Dragon Fixation (Onyx Dragons Book 1) by Amelia Jade

Author:Amelia Jade [Jade, Amelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-07T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Karri

She stood still, simply staring at the wall.

Her father paced back and forth in front of her, screaming vitriol and invectiveness in a never-ending streak that actually kind of surprised her. It was quite a while before he started repeating himself. She’d never known him to have such an extensive vocabulary before.

“Are you done?” she asked as he began to wind down, and then braced herself as he launched himself into another tirade.

By the time he came to a halt she’d been standing in the front hall of his house for a good fifteen minutes being screamed at. It wasn’t the reception she wished she’d gotten, but considering the last time she’d seen him he’d cast her out of the family, it was actually better than she’d expected.

Karri was willing to put up with it all, however, as long as she achieved her goal in the end. She’d come back to her father’s place with one goal in mind, and that narrow focus was allowing her to drown out all the things he was saying to her.

“Get out,” he said at last.

Steeling herself, Karri crossed her arms and prepared to defy her father. “No,” she said, injecting as much iron into her tone as possible, hoping to get through to him that she wasn’t leaving until she was damn well ready to, and on her own terms.

“Excuse me?”

“Don’t give me that bullshit,” she said, already tired and only having just started. “You heard me clearly. I said I’m not going. Not until you calm down and have a rational talk with me.”

“How am I supposed to have a rational talk with someone who would betray her family?” he screamed, his face going blotchy red.

“I didn’t betray anyone, Father. Quit being so dramatic.”

The older man shook, so angry he couldn’t even speak.

“Father, listen to me, and listen well. You have got to let go of your hatred. You have to grieve for her. She’s gone.”

He didn’t respond. Karri sighed and decided to try a different approach.

“Look at it this way. If the situation had been exactly the same, except no shifters were involved. Let’s say they didn’t even exist. If someone from Cloud Lake took Mother. Would you hate every resident in Cloud Lake with the same rage you have these past few years?”

He looked away.

“Exactly. You wouldn’t. You’d hate the person responsible, because you know the rest of them would have had nothing to do with it! If I dated someone from Cloud Lake, would you try and shoot them simply because of where they’re from?”

She held up a hand when he opened his mouth to speak. “No, Father. You do not get to dictate who I can and cannot date anymore. I am a thirty-year-old woman. I am allowed to make my own choices, to make mistakes if need be. I understand that you’re worried, that some of that anger is born out of fear for me. It’s…endearing, when you aren’t firing your damn shotgun at me. Which, by the way, you have yet to apologize for.

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