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“Sure,” I scoff.
“You can’t keep running from it. Not even by putting the twins on babysitting duty.”
I sigh discontentedly when he makes the grim statement. It’s true—I asked the twins to be on standby in case she needed anything in the lab. Also, I want to keep a watchful eye on her in case she tries to expose us. But that doesn’t mean I can avoid the inevitable for much longer. Even if that’s precisely what I’m trying to do.
“We should take this back,” I suggest, staring at the dragon remains in the ground.
“Listen to me, Aragon…” Felix begins as he places a hand on my shoulder. “You need to get your head in the game and do what is right.”
“Please don’t give me the same advice you gave Draco,” I warn him, stepping back to allow for the dragon to take the reigns. “We agreed on that.”
“I know,” he sighs. “But—”
“No ‘buts,’ Felix,” I shake my head sternly. “Now, if you’ll excuse me…”
Felix reluctantly nods, seemingly unconvinced. I know exactly where he wants to go with his advice—to sweep the human off her feet and have her salivating from the corners of her mouth to be with me.
No thank you! That’s not something I plan on suffering. Not when feelings only complicate things. It will be much easier for her to have my dragonspirit babies and leave the island for good. That way, I don’t have to become vulnerable to a creature as basic as a human.
It didn’t work out with a witch, who possessed supernatural gifts and who wasn’t weak.
Even my dragon seems to agree as it flashes to the fore and picks up as many bones as it can carry. Felix finally gives up and shifts to dragon form, lifting the remaining bones and following me out of New Zealand’s air toward the island on the west coast of North America.
Felix… I need you in my study… comes Draco’s voice through the mind link as soon as we’ve entered the dome as if he’d been waiting for him.
We land just outside the castle, dropping the bones at the back entrance. Felix shifts first and waits for me to do the same.
“Duty calls,” he says.
“Thanks for helping me out, Felix,” I appraise with a curt nod.
“I trust that you will take everything from here?” he lifts a brow questioningly.
I groan. “Just go!”
Felix chuckles as he rushes off toward the castle entrance, where Draco awaits him. I send mental instructions to the twins, waiting outside to show them the bones.
“That was quick!” Stryder mulls when he joins me outside.
“Too quick…” I muse under my breath. “Is she behaving herself?”
Stryker comes out with a huge grin. “She’s actually kinda cool. And she asked to see you.”
“What for?” I frown.
Stryker shrugs. “Says it’s important.”
I nod, pointing at the handful of dragon bones on the ground. “Take this into the stud—the lab,” I correct, mentally having to prepare myself to face her again. Once today was more than enough.
I have to remind myself that she’s just a weak human. I don’t understand why she affects me as much as she does. It leaves me feeling strangely unsettled, More so when I enter the lab and she turns goggled-eyes on me.
I stifle the sudden urge to laugh at how ridiculous she looks. But when she lifts the goggles, I notice the seriousness in her eyes and my amusement slips away.
“We found more bones,” I inform her just as the twins enter the room with the first batch.
“Perfect. Thanks,” she says as if I’d done her a favor. Does she not realize that my only interest lies in the fact that this could be the remains of one of our own.
“I’ve managed to figure out how to trace the age of the bone,” she says matter-of-factly, turning back to her laptop. “But I’m going to need a DNA sample from you.”
