Lies Don’t Matter
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I titled my head left until
it creaked then ran a hand over my face as I opened the door into the study.
Cree was my life. More than a mere human knew. I would be useless to my people
if I lost Cree. Worse, I would become the very thing society believed my kind
to be. An enraged, fire-breathing dragon. Too many people depended on me. I had
to remain the calm manners ice dragon I was.
Losing my mate, after
watching over her for fifteen years, would not only destroy me, but twenty
percent of my people would follow me into madness, leaving my father to have to
kill me. Such an act would consume my father with madness, taking the rest of
our people with him.
The world would be
overrun with deadly dragons after thousands of years of living in peace among
them. Last fifty of those years the human had known about them. Or the higher
ups had. Father worked hard to gain their trust. Two years ago, father and the
humans came to an agreement about us going public. My father worked it so that
the Dragons would reveal themselves the same day I married Cree. The months
from the day. We were so close. There was no way these invaders would destroy my
life and my people. I wouldn’t let them. My father wouldn’t let them. Charlie
would let them. The . . .
“Charlie, you think the government
will assist us?”
“How?”
“Manipulate things in our
favor.”
“What you thinking?”
“let them know the
consequences of what could happen if I lose him.”
“We can’t. It will
destroy all the work we’ve done.”
Knew that. Grasping at
straws. Too much rode on the Dragons and the humans reuniting. The Dragon race
was slimming down. Few were finding their mates among our race. Dragons
searched for their mate among the humans, but we were a pure truthful creature.
Meant the ones who found theirs among the human world weren’t able to tell their
soul mate about the dragon side. There were few who believed their soul mate
would accept them for their true side and told their mate about the dragon
side.
“Let’s see what Mr. Davis
has for us.” Charlie waved him into the room.
I paused in the doorway
when I saw Mr. Davis slumped over a thick book. Scribbling notes. Papers were
scattered over the small round table to his left.
“What have you found?” Charlie
dropped onto the leather sofa near the desk.
I walked over to the
table and studied the papers.
“I can say this,” Mr.
Davis kept on scribbling, “Pray those papers were incorrect.”
Not what I wanted to
hear.
“And if they aren’t. Where
does that leave us?”
Mr. Davis sighed. “A
dragon pup tossed off a water fall before he can fly.”
A stray ray of fire shot
from my nose as I hissed. A feat hard for most dragons, but my royal traits allotted
me extra skills. All of which was useless.
“Can you work your magic?”
Charlie’s foot tapping was annoying.
“Doubtful. I’ll do my
best to pull something off.”
“What? How?” I picked up
a sheet of paper.
“I’d have to call in a
favor from Superior Court Judge Arnold.”
“Why?” I skimmed the
paper on a case regarding emancipation.
“If Cree was kidnapped
the law will want to reunite her with her blood family. What will work in our
favor is her age.”
“How so?” Charlie beat me
to the punch.
“The other couple’s child
is seventeen.”
“So?” I scanned over another
piece of paper.
“means I can fight for
Cree’s right to become emancipated. The court will have to listen. He can state
his wish to live on his own. Him having the sex change two months ago will work
in his favor as well. That means he’s been through all the required counseling
that went along with the procedure and that she was found stable enough to gain
her true identity. Not to mention he’s got more than enough money to take care
of himself. And his own place to live.”
“How likely is this to go
our way?”
Sounded a bit risky. The
Hodges had kidnapped a little girl. Raised her as one until the little girl
approached them and explained her true feelings about herself. From that point
on they respected her decision to be a male and began the process of getting her
the required therapy for a sex-change the day she turned eighteen. Wasn’t sure
how one would think the Hodges had been fit parents or how Cree had been able
to think such intimated details about his life at such a young age.
“Best route.”
“I hear a but in there.”
Charlie leaned forward.
“The other couple will
fight for their right to get to know their child.”
“Not their child.”
“We don’t know that yet.”
“I mean they will fight
to get to know their son.” Thankfully, Mr. Davis had enough sense to not
correct me on how those retched people had a daughter to start with. Or they
had if Cree was indeed their daughter. Not that any of that matter. Cree was
not leaving my side. I lifted the sheet of paper I held and waved it at Mr.
Davis. “Why do you have a case study references of shared custody?”
“Another option I
considered.”
“Considered?” I shuffled
through a few more sheets of paper.
“Won’t work.”
Good. I would not share
Cree. He was mine. “How likely is the emancipation option?”
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