Frostbite (The Dragonian, #3) - Adrienne Woods Page 0,12

couple of minutes as I contemplated bringing her out.

“I really need to meet her Elena.”

I bit my lower lip. “She makes everything feel ten times worse, Blake,” I begged.

“It’s normal. You’ve got to embrace her.”

“Fine, turn around.”

He gave me a blunt look.

“Turn around.”

“Seriously?”

I grabbed both his shoulders and turned him around.

I took off my robe when I was sure he wouldn’t look and closed my eyes as I crouched down. I rested my head on my knees and let my emotions take over. Anger usually did the trick but the ache of missing Lucian was more potent. I welcomed it and thought about him like I used to. His smile, the way his look made me feel. For the love of blueberries, I missed him so much.

I could feel the change, the pull and the tear. The jolt of pain shot through me as my limbs grew and my butt stretched out into a tail. When I opened my eyes, Blake was really small and he was still turned away from me. He started to turn his head and for some reason I was calmer than usual.

He just looked up at me.

“Hi, I’m Blake.”

I sighed. “It’s still me, idiot.”

“I thought you said…”

“It takes about a couple of minutes, just wait.”

He smiled. “I don’t know why you don’t like her, Elena.”

“You’ll spin another story once you meet her.”

He smiled and I lowered my head onto my paws and closed my eyes, waiting for her to come out.

OPENED MY EYES, scared of where I was going to find myself. My body felt fine and when I lifted my head I was someplace completely different. How the hell did I get here?

I had to admit, it was a peaceful place and the view would take any dragon’s breath away.

Something cleared its throat below me and I looked down. I found another rodent.

I got up onto all my paws and was ready to breathe a blast of fire when he lifted up his hands in defense.

“Calm down, Elena.”

“Who the hell is Elena? I’m not Elena.”

He squinted his beady little eyes. “Who are you then?”

“Name is Cara.”

“Cara.” His one eyebrow raised and then a smirk ran over his face. “Fine, I’ll go with that.”

“You are?” I should be incinerating him, not speaking to him. I opened my mouth again.

“Wait,” he said and his arms and hands were up in the air. “I’m like you, okay.”

I laughed. “You are nothing like me, little rodent.”

“She wasn’t joking when she said that you are feisty.”

“Who are you talking about?”

“Elena, she’s in there with you.” He laughed again. “I’m sure you’ll meet her soon.”

Was this little rodent mocking me? “I have nobody inside of me.” The words rolled down like poison.

He laughed again. He was so arrogant, and it was annoying the hell out of me. Without another thought, I took my talon and flicked him off the mountain.

Good riddance.

I closed my eyes again for a few seconds and looked at the view. The sun baked my scales but the weather was changing. There was a cold breeze in the air that made me shiver.

Just as my eyes wanted to close they grew as the view was spoiled by a huge, ugly mother and I got up, turned around and bolted through the trees to find another escape off this mountain. I could hear its flapping above my head as I changed direction. I guessed the trees falling down didn’t really help my escape plan so much.

I found an edge and hurled myself off the cliff.

The wind supported my wings and lifted me higher into the sky. I still didn’t trust them because for some reason they didn’t feel like they belonged to me.

I spotted the other dragon in the distance, it was really big and I made a dart in the direction furthest away from it.

When I looked back to see where it was, I found nothing.

Then, I felt something warm and wet dripping down my face. It had a tingling sensation and when I looked up, the mutt was right above me. I darted down and struggled for the next half hour to shake the dragon from my tail.

My new body was faster and I loved every minute of this speed.

The dragon was still on my tail though and something was telling me that it was much faster than it’d revealed so far.

I stopped in mid-air and it darted past me like a rocket.

It stopped too when it saw me and I knew this was it. If