Threatened

Coming back to the present, Stephen glared at Graham who is shuffling from one foot to another. 

"I asked you a question, Graham. Why did you kill Grace? And why the hell did you summon me into the middle of nowhere?" he asked taking a threatening step towards Graham.

Graham stumbled a couple of steps away from Stephen with fright.

"I had to tell you something important. So I had to kill Grace to summon you" he said hastily before Stephen could kill him.

Stephen frowned.

"Why do you need a summoning spell to call me when you could have used the mind link?" he asked suspiciously.

Graham looked uncomfortable to admit the truth. In all his life, no one managed to outsmart him and this is the first. And he is under the radar of none other than the Dragon king.

"The Dragon king seized all our powers. Now he is after our trial. We somehow managed to escape with the help of that car. But they are gaining on us. We won't be able to escap