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Hendricks, having heard everything, had made his way over and was now within arm’s reach.
“What do you want?” he asked, gesturing for some of the agents to return to their posts.
Levi lifted both arms, wrists together. “I’m not leaving. You should probably put me in cuffs and take me below, no? That way, I can talk to Sarah here some more.”
Hendricks glowered at me unhappily. The White House was not a workplace where visits were encouraged. I shrugged at him helplessly. How was I supposed to know that Levi would show up there nearly six years after I’d last seen him? It’s not like I invited him!
It wouldn’t matter, though. I was going to hear about it, that was for sure.
There was no hesitation from Hendricks in tossing Levi into cuffs, and moments later, we were in a secure section out of public sight.
“Who the fuck are you, and what the fuck were you trying to prove with that little taser stunt?” Hendricks snarled, tossing Levi into a cell.
Levi turned, his hands still cuffed behind his back, and looked calmly at my shift leader. “You need to turn Detfield loose so she can come with me.”
I groaned internally. “Give it up already.”
“Unless you’re far stupider than you seem,” Hendricks snapped, “then you should be able to seeshe’s on duty.”
Levi calmly shrugged. “Not for long, I suspect.”
Hendricks and I both shared confused looks.
“And why is that?” I asked, taking charge.
“If I had to guess, probably because they’re going to fire you.”
It was my turn to snort. “Hendricks is pissed at me, but he’s not going to fire me over this.”
“Detfield is a good agent. Just because you’re an idiot for coming here and for leaving her in the first place, doesn’t mean I’m going to fire her.”
I didn’t acknowledge the compliment from my boss, unexpected as it may have been.
“You are, actually.”
“Give me one good reason to,” he said, about as done with Levi as I was.
Levi nodded. Then, in one smooth motion, he pulled his hands from behind his back. Themetalcuffs snapped with preposterous ease as he brought his arms up to rest on the bars of the prison cell.
Arms that were quickly becoming covered in miniature scales as his skin literallymorphed.
“Because,” he said with a hard smile, “she just let a dragon into the White House.”
Chapter Two
Levi
The room erupted in shouting as Secret Service agents drew their pistols, each muzzle pointed directly at my head. None of them even quivered despite the hollered threats, orders to get on the floor, and more.
I savored all that in one corner of my brain.
Most of my attention, however, was reserved for Sarah. In those first few seconds after my revelation, I basked in her complete and utter shock. She didn’t move. Didn’t speak. All she could do was stare.
That only split my face wider. I hadn’t seen her when I’d initially entered the room for the White House tour group, which was my original plan for getting as close to the president as possible. Seeing her face now, however, made up for how it had looked like then, seeing me for the first time in five years and eight and a half months.
I committed it to memory. I never wanted to forget it. Not now, not after seeing her again andfinallybeing able to tell her the truth about me.
Revealing my real nature served me in other ways as well, but at that moment, it was all about Sarah.
