Page 30 of Her Dragon Daddy Disaster
“I believe you, baby,” I said, smiling, glad that, despite everything, he could be oblivious to his predicament.
Internally, however, I was anything but calm. Every instinct in me screamed to swoop in, snatch Jakub up, and make a run for it. Not that there was anywhere I could go. We were stuck there. At least Jakub would be headed home soon. I needed to make sure I made the most of it while he was there. The unexpected visit would be my last. I—
The sound of dragons departing—something I wondered if I would ever get used to, with thewhooshof air from theirwings and claws scraping on the roof–was followed almost immediately by Levi’s return.
Glancing at Jakub, ensuring he was occupied for a moment, I intercepted Levi, stopping him with a hard jab to his chest with my index finger.
“You lied to me.”
It took a moment for Levi to respond. I actually watched him return from wherever he had been, his focus gathering itself.
“I lied to you,” he said. Was that a hint of sarcasm?
“Yes. You did. You lied to me. Purposefully deceived me.”
“Interesting.” He shook his head, focusing more intently on me after. “And when did I lie to you? How did I deceive you?”
“You’re joking, right? You let me believe I was going home. That you were going to send me back.”
“I did?” he asked, cocking his head to the side. “Or did you just assume that? Did you ever ask me what I was going to do?”
“You … you …” I shook with fury.
“Sarah, you need to understand something,” he said with sudden intensity, his orange-brown eyes burning into mine, flickering with embers that never fully went out. “You are my mate.Mine. My dragon knows it. I know it. Even if you don’t. That will change. Iwillwin you over. No matter what I have to do. You aren’t leaving.”
I rocked back, any number of thoughts and emotions clamoring for priority in my brain afterthatlittle speech.
“Maybe not,” I said. “But Jakub is.”
He fixed me with a stare. That time, I gave it right back, not budging. I would make him look away first. Eventually, he did.
“How could you?” I whispered, keeping my voice down as my son continued zooming around, exploring everything withchildlike eagerness, examining everything and nothing all at the same time. “What possessed you to think this was a good idea, Levi?”
“I wastryingto make you happy,” he growled.
I licked my lips. “That’s not the point I’m trying to make.”
“Well, then, hurry up and make it, please.”
I frowned at the rudeness. Why was he mad atme? I hadn’t done anything wrong.
“Levi. I’m an adult. I understood what I was getting into when I agreed to come here.”
“Did you?” he asked. “Because I think you were under the impression you were going to be my concubine. My plaything. I don’t think you’re taking this ‘mate’ part seriously.”
I wasn’t. “That’s not my point either. Mypoint, Levi, is that I understand I’m in a dragon’s world. Jakub? He doesn’t. Bringing a human child here is insane. What were youthinking?”
Levi looked past me. His face didn’t move, and the pause went on and on. Then slowly, with earth-trembling intensity, his eyes met mine. The force behind them, theknowledge, hit me like a runaway big rig.
Oh, no.
The bottom of my stomach dropped out, plunging through the three floors below us as the meaning of that look became clear.
He knew. Somehow, impossibly, heknew.
No, it’s not possible, I tried to tell myself.
“Ahumanchild, is it?” he asked with absolutely unimaginable calm.
