Chapter 194

BELLA

"Lying? That's not possible."

"Oh, it is, darling. In the human world, we call it a stratagem or a ruse. He just wants you to think he has got the entire dragon on his back, so you will give the throne up without a fight."

"So, there's a thing like that?" Fred drew away from the window and approached me, staring at me like he was seeing me for the first time. "You mean to say he wants to scare us into thinking he had everything under control when he didn't?"

"Exactly."

"Wow. That's unexpected." He sat next to me on the couch. "What do you think we should do in such a case? Should we do the same thing he did? We could lie about the -"

"He will catch up faster. Unlike you, who just heard of the strategy a few minutes ago, he knew what he was doing when he spread the news. Doing the same would make him realize you understood his stance. What you have to do is get the actual dragons on your side. Make your actions speak louder than your words."<