Advanced Dragon Studies (Ember Academy for Magical Beings Book 1) by L.C. Mawson

Author:L.C. Mawson [Mawson, L.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: L.C. Mawson
Published: 2020-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

I was in good spirits as I arrived at the café where Naveen and I had agreed to meet – we’d been texting earlier in the day, though he’d stopped responding, presumably caught up in his work – but my good mood didn’t last long.

I ordered my favourite coffee and sat down at a table outside, but even good coffee and starting to break through Lorelei’s shell couldn’t keep my mood up as the clock ticked on and on and I became hyper aware of the fact that Naveen should have been here already.

I bit my lip as I checked my phone for the dozenth time, realising that he was now twenty minutes late.

I decided to text him.

Where are you?

He didn’t answer.

He was twenty minutes late and he wasn’t responding to me.

At what point did I just assume he wasn’t coming?

I took a deep breath as the newly familiar feel of fire simmering just beneath my skin flared up.

I groaned, my magic acting up was the last thing I needed right now...

“Hey,” I looked up from my phone to see James heading into the café. He paused just shy of the door, presumably because he’d seen me at the outside table, a cup of coffee going cold in front of me.

“Hey,” I responded, a little confused. I figured that if I ever saw him outside of class, he would just ignore me.

“Drinking alone?”

I sighed. “I was supposed to be meeting a friend, but it looks like he’s not coming.”

“Oh. I’m sorry.”

I frowned. Was he being friendly? “It’s all right. I should have known that he wouldn’t come... I guess after so many years of being too Dragon for the Humans and too Human for the Dragons, I was more than willing to put too much faith in one of the few people who didn’t want me gone. But maybe I gave him too much credit...”

Shit, why was I telling him this? He didn’t care about my relationship issues.

“Well, if you want some company...”

I frowned again, looking him over as the fire beneath my skin flared slightly, preparing for this to turn out to be some underhanded way to get under my skin. “Why? I mean, no offence, but you’ve not exactly been friendly before.”

He regarded me carefully before sighing. “In my defence, I did try to be friendly."

“When? Between scowls?”

That brought the scowl right back. “I did offer to help you train, remember?”

“You mean your pity offer?”

“It wasn’t a–” He sighed, shaking his head. “Are you always this antagonistic? High Priestess Nyssa told us to work together. And if anyone knows anything about being too Dragon for Humans and too Human for Dragons, it’s probably me.”

I relaxed, the flames under my skin settling a little, as I realised that he was right. Of course, he was. I’d only briefly thought about the fact that he didn’t have scales – I was more used to my father than any other Wyverns, and he was the same way – but I guessed out of anyone, he would be the most likely to understand.

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