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“Who?” she frowns when the lightbulb in her head goes off, and she giggles. “Oh! Yazmine? Well… I was taking her to the arena when I had to come back for this one,” she giggles as she lifts Tyson a little higher. “She was going to watch you train.”
As the anger in my core slowly subsides, my brows begin knitting into a frown. “She was gonna watch me train?”
“Yeah,” Lily shrugs nonchalantly. “I met her near the field and dismissed the twins to take her there myself. But Draco told me that Ty woke up, so I had to rush back.”
I stare at Lily in disbelief, even if she’s one of the very few humans I know I can trust. She is the lady dragon of the Aurora Dragons, after all. The alpha’s fated mate. She has no reason to lie. “So you’re saying Yazmine wasn’t trying to run away?”
“Run away?” Lily chuckles dismissively. “Of course not! Why would you—”
As Lily’s voice falters off, I shake my head as my feet spur into a trot down the hallway. I have to find her. But she’s not in the lab when I go there.
Stryder… Stryker… Where’s Yazmine?! I demand through a mind link I send to the twins.
It’s Stryder who replies, She’s upstairs. She seemed upset and needed time away from work.
Without sending a response, I rush upstairs, impatiently shaking one leg in the lift as I wait for the doors to open up on the fifteenth floor. When the doors finally slide open, I hurry toward her bedroom only to find her curled up in bed.
“Yazmine…?” I call gently, sighing relief when I step into the bedroom. I was foolish enough to think that she was trying to run away. More foolish for unleashing my wrath on her.
When I call again, she doesn’t move, prompting me to go all the way up to the bed. Peering over her shoulder, I realize she’s sound asleep, her lips gently parted as a lilting sigh escapes them.
Phew! What a relief! Except, now I feel terrible for having shouted at her. I find myself staring at her for the longest time, wondering why I’d been so upset at the thought of her wanting to leave.
It’s not like I can escape the inevitable. She’s going to leave eventually, I know that much.
Then why does the ache in my chest return, compelling me to clutch my heart again? Staring down at Yazmine, I cannot imagine her leaving, even if I know she will.
That was the agreement, after all. The decision I’d so boldly made, bringing her here to the island to have my babies and leave when she’s done.
Knowing that I made that decision, I can’t go back on my word. In the meantime, however, she’s free to do as she pleases. It brings a smile to my lips when I remember what Lily told me downstairs.
Yazmine was on her way to watch me train in the arena. The thought alone makes me feel strangely giddy as I flit around the room for paper and a pen.
When I find what I’m looking for, I quickly jot down a note on the empty pillow beside Yazmine’s head. I bring a flannel throw blanket and gently cover her, then step back as I watch her sleep.
Only when I see myself smiling again do I realize I’m being weird. Freakishly so. What’s happening to me, I don’t quite know. I must regain my focus because it feels like I’m losing it.
Chapter 18 - Yazmine
I stretch my arms out beside me, having woken up on my back. It’s when my hand lands on what feels like paper I open my eyes and realize it’s already morning.
Yawning, I bring my hand back to cover my mouth, simultaneously bringing the piece of paper along with it. The note flutters onto my nose, so I lift it with a giggle.
The laughter diffused when I read the contents of the note.
I’ll be training in the arena tomorrow morning. If you still wanna watch a dragon shifter in action.
Aragon.
“Pfft!” I blow through my lips, sending the note flying off to the side as I roll my eyes and sit up.
“He expects me to watch him train after his little outburst yesterday?” I scoff to myself. “Hah! He has another thing coming!”
As I blow an irritated breath through puckered lips, I turn my face when my eyes land on the little note. It’s just a tiny square torn out from a larger piece of paper. It’s nothing special.
Then why does my heart flutter like this?
Frowning at myself, I reach for the note where it lays on the rug beside the bed, lifting it and staring at it as if it’s going to speak for itself.
