Frostbite (The Dragonian, #3) - Adrienne Woods Page 0,55

wanted to help him.

For the next couple of days we spent our afternoons and evenings in the library. Dean searched the internet, but the minute he went to search for a layout of the forest, the computer died.

So that was what happened that day, someone programmed the computers to limit our research on some things. To think that Lucian had had all the answers and he was the only one not able to tell us.

The date kept lingering in my mind. We only had nine months left and then I would get what I wanted. They wouldn’t have a choice. My lips curved slightly thinking about how I was going to do this. It was going to be a slow death. I was going to make him pay for rejecting Elena, me…whatever.

Sammy did research on King Albert and Queen Catherine. I looked over her shoulder every now and then, but the minute I saw Queen Catherine’s friendly face, I slouched back in my seat. None of the info she got really led to anything. I knew for a fact Tanya Le Frey was a dead end. There was nothing on her anyway. She’d disappeared the minute she betrayed the queen. A voice scowled in my head: she didn’t betray the queen, she was the only one that knew the truth.

Stupid girl, she was so naive thinking that good would always overcome evil. The old Elena was going to see how wrong she was the hard way.

We went for dinner and the minute I entered the cafeteria the hatred vanished. The passion and need to kill Blake disappeared and were replaced with another type of want. A want I would never get fulfilled. I looked around and found Blake and Tabitha quarrelling at a table. I went right up to them, not knowing what I was going to say. When I reached their table both of them stopped and stared at me.

Blake glared.

“We’ve got a plan,” I said.

He started to laugh. “It’s not going to work.” He slouched back in his chair and put his foot on the table. Tabitha just stared at him. She really didn’t look very pleased with him.

“You don’t know that. It’s better than asking someone to kill you.” I spat back. Although he was near, his attitude still pissed me off.

Tabitha’s eyes raised in horror. “You did what!” she yelled at him.

“Calm down,” he told her in a stern voice.

So he hadn’t told her. I guessed the truth would get out sooner or later.

He turned back to me. “Stop this, you’re wasting your time.”

“We’re not. Lucian found something, Blake. I could see it in his eyes. He knew something he just didn’t have the time to tell us.”

“I told you, he found nothing but Paul’s deception.”

“That’s not true, and I’m going to prove it.”

“What!” Blake jumped up and his face was inches from mine. This time it didn’t look as if he wanted to kiss me. It looked as if he wanted to kill me.

“I don’t need your permission, but I promise you I’ll find whatever Lucian discovered.” I turned around to walk away.

“No!” Blake yelled.

“Excuse me, you are not the boss of me, Blake. The last time someone told me no, he discovered pretty fast that there is no way to change my mind when I’ve decided on something.”

The entire cafeteria fell into utter silence. I didn’t care anymore about what was going through their pathetic little minds.

“I’m not Lucian. You will kill me, that I can promise.”

I laughed. The entire cafeteria gasped. “I’m not…”

“It’s my fault Lucian is dead.”

I rolled my eyes and sighed. “The Hippogriff killed Lucian.”

“Don’t do this Blake,” Tabitha begged.

“No, she needs to know the truth.” He pulled his arm out of her grasp and walked over to me. “He came to me that day when he came back. He wanted to know where you were.”

“He could’ve asked Sammy or Becky that too. It doesn’t mean it was your fault.”

“I told him exactly where you were and with who.” He chuckled sadistically, but the emotion of it faded fast. “He told me that Paul was trying to hurt you, even begged me to come with him.” He stared at the ground as he spoke softly. Regret thinned out his big, succulent lips. “I refused.” He looked at me. “If I’d left with him, he would still be alive, Elena.”

I got what it was he was saying. My eyes darted everywhere in front of me, except on him as I tried to