Page 74 of Her Dragon Daddy Disaster
I couldn’t. “No,” I whispered, tapping an envelope on the desk with one finger, listening to the sound my nail made as it hit the thick paper. “I can’t.”
“Good.”
“That doesn’t mean I forgive you!” I said, spinning around at last to face him.
As I did, my hand caught the envelope and sent it sliding off the desk. I reached for it desperately, but it slid out of my grasp and slowly fell, spilling papers.
“Sorry,” I said, crouching.
“I’ll get it,” Levi said abruptly, moving quickly to grab what he could.
He got most of them. But not all.
I stared at the drawing on the paper and the notes listed on the other ones. I recognized the images. What they were for. The terms used in the notes. They were similar to what I saw in training scenarios for work. They were the outlines of a plan of assault on a building. I glanced once more at the image of the target. Not justanybuilding.
“Levi,” I asked cautiously. “Why does it look like I’m staring at plans to infiltrate the palace?”
He swallowed.
I rifled through some more. I saw his name and the timelines. The indicated avenues of approach. Guard stands. Notes on changing of guard rotations. It was all there.
“What the fuck is this?” I snarled, shaking the papers at him. “Levi, what the hell is going on here? Why do you have all this? You said these were notes from Malakai. You said—”
I stopped short, putting it all together.
“You asshole,” I spat, shaking my head. “I can’t believe you! I come here, tell you that you have a son. You pretend like you’ve given up your rebellious ways. But instead, you’re planning a fuckingcoupbehind my back? Do you haveanyidea of the sort of danger you’ve put the two of us in? Do you? Huh? Tell me!”
“Sarah,” Levi pleaded. “Listen to me. Please. I can explain it all. I promise!”
“No,” I snapped. “No more promises, Levi. No more lies. No more pretending to do one thing while planning the opposite. You had your shot. You blew it. We’re over. This is over. I’m taking Jakub, and we’re leaving. Dragon or not, I’m his mother. I can raise him just fine, thank you very much! Now,move.”
He stood between me and the door. “You don’t understand,” he said, holding out his hands.
“I understand just fine, actually. These drawings explain it all. Crystal clear.”
“I told him no,” Levi growled.
“Sure, you did,” I said with a wave of my hand. “Sure, you did. But you kept the notes. Because you didn’twantto tell him no. You wanted to say yes, and you damn well know it!”
There was no way Jakub was still sleeping at that point. I cursed myself for waking him, even if I hadn’t heard him yet. He would be at the door soon.
“Sarah.”
“No,” I said icily, jamming a finger in his face. “Just, no. I can handle danger. I’m trained for it. I practice for life-threatening situations on the regular. While I don’t like you putting me in that situation, I figure I can handle it better than ninety-nine percent of the population. But, Levi, you didn’t just put me in danger. You put oursonin danger. How. Dare. You.”
He opened his mouth to speak, and I did something I didn’t know I had in me. I slapped him.
“Enough of your lies,” I spat, shaking my hand, already regretting the action. It wasn’t me. It wasn’t the way to handle the situation. “I’m not doing this. I don’t care what you told Malakai. Between this, Lydia, everything, it’s too much. We’reeither going home, or we’re going to live somewhere else on this island. Either way, you won’t be around.”
Levi rubbed his jaw where I’d hit him. I wanted to apologize, but I held my tongue. I’d said my piece. Now, it was his turn.
“Sarah. I—”
Whatever he was going to say was lost in the sounds of dragon claws scraping on the roof above us.
Manydragon claws.
Chapter Thirty-Three
