Frostbite (The Dragonian, #3) - Adrienne Woods Page 0,54
we went through, you’re giving up.”
“It doesn’t matter, Becky.” I got up and walked past her.
A pillow hit hard against my back.
“Don’t ever say that!” she yelled. “It does matter. It matters to me, and George, and Dean. Not to mention Sammy or the fact that Lucian died to save your life. You can’t give up.”
“I am what I am, Becky. I can’t change it.” A tear rolled over my cheek. They came easily now.
“Fight, Elena. You can fight it.”
“It’s not that easy. The feeling inside of me feels…”
“Powerful.” She finished my sentence.
“Seductive.”
“I don’t believe that. You don’t want to be evil, Elena. You will always fight for what is right. It is why you went after that sword and saved us from a terrible fate, Elena. You were the sixth woman to get out of a Cavern that no one even dares to go into. You can’t give up now,” she begged me. “Just come with me. He wouldn’t know.”
“I told him.”
“What?”
“He knows what he does for me.”
She nodded her head slowly. “And, what did he say?”
“It doesn’t matter. It’s over. He despises me.”
She frowned. “I don’t believe that.”
“Well he does, okay.”
She gasped. “You fell for him, didn’t you?”
“It doesn’t matter. He doesn’t feel the same for me.”
“He told you that.”
“Yes. I’m no match when it comes to Tabitha,” I said in a sarcastic tone.
“He is lying.” Becky’s jaw muscle clenched. “Tabitha isn’t a match against you. The way you guys calm each other down…”
I shook my head. “He said it isn’t like that with him.”
“What!”
“It’s the truth. If I was to him like he was to me, he wouldn’t have begged me to kill him.”
“No, you can’t kill him.”
“I have no choice.”
“You do.” She started to pace with her hands tangled in her hair. “There’s got to be another way.” She stopped and looked at me. “Someone will claim him. Arianna is busy training…”
“To claim me.”
She stared at me with her huge brown eyes. “You gotta be shitting me.”
“Who, Becky? The only one that was brave enough was Lucian. Nobody is going to claim him. He knows that. I know that.”
“Lucian found something, Elena. I know it.”
“Whatever it was, it wasn’t linked to Blake.”
“Elena, then why did he get that foretelling from the Viden?”
“I don’t know. The Viden hasn’t been herself lately.”
“She’s still the Viden and her foretellings still matter. Lucian found something.”
“We’ll never know what.” I started to lose my patience with her.
She could hear it and she just stared at me with a hint of fright in her eyes and then I saw it. It was like a lightbulb shining bright above her head. “Unless we discover what he found.”
Y HEAD SNAPPED to hers. “What do you mean?”
“C’mon, Elena. We can do this. We’ve been doing this ever since you entered Paegeia. You and Lucian had something special. You guys used to think exactly like one another, if there is one person that can do this, it’s you. I know it.”
“How? I don’t even know where to begin!”
She just looked at me and I could see the answer in her eyes.
“No, Becky. The Acker Woods…”
“He came out, you’re a Rubicon, Elena. It’s not that different from the Sacred Cavern.”
“It’s not the same. Lucian had to do crazy things for them, things so horrible he didn’t even want to tell me about it. What if they ask us to do the same?”
She gave me her ‘really?’ look. “Then you set their asses on fire with your pink flame, and they will set us free, Elena.”
I took a deep breath. I didn’t want to admit it, but in that second she said the words ‘set their asses on fire’ a familiar feeling rested inside my core. I knew she was right.
A day will come and a day will go….No, stop it. The foretelling wouldn’t be the reason this time. “Okay, how do we do this?”
“First we’ve got to tell the others, we are going to need all the help we can get.”
E TOLD SAMMY only half the truth, that we were going to try to find what Lucian had found. She was obviously up for it and so were George and Dean. I, on the other hand, didn’t want anything to do with him, but the old Elena still had a say and she was really strong at times, especially when it came to saving Blake. Stupid idiot, he’d rejected her love and she still