lied to me, Lucian knew something, but who he thought it was, he’d never written down.
Well it didn’t matter anymore as I’d turned out to be a dragon. Then I thought again about “could it be?”
Maybe he’d discovered what I really was and didn’t know how to say it.
Holy crap, what if that was Lucian’s voice I’d heard, but then again how did I hear him that night in his father’s lobby, saving the guard from the same fate that’d killed him?
I closed the journal and held it tight against my chest. “You’ve got to find the truth for yourself.” Even after Blake betrayed him, he still wants me to help him, to find the truth.
I put the journal away. I’d read more later. I found myself walking down the stairs and entering the library.
They were all there. Becky with George and Sammy with Dean. Three pairs of noses tucked behind three books and one behind the computer typing away. I went to their table and Becky was the first one to look up.
“I’m sorry. You were right, both of you.” I looked at Sammy. “I’ll help if you still want my help.”
Becky jumped up and grabbed me around my neck. Sammy remained in her seat. I just looked at her, pleading with my eyes and hoping that she would give me another chance.
“We need Elena’s help, Sammy.”
She bit her lower lip with a huge frown in-between her eyebrows. Hurt was written all over her face, my words that day had hurt her and I didn’t regret saying them until now. She nodded. “What about my brother?”
“I don’t know. Lucian wouldn’t want me to kill him.” I sighed. “I’m still working out the kinks.”
She finally got up and hugged me too. “I’m glad you’re back.”
“Yeah, I don’t know about that one, but I’ll try.”
“That’s all I want.”
George and Dean just laughed, they both had such forgiving personalities and both were suckers for their girls. Becky started telling me what they had found. They’d found a guy named Resumus that was the only one, besides Lucian, who’d made it out of the Acker Woods. She and George were planning to go and see him on the next free weekend. “We are going to make a small road trip of it,” she finished.
“So you guys think this Figgelhorn will help us with a map or a layout of the forest?”
“For the right amount of money.” Becky smiled.
“You’re going to buy him off?” I sounded a bit disappointed.
“How else are we going to get a map, Elena?”
I thought about that. The minute you type anything that contains the words Acker Woods the computers shut off. Becky and George even tried it on their own Cammys, the screens just stayed blank. Still, I didn’t like this much.
“We have a problem,” Dean said and we all looked at him. “Mr.Figgelhorn passed away a week ago.”
Becky jumped up and leaned over his shoulder to read the information. “You’ve got to be shitting me!”
“Now what?” Sammy asked.
“We’ll hit the books again,” I suggested. “We will find something.”
HE NEXT COUPLE days we all searched again. I tried to find something that was connected to Tanya Le Frey, but there was nothing. Not even the scrolls carried any information about her.
Dean had a student to tutor since he was crazy smart in science and the boy he helped needed it badly. Becky tried to take his post but the information she found led to nothing.
Sammy fell back into her chair with tears in her eyes. “We are never going to find anything.”
Becky went over to her and gave her a side hug. “We’ll find something, I promise you that.”
We all looked up as Dean entered with Cheng a couple of minutes later. “I thought we could use some help. I hope you didn’t mind, Elena.”
I smiled. “Not at all.” The last time I’d seen him we’d had a huge fight about Paul. If only I had listened.
“So it’s true, you’re going on another mission?” Cheng threw himself onto the open chair next to me.
“I have to put this dragon of mine to good use.”
He laughed. “What did you find out?”
We started to tell him about everything but each time we’d hit a dead end. I agreed with Sammy, it was a hopeless case and I didn’t see a good end for Blake.
“Lucian got a date,” I said when they forgot to mention that.
“Dean told me.”
“There is nothing else out there, Cheng.”
“You haven’t checked everything, Elena.”
“She doesn’t exist on any