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handwriting.”

“Maybe you should get yourself one of those dragonets everyone’s been going on about,” the

new dragon suggested. “A clutch of whelps would do you good, you old goat.”

“Calvin,” Atticus warned. “You bite your tongue.”

Finch looked up. “Calvin?”

The new dragon strode over and extended his hand down to Finch, Hugh, and Everard.

“Indeed. Calvin Drake at your service. You must be this crusty old dragon’s new secretary.”

Finch was filled with unfamiliar rage. Had he been able, he’d have gotten up and struck the

dragon. Granted, all that would get him was pain returned tenfold, but it might have been worth

it. As it stood, all he could do was glare, which Finch did to the utmost of his ability.

Calvin frowned and tapped a finger against his perfectly sculpted lips. “Why so frightened, little

bird? I won’t harm you. I wouldn’t harm any of Atticus’s Attendants. That would be beyond

rude.”

Atticus stood from his chair, brushed by Harrison, and came to stand at Calvin’s side. “I believe

he’s angry, Calvin, not frightened.”

Calvin turned to the old dragon, confused. “Angry? At me? But why?”

Finch wanted to shout every reason he had to be furious, but his throat was too choked with

emotion to allow him to speak. “Because,” was all he was able to get out.

“Because,” Atticus continued, “if I’m not mistaken, your little bird here is, in fact, your little bird.”

“My what?” Calvin seemed affronted. “I’ve never seen him before in my life.”

“Of course not,” Finch said, finally able to spit out the words that had threatened to suffocate

him. “Why would you have ever bothered to see me? I’m only your son.”

Hugh

The smooth, upraised edge of a large stone pulled back Hugh’s upper lip, and he woke up

drooling all over it. It was, at first, a mystery how he’d made it to first base with what appeared

to be a floor, but his memory was jolted by the voice of an angel himself—Finch—who snarled,

“Do not touch me.”

Finch.

Finch.

How Hugh’s heart sang to know that, at last, he’d found him. After almost two months of

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