and had all sorts of blues and yellows over its body. It shimmered in the sun.
I watched as it licked its eyeballs every few seconds and when it saw us, it started to bite himself.
“Okay, enough! You didn’t have to show me the gruesome killing themselves part. You could just let him fall over and pretend to be dead!”
Blake just laughed.
“Why on earth people are scared of them, I don’t know.” Another patsy took its place.
It looked cute and the blue and orange on its face made it look as if it was smiling. I took over from Blake and imagined a couple of patsies playing around us.
Blake laughed. “Don’t let them play, Elena. Make them vicious.”
“I don’t know how.”
“Let me.” He gave them teeth and made their tongue longer so that they almost reached us. I moved away from them, which made Blake laugh again.
“They’re not real, but I’m sure you get the picture.” Blake laughed. “If you add them to the pit of hell, she will scream for the hills.”
“I hope she doesn’t go insane.”
“It should teach her to never even consider going after a Rubicon again.”
“Can she reverse it, you know back to what is real?”
“If she’s good and not afraid, yes.”
“Could she create a world where I would forget that it’s only a spell?”
“She’s not a dragon, Elena, and she’s only in her first year, besides spells don’t work on dragons.”
I sighed. “So she could only make me see what is real?”
He nodded.
“Just as long as I don’t end up being her bitch.”
He laughed again.
“Is this how you felt every time Lucian tried to claim you?”
“It was different with him. A part of me really wished that he would succeed but the dark in me wouldn’t let him. I’m just glad that I didn’t end up killing him. That last time when he didn’t get up and I just wanted to keep on fighting…” he stroked his face hard at that memory. “No one will ever be as brave as him.”
“He surely was that, and so much more.”
“You’ll see, tomorrow. I promise you, Nicole won’t claim you.”
“Okay.”
“Not okay, Elena. She won’t.”
“She won’t.”
I tried to have a discussion with Cara on our flight back but the info she’d gotten from Blake today still haunted her. She had plenty of questions and I couldn’t answer all of them, but it elevated some of her fears.
That night I decided to go for an evening flight and slipped out of the window butt naked. I didn’t have time for a robe.
When I jumped off the ledge I turned in mid-air. It was crazy how fast I’d learned all of this, and how natural it all felt now that I’d made peace with my dragon form.
“Oooh a night stroll?”
“Night glide you mean,” I joked.
“What’s on your mind, Sugar? You never do anything like this.”
“I’m scared. What if Nicole succeeds?”
“She won’t.”
“But what if, Cara?”
“Honey bun told you what her greatest fears are, use them.”
“So what, we have a name for him now?”
She laughed. “I know you like him too, Sugar.”
“Yeah, but he warned me not to fall for him.”
“He’s a coward. You are amazing.”
I huffed. “So what, we give her hell?”
“No, we give her her worst fear. Desert, it will be a kind of hell she will never forget.”
“I don’t know if I can watch.”
“You don’t have to if you don’t want to,” Cara said.
“What if something happens? We can’t kill her Cara.”
“I know, Sugar, but I don’t want her to come after us again.”
“Me neither.”
“Let’s scare and repair.”
“Scare and repair,” I laughed as we glided on a roof of clouds. The stars shone brightly and they looked beautiful. This was the most amazing feeling ever and I couldn’t believe that I used to be so afraid of heights.
“Yes, we scare the living crap out of her and let Constance repair her.”
I laughed. “You sure have a plan for everything.”
“That’s why you love me so much.”
We took a sharp left and found the top of another mountain. It was beautiful.
“You still miss him?”
“Every day,” I said as we walked past huge trees. “But it disappears for a while when I’m with the idiot.”
“Whatever lets you sleep at night. Just remember, men don’t always mean the things they say.”
“When did you become an expert on men?”
“Oh my instincts say other things.” We just laughed. “He tell you why he’s doing this?”
“Not yet, but I’ve got a feeling that I’m keeping the dark in him away too, just like he does with us. So