Dragon Blues (Immortal Dragons Book 1) by Ophelia Bell

Author:Ophelia Bell
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2015-05-29T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Belah refused to move for two days, alternating between tears and simply staring out the window at the vista of Central Park in all its autumn-splendored glory. The beauty of it barely registered after Lukas’s rejection.

After Nik’s betrayal, she’d merely felt numb, so shocked at his actions she had been unable to process them.

But after Lukas all she could do was cry. For three thousand years she’d avoided any kind of emotional stretch at all. It was safer that way, after all. But what she hadn’t considered was that it wasn’t her life she’d been preserving the entire time, but her heart.

“Hey, sweetie,” Erika said softly behind her. Her friend came in several times a day just to check on her, as did Geva. They didn’t try to get her to talk, at least, and they had thankfully stopped coming in together when she burst into tears the first day after seeing them exchange the most casual of intimate touches. Just seeing the clutch of their hands together had set her off again. Seeing Erika’s telltale glow of motherhood made it even worse.

Lukas wasn’t the only one that haunted her, though. She’d only had the briefest contact with his brother, but now couldn’t for the life of her get either of them out of her head.

“Do you think I deserve another three thousand years of despair?” she asked.

Erika didn’t respond at first. She moved around to sit in the chair opposite the armchair Belah sat in. “No one deserves three thousand years of anything like that. You didn’t fuck up, Belah. You loved someone and that person screwed you over royally. It is not your fault. Lukas and his brother are fools.”

Belah blinked at her friend. “His brother?” It was the first time Erika had mentioned Iszak.

Erika raised an eyebrow. “You said his name in your sleep—at least I thought that’s who it was. Am I wrong?”

Belah shook her head, trying to recall the dream. She and her siblings shared dreams regularly, and the dreams often came to pass. This was the first prophetic dream she’d had since being out of the glade. It came back to her in such a rush that she gasped out loud. “They … they were both on fire, in my dream. And it was because of me. Oh no, I don’t want to hurt them. I never wanted to hurt anyone!”

Erika leaned in and pulled her into a tight embrace. “No, sweetie, you’re not hurting anyone. You’ve never hurt anyone. Someone hurt you and you’re still feeling the pain from it, that’s all. And I think that dream means something different than you believe it does.”

Belah nodded and relaxed back into her chair, fixing her eyes back on the flaming beauty of the world outside her. The sun was setting now, lending an even more vibrant glow to the trees in the park. She appreciated Erika’s comforting words, even though they were really only words. Erika’s thoughts were filled with concern, but her

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