Frostbite (The Dragonian, #3) - Adrienne Woods Page 0,25
really didn’t want me to fall in love with him he was really making it hard when he used that sweet voice.
“I don’t agree. If I had to tell you about all the shit I’ve done, you wouldn’t be here on this rock with me.”
“Nothing would surprise me anymore. I’m not a naive little girl.”
“Nice try, but if I tell you, I will have to kill you, and it’s not a Rubicon thing either.”
“Why did you push Lucian away? I mean, he was your best friend.”
“I told you that night why I did what I did.”
“Because of the darkness?”
“Yes, it didn’t want to be close to light. It made me nauseous.”
“It made you sick?”
“Yes, Elena. It made me sick. Being in the presence of my best friend made me sick. Telling him that would be worse, so I told him I didn’t want to be his friend anymore.”
“He never gave up on you, you know.”
“I had a feeling you were going to say that.”
“Well it’s the truth. I tried to talk him out of it the third time he tried to claim you. We got into a huge fight, our first one. He told me I knew nothing and if I knew what type of person you were, I would understand.” I giggled at his words telling me that he wouldn’t have stood a chance if Blake had wanted me. I didn’t tell him that though.
“Old Blake was pathetic,” he got up and rested his arms on his knees.
“Is that the Rubicon speaking or you?”
“Both, I am the Rubicon, Elena.”
“Yet you get drunk to control yourself. Yeah, it doesn’t make much sense.”
He turned his gaze back to me and just stared. “What do you want me to tell you, how chirpy I used to be and what a happy child I was? Giving my parents joy every day of their life, getting straight A’s. None of that matters anymore, Elena. That Blake is gone.”
I sat up too. “You used to get straight A’s?”
The seriousness of his face disappeared and a smile broke over his face again. He shook his head, slightly.
“The past doesn’t matter, we can’t go back and we can’t change it.”
“Says who? Maybe in ten years it will be a possibility.”
“You live in a dream world.”
“No, I live in Paegeia, crazy place, remember.”
“Well, if that happens, go back in time and see what I was.”
“Why did you ask George to prank me that day?”
“You really want to talk about that?”
“Yes, I do.”
“I don’t know, it was silly.”
“It was cruel. A Moon-Bolt killed my father and almost killed me too.”
“So I heard afterwards, sorry.”
“It’s fine. I should actually thank you for throwing me into the deep end.”
“Then what, you want me to take back being sorry?”
“You can do whatever you want, I don’t care.” It was quiet for a few seconds. “So Constance is your aunt. I didn’t see that one coming. What was it like when you were a child?”
“What is it with the million questions?”
“Curious,” I replied.
“I’m going to regret this.”
“That’s good.”
“What’s good?”
“You see a later; regret always comes later.”
He huffed, smiled and then he sighed. “It was fun, confused the living crap out of me, but they seemed to enjoy every moment of it.”
I laughed. “Now I know where you got your mean streak from.”
“Yeah, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. So what do you want to know next?”
“Curiosity is satisfied for now. If I want to know more, I’ll ask.”
“Matt told me about that night.”
“On Interstate 40?” I smiled sadly. “It sounds like a bad love song, right.”
He laughed, nodded his head. “It does.”
“So what did Matt tell you?”
“That your father fought at least five dragons.”
“It was four. And I’ve never been so scared in my entire life.”
“Sorry to hear that. I can’t image it was very easy not growing up with dragons and then getting your ass chucked into a world filled with them.”
I gasped. “The big bad Rubicon showing a softer side? We have to get back to Dragonia, the world is about to end.”
He rolled his eyes.
“Yeah it was crazy, but I would’ve given anything to tell him how sorry I was for being such an idiot every time he made me move. If time travel does exist one day, I would go back and tell him what a good job he did keeping my ass alive, although I still don’t know his reasons why.”