Chapter 45 Let me, my Queen, you earn it
She slipped out of bed and took one last glimpse of Ezra. Her heart melted, seeing a little dragon sleeping calmly.
" I cannot do this," she gasped, and sneaked her gaze away from him. She stood in front of the door and hesitated to touch it.
She remembered the last night when Orion made the door heavy.
But she gathered her strength and pushed harder, only to lose control and fall to the floor instantly.
The troops saw her coming and stood there with wide-open eyes. She was hurt and was hissing in pain.
"What the.......," She lets out with a hiss and that breaks Ezra's slumber.
He ran towards the door and saw Esperanza on the floor. She became stunned to see him awake and her cheeks started flushing.
He rolled his eyes and moved towards her.
"I... I am alright," she started to sneak a glance and looked away.
She stood before he got to her, and the moment she stood, her head bumped into his chin.
"Ahhhh....," he hissed, and Esperanza's eyes widened.
"Par....... Pardon......, does it hurt?" She tried to look, but he started to react more.
"It hurts," he let out, and she held his hand. She took her into the room again and made him sit on the bed.
" Let me see," she was observing the hurt, and could not find the bruise.
"Where is it?" She asked.
" It's right underneath my chin," he let out and she tapped her finger subtly on his skin.
"Here?" She asked.
"No.... It's under my chin," he let out and she peeked at his false expressions.
She was tapping her finger on his skin, and abruptly she tapped harder under his skin, and he hissed in extreme pain.
"What are you doing?" He was stunned and was gazing at her face, she was smiling, and then, with a roll of eyes, she let out.
"Do I look like a fool?" She tried to get off the bed, but he clutched her hand and pushed her towards him.
Her heart skipped a beat. She was sitting in his lap, and his eyes were scanning all her features desperately.
"Where do you think you are going?" He asked, and she commenced to push herself from him, but all her attempts were stuck up against his vigor.
"I should go," she was roaming her eyes and was not trying to see into his eyes.
" Stay.....," he flinched his face and made her look straight.
"Why are you acting weird? Have you not remembered last night?" He asked while his face was frowned upon by her actions.
"Are you trying to leave me?" He asked, and Esperanza felt his heart was engulfed by grief.
"I do not want to say anything, it will break your heart," he said, and found his body flickering.
"I know, but please stay, let me try, maybe I can win your heart," he said while looking profoundly into her eyes, and she was astonished to see the hurricane of emotions.
"I can see your heart," she let out and he smiled.
"So you know my feelings are real for you," he said and she nodded.
"You do not have to win my heart; you have done this, but I have committed my words to someone else," Esperanza said, and Ezra nodded.
"I respect what you are saying, but let me try. If your heart does not want it, then I would never stop you," Ezra assured her.
"Let me make you forget every single trait of his presence in your mind and body," Ezra said. She was flustered; a storm of memories flooded her mind.
She does not want to lose Ezra, but she also does not want to betray Orion.
"Ezra, I have shared the moment of last night with Orion before you, a very long time ago, and I cannot betray, no matter how atrocious I would have to be on myself." Her eyes became watery, and her lips started to tremble.
"But Esperanza, he does not listen to you, he is so harsh to you, I cannot see you surviving with him, and how he could care for the most powerful dragon?"
"Only I can do this," he tried so hard, but Esperanza had no other option.
Esperanza lost in his eyes the way his emotions were manipulating her was remarkable, besides those emotions were real but that was making her mind clear about the virtuous decision.
" Have you associated with him?" He asked, from this question he wanted to know about the relationship between them.
"No, he does not know about my reality, and what do you think, would a dragon ever get married to a human?" She asked with a smile.
" Yes, I wanted to marry you. I brought you here to make you a part of my life, my one and only," he said, and finds out how real he was; he really brought her here to get associated with her.
Orion never supported her; he just wanted her, but never dignified his relationship with her.
" I cannot lie, because you can see it," Ezra said and a tear rolled from her eye.
"Hey, do not cry," he abruptly places his hand on her cheek and rubs the tear off.
" I am stumbling in my decision," she said, and Ezra tried to calm her; he made her sit and bring water for her.
He placed a vitrum filled with water in front of her, and she took it and sipped slowly from it.
"How do you feel now?" He asked and anxiousness was definite on his face.
'I would not be forcing you, I am sorry, pardon me," the king of dragons kneeled in front of her and tilted his neck forward in front of her, she abruptly stood and made him stand in his place.
"What are you doing? You are the king, do not do this," she prohibited him and he smiled while seeing her worried.
" Let me, my Queen, you earn it," he said and again kneeled in front of her.
"Just accept me after you clear out all your suspicions," he said and she got still in her place.
"If I want to meet Orion for one last time then?" She asked, and suddenly his soft expression faded, and a frown took its place.
" Everything but not this, my Queen, I can give my life to satisfy you, but to let you go to that monster, never, above my corpse," he said, and she was stunned.
" But Ezra, you need to understand, I know he is dangerous, but I know him; he would not be doing anything to me," she insisted.
"My Esperanza, no means no, the moment he gets to know about your true self, he would sell you, or will drain you," he said and she frowned.
" What do you mean by drain?" She remembered her mother's words, and she used that description about the monster she was warning about.
Ezra was fully convinced that Orion is the most dangerous breed of the dragons, and that was something he had never seen in his life.
Someone just climbed in and injured the most powerful dragon king of the times.
"Esperanza, his powers were not ordinary, no one can stand against me, he injured me, which means something was strangely backing him,"
"He is the disaster we have been searching for; we know that someone has been left and has been granted some extravagant powers, and I consider that he is that disastrous monster," Ezra said.