Shared By The Dragon Clan: Part Three Read Free

knees and tried to stand up against the building next to her. Once
she’d gotten some ground she started to walk away from the road quickly.
    But not quick
enough.
    “Not another
step,” Conrad shouted in her direction.
    Stacey looked
back, tearfully.
    He marched
forward and stood in front of her.
    “I need your
help,” he said. “You have to help me draw him out.”
    “How do I –?”
    Conrad put
his hands to her and then produced a knife from his pocket. He held it close to
her neck and then they moved towards the road.
    “Come out,
brother!” Conrad shouted. “I just want to talk to you!”
    Both Stacey
and Conrad looked around for him. A thin like fog had emerged from the heat of
the accident, obscuring their view.
    “If you don’t
come out right now, I’ll cut her throat,” Conrad declared. “I know you still
feel something for her. I know how rare that must be for you.”
    Stacey looked
to the left. Nothing. She looked to the right. Nothing still.
    Then she saw
the outline of a figure emerging directly in front of them.
    “Good!”
Conrad said. “Come here now, brother! Come quickly!”
    Zane
staggered out. His shirt was ripped apart and he was bleeding.
    “Excellent.
Now don’t do anything silly, or I’ll cut her. We’re just talking.”
    “What do I
care what you do to her?” Zane shouted back. “You’ve already claimed her as
your own.”
    “Well, since
you made your claim first, I’d hardly think I was entitled.”
    Zane stopped.
He pulled off his shirt and tossed it to the ground. “What happens now?”
    Conrad
removed the knife from Stacey’s neck. He pushed her towards him.
    “You’re very
strong,” Conrad said. “Even stronger than I am it would seem.”
    Stacey limped
along the path between them.
    “What of my
strength?” Zane snapped back.
    “Because
you’re my brother, and because I believe you might be innocent, I’m allowing
you to go free,” Conrad said. “I will tell the Mage I saw to your demise. The
only thing I ask in return is that you do not come back to the Island.”
    Stacey landed
in Zane’s arms. They reluctantly held her.
    “That’s all?”
Zane replied.
    “You can’t
let anyone know of your survival. Not the shifters, not the otherworld. No
one.”
    “What happens
if I do?”
    “Then I’ll
have no choice but to hunt you down again. I don’t know why you would want to
risk that. You’re free to do anything with your life now. Anything at least…”
Conrad trailed off.
    Zane nodded.
“You have yourself a deal. I will not return.”
    Conrad
smiled. He turned as if he was going, but then stopped.
    Looked back.
    “I should let
you know, that I had the Mage make me a doppelganger potion so that your Slave
would think I was you.”
    Zane’s jaw
dropped. “Is that so?”
    “You can ask
me one final question. You can ask me why I did it, or you can ask me why I
told you just now.”
    “I don’t need
to ask you,” Zane said. “I know the answer to both.”

 
    CHAPTER
SEVEN
     
     
    Relief flooded through Stacey’s veins
as Conrad shifted back into his blue dragon, and soared back into the skies
until he was out of sight. She turned and stepped back from Zane, who was
watching her carefully.
    She attempted
a smile. “Are you okay?”
    “No,” Zane
said, breathing in deeply.
    From all
sides and directions the wailing sounds of fire trucks, ambulances and the
police cars had begun to emerge. Zane grabbed her hand and led her back down
the path from which he had just come.
    “You’re not
still mad at me, are you?” Stacey said along the way. “I really thought he was
you.”
    Zane appeared
to ignore her. He said nothing and instead only paid attention to their environment
abound. Stacey held her teeth tightly together and thought to herself that she
should just be thankful she was with him again, and not his brother. There
would be time enough to work things out between her and Zane, and this wasn’t
the best moment right