Frostbite (The Dragonian, #3) - Adrienne Woods Page 0,26
reasons why he didn’t.”
“Reasons I’ll never know.”
“Fox, the guy that killed your father that night, used to kill plenty of dragons on the other side. I knew Matt was really worried about that.”
“How did you become such good buddies with Matt?”
“Easy,” he smirked. “I’m the Rubicon. Everyone wants to be friends with me.”
“Oh please.” I sounded sarcastic and we laughed. “Why did Fox kill all the other dragons?”
“He was a Moon-Bolt dragon and almost twice Irene’s age. I guess that man knew many things, but he was as evil as they come. Matt thought that he was working side by side with Goran. We all believed that when so many dragons died. I guess nobody will ever know why, now that he’s dead.”
“You think it had something to do with my father?”
“Well, whoever your father was Elena, he killed Fox.”
I froze as he said that. “I guess I never really knew him that well. For all I know he betrayed this Fox dude and killed all those dragons to get to him.”
“You really believe that?”
“What other explanation is there?”
“You were a Thunderlight, for one.”
It only raised more questions about why Fox was after Dad. It explained a lot too. Fox was probably the reason why we’d moved so much.
“You ever tried to find your dad this side?”
“What do you mean?”
“You know, search for him. See if you have any family that still lives here.”
“No, now that you mention it, it never crossed my mind,” I said. “To be honest, I wouldn’t know where to start.”
“I can help you if you want.”
I gasped. “Blake Leaf offering me more help. What would Tabitha think about that?”
He laughed. “It would be with Tabitha though. She’s crazy smart when it comes to searching for things.”
“Mmmm, she’s not a big fan of me though.”
“Elena, she’s not a big fan of a lot of people.”
“Is that why the two of you get along so great?”
“Could be.” He raised his eyes playfully.
I giggled. How could this be the same person that hated me so much? My stomach clenched as another thought entered my mind. What was the real reason behind all of this?
We left our spot on the mountain after we took a couple of dives through the chilly air.
When we landed, I followed him to Tabitha’s room and I’d been right about her. She protested like crazy when Blake asked her, and for some reason he switched over to Latin and sort of swayed her to help me out.
She just glared at me and spat the words to meet her in the Library at eight, before she stomped off. Blake went in her room but waved at me while pulling his mouth in an awkward position.
It made me smile as I descended the staircase back to the fourth floor.
When I entered our room, I found Becky and Sammy watching Dagger Love.
“So how’re the flying lessons coming along? Made peace with the Rubicon yet?”
“Which one,” I asked Sammy and both girls laughed.
“Yeah, both are okay, I guess. You guys would never believe what I’m going to do tonight.”
Both girls stared at me.
“It’s not like that,” I said and laughed as I could only assume they were thinking about Blake. “Tabitha is going to help me find out about where I come from.”