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“Morehavecome forward, Levi. That’s what you’re missing. Many more. Enough that we could take the palace. We could be through the guards and have the sovereign before they could respond. This isit, Levi!” the dragon hissed. “All we’ve been working toward. It’s finally here.”
I hesitated.
Lydia strolled back toward her mate. Sauntered was more like it, her hips swaying from side to side. I looked up at the sky as she took something from within his claws and returned, handing it to me.
“What is this for?” I asked, taking the large manila envelope and feeling the stack of papers inside.
“It’s the plans,” Malakai said. “For the attack. Your half of them, specifically.”
“Myhalf?”
“I’ll lead half the men. The others will be under your command, Levi. I’m counting on you for this. Are you still with us?”
I knew I should protest. Tell him it was too fast, too soon. The men who’d just returned, weren’t ready to commit to somethinglike that. They needed time to be truly riled up. One speech wouldn’t be enough.
But the look in Malakai’s eyes wasn’t one that would brook such an argument. He wanted to hear me say the words. And truthfully, Iwantedto say them. He was right, after all. We’d been working toward it for a long, long time. To see it finally realized would be good.
“Okay,” I said softly, nodding in agreement. “I’ll do it.”
“Seven days, Levi.” The dragon grinned toothily. “Seven days, and we will be free to make our own destiny. Free of her. Get ready.”
“I will,” I said, hefting the envelope. “I’ll be ready. Is there anything else?”
Malakai cocked his head. “Do you have somewhere to be? Is there anything more important than this?”
I smiled. “In a way. There’s something I must attend to.”
The dragon glanced at the stairwell. “Your human,” he said disdainfully.
“In a way.” I shook my head. “We have to go soon.”
Assuming Sarah hadn’t decided we were no longer going.
“Go where?”
I smiled awkwardly. “I’m taking her to meet them.”
“Meet who?” Lydia asked.
“My parents.”
Chapter Twenty-Six
Sarah
Ishould have canceled the plans.
Levi had given me plenty of openings and opportunity to do just that, but in the end, I hadn’t taken him up on it. So, now, we were on the way to meet his family, Jake and I atop Levi’s dragon, with me holding on to my son so tightly he could barely breathe.
“It’s going to be fine,” Levi rumbled, the power of his voice actually palpable through his body as he spoke.
“You don’t know that,” I pointed out, not relinquishing my grip on Jake.
“Sure, I do. My family are normal and good people. They’re going to love you both. Trust me. When my mother discovers she has a grandson, we’re going to be treated like celebrities. First in the family. You’re going to be her favorite. Well, Jakub will be. Then you. Then a bunch of other people, then me.”
I knew he meant it as a joke, but I didn’t laugh. “Can I tell you something?”
“Of course,” he said, craning his neck around, even as we flew on in a straight line eastward toward the coast of the largest of the Dragon Isles.
