Frostbite (The Dragonian, #3) - Adrienne Woods Page 0,17
beautiful green eyes and was gorgeous. The one she longed for made her feel like that on a daily basis and the feeling of her missing him again jolted through my chest.
A scene of a Wyvern tying her down to a boulder with shackles came next. It made me angry and I realized it was the day I had woken up. Her anger and helplessness had awoken me.
“Don’t worry baby, Cara is here now,” I said softly and charged at the mutt in front of me.
I blew fire on his ass, something he hadn’t expected. When a second bolt of lightning blew off him, I realized nothing seemed to penetrate the shield he protected himself with.
I could feel some of Elena’s anger disappearing but for some reason mine still stayed.
He flew and blocked all the way back to the mountains and landed.
I descended and landed a couple of minutes after him. I found the rodent from yesterday in the mutt’s place. His arms were enflamed with pink light. He had a dark gaze in his eyes as he stared at me.
“Enough!” he roared.
“I’ll say when it’s enough. You think you can bully her as much as you want and get away with it. I’m in control now.”
“So you’ve finally met Elena. She’s not the innocent victim you think she is, Cara. I’m trying to help her deal with you. So if you want to come out more, you’ll back off.”
His words took me by surprise and I had to admit, I hadn’t expected him to say something like that.
“Why?”
“Why what?”
“Why are you helping her? From what she’s shown me you don’t seem like the type that would help her at all.”
“We had our differences in the past, but now that I’m a hundred percent sure what she is…”
“You benefit from this, don’t you?”
“Not in the way you think. Is it safe to subdue my fire?”
“Fine.” I gave in thinking if the mutt was telling the truth then I might be getting more time to be free.
His flames grew less and faded into nothing. He pulled on a robe to cover his body and went to sit by a tree.
I lay down in front of him. “Why do you do that?”
“Do what?”
“Cover your body with a garment.”
A grin spread over his face. “Elena isn’t used to naked bodies and I don’t know when she will emerge again.”
“She’s what?”
“Exactly my point,” he said and he lit up something that smelled disgusting.
“What is that?” I tried to get the stench out of my nose with a couple of snorts and sneezes.
“I’m putting it out. Just don’t throw another hissy fit, okay.” He squashed the white twig hard against the ground and I watched as it broke into tiny pieces. “Tell me about yourself, what’s the last thing you remember about your dragon life?”
“Why do you want to know?”
“Cara, I’m not the enemy. I’m only trying to help.”
“Fine,” I said. “Not much, Momma and Papa seem to be the only thing I recall.”
“Who were they?”
“I can’t remember what they called themselves.”
“Did they live on this side?”
“I can’t remember.”
“Did you see other dragons when you grew up?”
“You want me to light up your ass again?”
“Your fire doesn’t harm me Cara. I told you before, I’m exactly like you.”
“I doubt it. I’m sure I’m prettier than you.”
He chuckled.
I fell down on my paws. His questions stirred up so many things in my head that it felt as if they now swam around making me feel like I was going to drown. I closed my eyes and thought about Papa again. I couldn’t remember what his human form looked like. Momma and he were mostly in their dragon forms around me and I couldn’t recall any other dragons either.
COULD FEEL CARA taking over as I took off from the ground. This time was different though. I didn’t black out and was left with my thoughts. Memories of Lucian and of Blake forcing me into this afternoon’s training twirled inside my mind.
Then something else happened: it felt more or less like Cara could feel my emotion and I could feel hers. She was pining over Dad the way I pined for Lucian.
How much she must have missed him and what a shock it must have been to her, waking up and finding him no longer there. Our memories entwined with one another, as mine become hers and vice versa. It was a silent conversation between two strangers that would never be able to be together in the same