The sovereign appeared on the knife, then at Chloe. “Why would you not give this to them?” she requested. “You do certainly work for the CIA, do you not?”

Chloe appeared on the sovereign, then the knife, then me, and again once more. “Did,” she mentioned bitterly, shaking her head. “I did work for them.”

“Why don’t you anymore?” I requested, my coronary heart hovering with contemporary hope.

“Due to you!” she shouted. “As a result of I like you, and I couldn’t do it. I simply couldn’t offer you up. I attempted. However then I saved imagining them making weapons from that rattling knife and utilizing them on you. I dreamed of coming throughout your physique on a battlefield someplace and realizing your dying was on my palms. I couldn’t do this. So, I advised them tiny particulars, like how your authorities is organized, issues like that. However I couldn’t give them extra, Silas. I couldn’t. So, they despatched me again and mentioned don’t danger contact once more except I’ve one thing worthwhile. I used to be exiled. For you! It’s loopy! I’m insane.”

“You’re not insane,” I mentioned, grabbing her palms as she began to wring them repeatedly.

“You’re in love,” the sovereign mentioned.

“I gave all of it up,” she whispered. “All of it. My whole life left behind.”

“Then let me allow you to make a brand new one,” I mentioned, wrapping her up in a hug. “Right here. With me.”

She broke, lastly, flinging her arms round me as she soaked my shirt together with her tears. I held her, stroking her hair and again, whispering candy nothings into her ear, telling her it could be okay.

In some unspecified time in the future. the sovereign left, leaving us alone in her workplace. It was a tacit approval Chloe may keep. However in my care. If she did one thing once more, revealed she was nonetheless appearing even now and betrayed us, then I’d undergo as nicely.

However I had no fears about that. Chloe was mine now, and I used to be hers. The one factor left to do was to make the bond official.

I couldn’t wait.

Chapter Forty

Chloe

After we left the sovereign’s workplace, we went dwelling and slept soundly till the subsequent day. Each of us had been exhausted mentally and bodily. I woke as much as the scent of bacon, eggs, and hashbrowns invading my nostrils like a overseas military, whereas my mouth salivated and ready to do battle with the enemy troops.

Parading downstairs, nonetheless within the glani I’d worn the day earlier than, I ended in shock on the desk within the kitchen of Silas’ condominium.

“What the precise fuck?” I mentioned, staring on the literal mounds of meals on it. “Are we having a buffet for the entire isle?”

“Nofht afhh arllgll,” Silas mentioned from someplace behind the mountain.

I stared as he put away mouthful after mouthful.

“How are you even discovering room for all of it?” I mentioned, fixing myself an inexpensive plate. “Good grief.”

The meals was disappearing sooner than ought to have been doable. I knew dragon metabolisms had been quick, however …

“Fought lots yesterday. Flew lots and didn’t eat final evening,” Silas mentioned between mouthfuls. “Being a dragon may be very calorie intense. I’ve to refuel. I additionally acquired damage.”

“You probably did?” I yelped as egg flew from my mouth in a really unladylike method. “The place? When? How?”

“Proper,” he mentioned. “I suppose you don’t know.”

I listened to the story in regards to the duel he’d fought with Caine for satisfaction. About how the loser had stabbed him within the again and the way he’d killed Caine earlier than coming to get me.

“Let me see,” I mentioned, hurrying over to his facet and pulling his shirt up.

“I’m nice,” he mentioned round one other mouthful, however he didn’t cease me as I inspected the ugly crimson mark. “See.”

“You’ve acquired a hell of lots of bruising,” I mentioned. “It will need to have gone deep.”

“It almost severed my wing tendon,” he admitted. “Flying was lower than nice. Even right this moment, it’s a bit stiff. However I’ll be nice as soon as this meals will get to work. That’s the explanation it appears so dangerous. I didn’t eat final evening once we acquired again.”

“Okay,” I mentioned, leaning in to kiss the contemporary pores and skin earlier than pulling his shirt down. “Should you’re certain.”

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