Frostbite (The Dragonian, #3) - Adrienne Woods Page 0,36

one saw you, get up and move away from the computer, my voice said with a cop tone inside my head. It made me suppress my laughter but I did what it said and moved away as fast as I could.

I used huge steps to get my butt out of the library.

The next morning I found a huge ‘Out of Order’ sign on the computer I’d used.

Walking to another open computer, I decided to start with the wall and try to find Tanya Le Frey the way Lucian had the day after he’d discovered her existence. The computer didn’t shut down like the previous one, but it still showed zero results when I typed in her name. I tried to search Queen Catherine’s dragon, but that just showed me plenty of articles about the Queen and Tanya wasn’t mentioned in any of them.

So instead, I ended up staring at photos of Queen Catherine. She was really so beautiful with her dark brown hair and shining grey eyes. Her features were soft and her eyes sparkled like diamonds. She was such a lovely person to watch and very photogenic. She was nothing like my dreams. The queen inside of my terrors was nothing compared to the one staring at me.

I shut off the computer as nothing I typed led me to any information about Tanya Le Frey.

Lucian was right, they cleared her off the database completely. It was sad though, thinking that she belonged to Queen Catherine and nobody knew about her.

Eventually life moved on. Classes got better, and I could now master four of my abilities while in my human form. Amy, the girl who had pushed me against the wall that day inside the cafeteria, stared at me with a terrifying look. I doubted that she still thought of me as being pathetic.

The feeling of power, the dark kind, grew stronger but it disappeared the minute I spent time with Blake. It was like he became some sort of neutralizer, taking away the good and the bad and just letting me become the old Elena for a while.

The weekend was coming up and it soon became my worst two days of the week.

“Come,” Becky said as she grabbed me under the arm when I backbit Sammy on Saturday. “It’s time for your daily dose of Blake.”

“Becky!” I grunted.

“Listen to yourself Elena, we can’t even look at you properly before you want to bite our heads off, I’m not going to let you ruin my new wardrobe again. It just so happens that I was due for a makeover and I so love my new clothes. Come!”

“Fine,” I said and led the way. They both had to run to keep up with my strides.

I flung myself down onto the pillow in the cafeteria and saw Blake sitting at a table far on the opposite side.

Sammy and Becky both stared at me and my eyes rose as I stared back at them.

“It’s not working.” Becky left her two cent comment.

“He’s too far,” Sammy said; nowadays she had an answer for everything. It was as if she’d become the bearer of all knowledge. A real know-it-all.

“I’m not moving closer, this is stupid.” I wanted to get back up but Becky pushed me down.

“I wish George was here, then he could ask Blake to come over.”

“I’m his sister, I’m sure he would come over if I asked him to.”

“Sammy! This is stupid.”

“Shush.”

“Blake!” She yelled his name and I buried my face inside my hands and grunted softly.

Becky bumped me hard. “Act normal.”

I looked up and wanted to say something when she took the shades that were resting on her head and put them over my eyes. “They are red, act normal,” she hissed.

I just stared at Blake as he reached our table. I couldn’t believe that it had actually worked.

“You heard anything from Dad?” Sammy asked.

I cringed as I thought about it. Blake even looked at her funny.

“You called me over to ask me that? No!” he sounded agitated. “Why do you ask? Should I have heard something from him?”

Becky tried to suppress her smile and I kicked her calf.

“No, I’m just worried about them. Aren’t you?”

“Samantha. Why should I be worried about them?”

“You know, that thing?” She raised her eyes slightly at him.

“What thing?”

“Blake, I’m not going to blabber the thing in front of everyone.”

“Sammy you are not making any sense.”

“What’s wrong with you? How can you not remember the thing?”

The feeling started to go away as Blake and his sister quarreled