Dragonbound by Chelsea M. Campbell

Author:Chelsea M. Campbell [Campbell, Chelsea M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781503936096
Publisher: Skyscape, New York
Published: 2016-08-08T23:00:00+00:00

I don’t know what I was expecting the entrance to Elder clan to look like, but I guess I thought it would be more intimidating. It’s basically just the opening to a cave. A carved-out space in the rock that leads off into darkness. And okay, maybe a scary hole that leads off into an underground abyss full of dragons is intimidating enough. I’ve come to kind of trust Amelrik—maybe more than just kind of—but these dragons aren’t him. They could be violent and cruel, impatient and hateful. They could take one look at me and decide to kill or torture me. They could be all the things that he’s not.

But Celeste is down there, waiting for me to rescue her, even if she doesn’t know it yet. There’s no question of whether or not I’m going in.

Amelrik breathes in deep, like he’s savoring the essence of this place. “We’re here,” he says, and if I didn’t know better, I’d think he sounded happy about that. Maybe he’s just glad that this is finally going to be over. But then he takes my hand in his and smiles at me. “Once we’re inside, follow my lead.”

“That’ll be easier if you actually tell me the plan.” And also if he starts making sense.

“The plan is I do the talking and you play along.”

“But—”

“You want to get your sister back, don’t you? Stick close to me. And do not wander off.”

“Is that why you’re holding my hand?” Because he thinks I’m going to get distracted by the first shiny thing I see and disappear?

He quickly lets go of me. “You’re right. It should be like this.” He holds out his arm instead, all serious and formal, like he’s about to escort me into a ball or something.

Whoa. “That’s not what I meant. You don’t have to hold on to me. I’m not a child.”

“Do you want to look like an important guest of royalty, or like a common slave?”

“Gee, are those my only options?”

“You’re making an entrance with a prince. Try to act like it. That means take my arm. And stand up straight.”

His accent is getting thicker, and he’s talking really fast, so that it takes me a couple seconds to figure out what he said. And meanwhile he’s staring at me like I’m a complete moron. “I am standing up straight.” Close enough, anyway.

He huffs in frustration, then looks me over and makes a face. “You should have had a bath.”

“I should have had a bath?”

“Both of us. But it’s too late now, and . . . just try not to embarrass me.”

Embarrass him? What does he think I’m going to do?

I take his arm like he said. If I want to get Celeste back, that means trusting him. Even if walking into a dragon clan’s lair is just about the scariest thing I’ve ever done, and any one of them could rip me apart with the slightest twitch of their claw.

“You’re sure about this?” I ask him.

“As sure as I’m ever going to be.

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