KREON
I did not need to be told. I knew she had run off, run from me. It caused pain that I never wished to feel again.
The guards came and confirmed what I knew. She was not in the castle. Their faces were hard, they were upset with me, it was to be understood. They were risking their lives for a human girl who meant nothing to them.
Did I want my people destroyed because I could not let go of one girl? No, I did not. But for so long, Richard Hunter had taken from me; my father, my brother, and now, my little dragon. For ten years I had given him free rein over his territory but he had plagued mine.
It had to stop.
Contrary to the nonsense Mikhail spluttered about, I wanted vengeance. I knew a time would come when I would not be able to control myself, when the anger I felt f
