No, that wasn’t going to be my finish.

“Let’s go,” I advised the guards. “Take me to wherever you’re taking me.”

Their palms closed round my higher arms like vices. I wasn’t going wherever.

Behind me, Silas simply watched me go.

It was over.

Chapter Thirty-Three

Silas

I stared at her fading again, watching each step she took till she rounded a nook. Not as soon as did she look again. As an alternative, she marched together with her shoulders again and her head held excessive.

Like a dragon.

Each exhale threatened to knock me over like a circus tent that had misplaced its poles. Caving inward as all stability was misplaced. Which was what she’d been to me in a manner. A stability I’d by no means really had however was solely simply realizing I’d all the time needed and longed for.

My dragon bleated sorrowfully.

“Yeah,” I stated to the empty hallway. “I hear you. This sucks.”

The suddenness of all of it was surprising. I used to be nonetheless making an attempt to course of the revelation that Chloe was a spy. It made sense. Why wouldn’t the CIA attempt to infiltrate the island? They need to. I’d have if I have been them. And what higher particular person to latch onto than the inheritor to some of the highly effective homes within the kingdom?

After all, that they had no manner of realizing I’d select her. Did they? I leaned towards the wall with one arm, considering furiously. Had I ever met her earlier than? Was there any manner this might have been prevented? Who knew what kind of harm she might have brought about us by being allowed to report in.

I stiffened in alarm.

The knife.

“Silas!”

It was Caine.

The temptation to disregard him and head off after the guards was excessive. If she nonetheless had the knife on her, she might trigger some severe hurt if she tried to make use of it to flee. The guards wouldn’t expect it. In any case, she was only a human. Why would they assume anybody within the Isles can be silly sufficient to offer her a dragon-scale knife?

As a result of solely an fool would do this.

“I’m not executed with you,” Caine continued, oblivious to my rising rage on the whole scenario. “Get again right here. We nonetheless have to take care of you and what you’ve executed.”

My dragon coiled round my thoughts as we slowly turned to stare balefully at Caine and his greasy hair and conceited sneer. He was outdated, however there wasn’t an oz. of fats on him. The muscular tissues pulled at his too-tight clothes, which I used to be certain he wore considering it could emphasize his physique. As an alternative, it made him look cumbersome.

“Caine,” I growled, storming down the hallway.

“What?”

“Shut the fuck up,” I snarled, shouldering him out of the best way.

He adopted me again into the sovereign’s workplace, nonetheless seething at my actions.

“I would like—”

“Sufficient,” the sovereign stated sharply.

Caine’s jaw snapped shut on the stern rebuke. I didn’t trouble to look over at Caine, although I actually loved picturing his face. That was as shut because the sovereign acquired to telling somebody to close up. It needed to irk him to listen to it from first me after which our ruler. Maybe he would really pay attention.

Earlier than the sovereign might communicate up, nevertheless, footsteps sounded exterior the workplace. A second later, somebody entered. I pressured down the groan threatening to flee.

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