Starlight (The Dragonian Series Book 5) (20 page)

I STAYED UNTIL Sir Robert begged us all to have a private word with Blake. I gave him a smile as I left with Isabel, Sammy and George.

Becky didn’t want to see him, she said there would be plenty of time to see him and that now was the time for close family members, and of course George as he’d seen something that was linked to where Blake had been.

I guess George would be seeing more and more of the future now, but what was strange was that he’d picked up Blake, when not even Irene could. What did that mean? His first glimpse of the future and it’d been my dragon’s?

Sir Robert was busy with him for a long time and around ten I went to my room.

I couldn’t sleep and heard when Sir Robert said goodbye to Blake and closed his door.

His footsteps were soft but not as soft as his son’s and I could hear him pass my room.

I listened to the night sounds, how people were whispering softly in the darkness. How everyone started to fall asleep.

Then I got up. I don’t know why, but I needed Blake more than I think he needed me right now and I tiptoed back to his room. I knocked on his door as softly as I could, and heard him get out of bed.

He wasn’t as quiet anymore, and I knew it was because he was still weak.

The door finally opened and he smiled. He didn’t say anything as he stepped out of the way for me to enter.

I suddenly felt embarrassed as I crawled onto his bed. His father would kill him if he knew that I was here and he would probably take extra measures and let Master Longwei know that things between us were the opposite of what they used to be. But I was pretty sure Master Longwei had figured that out already.

He fell on top of his bed and my stomach flipped a million times as he wrapped his arms around me. I never thought that in a million years I would feel safe with anyone of the opposite sex ever again, or want to be with anyone ever again as much as I wanted to be with Blake.

His chin touched my forehead softly. He still smelled slightly of sulfur, but his own dragon scent was starting to seep through.

“Are you okay?” I had to know. He more or less told us what he went through, even if none of it was making any sense.

“I’m still a bit jittery, but I will be fine, Elena.”

I looked up at him. “You gave me the biggest scare of my entire life. When I only saw Tom and August with Nicky and Max, I knew immediately something had happened. It felt as if I couldn’t breathe.”

“I’m sorry,” he whispered softly and then sighed. “Who would’ve thought that you’d actually give me another chance?”

I laughed softly. “I don’t think that I was actually given that choice.”

He chuckled.

“Everyone sort of pushed you on top of me, in a non-sexual way.”

“Sorry about that too. I actually tried for the opposite, to give you space and time. I needed you to trust me on your own turf and not through any of what the others said or wanted.”

“Why, why didn’t you show me that you had changed back then?” I pushed myself onto my elbow and looked down at him.

“Because you didn’t know this Blake and I didn’t want to scare you.”

I just smiled, and thought about what he’d said. It was actually extremely sweet and so selfless. “Well, I’ve got news for you. I actually like this Blake, a lot.”

He gave me a huge grin, one that showed his canine and I lowered my head closer to his and our lips touched slightly.

At first it was soft, gentle, as if I was scared that I was going to hurt him, but after a minute or two, the kiss grew stronger.

His lips caressed the skin on my neck, which flushed my entire body. Goosebumps rippled over every inch of my skin. It felt nice.

His hand slid over the side of my body and over my thigh. My leg shifted over his hip and our lips met again. The kiss was hard, greedy, as if he wanted to make me feel how much he needed me right at this moment, how much he had missed me when he was stuck in his pool of misery. His hand rubbed hard over my thigh again and he pulled me closer to his body until I was snug against him. His temperature still felt wrong. He wasn’t as cold as he used to be, a bit warmer, but it wasn’t his normal temperature. I missed that. Still, he was showing some progress.

My mind was going insane with need.
How could this ever be happening?

A small grunt left his mouth and he stopped.

We were both out of breath. “Sorry, I got carried away.” He smiled and just looked at me with the softest stare.

He kissed me once more, softly on the lips. “You want something to drink?” he said and got up, making his way to his fridge.

“Let me,” I said.

“I can do this, Elena.”

I smiled. He was always pushing his limits. “Sure,” I said and sucked in my lip.
What the heck was that?

I blew out a breath softly. He was driving me insane. Literally.

He handed me a glass filled with brandy and ice again and I took a sip.

“Okay, so why are you here?” he asked, with a slightly raised eyebrow and a huge grin on his lips. He sat down on the chair where I’d spent the past five days, watching over him as he slept.

“I couldn’t sleep.”

He smiled.

“That’s it.”

“No, I have been sleeping here the past five days. The minute Emanual forced me out of the room to get some proper sleep, well that was when you decided to wake up.”

He smiled. “I know the feeling Elena. When they found you, I stayed with you, but Matt wanted my statement and I had no choice but to leave your side. You woke up and found Sammy and Becky. I guess it was a good thing too, as I would’ve just scared you if you’d found me next to your bed.”

“Matt took your statement, why?”

“Because of what I saw through the two that found you, well actually through the dragon.”

I remember those two. Well, I don’t know what they looked like but in my mind they were the strangest couple I’d ever met. I chuckled as I remembered that the dragon was the softy that didn’t like being a dragon at all.

“What’s so funny?”

“The dragon.”

Blake chuckled too. “I left him with a mother of a headache and I’m still in his debt so I hope they don’t ask me to kill someone.”

I laughed. I couldn’t help it.

“So you saw Billy?” I tried to change the subject.

“I actually smelled him first. And when I found him, he looked straight at me. I wanted to kill him so badly then but I made a promise to wait, but the oath doesn’t work like that. When I chose not to, I disappeared.”

I nodded slowly. “It’s my fault. You should’ve never made that oath.”

He came over and sat on his haunches in front of the bed. “It’s not your fault, okay? I made that oath all by myself, Elena. You didn’t put a gun to my head, and you didn’t force those words out of me either. It’s my fault. I didn’t know you were in Etan, and I should’ve known better that it wasn’t some sort of a death wish, but that my tracking ability was one of the strongest in Paegeia.”

“It’s the strongest,” I corrected him.

He grinned. “Okay the strongest.” He looked at me. It was so intense. “It wasn’t your fault, and I will make them pay. When the right time comes. I actually can’t wait to meet this Seymour.”

I flinched as he said his name just remembering all the bad things he’d put me through. “They got him on the buyo.”

“Wait, what?”

“One of the guys that went in with Emanual, when they gathered intel, the caught both Seymour and Billy on one of the buyos.”

Blake hugged me. “He will never harm you ever again. He won’t even see you again.”

“Still, Billy is your family. You must’ve seen it.”

“I told you before, Elena.” He let me go and looked at me again. “He’s no family of mine. Sure we have the same blood running through our veins, but he’s not family. And yes, I have seen his face.” He shook his head. “I thought you turned me into one of them the first time I started experiencing your dreams. It’s why I used my true form in all your dreams and not this one. It was his fault.”

My lips curved slightly and I nodded. He took my glass from me and put his own down, climbing back onto the bed.

We spoke about plenty of things that night, especially about the time I wanted nothing to do with him. How it’d made him feel, and what he’d gone through and done to make me feel safe and secure.

He told me about how they’d staged my release. I saw that on my Sonic and laughed at how badly he’d wanted to rip Kevin’s throat out when he didn’t want to help with the other reporters. Emanual had to hold him back and then when Emanual offered him an exclusive when I was ready, he’d wanted to beat Emanual.

I couldn’t believe he’d done that for me. Me. And it was a stage that I didn’t want anything to do with him.

I also desperately wanted to know how the hell he’d gotten Becky and Sammy not to tell me the truth.

“I’m a nice guy, people like doing things for me.”

I laughed.

When his watched beeped for the third time, I knew it was three o’clock in the morning and finally started to feel sleepy.

Then both of us became quiet, just like that and fell asleep. It was so easy now with him.

I dreamt of nothing but the soft purring noise of a cat that woke me.

I opened my eyes but found no cat. It was faint and I lifted up my head to see where it was coming from.

I turned around and looked at Blake’s sleeping figure as the cat was close to him.

I bent over his body, and stopped. I looked down at his chest. The noise wasn’t coming from a cat; it was coming from him.

I rested my head on his chest and started to smile.

It sounded so amazing and I was amazed by how little I really still knew about dragons even if I’d been one for a couple of months. I knew for a fact that I’d never done this.

My lips curled and a small giggle escaped, but it didn’t wake Blake one bit.

I just kept staring at him, at his beauty, and wished I knew what it would be like if I’d grown up this side, if both of us knew that I was his rider and he’d my dragon. Would he have been the same, or could it have been like this from the beginning? Acquaintances turning into friends, and later friends turning into something so much deeper…

For what it was worth, I knew I had just found my favorite sound in the world, as I could listen to him for hours.

THE SPOT NEXT to me was empty the next morning, but I heard soft voices coming from the table by the fridge.

He was speaking to someone. It sounded like Master Longwei, but I couldn’t see because his back was blocking the holograph.

“I’m glad you’re awake, Blake.”

“I think it’s time to start with the campaign, war is coming and we need all the people we can find to help.”

“We will, don’t you worry. I will set up a meeting with the Council and get you the publicity you’ll need to get all this started. Just rest, get your strength back.”

I lay my head back on the pillow. There was no resting with him. I wished that sometimes he could be like a normal person and just wait until he was one hundred percent ready before trying once again to save his world. Well, our world.