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provide him with that certain thing.”
    I raised my eyebrow. “Buy him over?”
    “Desperate times call for desperate measures.”
    I giggled. “I don’t know. To me, nothing I will ever do will win him over.”
    “A brand new Ducati might.”
    “He does have a thing for Ducatis, doesn’t he?” I remembered the way he’d eyed Lucian’s once.
    She nodded.
    “It’s probably worth a try. But maybe something less dramatic, than Hey, here is a bike, be my dragon and you’ll have more .”
    She laughed. “I really don’t know of anything else that might do the trick. C’mon, what could you lose?”
    “He could incinerate it in front of me.”
    “He would never do that to a bike.”
    “How do you even know this?”
    “I used to work at Andy’s Bike Shop for a couple of years and Blake was always in there looking at them.”
    I smiled thinking that it might work if Andy’s Bike Shop stopped with a red Ducati at the Academy for him, but it also made me feel sad, that he’d had dreams back then of having one and they just didn’t have the money.
    “Elena?” Jimmy came from his office. “I thought I heard your voice. What are you doing here?”
    “She had to get away from YOU KNOW WHO and his bad demeanor.” Monique winked at me and I just stared at her sarcastically as I knew exactly what she was implying.
    “Is he making life difficult for you?”
    “Difficult is an understatement.”
    Jimmy chuckled. “I heard the impasse stage is hard on both dragon and rider. He wouldn’t have been the Rubicon if he hadn’t rebelled, Elena.”
    I giggled again. “Why me? Of all people why am I the lucky one to have him as my dragon?”
    “It’s exactly that reason. You, my dearest princess, are the only one that can bring that dragon down to his knees.”
    I burst out laughing the way he’d said it.
    “Laugh, you’ll spin another story in a year from now.”
    “If it’s that soon.” My tone was sarcastic again.
    “So what is this I’m hearing about a Ducati?” He looked at Monique.
    “What? It’s a brilliant idea. He loves Ducatis, and Elena has the ability to get him one. Hell, I think if she asks nicely they will actually custom make one just for the brute.”
    Jimmy just looked at her with a slight, unbelievable smile and shook his head. “Buying him off?”
    “Yeah, it will work, I’m telling you.”
    He laughed. “If you say so, who am I to argue?”
    She scrunched up her nose at Jimmy and looked back at me. “It will work, Elena. Trust me.”

    I SPENT THE entire day with Jimmy and Monique. We spoke about school, about Warbel and why I wasn’t trying out for it. It wasn’t my type of game, and I doubt that they would let the Princess of Paegeia participate. The staff were amazing too, they were the jolly type and made me laugh so much.
    I ate lunch at the bar, which made Jimmy just shake his head, as princesses didn’t eat at bars, but I didn’t give a crap.
    Around four, it was time to go back to prison. I was sure that Master Longwei would rip off my head for going AWOL today, but I didn’t care.
    Monique gave me a tight hug. “The Ducati will work,” she said and handed me the bag that contained my dinner in a beautiful take away box.
    “Yeah, I’ll go think about it. He really doesn’t deserve it you know.”
    “Desperate times,” she whispered as we both finished with, “call for desperate measures.”
    We laughed. “I know.”
    “Bye, Elena.”
    “Bye.”
    I left and was super grateful that once again nobody noticed me. I jumped as I found Master Longwei in the forest where Julia was supposed to wait for me.
    “Enjoy your day, Elena?” he asked simply.
    “I had to get out. I can’t do this anymore, Master Longwei.”
    He put his hand on my shoulder. “I know it’s not easy. In fact plenty of books say it’s the hardest stage for a Dent and the rider. So, you are not the only one that went through it.”
    “How long?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “That’s not