Once Upon a Dragon Heart (Once Upon a Dragon Series Book 2) by Adrienne Woods

Author:Adrienne Woods [Woods, Adrienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

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The weight of entering the creepers washed away from my shoulders. What Emanual had said about Irene’s prophecies and their double meanings mauled in my thoughts. What else could she have meant if it wasn’t me dying?

My door opened, and I closed my eyes. Dad always came at night to check in on me, but it was late. I pretended to sleep as the covers lifted and my bed shifted.

Someone was climbing into bed with me? I reached out for the switch on the night lamp next to me, flicked it on, and looked at the culprit. “What are you doing here? My dad will skin you alive.”

“Relax, he won’t catch me.” Blake threw the blankets on top of him.

“Famous last words—”

“Yeah, yeah, you said that before.”

He made himself comfortable in my bed, and my eyebrows furrowed. “How many times have you sneaked into my room?”

“You usually sleep at this time of night.”

“Blake?”

“What? You are my dent. It’s hard, okay. Believe me, the past week that you were at the castle was a thousand times harder, as I had to sleep alone.”

“The academy too? How?”

“I have telekinesis. I think Vicky knows. She caught me the last time.”

I muffled my snorts in his chest as his chuckles reached my ears. “That was why she smirked at me like an idiot the last day?

He shrugged. “I don’t care. I struggle to sleep without you and something tells me tomorrow I’m going to need all my strength.”

“You will not fight. What counts for your dad counts for you, too.”

“Not fighting. The Sun-Blast knows my weakness and how to rile me up.”

Warmth spread through my core as my stomach dipped. “I’m your weakness.”

“I submitted. Dead giveaway.”

“My dad actually thinks that you submitted long before that. He asked me the color of your eyes and when I told him they were blue, he mentioned you submitted long before that ring.”

“Interesting.”

“Your eyes were really red?”

“I thought you studied all my claimings?”

“From a distance.”

“The simulator?”

“No, it’s red in the simulator. You scared me to death the first time I faced you in that sim.”

“Sorry.”

“I peed myself.”

He stared at me.

My eyes flickered to his as I tried to suppress my grin. “You can laugh.”

“You peed yourself?”

“I didn’t know it was you.”

“Am I really that scary?”

“You were.”

“I need to see this simulator. The next time we are at the castle, I want to go in. Fight against myself. Not that it’s new.” He was funny with his double meanings. “I’m sorry,” he whispered and kissed me on top of my head. “If you knew it was me, you might have taken it differently.”

“You could’ve told me so many times.”

He put a strand of my hair behind my ear. “I had to admit, it was a lot of fun, but it was wrong.”

“It’s okay. The way you revealed it to me, I doubt anything else would’ve topped that.”

He chuckled as his fingers still brushed my hair.

“I thought you were playing on death’s front porch.”

“If I wasn’t the Rubicon, I would’ve. But he is me, so we are all good.

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