Rock Bottom (Dragon Within #4) by Kyra Dune Read Free Book Online Page A

people like us to be killed at birth and
I’ll need help to do it. That’s where you come in. Another hybrid at the helm
alongside me can only increase our chance of success.”
         “Protest?” Brandy raised a brow. “Don’t you mean rebel? Or isn’t it an
army you’re building here?”       
         “Like I
said,” Megara smiled thinly, “a smart girl.”
         “I simply
believe in calling a thing out for what it is,” Brandy replied, meeting
Megara’s hard gaze without flinching. “No point in trying to sugar coat the
situation.”
         “Don’t we
have a right to rebel?” Megara asked. “Don’t we deserve a future? Abigail,
wouldn’t you like a family some day? No matter how far you run or how deep you
go, a child would be your undoing. They’d find you. Hunt you. Kill you, if they
could manage it.
         “And if
you escaped, then what? Raise a child on the run, always looking over your
shoulder, waiting to make that one fatal mistake, the way your parents did?
Because if you have any future ahead, that’s all there is for you. That or
being alone. And that’s no way to be. Trust me.
         “So long
as the law remains as it is, there’s no safe place for the likes of us. Not
even here. Not forever. There will be no end of it. Not for you. Not for me.
Not for any hybrid. Not unless we make an end.”
         Her words
hit me hard. How could they not? They were my worst and darkest fears exposed
to the light. “But what do you expect me to do? I can’t fight. I don’t know
how.”
         “You need
training is all.”
         Zack
stiffened. “She’s had training.”
          “From you?” Megara laughed. “Please. You’re
nothing but a killer playing at being a hero. I’m the only one who can train
her the way she needs to be trained.”
         “I don’t want to fight,” I said, verbally stepping between them before she and Zack could
start up an argument. “I didn’t come here to get in the middle of a rebellion.”
         “Then why
did you come?” Megara asked. “Why bother seeking me out in the first place, if
all you want is a rock to put your head under?”
         “Because
I... I do want training. I do want to learn how to control my powers. How
to...” I shifted my feet. “How to suppress them. I want my old life back.”
There, I’d said it. Something I’d barely let myself even think about. I wanted
out. Out of this whole business of being a dragon. I wanted all of it to go
away like a bad dream. And I wanted her to make it happen.
         “You mean
your human life.” Megara shook her head. “Can’t be done. You’re not a
human, girl. You’re a dragon. A hybrid. You can’t change that. You can learn to
control your powers for certain, but you can’t make them disappear.
         “Every
dragon’s powers are tied into their emotions to an extent, but not like with
us. With hybrids, emotion and power are so tightly wound you can’t separate one
from the other. That’s what makes us so dangerous. So feared. No other kind of
dragon can ever be as powerful as a hybrid can.”
         Jonah
slid off the edge of the desk. “Don’t you think you might be pushing her a
little hard? Every word you’re saying might be true, but she’s only a kid.
Maybe you could give her a bit of room to breathe. It’s a big thing you’re
asking of her, after all. And she hasn’t even agreed as to whether or not
she’ll stay. Might want to ask her.”
         A nerve
twitched in Megara’s jaw. She rubbed the spot between her eyes. “Are you of a
mind to stay?”
         It was
such an important question I didn’t think it would be right of me to answer for
all of us. I know, I was all set to do things my way and only my way just a
little while ago back at the cabin, but I was feeling unsure of myself again. I
wanted someone I trusted to tell me what to do.
         I turned
to my friends. “What do you