Ch. 44

CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR:

~Drake:

I rolled my eyes, “And how is this time supposed to be any different than the nonsense you were having me do outside earlier?”

“Like I said, that wasn’t real,” he grunted, pulling something out from a chest that must have been way at the bottom.

Everything clattered loudly as he removed it.

“Aha!” he exclaimed, holding up a big golden… arm band?

It looked like part of a knight’s old armor. Like it was made for someone’s forearm.

He walked over to the table beside where he told me to sit, and laid everything out. It looked like nonsense.

‘Looks like a crazy pirate’s treasure,’ Dane said in a wry tone.

‘And where have you been?’ I asked him right away as I watched Alec sort his crazy collection of random shiny objects.

‘I needed a break,’ he said simply.

‘From?’ I asked.

He didn’t reply. Again.

My skin was itching to get to Avery but I had no real way of finding her. I looked back up at this crazed vampire and squinted my eyes trying to figure hi