Frostbite (The Dragonian, #3) - Adrienne Woods Page 0,50

what is it?” I asked and started to laugh.

“What’s up with you and you-know-who?” Becky asked.

I gave her a skeptical look. “You sure you’ve never read Harry Potter?”

“Don’t change the subject, Elena.”

I giggled again. “Nothing. I told you he was different with me.”

“You can say that again,” Sammy said with a smirk on her face.

“C’mon you guys. It’s not like that. We’re the same species, that’s all.”

“Yeah, sure,” Becky joked.

“Whatever you say, Elena,” Sammy seconded and I couldn’t help but laugh.

I got out of bed. “I’m going to take a shower, and hopefully when I get out, this will be forgotten.”

“Ah-huh,” Becky said and I shook my head, but for some reason I couldn’t stop smiling.

The weekend went fast and I didn’t start to show Psycho Elena symptoms until late Sunday night. Supper helped as Blake was only sitting two tables from us. I didn’t want to make a big fuss about Friday night, scared that he might just go and cancel Monday’s training.

Monday afternoon couldn’t come soon enough and for some reason he drilled me harder than all the other days, but Cara was stronger now and I could handle more.

Around four, it was time to go back as Blake still had to coach his Warbel team.

“Can I ask you something?” he said while I was still in my dragon form.

“If you must.”

He laughed. “Don’t hate me because I’m trying to help you.”

“Seriously. You should make up your mind. Don’t love me, don’t hate me.”

He smiled.

“So what do you want to ask me?”

He’d already changed and had his robe on. He was sitting a couple of paces next to my humungous body. He didn’t answer.

“Is it stupid?” Cara asked.

“Probably,” he replied.

“Fine, I’ll laugh later, what is it?”

He kept quiet for a while and I just stared at him waiting for him to carry on. He chuckled nervously and I could feel Cara rolling her huge dragon eyes.

“Just spit it out, Blake.”

“Fine,” he said. “I always wondered why Lucian desperately wanted to ride me and I was wondering if you would show me.”

We both looked at him as if he was crazy. “What do you…oh…” Cara sent me a picture of Blake riding on my back in his human form. “Seriously?”

“Yeah, I really want to know how it feels. Find out what the big fuss is about.”

We both started to laugh. “Fine, hop on.” I never thought in a million years that I would say those words to Blake.

A flashed image played through my mind of Cara twirling and flying like a dragon out of control. I chuckled at the image of Blake desperately clinging on to my back. “Go for it, this is going to be so much fun,” I replied silently to Cara.

“Oooh, yay,” she thought back, and lay down for Blake to climb onto my back. I hardly felt him, but when he twirled two of my catfish-like whiskers in his hands, I could feel a stabbing pain.

“Easy, tiger. That is actually attached to me,” Cara said and I could hear Blake chuckling. The grip became softer and Cara took over. She ran off the mountain and dove straight down to the ground. The earth came closer and I could hear excitement coming from Blake. He was so much like Lucian.

Then Cara pushed us into the air and we climbed the sky. Blake was still on my back.

“You ready, Sugar?” she thought.

“Go for it.”

She twirled into the air like a dart, did a couple of dives and flew faster than she ever had before. I closed my eyes and felt the wind beneath my wings and on my face. I could still see where I was going because of Cara.

Blake loved every moment of it. “More!”

Cara grunted. “This guy seriously isn’t going to let go.”

“That’s so typical Blake.”

She laughed and tried harder to get him off our back. He didn’t flail one bit and she decided to give up. We took him to the spot we found the night before Nicole tried to claim me.

“Where are we going?” Blake yelled.

“Just wait and see,” I said back and took a huge left toward the mountain. I’d flown it only once, but it was as if the direction to that beautiful place was imprinted inside my veins, just like Cara said. A couple of miles to the south and the mountain came near. I didn’t land with a thud anymore, it was graceful and when I was back on solid ground I wanted to lie down, so that Blake