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telling her Mum to shut up. When Kade placed a hand at the small of her back, she glanced towards him. He smiled slightly before he returned his attention to Helen. Remembering Ronan’s orders, Amber decided she was wasting her time trying to change Helen’s mind. It had been made up long ago. Well before she’d even been born. “I need the photos before I go.”
    Helen nodded, striding towards her bedroom.
    Amber stared after her, turning to her mother when she spoke her name. “What?”
    “How did this happen?”
    She didn’t know how to explain. Because her mother had brought her to this town? Because her grandmother didn’t have a dishwasher? Because Kade had been distracted? “Random stuff happens. Wrong place at-” she broke off, changing her mind about the words she wanted to speak. “The right time.” She smiled when Kade’s hand brushed up and down her back several times. Some of her anger faded.
    “You can’t stay at his home. Not on your own,” Donna said. “You’re too young to move in with your boyfriend. You’re only seventeen.”
    Amber started to argue that she wasn’t too young.
    Kade interrupted her, his gaze on Donna. “You’re welcome to stay there too.”
    Amber looked up at him. “Are you sure? And Gary too?”
    Kade nodded.
“It’s probably safest that she isn’t left to wander unprotected while we’re trying to get your family back.”
    “I don’t know if I want them back. My grandfather’s a killer. What if he tries to kill you?”
    Kade grinned.
“I’ll try not to hurt him when I subdue him.”
    Amber glared at him. “That’s not funny.”
    “What isn’t funny?” Donna looked between each of them.
    “Nothing,” Amber muttered, ignoring Kade’s chuckle. “I need to grab some clothes.” She also needed to get the book and return it to her grandmother. When no one argued with her, she hurried from the lounge room, heading for her bedroom.
    Staring around her room, she tried to recall the first time she’d seen it. That moment felt like years ago, not months. Her eyes fell on the book, still lying on her bed. Picking it up, she skimmed through some of the crimes, stopping when she reached a dragon that had only one crime listed. ‘Suspected of killing Harriet Selton, 1941.’
    Amber shook her head when she turned the pages, finding no more crimes for that dragon. Leaving the book open on her bed, she grabbed some clothes, shoved them in a bag and took it, along with the book, back to the lounge room.
    “Here.” Helen stepped forward, holding out two photos. “They stopped sending photos of Roger with his letters about twenty years ago.”
    Amber put the photos in her bag. She continued to hold onto the closed book, her finger marking the page. “Is everyone in here to be killed on sight?”
    “Yes.”
    “Even this one.” Amber held the book out, open to the page of the dragon with only one crime.
    “All of them.”
    She held Helen’s gaze. It never wavered. “What is his crime?”
    Helen turned the page. “Exactly what it says here.”
    “Suspected.”
    “He’s a dragon. Of course he’s guilty.” Helen’s conviction was clear in the tone of her voice.
    Amber slammed the book shut, shoving it at her grandmother. “There’s no difference between Knights and dragons.” Ignoring Helen’s arguments, Amber crossed the room to where her mother stood with Gary’s arm around her shoulders. “I’ll meet you at Kade’s.”
    “How will you get there?” Donna asked.
    “It’s probably better you don’t know.”
    Helen pointed a finger at Kade. “He’s a Gold Dragon. They’ll be there in minutes. Once Charles and Roger are safe, he won’t be.”
    Amber was across the room in seconds, her hands curling into fists in an effort not to shake Helen. “You will not harm him. You won’t tell anyone he exists.” Her voice was low and there were only centimetres between them.
    “Don’t you dare threaten me.”
    “Then don’t threaten Kade.