Free Dragon Blood 4: Knight by Avril Sabine

arrive. This was ridiculous. The dragons hadn’t expected all this from her. Why should the Knights? It wasn’t like she planned to make a career fighting dragons. And if she did have to fight them, it wouldn’t be like this. She’d use fireballs. Pulling out her phone, she set her alarm for ten to eight. She wasn’t sticking around any longer than she had to.
    When her alarm sounded, Amber hurried to Roy’s side where he was lifting weights. “I need you to show me to my room and then the front door.”
    Without speaking, he led her to her room and waited in the corridor. Amber dressed for school, grabbed her bag and, after checking that her bed still looked tidy, stepped into the corridor.
    “Can you meet me in the reception room tomorrow afternoon to show me where the class is? I’ll be there at four.”
    “You should learn your way around yourself. It’s not that hard.” He walked off.
    Amber hurried after him, wondering if she should ask him again. How was she meant to find anything around here? She needed a map. A proper one, not the stupid drawing Dominic had given her.
    Roy opened the door to the reception room. When she would have thanked him, he spun on his heel and left. She stared at the closed door for a moment before she walked to the front door. Opening it she stared outside, wondering if Ronan was there yet. Hoping he was, she left the building, letting the door close behind her.
    She scanned the area. Everything was still. Moving away from the building, she continued to look for Ronan. When she was several metres away from the headquarters he appeared out of the Void in the shadow of the fig tree she’d arrived under Friday afternoon.
    He remained standing there, holding out a hand. “Hurry up. Unless you like it here so much you don’t want to leave.”
    Amber quickly crossed the space between them, taking his hand. “Not likely.”
    Ronan took them through the Void, bringing them out at his water garden. “What happened?”
    She eyed Ronan. If he had the information, what would he do with it? Probably nothing good. “This is my information. I own it. I’m only sharing it with you because you’re my ally.” And also because she didn’t know what to do with it, but she wasn’t about to tell him that.
    “Then hurry up and tell me or I’ll start to think you’re angling for some sort of exchange.”
    “You will keep this information to yourself unless there’s danger to me from the Knights. And even then you aren’t to use it unless it’ll benefit us.”
    “Knowledge is power. I’m not about to throw power away for no good reason.”
    “One of the Knights is part dragon.” She watched Ronan carefully, seeing his expression go blank. She smiled. “Interesting, huh?”
    “Has the Knight been put there as a spy?”
    She shrugged. “I don’t know. I haven’t been able to get any information out of him yet.”
    “There has to be a way to use this.”
    “Not without my permission or unless you’re using it to save my life.”
    “I already agreed, didn’t I?”
    “Not really.”
    “And yet you still gave me the information.”
    She pointed a finger at him. “Don’t cross me, Ronan.”
    He stepped close, his lips twisting into a predatory smile. “How can I? We’re allies. Permanent allies.”
    “Don’t you forget it.” She dropped her arm, not wanting to get into an argument with Ronan after the weekend she’d had. “Take me home. I’ve got school today.”
    Ronan nodded and grabbed her by the arm. Taking her through the Void, he left her on Kade’s verandah, vanishing back into the Void.
    Cooper, who’d been sitting on the edge of a railing rushed forward. “You’re safe? They didn’t hurt you?”
    Amber sidestepped, holding up a hand to halt him, dropping her bag on the floor. “I’m fine. I hated it there, but I’ll survive.”
    Kade came out the front door, leaving it open behind him as he crossed the verandah to wrap his arms around her. “I don’t