Frostbite (The Dragonian, #3) - Adrienne Woods Page 0,127
inside this vault is for you, except Vault F. It belongs to the Leafs, it belongs to my dragon.” A small key was inside that I assumed would open Vault F.
I looked at Sir Robert. He still read his letter but he finally stopped and turned to the wall.
“Why didn’t you tell me?” He spoke softly. I felt for him and Sammy and her mom both went to his side.
“This would’ve been different if he’d trusted me with his daughter and not Tanya. She left when she was supposed to stay.”
“Please don’t,” I said and went to him. “I told you, and I told my father that day, that Blake needed you more, and my father knew that. He did trust you.”
“I would’ve stayed, you would’ve known who you were.”
“I know who I am, if you’d left your family, what would’ve been the outcome? Everything was exactly the way it was supposed to be.” That was something Jako’d told me.
He nodded.
“Now wipe away that anger and help me find Vault F.”
We all walked past the huge vaults and finally found numbers hidden behind the bars. The last one had a door. “This must be F,” I said.
I took the key and pushed it inside the door. The vault opened and we all gasped again. Bars of gold were stacked on the shelves and black sacks which I assumed were full of diamonds took up a small shelf.
I gave Sir Robert my letter. “Below, at the bottom.”
He read the last sentence which said Vault F belongs to him and he froze.
“What is it, Robert?” Isabel asked him.
His eyes glistened with tears and he gave me a look and shook his head.
“It’s not from me, it’s from him.”
“I can’t. It’s too much.”
“It’s what he wanted.”
“Robert?” Isabel asked again.
“What the hell is going on?” Sammy asked her father.
He started to laugh with tears in his eyes and hugged Isabel and Sammy both. “This is ours,” he whispered. “My rider took care of us even in death.”
“What!” Both woman yelled and he gave them my letter stating that Vault F belonged to the Leafs.
Isabel cupped her face.
“The bastard came through. He always came through. I should never have left his side.”
“He ordered you away, Robert.” Isabel hugged him again, tears rolling down her own cheeks.
“I could’ve stayed.”
“You would’ve been in pain if you disobeyed him. He wanted you to live. I’m thankful every day that he did what he did.”
He hugged his wife again and they both cried. “I miss him so much.”
My father was right. I couldn’t tell him that he was still alive. He would have killed himself to get through those Creepers to be reunited with his rider.
“I know you do, honey, we all miss them.”
Sammy was still in shock. I grabbed her by the arm and gave her a long hug. “Neither of us will ever have to worry about anything ever again.”
“This is too much, Elena.”
“I’m glad my father left that for you, your dad would never have accepted the money I wanted to give you guys.”
She hugged me again.
“Who would’ve thought that the girl that struggled to accept this crazy place filled with dragons would end up becoming the person who will rule it one day,” Becky said and I pulled her in for a group hug.
“You know what this means don’t you?”
“That you’re filthy rich and have a shit load of power.” We laughed.
“No, that you will become part of my royal court one day. I won’t be able to do this without my girls.”
Becky grabbed me around my neck.
“I love you Elena Watkins Malone,” she said and I laughed again. “I love you too, Becky Johnson Mills,”
We all giggled.
E STAYED INSIDE the vault just looking at the various things each section contained. It felt so unreal to think all of this was mine, and my mind wandered back to my father who was stuck behind Etan.
He did all of this, him and my mom. They did know this day would come, they did know that no one would believe me and that is why they made preparations.
I only took my parent’s journals and the letters they’d written more than seventeen years ago and wondered what it would have been like if they’d found out that it was Goran who would betray them. What type of a person would I have been if it was Albert and Catherine that had raised me and not Herbert who was constantly on the run, protecting the girl that killed his