How not to fall for a Dragon

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wasn't entirely an act. The wind sweeping across the Snowy Mountains was brutal, carrying tiny pieces of ice that hit my cheeks like broken glass. We stood in the co

t Jarrah had told me over the radi

hese rich kids feed on weakness. Give them what they want. Make them think

ght. He u

od the heirs of Australia's richest families. They looked perfectly comfortable in their expensive clot

yet the snow melted before it could touch her shoulders. Indi Carmichael. Heiress to a powerful mini

said. Her voice was loud enough for the others to hear. "The staff will have to

ried about where their next meal would come from. I widened my eyes and trembled as I quickly looked away, fix

h the broken compass tattoo behind my ear. Jarrah had arranged for it to be implanted there. Its job was to hide my human identity by blocking the magical signa

uld discover that I had lied my way into their academy. They wouldn't si

e, init

d stone platform at the front of the courtyard. He was an older man with silver hair and a walking stick with a s

fortunes in the world. But here, in the heart of the Snowy Mountains, your family wealth will not sa

dents standing before him. His eyes s

years, we admit a small number of ordinary humans. Those who hav

walking stick against the stone, and a low hu

kindness. The Keep has no place for

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erature dropped sharply. My breath froze in fron

owd. A tall figure walked towards the front with a calm, silen

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, with broad shoulders and a dark winter coat that probably cost more than the hospital where I was born. His pla

other students step aside. The frost coming off his body was so strong that

Alpha ice dragon. And he was the main target of my heist. Somewhere inside his private vault was an artifact worth enou

pt across the crowd until they landed on me. The moment our eyes met, a shar

sion, but I noticed it. For a brief moment, the air between

e it before. Don't look at him, my instinc

n disappeared as quickly as it had come. I took a shaky breath.

k to him, "we must make sure that none of you have brought in forbidden objects, trac

y security scanners. He said the deeper magical scans wouldn't happen until we reached the infirmar

a huge wall of blue light rose from the black stone. It crackled with energy and s

magical powers became visible. Indi blazed like a living fire, while others glowed with green light or

let out a sharp hiss. Pai

,

ds were forcing it beyond its limits. If it failed, everyone would know I was hiding something. W

hispered. "Just

felt as if someone had pressed a burning piece of metal against my skin. I fought

left stood Indi and a crowd of powerful dragon shifters. In front

or destroy the device inside my head. If I ran, I would prove that I had somethin

At the same moment, the stone beneath my feet split with a deafening so

began