Embers of Destruction by J. Scott Savage

Author:J. Scott Savage
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shadow Mountain Publishing
Published: 2017-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

Kallista released her father’s hand. “What are you saying?”

Leo wiped his palm across his forehead. “I had the dragons moved yesterday. After you told me what you were planning.”

Icy fingers reached down her throat into her chest and closed around her heart. “Someone else found out? You moved the dragons so we could try the plan again when the time is right.”

“I’m sorry.” He reached for her, but she backed away. “I can’t let you have them.”

“No,” she whispered. Then repeated it louder. “No. I don’t believe it. You’re lying.” She stared into her father’s eyes as if they were alone in the room. “Tell me where you took our dragons.”

“They aren’t here anymore.” He rubbed his hands together. “I wasn’t completely honest with you before, but I am telling the truth now. Will you let me explain?”

She searched his face for some clue. Some hint that this was another one of his games. He’d done many things she didn’t agree with, and more than once he’d let her think he was dead. He’d deserted her, manipulated her, failed to express his emotions. But she truly believed to the center of her heart that he would never intentionally hurt her.

Even when she didn’t agree with his approach, she knew there was always a reason for what he did. If there was one thing she knew about her father, it was that. He did nothing without a good reason.

She took a deep breath, then another, trying to slow her galloping heart. A reason. There was a reason. “Tell me.”

Her father met her eyes for a moment, then spread his hands to take in all the others, and she remembered they weren’t alone. “I told you I had left the city of Seattle before it was attacked. That wasn’t true. I had repaired the ship before I left, but I couldn’t get anyone to join my crew. I was in the process of modifying the controls so I could fly it myself when the dragons arrived.”

Kallista remembered thinking he hadn’t had time to make all the repairs and changes before he left, but she’d assumed he’d continued to work on the ship as he flew south.

“I was sure they would kill me along with all the others,” he continued. “But they didn’t. None of the other dragons speak English as clearly as the monarch, but they were able to make themselves understood. I was shocked, of course, but I quickly realized the dragons are unlike any creatures the world has known. They assured us that as long as we didn’t fight back they would take us to their home. To San Francisco.”

“That’s why you didn’t leave a note.”

He nodded. “I didn’t have the chance.”

“But if they captured you, how did you get away?” Trenton asked. “How did you hide on the island?”

“I wasn’t hiding,” Kallista’s father said. “The dragons have known about Alcatraz for years. I was waiting there for you. I was supposed to intercept you before you entered the city. Only I didn’t have a chance.

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