TAKEN BY THE DRAGON KING

Thirty Nine

THIRTY-NINE

Finding Help

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Elena

What do you mean, my help?" Gulliver said.

He was staring at me like he wasn't sure what to make of me.

I bit my lip, "Can we talk inside? Or on the way?"

"On the way?" He frowned, "Where? What's going on?"

"Dracul's in trouble, okay?" I said, my voice dropping to a low whisper.

I couldn't just tell him everything out here. I didn't know who could overhear and I didn't know who I could trust.

I didn't even know if I could trust Gulliver, but I thought that I could. If he was helping people to kill Dracul, he would never have done everything in his power to save him and keep him alive.

It didn't make sense and I thought that Gulliver seemed a lot more logical than that.

"In trouble?" Gulliver scoffed, shaking his head, "Yes, he is. He'll have the whole kingdom against him at this rate. But what does that have to do with me?"

He still seemed angry at Dracul, but I was starting to feel a twinge of hope in my chest. Maybe, just maybe, he would be agreeab