38. Taken

(Vera)

I had this urge to say the hell with it and just fly away, but unfortunately, I had no dragon, and I was stuck here as all the other doctors stood around me, looking at me curiously.

I was the circus act here.

It was really weird, and if Nova was here, she would have probably said something snarky about this.

"Umm, I want someone to take care of Prince Mateo, he was the one who got hurt," I said with a cough and they all jerked back as if I had punched him. Some of the young doctors looked flustered as they jogged away, grabbing their clipboards.

"Oh, yeah," Blaine said as he watched his brother. "Who did this to you?"

"It is Arax, that asshole," Mateo said, making a few women doctors flush before they moved away too. They were probably here just to stare at Mateo and not at me. I bared my teeth at their back as they scampered off and Blaine chuckled as he noticed me.

"Arax? What the hell is he thinking? His family is already standing on a fucking thin ice," Blaine growled.

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