Dragon Master

“Why are you following me?” Maximilian stopped to stare at Grace who had just called it even with him but came back to follow him. That was kind of funny and unexpected to him.

Grace was a bit embarrassed, “I...um...I’m homeless now.”

“Uh-huh.” Maximilian looked at her indifferently. He thought she was just playing the puppy-dog eyes trick which was too frequent to work for him.

Seeing how perfunctory Maximilian was, Grace felt upset. In fact, she came back to Maximilian in the hope of avenging her father. She didn’t know who the murderer was. But she had made up her mind that she wouldn’t leave until she caught the murderer.

“Can you provide shelter for me for a few days? I will do whatever you want during my stay,” said Grace bitterly after hesitating for a moment. She believed in Maximilian because she thought him to be a good guy. She wouldn’t have begged someone else to help her.

Maximilian was shocked to hear that. Seeing how pathetic she was, he couldn’t bear to turn her down. “Okay!” Maximilian finally agreed.

Before Grace could cheer up for that, Maximilian continued, “But you must tell me what happened.” He had been troubled by the fact that Grace had tried to assassinate him, which he hadn’t figured out. He wanted to hear the truth from her. It was not a big deal to Grace so she agreed.

On their way home, Grace told him what had happened and it turned out that he had been tricked. He didn’t expect those people to be so dirty. By “those people”, he meant people like Dragon Queen or Head of dragon lords and their company. In order to make Grace kill him, they kidnapped her father. Kind-hearted as she was, Grace wouldn’t have collaborated with them to assassinate Maximilian but for saving her father. Because those people went back on their word, she was so infuriated that she suddenly removed the Voodoo Lily from Maximilian.

On a second thought, Maximilian felt that Grace was just taken advantage of by those people. And he didn’t resent her all of a sudden. Instead, he pitied her.

“I’m gonna catch the murderer for sure!” said Grace determined while clenching her fists tightly.

a big problem came to Maximilian’s mind. Honestly, there was another reason that he didn’t want to take Grace home where there was a mess without enough rooms. Plus, his mother-in-law, Laura loved to find quarrel in a straw. If he brought Grace home, she would make a big deal out of it. To

was really grateful to him. She hesitated for a second and gave him her machete,

need it,” said Maximilian waving

Maximilian take it and said, “It’s not a normal

him of the story that a master-hand licked his sword forgetting

and took it. After all, it was a useful tool.

that Maximilian finally accepted her machete. Having settled down everything for Grace, Maximilian left. They had also left

Maximilian arrived at home, Victoria came over to help him take off the clothes for laundry. Suddenly

but he managed to

well. You dare to lie to me. Don’t try to jerk me around. I smell perfume on your clothes,” scorned Victoria and then she pinched

forgot about the special western style perfume on Grace. Otherwise, he would have taken a shower before he

said. When she learned about Grace’s painful experience, she was not angry

felt relieved. He had thought that Victoria would have pinched him harder. Thank goodness Victoria was

keep a mistress that way. Just bring her home. It’s between you and

could do nothing but called Grace who soon

beauty of Grace, she became jealous. She pinched Maximilian and asked