Chapter 76 76
DAVINA ELM.
“You have to sever the bond, please. Or they are going to kill me soon.” I cried out, hot tears rolled down my face. I'd thought about it, and this wasn't beneficial to me. If he hadn't shown up when Irian came for me, I would have died already. “I seriously want to be your mate, but I can't withstand the risk anymore since the whole realm now knows about it.”
He pulled me into his arms, his breath just raspy like someone who was holding back a lot. He gently patted my back and carried me into his arms.
I sobbed until I fell asleep, only to wake up to him staring at me as if I looked weird. I sat up on the bed and wiped my face, but he didn't stop staring.
“Don't you ever talk about severing the bond, because I won't do it,” he said to me, and I ignored him, because if he wanted to, he wouldn't even have let me know about it. I was just so tired and scared of everything and cried out to him…but deep down, I didn't even mean it. “What about you start staying here with me? Most slaves share the chamber with their masters.”
I turned around to see him winking at me, then I nodded.
He didn't want to tell the truth, but I knew it was to have his eyes on me, did he want me to stay around, and not just for intimacy or whatever.
“Then I will go get my things,” I said and began climbing off the bed.
I had already put on my footwear and turned around to begin leaving the chamber when I saw every single thing in my chamber just before me. I rubbed my eyes to be sure I wasn't dreaming, and they were still there when I opened my eyes.
“Take the room to your left,” he said, drawing my attention back to him.
So I wasn't dreaming? He brought all these here with his powers?
I found myself giggling, and I started arranging them all. I didn't know the door he pointed at was even a room until now, and it was spacious as well, although not huge like his.
For the next few minutes, I arranged my stuff and then came back to him. “Dragon Sovereign, there's no bed there,” I said, and he nodded. “It’s just seats and cabinets. Where would I lie?”
He tapped on his bed, and my eyes grew wide.
“You can't be serious! Do you want to worsen things?” I scolded him and shook my head. “Instead, I should go take the one in my old…
“At least, it's no longer a secret. You're my soulmate and should share a bed with me henceforth.”
Was he being serious? I was here, drowning in worry because of this, but he doesn't even seem to care.
“Dragon Sovereign…
“And you should stop calling me that. Let's choose a sweet name for ourselves,” he said again, and this time, I was so convinced that he was sick. No one in their right senses would be doing this when things turned out this way. “Which one do you prefer?”
I shook my head, “That's so risky to choose. I can't do that. Maybe I should get back…
He tied me with a snowy rope and pulled me to the bed, where I fell into and he giggled. It wasn't funny, but he kept smiling like he'd wanted this moment.
Why would a dragon want to be soulmates with a fae? Was there something about me that he was after and I didn't know? He was going to break the code of no dragon and fae relationship.
“So, you are my sunshine. What do you call me?” he said, and I just stared at him with my lips agape. Who would believe someone like him was doing this? With how he was recorded to be coldhearted, I didn't ever think he would even want to have a family… rather, to ascend soon. “Sunshine, say something.”
I took a deep gulp. “Endless!”
“Endless? How did you come up with that?” he asked and adjusted closer.
I really didn't know how, but I guessed it was because I just wished that our relationship didn't come to an end. I hated that I finally made up my mind to be with a man after a hundred years, and it was a forbidden relationship.
“You’re crying? Did I hurt you?” he asked, and I quickly wiped my cheeks and shook my head. “Then kiss me if I didn't."
Goddess mother, I couldn't just resist this.
I kissed him deeply, and he responded too, then I found myself smiling.
He lay back on the bed and said to me, “I could be cruel tomorrow too, because I must protect you. If they find out that I accepted the bond and I'm treating you right, there will be a riot against you again. So for that not to happen, I'm going to be your coldhearted mate in public until our soulbond is accepted by the heavens and earth. Do you accept that?”
Have I ever had a choice? He'd been like that since I came here, so…
“It's okay not to be okay sometimes,” I answered, and he kissed my forehead.
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I was able to meet River again in the next few days, and he kept explaining to me how I could regain my powers and end the bond since Dragon Sovereign wouldn't.
In his words, “Look, he just wants you to suffer, or he wouldn't let that bond continue. What dragon wants a fae, knowing that the fae will suffer the consequences of the bond if it's going? You have to regain your powers…I do not care why it was hidden.”
“I'm not doing it…” I muttered, and Ofelia, who was sitting before, took my hands. “I don't need my powers any longer. Why did they seal it in me so it doesn't manifest? And then, after over a hundred years without it, River wants me to regain it again so I could reject my mate.”
She couldn't even speak, because she had her own issue of wanting to return to the human land, but Orrifin refused. He'd warned Perrin not to take her away, and he'd been frequenting here to see her.
“Lia, have you felt like this before?” I asked her, and she raised her head. “I'm in love with Dragon Sovereign!”
Her eyes popped wide, and she whispered to me, “Are you stupid? Why should you fall for him when you know your life isn't safe in this realm?”
I shook my head, sniffing, “I don't know how it happened. I just love him.”
“But he's engaged….”
“I don't care!” I broke into louder sobs and rested my head on his leg.
She didn't try to console me, and I just cried it all out. When I raised my head, I asked her, “Why does Orrifin not want you to go?”
“I don't know, and I'm just tired of it. He stopped me from working too, and now gives me money daily. How long will I keep taking that from him? I want to make my own money, and since it's now dangerous here…returning to where I come from would be better,” she hissed out loud, and her shoulders slumped.
There was silence between us for some time, and then she asked me, “What about your brother? Does he know you are in love with his enemy?”
I nodded, “Although, when I told him, I really didn't mean it. But now, I have found out that those words were true. I don't want to be separated from him.”
“Oh, baby girl!” she shook her head. “I'm not sure I will ever fall in love, not after I watched those men try to assault me if not that Perrin showed up.”
I felt there was someone else with us and turned to the side, only to see Orrifin standing with a chiseled expression, and his arms folded.
Ofelia looked away, covering her mouth, upon seeing him.
“They are all in prison, so you're going to show me who exactly tried assaulting you,” Orrifin mentioned, and before we could even find our words, he leaped with Ofelia, and I was left alone.
My heart dropped in fear, and I couldn't even stand again.
If those men are in prison, then are they looking into the incident to find the mastermind?