Chapter Twenty-Three
Trust issues
Idris revealed that he only started working in the office—the Dark Ones council where I was held—a few months ago after his mother passed away. Avianna wanted me to ask him about her, but I thought it was unfair to press him on the issue. It was obviously a sensitive subject and we didn’t know each other very well.
My story was different, and in a way, I wasn’t ready to tell him that my own family gave me away because they were told that I had no magic inside me. I was a little embarrassed about my past.
“Why aren’t you going to turn me in? Your father wants to take me back to Draconia, to make sure that I won’t talk,” I said, wondering if I could take him down with my magic, but then I thought about Victor.
Idris had taken care of him for me, and tha
