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Chapter Fifteen - Serena
    When Connor left, so did Serena’s courage. Talking about going to find Tara while he was here sounded easy, reasonable. But left alone, the thought of what lay beyond that door played on her mind. What if she was caught and she never saw Connor again? She did not want to risk everything to see if the witch as alright.
    “But that’s not why you’re going to see her. Is it?” she said to herself. No, she was after information, and she was willing to do whatever it took to get that information from Tara.
    Taking her courage back, she went to the door and put her ear to it. She listened for any sounds that may mean there was a big bad dragon outside her door. She couldn’t hear a thing, apart from her heart beating hard in her chest. Her ears filled with the sound until it reverberated around her head.
    Feeling ridiculous, she carefully opened the door and looked outside. If anyone was there, she would simply say she needed some water. Wine had been brought with her meal, but she was pregnant, she needed water. In fact, she figured that would be a good excuse to use no matter where she was caught. Although she hoped to get to Tara's room and back again with no encounters of the dragon kind.
    Along the hallway, trying not to look as though she was skulking, she followed Connor’s instructions. Passing two more corridors, she turned right, taking the third one and counting the rooms as she went. Door number five stood in front of her. This was it. Before she lifted her hand to knock, she pressed her ear to the door, listening for movement or voices.
    There was only one thing she could hear inside. Crying. Serena took a step back, not knowing what to do. Had they hurt Tara? The witch didn’t seem to be the type of person who would cry. Or the type of person who would want someone to see them crying.
    However, she needed answers. Raising her hand, she knocked very quietly. When no one answered, she put her hand on the door handle, and pushed it down. “Tara?” she said quietly.
    “Serena.”
    “Can I come in?”
    “Yes. Of course.”
    Serena slipped into Tara’s room. “I thought you would have been waiting with the door open. What happened to being able to see the future?”
    Her words were met with an eruption of tears. “I’m useless. You heard Dòmhnall, he doesn’t want me.”
    “You mean your gift?”
    Tara lifted her tear stained face. “Yes, my gift. I thought I could be some use to him.”
    “But that’s not really why you’re here is it?”
    “Of course it is. There can be no other reason.”
    “Really? I think you came here because you think you are his mate.”
    “Don’t be stupid.” Tara sniffed and wiped her eyes. “He would never look twice at me.”
    “Come on, Tara, you know that’s not how the mating thing works. If you are his mate he wouldn’t be able to resist you.”
    “Exactly. You saw he couldn’t keep his hands off me. Having my neck wrung is not an act of love I fly halfway across the country to receive you know.”
    “Listen, Tara, keep your secrets, that’s up to you. What I need to know is how much trouble we’re in. You told Connor it would only work out if I didn’t know. Well, now I know. So how much has that messed things up for us?”
    “I told Connor it would all work out.”
    “That might be what you told Connor, but now I want you to tell me. I know you have no thought for sparing my feelings, so spit it out.”
    “Sure, then we can hug each other and weep together.”
    “That bad, huh?”
    “Now that you know he is here to gain immortality for you, you over react. Question whether that is what you want. To live among these men for the rest of eternity.”
    “That’s not what I think.”
    “The trials haven’t begun yet.”
    “Trials?”
    “Tomorrow Connor will go up against one of the dragons.”
    “He’ll fight one of Dòmhnall’s dragons? Surely, he’ll win. He’s strong.”
    “So is