I was still angry the next morning. Maybe it was unfair to assume he would change so quickly, or maybe to just change so much for me. Maybe. Then again, his decision was based on dragonkin being upset. He had never seen the devastation of these executions. Whether he ordered the hunt stopped or not, deaths were still going to continue. And, as long as I was there with him, I couldn’t help them.
But, I couldn’t leave, either. I supposed I could walk away if I was willing to live the rest of my life dealing with the need I had to be near him.
A knock sounded on my door, and although I was still angry and didn’t want to see his face, there was a part of me that wanted nothing more than to open that door and see Aurion standing there. So, when I opened the door and instead saw Clara, the dis
