Frostbite (The Dragonian, #3) - Adrienne Woods Page 0,56
search for the truth in his revealing. He’d refused because it was me Lucian had begged him to help. But then again it could be a lie, a trick to get what he wanted. I looked at him “I don’t believe that.”
“You can ask Tabitha. She was with me when Lucian came into the room.”
I looked past him and found Tabitha. She just stared at the table.
“It was Tabitha that saved your life. She begged me to go after Lucian.” I looked at both of them and when Tabitha’s chin scrunched up, she buried her head in her hands, sobbing. I knew it was the truth. I looked back at him and the worry of me chasing after what Lucian found faded away. He was responsible for Lucian.
“Elena,” Becky was at my side. “Don’t listen to him. He wants the easy way out.”
I pulled myself from her one-armed hug. “Don’t.” I shot her a warning and looked at Blake. “You want to tell me you couldn’t help out your best friend because you were too busy fucking Tabitha?” I yelled.
Heads everywhere ducked closer to one another but a lot of eyes were still on us.
He shrugged.
“You arrogant bastard.” My hands were alight with fire and everyone squirmed away from Blake and me as the Pink Kiss consumed both my arms.
“Elena, stop this!” George yelled from Becky’s side.
I let out a scream, it sounded angry and frustrated all at the same time and as I wanted to release the fire onto Blake I felt a tiny prick in the side of my neck. I touched it and a cold metallic dart grazed my fingers. Everything around me started to spin slowly as I took it out. My fire was gone and I looked at the dart again. When I wanted to look at Blake he wasn’t in front of me anymore. Everything in front of me was spinning as if I stood on a crazy fast carousel. George’s arms grabbed me but it didn’t stabilize my head from the spinning.
I knew in that instant it was just my head and I looked in Blake’s direction. I knew he was still there. I could feel the heat radiating off his body. “You’ve got your promise.” Then everything faded.
I woke up in the infirmary. Constance didn’t say a word, she just stared at me. Anger and hatred filled my gut. The first thing that popped into my head was something Blake asked me, ‘why didn’t Lucian warned me that day…’ he knew and he chose to lie to me so that I could trust him, let him prepare me so that I could kill him.
“Elena…”
“Don’t, Constance.” I looked away as her eyes begged me to understand.
“Nora killed him, it wasn’t Blake.”
“I don’t care. Blake should’ve been there,” I yelled at her.
“You can’t hold him responsible for that. It’s the dark…”
“Bullshit. I’m so sick and tired of hearing about the dark in him. Lucian begged him to come with him. He told him that Paul was dangerous and he didn’t do anything,” I spat and an angry tear rolled down my cheek. I wiped it away vigorously. I hated it, I always had, and now that I feel nothing but hatred, they decide to come.
“I know you feel betrayed.”
“You have no fucking clue how I feel,” I yelled again. “I will kill him, and that is final!” I ran out of the infirmary and shifted without taking off my clothes.
Cara immediately asked questions because she could feel my anger and I showed her in harsh flashes what had taken place the past couple of days.
“I can’t kill him, Elena.”
“You don’t have to, I will.”
“No, please don’t do this.”
“Don’t tell me what I can’t do Cara. He could’ve saved Lucian and he didn’t.”
Honey…”
“Don’t Honey me. I don’t need you anymore.”
She fell silent and after a while I knew she’d shut herself off from me. I was alone. Dragon was what I was. I now knew why I’d turned into the Rubicon. Blake was right, it was because of him. I was the only one that could kill him.
Y NIGHTMARES BECAME dark just like the darkness inside of me. Queen Catherine didn’t bother me so much anymore. Neither did Brian ever since Blake took his place. I knew it was the hippogriff that had killed Lucian but indirectly Blake had caused his death. If he’d been there, he would’ve seen the hippogriff’s tail and he would’ve taken her out before she could sting Lucian.