Frostbite (The Dragonian, #3) - Adrienne Woods Page 0,14
anymore but a soft color of the rainbow.
Please don’t tell me I’m going to turn into that rainbow dragon next. I sighed.
I grabbed the rest of my hair, it was still blond. “Is it only my fringe?”
He nodded. “Humph.”
“That’s all you can say?”
“It looks kind of cool.”
“Urgh! Whatever.” I grabbed my elastic band out of his hand and pulled my hair back into a pony.
I took a deep breath as images appeared in my head. I saw some sort of a conversation between a dragon and a human. It was her and Blake and the amusement on his face when he asked her questions made me furious. It was as if he didn’t believe a single word that came out of her mouth and he’d mocked her. I burst out laughing as she flicked him off the mountain.
“She flicked you off the mountain!”
He pulled his mouth into a sarcastic grin.
“You are right, she’s sort of awesome…Cara?”
“Yeah.” He raised his eyes once and shook his head softly.
“Is that normal?”
“I don’t know, you tell me.” He looked at me. “But then again, nothing about you is normal.”
“Ha, ha.” I bit back, and I rolled my eyes and threw myself down opposite him.
He just smiled and heated up his cigarette with his breath.
“How do you do that?”
“Do what?”
“Use your abilities while in your human form.”
“They haven’t taught you that yet?”
“No, they have. I just don’t seem to be able to do it.”
“You’ll learn in time,” he assured me.
“I beg to differ.”
“Rome wasn’t built in a day, Elena. Or so I’ve heard.” He’d said the same thing Cheng had the first day I’d met him. I missed Cheng, he’d been right about Paul and that Lucian would never claim Blake. I didn’t know how to face him again, how to apologize and admit he’d been right.
I took a deep breath. “Yeah, well my patience isn’t what it used to be.”
“It’s all up here.” He tapped his temple with his finger. “Yours are stuffed with a lot of crazy things right now, things you need to accept first, before you will be able to use it to conquer your abilities. So the faster you get rid of the ‘world owes me something’ mentality, the sooner you’ll be ready to start learning.”
I scowled at him. What did he know anyway? The only thing he had to keep away from was his dark side. He’d never fled, never questioned who his father really was and always knew that he was a dragon. I sighed. He had a point though, not that I would give him the satisfaction of admitting it, but I had plenty of crap stuck inside my head to deal with first before I could take on the bigger stuff.
Blake looked at his watch and got up. “I still have a warbel practice to coach so, let’s call it a day.” He winked at me.
I just stared at him and shook my head softly. “Fine, when do you want to do this again?”
“Tomorrow, same time, same place. Like I said, you have a lot to learn.”
“Yeah, that I already know. Maybe if you tell me something I don’t know, like why you’re helping me, then this could get a bit easier.”
He chuckled. “If I tell you that, I might as well kill you, Elena,” he said as he changed into the Rubicon.
E TOOK ME back to the academy when our session was over. The flight back wasn’t as horrible as the one coming to the mountain and I couldn’t stop thinking about Cara. Who was she? And why did I get the feeling that this wasn’t even a little bit normal. Constance said it was like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but Blake didn’t have another name for the Rubicon inside of him.
“Don’t make me wait tomorrow like you did today.” Blake walked past me.
I wanted to throw something back but when I saw he was butt naked I shut my mouth and looked away.
Great, now his naked ass is imprinted on my mind.
I had no idea how to get used to the naked part of all this. He was right though, dragon was what I was and I had to get used to this one way or another.
Everyone stared at me as I walked back into the academy.
Stare as much as you want, idiots.
I sighed as a part of me missed the old Elena. She wasn’t so depressed and her thoughts were kinder, but then again she hadn’t lost her love of her life.