find them if the seers didn’t see them like they had with me and the Rubicon.
They claim them in a ring sort of building. The way Robert explained it reminded me of the colosseum, like the gladiators used to fight in. There was one in Dragonia Academy and one in Tith and Areeth, which were countries that the two kings ruled.
They held those for the important ones, and I was probably going to claim the Rubicon in the one in Tith. It was an event that they deemed important.
The way Robert spoke about it sounded too easy, and when something sounded easy, they usually sugar coated things.
I went back to my room again to process and the next day I would have a list with more questions.
I guessed the rest I would discover once I got to Paegeia.
I watched TV as Dad refused to let me go back to school. There was no use for it anymore, as we would leave soon. Blake hadn’t come back yet.
A knock on the door startled Robert and Dad. Dad came closer to me, sort of shielding me from whoever was at the door if it was this Fox guy.
Robert looked through the keyhole and then opened the door and greeted whoever was on the other side.
A bald guy walked in.
