“You’re keen on her,” he mentioned softly.

I blinked. I hadn’t thought of it earlier than. Cared, sure, after all. However the large phrase? That was a primary. At the same time as he mentioned it, nonetheless, I knew it was true. There was no denying it. My dragon roared its reply.

“Sure,” I mentioned in simply as low a tone. “I suppose I do. I do know it’s not what you wished. It’s not what I anticipated both. However I really like her. She is perhaps a spy, condemned to sit down in jail for her life. However I really like her, Father, and I’ve to get her again alive. I want to listen to what she has to say about all of it. I by no means let her have that likelihood. I by no means listened to her. She deserved that a lot not less than. So, sure, I really like her. And I’m going to get her again. Are you coming with me?”

He was torn. It was simple to see on his face. His hatred of people and want to run the home his approach was preventing with the emotion his son was exhibiting and what it was doing to himself. I couldn’t push him any additional. I’d come midway. He needed to come the remainder.

If he didn’t, I might simply have to simply accept I not had a father. Only a head of home. The ultimate severing of any connection between us. He can be lifeless to me.

There was a lingering silence as he struggled to make up his thoughts. Simply the very fact he was taking so lengthy spurred a second of hope in me.

Caleb, in the meantime, shuffled to my facet. His determination was clear. Shi got here and took his hand.

Azarel glanced at them, then again at me. He exhaled slowly, clearly wrestling with himself. I simply stared and waited. There was no extra sense in pushing him. He needed to resolve on his personal.

“I’ll assist you to retrieve the human spy,” he mentioned in the end. “In order that she could also be given again into correct custody.”

“Thanks,” I mentioned, which means it.

Simply that a lot was an enormous step for him. He’d discovered a loophole that allowed him to assist whereas not outright giving in. To anybody else, it wouldn’t seem to be a lot. To me, it meant all the things. Maybe our relationship might be repaired in spite of everything. However that was for later.

“This gained’t be simple,” he added. “We shall be going into their home. Their lair. Even when we name the remainder of our household that may be right here on brief discover, they’ll have the benefit. They’ll have everybody able to defend. They’ve made their transfer. They’ll’t afford to fail now. There shall be no give up from any of them. We’ll be vastly outnumbered.”

“No, you gained’t.”

For the primary time, the sovereign intervened in our dialog. Till then, she’d sat and patiently waited, regardless of our argument interrupting the report from her guard.

“They attacked the palace,” she mentioned coldly. “They attacked my males. My guards. I can’t stand idly by and undergo that insult. Vicek!”

The inheritor to the dragon kingdom stepped ahead sharply. “Sure, my Sovereign?”

“We’ve got been attacked. We not have to face on the sidelines. Assemble your males.”

“In fact. Our mission?”

The sovereign’s eyes gleamed with chilly arduous inexperienced mild. “Deliver me Seth’s head.”

I grinned, although there wasn’t an oz of pleasure in it.

I’m coming for you, Chloe. I’m coming. Simply maintain on a bit longer.

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Chloe

Seth and his males laughed and joked, slapping one another’s backs as they hauled me into their home, congratulating each other. Palms rose and fell with the vivid retelling of the raid on the sovereign’s palace as one after one other detailed their half within the escapade and the way they’d attacked this guard or helped with one other.

I stayed quiet all through. Listening. Absorbing. My eyes have been lined by a hood, stopping me from seeing the place we have been going. I needed to marvel why they bothered although, as a result of none of them had filters. Inside minutes of being bodily yanked from my cell in the course of sleep, I’d ascertained who’d taken me, what they’d carried out, and the place they have been taking me.

It was baby’s play. All I needed to do was hear as a result of the overconfident idiots had no concept what they’d carried out.

Assuming any type of royalty works the identical right here because it does in my world, they’re in for a world of damage.

The sovereign didn’t strike me as somebody to face by and do nothing. I wasn’t so naïve to suppose she would come after them simply to avoid wasting me, however she would ship males to show Seth and his buddies a lesson. Of that a lot, I used to be moderately sure. The important thing can be to outlive the crossfire and hope they introduced me again to the palace in a single piece.

Escaping within the confusion was an alternative choice. I began my thoughts down that path as I used to be tossed unceremoniously right into a chair. My palms have been yanked roughly behind my again and tied firmly with assured, professional motions.

That might make slipping away when the inevitable assault got here harder. I may slip from most bonds, given sufficient time, however whoever did them knew what he was doing. I wasn’t going anyplace with out assist. Maybe in the course of issues I may discover one thing sharp and minimize them.

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