Chapter Seventeen
Zahrias was the first to approach us, Julia standing diffidently a few paces away, as if she wasn’t quite sure what she should do.
“Clever,” he said, although there was a faint note of disapproval in his voice, as if he wasn’t sure he would have employed such rule-bending methods if he’d been in the same situation.
“Desperate, actually,” Jace replied, but he was grinning despite his words.
“I suppose that is what these situations sometimes require.” Zahrias’ gaze moved from Jace to me, and he actually smiled. “You two do make quite the formidable team.”
Together, we are stronger.
Yes, Jace had been right about that. And now…now that the enemy had been vanquished, the dragon slain?
Zahrias seemed to pick up something of my thoughts, or maybe the question had been cl
