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Daisy turned a little more to look better into her eyes. "So after a few days, you'll be celebrating a new baby coming?"
Blood rushed to Dawn's cheeks. Just how much had Freddie told Daisy about the mate-claim frenzy? She would have to find out more herself and then educate Daisy so she wasn't completely in the dark. After all, her daughter was eleven and would be a woman soon enough.
Dawn cleared her throat before saying, "No. If I decide to accept his dragon, then it'll happen after that. But don't get your hopes up just yet, Daisy Mae. Your father left us, and I don't want to go through that again with someone else and make us both sad. So I need to be sure about Mr. Whitby, at least a little, before disappearing with him, as your friend put it."
"Oh, I don't think Mr. Whitby would leave us. He's nice and would probably only want to protect you. Kind of like how Freddie wants to protect me."
She finally smiled again at the absolute certainty in Daisy's voice. "We'll see, love. We'll see." She moved Daisy off her lap and stood. "Let's find Emily's mother first, and then I'll talk with Bram again. If Emily's mother says it’s okay, promise me you'll be on your best behavior. No wandering off or telling lies, among other things."
Daisy hopped from foot to foot, a sign she was excited. "I promise, Mum. If there's even a small chance we can live on Stonefire, I'll be the most bestest behaved girl ever."
Dawn couldn't help but laugh at how Daisy was laying it on thick. "Too bad I won't be around to see that." She took Daisy's hand. "Come on then. There's still a lot to do."
As she led her daughter back out to the great hall, Dawn wondered how long it would be before she could see Blake again. Now that she'd made a decision, she was eager to get started. Only then could she truly know which pathway her life would end up taking.
But then Daisy began tugging her hand to hurry up, and she pushed all other thoughts away. First things first—she needed to entrust Daisy into Mariana Barlow's care. Then she could ask about Blake.
Chapter Six
Blake stared at the ceiling of his hospital room, unsettled with the complete silence and emptiness inside his mind. One he hadn't experienced since his dragon had first talked with him at age six, a little over thirty years ago.
He vaguely remembered Dr. Sid drugging his dragon silent but not much else until he'd woken up a few minutes ago.
Well, except for Dawn Chadwick. Even without his dragon demanding they find and fuck her, his thoughts were full of the human female.
Her smile, her easy teasing, the way she made him feel relaxed and not anxious like he was with most people.
For the first time, Blake admitted how much he wanted a chance with a female.
Not that it was going to happen. She'd be long gone by now, for sure. Humans who didn't know much about dragon-shifters were afraid of the frenzy and all that it entailed.
Not only that, but Dawn also had her daughter to think of. Like most humans, she probably thought she needed to protect her child from the dragons despite the fact dragon-shifters usually treasured their children more than many humans did.
Maybe he should've tried to explain things better to Dawn and not kept the true mate pull a secret. Perhaps she might've run anyway. But there was a chance she wouldn't have fled without talking to him more.
If his inner beast were awake, he'd probably mention how he'd been right and Blake had been wrong.
He missed his bloody annoying dragon.
A knock on the door brought him out of his head, and in the next second, Dr. Sid Jackson—Stonefire's head doctor—walked in wearing a lab coat and her hair in the usual ponytail. She stopped at his bedside and asked softly, "Is your dragon still silent?"
Sid was a brilliant doctor and usually didn't blink at barking orders or getting reluctant dragon-shifters in line. However, her dragon had been silent for twenty years as a result of receiving too many shots of the silent dragon drug Blake himself had received. That usually meant she was a bit gentler with patients she had to drug herself.
He replied, "Yes, he's quiet and absent from my mind."
Sid bobbed her head. "While I won't exactly say good, it's what we need for your next visitor."
He frowned. "Visitor? Who? Bram? I don't think any of my current projects need explaining to anyone else."
Sid studied him a beat before replying, "Dawn Chadwick is here to see you."
He blinked. "What?"
Sid raised her brows. "You don't want to see her then?"
"No, no, I didn't say that. I'm just surprised, is all."
Could it be that his fated female was stronger than he'd thought? Maybe he needed to not judge her so quickly.
