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They didn’t even want me there.
I could survive without food though. I’d eaten more than enough to feed an army since heat ended.
I was pulling the blankets up my body when a knock sounded at my door.
Though I had to bite back a sigh, I didn’t hesitate to answer it. Ignoring a visitor in Mate Mountain seemed like a good way to make the dragons hate me even more.
So, I reluctantly answered the door.
When I found Eli on the other side, with a loaded plate of food in his hands, I relaxed slightly. There was another guy with him, but the other guy looked more curious than irritated, so I didn’t mind.
“How are you feeling?” Eli checked, handing me the plate.
“Tired.” I accepted it, pulling it into my arms and resting it against my abdomen. My stomach growled again, and his expression turned knowing. “Hungry,” I admitted.
“It still doesn’t seem like you’ve recovered.”
“I’m fine.”
Eli rolled his eyes.
The guy with him looked amused.
“You should be better by now, shouldn’t you?” Eli asked.
“I don’t know. No one gave me an instruction manual, believe it or not.”
Eli snorted. “You and August are a mess.”
“I’ve realized that.”
The guy with him grinned. “What are you going to do if he agrees to leave with you?”
“I don’t know, leave? We’ll figure everything else out after the fact, I guess. I don’t even know if he wants me. I just don’t want him to die.”
It was a lie.
I wanted a hell of a lot more than that.
I just didn’t want to admit it to them, in case August really did turn me down.
“He brought a bag full of your stuff back with him,” the new dragon said. “He’s not going to turn you down.”
“He did?”
I noticed the strap of a bag on Eli’s shoulder, and my eyebrows lifted when I saw my school backpack. The one that had vanished when August left.
Something told me the rest of my missing things were probably in there too.
Eli handed it over, and I unzipped it.
Sure enough, clothing items and a blanket had been neatly placed in Ziploc bags and arranged in the backpack.
I put my plate of food on the ground and pulled one out, staring at the bagged tee for a little too long.
It was the one I’d worn after heat ended, when we finally made love.
“Why are they in bags?” I asked. Him and the other guy were both still watching me, clearly intrigued.
