Enchanted Academy Box Set by L C Mortimer

Author:L C Mortimer [Mortimer, L C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sophie Stern
Published: 2019-12-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“Lose their magic?” I whispered to Beast. We were standing on the ledge outside of the window on the tower.

“We can’t let that happen,” he said. Then he leaned inside and said. “We’re going now! Take care of Grandma!”

Beast turned me and hesitated for a minute.

“Do you trust me?” He asked.

“What?”

“Do you trust me?” He repeated his question urgently, anxiously, and his eyes were so pleading. What had this poor boy been through that he felt like nobody cared?

“Of course,” I said, and he nodded.

Then he took my hand and squeezed it. I stared at our interlocked fingers and wondered what the heck was going on. What was he doing? Why was he doing this? Beast was...well, Beast was himself. He wasn’t the kind of guy who took a girlfriend. He wasn’t romantic or nice or sweet.

He was just...him.

Why was he holding my hand?

“Don’t scream,” he said.

Then he pulled me close to his chest, and he pushed away from the tower, so we were falling off the side of the building. I opened my mouth, but no scream came out, and I wondered what the hell I’d been thinking to ever trust him. This was it, I realized. This was how I was going to die.

But then something happened.

Something changed.

He changed.

In an instant, he wasn’t a boy anymore, but a monster: a big one. He was huge and scaly and he had wings. Somehow, I found myself hanging by the shirt from one of his talons just before we would have hit the ground and died.

But I didn’t die.

He had caught me.

He flew up, up, up over the tops of the trees, and he flew over toward the castle.

So, this was his big secret, was it?

He was a monster, after all. Only, he wasn’t the kind of monster I thought he was. Beast wasn’t really a boy at all. He was a dragon. I arched my neck back to look up at him. I tried to see him better, more clearly, but it was difficult. How had I not known he was a dragon? How had nobody known? Oh, we all knew about the headmistress. Helena Hex was a legend, but she was supposed to be the last of her kind.

Now I was discovering that someone I knew, someone I cared about, was more than what they seemed.

Maybe he wasn’t so bad after all.

He flew us to the school, and we landed outside of the main building. He changed back into his human form and I found myself whirling around and standing with my back to him.

“What’s wrong?” He asked.

“You’re naked.”

“That’s what bothers you about all of this?”

“Pretty much.”

“You don’t care that I’m secretly a shapeshifting dragon?”

“Not really.”

“But you care that I’m naked?”

“Yep. So, if you could, uh, put something on,” I waved my hand around in his general direction. “That would be great.”

“Hold on.”

He murmured something I couldn’t hear, and snapped his fingers. An instant later, I felt his hand on my shoulder.

“It’s safe to turn around,” he said.

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