Page 16 of Her Dragon Daddy Disaster
Sarah
“So, what now?”
I posed the question while staring out the giant window overlooking the core of the dragon capitol. Calling it a city would have been too much because there were maybe ten or twenty thousand residents. The luxurious apartment where Levi had brought me after “The Choosing”—and what a sham that had been, considering I’d known which dragon was picking me—was better suited for the top floor of a NYC condo. Instead, we were on the fourth floor. I had yet to see a building over five stories tall.
When Levi didn’t immediately respond, I pulled my gaze away from the window to find him looking at me with a semi-blank stare.
I cocked my head, waiting another full minute for him to respond, but he just sat there, watching me, as if I’d asked the stupidest question in the world.
“You’re joking, right?” I pushed when it became painfully obvious he had no answer.
“There is no joke,” he rumbled. “You’re here.”
I bit back a fiery reply containing many obvious notations about how I was there and not at home with my son, where Ishouldbe. On more than one occasion, I’d debated telling Levi I had a child back home. To see if that would get me out of the “responsibility.” To see if he would take pity on me.
But I was scared he would do the math. Figure out that Jake was his. And what would happen then? I didn’t want this sexy but idiotic loser involved in raising my son, who was turning out to be a lovely kid. He would just muck it up.
Not that you’ve done a great job either. You’ve abandoned your only child.
I shut down that train of thought. I wasn’t happy with myself, but there was no denying that my actions saved the lives of thousands. Perhaps tens of thousands or even millions. It was impossible to know. As much as it hurt, as haunted as my dreams would be, I could not have made any other decision and still been myself.
I would just have to learn to live with the self-hatred and loathing.
Somehow.
“You’re serious,” I replied when he didn’t break out into a smile. “You’re fucking serious, oh my god.”
“What’s the problem?”
I gaped at him. “Theproblem?The problem is you made it a condition of peace that I give up everything, abandon my life, my family, friends,everyone, to come here to be your mate, whatever the fuck that entails. Then I come here, and instead of just being paired with you, I get tossed into some sort of weird fish-in-the-barrel experiment where dragons come in and pluck us humans out willy-nilly at random. Except it was you who wasgoing to take me anyway, so it wasn’t random. It was just a waste of time.”
Levi only grunted in affirmative as I paused for breath, as if to sayYes, and?
“Unbelievable,” I almost screeched, hauling back on my emotions just in time. I wouldnotcome across as the crazy lady. Not yet. “Then, you bring me to your apartment, and you just sit there, doing nothing!”
Levi raised both eyebrows in question.
“You don’t see a problem with that?”
He shook his head.
I sighed, rubbing my face. “Right. So, now, we just sit around in silence until we die? Is that it? Are you honestly telling me you had absolutely zero ideas or plans of what would happen after you got me here?”
A flicker of unease crossed his handsome features. Dull realization hit me like a rubber mallet.
“You don’t,” I whispered. It wasn’t a question. “There is no plan. No idea. No nothing, is there?”
The background level of happiness that had been lighting his face ever since he picked me out of the lineup in the dark underground cave faded now.
I shook my head, short ponytail swishing wildly with the frustrated motion.
“What did youthinkwould happen?” I asked him.
He shrugged, then stood, pacing slightly toward the window, so he was closer to me, though there was still a barrier between us, one he respected by keeping his distance.
“That you would be happy, I guess,” he said as if it should have been obvious.
My jaw dropped. “Happy? You thought I would be happy to be here?”
