A guarantee… Ainsley was a guarantee that the island wanted to have.
Those words she uttered immediately haunted Sinclair. He grew so angry that he walked away without fetching any of them with him. He also didn't mind if he wasn't followed by the human or the princess. After all, they should extract more from the ancestor. As for him, he needed to release steam… or break the ocean floor. Depends.
Carina covered her mouth with a hand and turned away. She was aware of how much Sinclair wanted to get Ainsley away from the moonlight dragons. He would get the human acquainted with his origins, but when the push came to a shove, he could send his mate away and be protected from the implications of his clan… despite the dragon heart he shared with Ainsley.