Page 73 of So I Dared a Dragon

“How?” Magnus asked.

I had yet to share my theory with them, and I knew how much Magnus would hate it. “Calista’s power will help us find the entrance.”

“You need to be careful,” Magnus warned. “We can’t give her too much power. We don’t know what she is yet.”

“She’s my mate,” I growled, and my phone vibrated.

Someone just came to the door and gave Bibi a business card with one of those messages on it, Calista wrote.

“Fuck.” Smoke plumed from my nostrils. “They were followed.”

“Where’s the surveillance now?” Luca asked. “If Hugo is truly watching them, he should have a good idea of who it was. Doesn’t sound like there would be many places for them to hide.”

I could ask Calista all these questions, but I was too fucking far away to do anything about it. I rose from the chair, pacing the room. My temperature spiked, and it took everything I had not to crash through the window and shift into my dragon form.

“Security should’ve stopped them before they got anywhere close to the ladies.” Magnus growled.

Luca furrowed his brow. “Did she bring the Guardian Stone with her?”

“She better not have left it in an empty house,” Magnus said.

I’d been so busy admiring the rest of the picture, I hadn’t even thought to look for it. Each photo she sent tattooed itself into my memory, but I’d been too captivated with those blue eyes that looked like storm clouds on the horizon, the scales that reflected the light, and those tits…her nipples, dusky pink and pebbled.

It wouldn’t stop me from looking one more time.

“She’s wearing the necklace,” I confirmed. “I think they’re using it to track her.”

“If that’s true, we need to get it back,” Luca said. “Because if they’re tracking the necklace, it will lead them to us. We won’t let them get away.”

“The stone led us to her once. We can find her now. Make sure she and Bibi get home safely.”

“And anger Hugo,” Luca said. “By going over his head and completely disregarding his expertise.”

“We could work with him. He’s been willing to play by our rules. To get him to do what we want, we may have to compromise. Play by his rules.”

“Who are you choosing?” Magnus says. “These wolves who are in over their head or your own kind who were imprisoned….”

He didn’t finish his statement, but I knew how it ended. They were imprisoned because of me, my blind faith in something I thought was bigger than us. Something I thought would benefit our thunder.

“I’m choosing our future,” I said. “But that means choosing my mate.”

Magnus scoffed, but his gaze was glued on his phone. He frowned, and swiped several more times.

“You need to watch this before you make any decisions, Aarix.” He rose from his chair and handed me his phone. “I just checkedThe Mating Gameforums to see if anyone had posted about Bibi and Calista. If they’d been seen while they were away. Instead, I found this.”

The thread was calledDid Bibi Reject Her True Mate?

I clicked on it, expecting to see something salacious about Hugo, but instead, Calista came onto the screen.

At first I thought it was from the day that we landed in Sunset Springs, but Calista was in a black dress. The light was different. Bibi and Hannah were on stage, just like the day we arrived, but Lars was there too.

“You’re my mate, Bibi,” Calista declared.

What?

The crowd ooohed at her declaration.

Bibi shook her head. “You’re in love with a version of me that no longer exists. I never lied to you, because I was as true to myself as I could be at the time. And when I knew I needed to change, you were the first wolf I told.”

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