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“I already talked to Mom,” Dawsyn said. “They’re getting dressed and coming downstairs.”
I cocked my head to the side. “When did you talk to her?”
“Pack members can communicate telepathically,” she said. “I thought dragons could do that as well.”
“Only when we’re shifted,” I replied. “Unless we’re blood family and then we can do it anytime, no matter the distance.”
Dawsyn’s eyes widened. “Can you contact Knox?”
It hadn’t even occurred to me to try. “I don’t know, and there’s no reason to until he no longer has a tie to you. Antagonizing him before then doesn’t seem like our best move, considering all the destruction he’s caused.”
What I wouldn’t have given to tear him to shreds before when I’d had the chance. If Dawsyn hadn’t been with me, I would have killed Knox without thinking twice. Instead, the bastard had nearly done the same to my oldest friend.
And I wouldn’t soon forget.
Roman and Cait joined us, and I was surprised when Beatrix never followed. Unsurprisingly though, Dawsyn’s parents ignored me while hugging their daughter and checking her over several times.
“What happened?” Cait asked, eyes wide but full of love for her daughter.
“Did you kill whoever took you?” Roman asked gruffly before Dawsyn could answer the first question.
Dawsyn squeezed both of their hands. “Why doesn’t everyone sit down, and we’ll explain.”
The fact that she said “we’ll” eased some of the tension in my chest. Tension I was sure wouldn’t completely disappear until Knox was no longer a threat to my mate.
Roman’s eyes landed on me, finally. “Thank you for bringing her home, where she belongs.”
I wasn’t sure how to respond to that because, at least for the time being, I’d felt Dawsyn had made it clear that she was going back to Drago with me.
Once everyone sat, Roman at the head of the table, Cait to his right, Dawsyn on the left with me next to her, and Embry across from me, Dawsyn spoke first.
“I’m glad to be here,” she started. “But I first want to say that while coming back after those few weeks away has shown me things I hadn’t been able to see before, it doesn’t mean I’m staying.”
Roman’s hands curled into fists on top of the wooden table. “What do you mean? Where else would you go?”
“I have unfinished business in Drago, and I intend to see that through before deciding what the future holds for me.” She kept her head up and stare strong as she spoke to her father.
They had a brief power struggle before Dawsyn looked down. I had a feeling she’d only done that to ease the strain that was starting to drown the room.
“What is this unfinished business, sweetheart?” her mother asked. “Maybe we can help. Cillian said that we might be able to enter his realm, yes?”
I nodded. “Not at the moment, but we can change that again with some advanced notice.”
Dawsyn squeezed my leg under the table, then began to recount all the events leading up to this moment, starting with her being taken from her dorm.
Her parents tried to interrupt her several times, but she held strong and finished everything before answering any questions.
By the time she was done, my rage was nearly uncontainable as I pictured her alone and starving in the cell Knox and Estelle had kept her in.
Part of me wished her wolf had ripped out my grandmother’s throat on the way to freedom, so that I wouldn’t need to face my traitorous grandmother. I was still undecided on how I was going to handle her when the time came.
It was hard to think that the same woman who had cared for me after I’d thought both my parents were dead was the same one working for Knox and who kept my mate locked away.
“So, you’re still bonded to this man?” Cait asked first.
I suspected it was a question Roman wanted answered as well, but his jaw was wound so tight, I doubted he could speak at the moment.
“Yes,” Dawsyn answered. “I’m hoping the two of you know how to break a mate bond. If not, maybe GiGi can help?”
