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I paused for only a second. “Yes.”
Yolandi sighed, tugging on her bright orange t-shirt. “There are many who dislike humans.”
“There are many humans who dislike dragons,” I said, both of us acknowledging the truths of our races.
“You’re not one of them.”
I remembered my reaction to Levi the night Jakub had lit the room on fire. The way I’d been sure he was a bogeyman coming for my child. “I’m not perfect.”
Yolandi snorted. “As if any of us are. You’re a good person in your soul, Sarah. That much is obvious to anyone who has met you.”
“Thank you,” I said softly.
“I try to be a good person as well. To accept people for who they are, notwhat. Humans are different, yes. But why should that make them inherently a people to dislike? We aren’t completelyunalike either. Look at us, unless we shift, it’s impossible to tell our species apart.”
“This is true.”
“I think many hate you for that reason,” she said. “They see themselves when they look at you, and they don’t want to. They don’t want to acknowledge that we are, in some ways, part human. In the way we look, but also the way we act.”
“I understand.”
“Maybe you do. Maybe you don’t. Hard to understand if you aren’t a dragon. But that shouldn’t matter when it comes to how I and my family feel about you. I watch you with my grandson, I see you as his mother. As agoodmother. Stern but notstrict. Caring but not fawning. Encouraging but not negligent. You strike a good balance, Sarah. It isn’t easy to do. That is respectable, and it tells me much about you.”
Too flattered for words, I looked away, trying to stop my cheeks from burning with embarrassment at her compliment.
“Then there’s Levi.”
I nodded.
“Your intentions with him?”
My jaw dropped. “Myintentions with him?” I laughed.
“You find this funny?”
“A bit,” I admitted. “In human culture, it’s very normal for the woman’s father to be leery of the man’s intention.”
“Dragons are like that, too,” Yolandi said with a half-smile. “But I’m not his father. Now am I?”
I grinned. “Well, I think you need to ask your son that question. After all, he’s the one who broughtmehere.”
“Did he now?” she said thoughtfully. “I knew I raised that boy right.”
“He’s okay,” I admitted. “A bit naïve sometimes, but it’s mostly kind of endearing, eventually.”
She tilted her head back and laughed. “You have no idea. I’m happy to hear you say that, though. It’s obvious you make him happy.”
“It is?”
“Yes. Very. In fact, I haven’t seen him like this in a long,longtime. Not since he was courting that other girl, claiming she was his mate. It’s been so long now. What was her name?” Yolandi frowned, tapping her thigh. “I didn’t think he would ever get over her, truthfully.”
I laughed. “She can’t have been that important then if you can’t recall her name. She’s probably long gone.”
“Probably.” Yolandi slapped her leg. “That’s right. That was her name! Lydia. I haven’t seen him smile this much since her.”
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Sarah
