His Elder Dragon by Jill Haven

Author:Jill Haven [Haven, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-06T16:00:00+00:00

14

Haiden

“You’re a dead-brained idiot. Might as well just yeet him under a bus as drop all that onto him at one time after he had a panic attack. What in the world is wrong with you?” Jade’s voice climbed until she was screeching. I flinched, but had trouble moving. Carefully, I assessed myself, but other than the aches I had earlier, I seemed fine and didn’t feel like I’d hurt myself. I couldn’t remember how exactly I got here, and I hated that this was becoming a theme in my life.

“What does yeet mean?” Carlisle sighed, and I could imagine the frown that went with his words. “Speak English. Hell, speak Spanish, French, Mandarin, or even Welsh, for that matter.”

“Oh my god, discover the internet, you geezer. Toss, throw, yeet. It’s all the same.”

There was the sound of a thud, like maybe someone had tossed a book across the room. I flinched. I doubted that was Carlisle, though. He didn’t seem like the type to throw crap. I knew Jade could be. My eyes wouldn’t open. Yelling messed with me and I hated it. I edged my blanket up higher over my face.

“I’m not that old! I have kept up with the times just fine, you strumpet.”

She chuckled weakly.

“That’s a stupid word and it will never stick around.” Carlisle again.

Another thud. “You’re the elder for the region. Yes, you are old. For whatever reason that means you’re supposed to be smarter than the rest of us. I can’t believe someone so ancient is so damned stupid.”

“Stop that.” There were steps on the floor and a scuffle, they seemed to be getting closer to me. Carlisle’s cologne, or whatever it was that smelled so good, became stronger. I felt a little better and inched my blanket back down. “Haiden’s stronger than you think. If you weren’t negligent in telling him his origins, perhaps what I had to say wouldn’t have thrown him into a fainting spell.”

“For fuck’s sake,” Jade yelled, and I could tell from her tone of voice she was ready to claw Carlisle’s eyes out. “I’m a bodyguard, not a tutor. Why I was entrusted with a hatchling, I’ll never know. Do I look motherly to you? No, I’m not taking the blame for this one. My clanswoman ordered me not to tell him jack shit, and now that’s all ruined.”

For a moment I floated in a strange cloud, my body feeling loose. I wanted to yell at Jade for being so rude to Carlisle. All at once, her words snaked into my brain. Someone had told Jade to keep things from me?

I sat up and gasped, pushing my blanket away. The lights in the room were too bright. Jade stood there, wearing a different outfit than she had on at the park earlier, jeans and a black sweater. She had blood-red lipstick on, and her hands were held at her sides, her fingers hooked. I was right about her wanting to hurt Carlisle. My stomach sank.

“You two have a lot to say to each other about me.

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