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I’dtoldher, in explicit language, that I would fix it. That I would make it right.
“I don’t understand,” I told her as she came over toward me, holding Jake tight to her hip. “I thought—”
“You thoughtwhat?” she barked furiously. “You thought that kidnapping my child and bringing him here was agood idea? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?”
I took a half-step back at the furious outburst. Jake, for his part, teared up. Seeing that, Sarah focused furiously to averting a breakdown.
Shaking my head, I pressed on. “But you were so happy these past few days. I told you I would make things proper. Youknewthat. Now you’re mad at me? Is this a woman thing? I don’t get it. You wanted to see him again, to be his mother. Now you can be.”
“Of course I wanted to see him again, you imbecile!” she cried. “But I thought you were sending me home!Not destroying his world, too, by bringing him here.”
“What?” I stood there like a giant oaf, stunned by her thoughts. “So, is that why you’ve been so, um, kind the past few days?”
“Yes,” she said, shaking. “I thought I was going home. That this was temporary. That you had come to your senses and realized that ripping my family apart was a horrible thing to do. So, you’d send me back.”
“You’re my mate, Sarah. I’m not letting you go,” I growled protectively, my dragon echoing the sentiment with force. I’d told her that already. Did she not understand what it meant?
“Right, right. That mate thing.” She shook her head, hair bouncing with a ghost of her anger. “So, you went and did the next stupidest thing. How could you?”
“Mommy?” Jake asked, finally speaking up. “Are you okay?”
“I’m fine, baby,” she said, stroking his head with her other hand. “It’s okay. I’m just so happy to see you again.”
“Why are you crying, then?”
“It’s complicated, baby. But it’s going to be okay now.” She fixed me with a hard glare. “It’s going to be all right.”
I blinked, trying to reassert control over the situation. That was not atallhow I’d pictured things going.
Sarah started inside. As she brushed past me to head down the stairs, she whispered in my direction. “I thought you couldn’t get any worse, Levi. But I was wrong.”
Then she was gone.
I shook my head slowly as the other dragons approached. “I thought I was making things better, you know?”
Neither responded.
Taking a deep breath, I exhaled slowly, trying to relax. “Thank you,” I said to Jarrod. “This isn’t your fault. You did exactly as I asked of you.”
Then I turned to go after Sarah and Jake.
“Levi.”
Jarrod’s voice stopped me short. There was something off about it. I glanced back over my shoulder, easily picking up the distress on his face.
“Yes, what is it?” I asked.
“There’s something you need to know,” he said, distinctly uncomfortable.
I waited.
“It’s about the child …”
Chapter Twelve
Sarah
Everything was wrong. That wasn’t how I’d planned it.
