Frostbite (The Dragonian, #3) - Adrienne Woods Page 0,126

of air waiting for the opening process to finish. Air released and the door opened slightly. I looked at Sir Robert and he nodded. I didn’t even have to ask him and I watched as he opened the door. I closed my eyes before I could see the contents. It didn’t matter what they’d left me, it was mine, mine forever

VERYONE GASPED.

“Holy fuck,” Lucille said.

“Mom!” Becky teased. “But I’m with you. Elena! For crying out loud open your eyes.”

It opened and I couldn’t believe what was in front of me. Becky pushed me inside as my own feet couldn’t find their way.

It was a neat vault made of steel. Cages and cages filled with gold lined both sides. All of us were speechless. I walked to the end and another door slid open. It was filled with jewels. My father and mother’s crowns were both on pillows right at the end. And it had a third pillow with the most beautiful tiara I’d ever seen. Beautiful ball gowns and jewels lay open on the velvet shelves surrounding it. It was covered by glass that you lifted up but I was too scared to touch it.

“Elena,” Sir Robert said and I found him at the entrance we’d just come through. He had a huge envelope inside his hand. He handed it to me and I struggled to open it.

I took out a thick envelope with my name on it. There were a couple more envelopes inside of it, with a couple of journals. I took out all the envelopes and saw Sir Robert’s name written in manly handwriting, and Blake written in the most beautiful cursive that graced mine.

I handed Sir Robert his letter and Blake’s. He wouldn’t accept anything from me and if it was from my mom, he should read it. Sir Robert took both envelopes with caution. He closed his eyes when he saw his name on one of them, and tore the top open.

I did the same with mine.

It was a thick letter.

“My dearest Elena,” were the first words on the letter.

“I knew first love the minute I met your father, but I only knew what unconditional love was when I held you inside my arms. You were so tiny and so fragile, I can’t imagine what life will be without you and I hope with all of my heart that you never get to read this letter, because it will mean that I never got the chance to meet you again. I love you so much and I miss you like crazy. You were the only thing, beside your father, I ever wanted.

To give you up in order to save your life was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. I’d fight twenty more wars if it meant that I could’ve kept you, but it’s not how life works.

I’m writing this letter with deep sorrow inside my heart but knowing that one day you might read it, is the only pleasure I have.

We left you everything we have, and hope that it will be enough for you to find it in your heart to forgive me.

I tried everything to keep you, but the odds were against that the minute you were born. If only I was a Moon-Bolt and I could see into the future of who was going to betray us, I would slit him open from chin to navel to have you in my arms again. But again the Malones don’t have the luxury of knowing what is to happen.

I love you more than words can say and I’ve written my stories down hoping that one day you will read them.

I wish I knew the type of woman you will turn into, that Elena I would give anything to meet. And remember, I will always be with you until we meet again.

Love, Mom.”

There were more letters but I decided to read them later as both my friends hugged me while I struggled to keep my tears at bay.

“Shhhh,” Becky said, but they didn’t say anything else, what could they say?

There was another letter apart from my mother’s thick one. It was from my father. It read almost the same as my mom’s. How much he wanted me and how badly he wanted us to reunite. He also said if I read this, that he would be dead, but he wasn’t. He was stuck behind Etan and who knows what Goran was doing to him. I’d made a promise I should’ve never made.

“P.S. Everything