Page 76 of Her Silent Knight

Chapter Nineteen

HER MIND WAS STILLreeling.

Her body was still shivering from her last encounter with Kaede. Sin stared down at her hand. It was trembling. She held it to her chest. What was this dragon doing to her? He’d reduced her to a female who paced.

Pacing back and forth in front of his bed, Sin tried to figure out what to do next. Mentally, she’d accepted the fact that he was her mate. Physically, she was a little nervous about letting him inside.

He was huge. Everywhere. Especially down there. And after two years of no hanky-panky, she was damn near a virgin again. That wasn’t even the main thing holding her back. Emotionally, she and her dragon would never be able to connect.

She would always see him as the dragon who’d tried to kidnap her. She’d always remember that if he would’ve succeeded, she would be a prisoner right now. A prisoner to The Deciders.

She knew all about those bastards and the fake points plan they had set up to trick cursed creatures into doing their dirty deeds. None of that was real. She knew that for a fact. Winter had told her.

And Winter had inside information on those bastards. They were never going to let anyone leave here. Why would they? This was their world. The only place they could thrive in. And they thrived off the abilities of others.

One day, Kaede would complete all of his tasks and The Deciders would end him. There was no freedom in his future. Only death or enslavement. If he wanted out, he needed someone on the outside to perfect a spell to free him.

Her family was working on one. Problem was, no one, not even the creatures who lived here, knew where this place was. According to her mom, most planes had a veil location.

A place where the veil between their plane and the Mortal Plane was thin. Her parents couldn’t locate the veil location to this plane. No one knew of it. Not even Winter. Which was why no one had ever left here.

But if anyone could find it, her mom could. Too bad that mirror Winter had couldn’t transport people from one place to another. It only allowed you to see into other planes of existence.

And only for a short period of time and at certain times of the day. Hence the reason she always ventured there in the middle of the night every few days. She couldn’t tell her mate this.

Winter didn’t want anyone knowing of her mirror. She didn’t want anyone knowing her secrets. After all Winter had done for her, there was no way she was going to betray her friend’s trust.

Not even for a sexy dragon who belonged to her. A handsome fire-breather who’d left her in this room to starve to death. He’d promised to send food. That had been thirty minutes ago and Sin still hadn’t eaten.

A knock sounded at the front door. Sin ceased pacing and glanced at the closed bedroom door. It couldn’t be Kaede. He wouldn’t knock. This was his place. Their place. His place. Shit, she wasn’t ready to call it theirs.

She wasn’t even sure she wanted to truly be his. The knock sounded again. What to do? She didn’t know these people. What if they poisoned her? Surely, they wouldn’t do that. She was mated to their top dog... er, dragon.

The knock sounded again. Sin straighten the clothes on her body. There was never a mirror around when she needed one. She fluffed out her wild hair. She was pretty sure she looked a hot mess.

Oh well. These people didn’t know her. Slowly, she made her way over to the bedroom door. The knock sounded again as she opened the bedroom door. Hold your horses, Sin thought as she stepped into the living room that had no furniture.

No couch. No television. She’d only seen one T.V. since being here. It was at Winter’s house. And it doubled as a microwave. It was a weird invention but it got the job done. Knock. Knock. Knock.

They better have food since they were doing all that knocking. Sin approached the front door. There was no peephole for her to look out.

“Who is it?” Sin shouted. No matter what name they yelled out, she wouldn’t know them. Still, she had to ask.

“It’s Caro. Sorry to bother you. Kaede told me to bring you some food.”

Her stomach growled when she heard the word food. Sin tried to fix her hair again then gave up and unlocked the door. She pulled it open and stared at the back of a woman’s head.

“Hi.” Sin said.

The woman turned around. “Hi...” Caro froze.

Sin froze. They both stood there staring at each other.

“Sinclair!”

“Carolee.”

Screaming, they embraced each other, almost causing Lee to drop the tray of food she had. Luckily, no one was passing by and saw them. She was pretty sure they heard them though. That was how loud they were screaming.