Chosen By The Dragon Kings novel Chapter 21

Silas pulled some books off one of the shelves, revealing a safe. He pulled a key from his pocket and placed the key in the lock before opening it. I watched as he pulled out my grandmother’s book wrapped in a clean silk cloth.

“You knew what it was didn’t you?” I ask and he turns to look at me.

“I knew the moment I saw the emblem on the front. I have seen this before. Before the war began, we have been looking for it” he said, opening it.

“Why?”

“Because it is supposed to say how to break the curse,” he says before pulling the cloth off and revealing my grandmother’s book.

“And If I can’t read it?” I ask.

“We keep looking, we have found you so the chosen one can’t be far,” Dragus says, coming up behind me and sitting on the edge of the desk.

“How do you know?”

“For someone not wanting to break the curse, you seem to ask a lot of questions,” Dragus tells me. I was asking questions, but not for the sake of breaking the curse placed on them. I wanted to know how to restore the fae back to their magic if any remain, restore the balance.

Silas placed the book in my hand, and I brushed my fingers over the emblem. I recognised the emblem carved into its leather. My grandmother always hid the book, so I never got a good look at it. I brushed my fingers over it, and I realised where I had seen it. My mother’s necklace had the same emblem etched into the stone it held.

“You recognise that?” Silas asked, stepping closer. I nod my head.

“So, have you seen it before?”

“Yes, on my mother’s necklace,” I tell him.

“Do you have it?” I shake my head. I knew where it was, I wasn’t telling them that and as long as they didn’t ask, I would keep it that way, because something told me her necklace was linked to the curse on them. I wasn’t sure how I knew, but I had this strange feeling that both the book and her necklace were connected somehow.

Opening the cover, I turn a few pages before handing it back. “It’s still blank,” I tell him. He takes it from me and flicks the pages like the words were going to appear. Silas grips my shoulders, looking me dead in the eye.

“Are you lying to me? Can you read it?” he says emphasising every word.

“No, you know I can’t lie. So why ask?,” I tell him. And it was the truth. I couldn’t read it. But I knew one thing they obviously didn’t know. It may be my twenty-First birthday, but fae magic is extremely specific. Magic doesn’t manifest until the exact time you were born, and I still had until 10. 03pm tonight.

“Because fae with magic can lie” Dragus says. I shake my head, disagreeing with him.

“No, they can’t, my grandmother would have told me that.”

“Not if she was lying to you, didn’t you say she still had her magic?” I say nothing because he was right she did still have magic.

I found her today, I knew instantly from the moment I laid my eyes on her. She felt the pull too, looking up the moment I stepped into the room. What were the chances of finding her, I wasn’t even meant to be attending the meeting? Sent in as my father’s replacement, I was furious. I wanted to spend the day with my mates; he doesn’t approve of Matitus and I know that’s why he sent me, trying to keep us apart but I won’t have it, he is mine just like I am his.

Seeing her though, I knew we would be complete. Her shock upon feeling the bond I wasn’t expecting, she looked up at me with those big doe eyes; her features turning to shock before she looked away. I didn’t understand at first, thought maybe she was worried because of what I am. Who I am. I learnt that wasn’t the reason when her father walked in with another man. His eyes lighting up like mine did when he lays eyes on her. I watched as he made his way to her and she looked nervously at me, worried. I didn’t understand her worry. I was no threat to her, no I loved her already, and I just met her, hadn’t even spoken a word to her beside stare into those beautiful Amethyst eyes.

She made my heart beat faster, every cell in my body calling out for her. Then I registered why she was afraid. I watched and clenched my fists tightly as I watched the man lean down and kiss her lips so softly. Jealousy consumed me instantly. I wanted to rip the fae bastard to pieces, laying his filthy lips on my mate. The man sat next to her and she glanced at me nervously again before looking away. My eyes travelled down her bare neck and down her arm to her left hand. My heart felt like they crushed it in a vice the moment I saw the wedding band on her finger.

My mate was married, why would the fates mate me with someone who was married? I thought there must have been a mistake. I couldn’t even pay attention to the meeting, I don't recall a single thing that was said. When the meeting finished, I followed her around; she knew I was watching her as she casually strolled to the back of the fae kingdom, her kingdom. Stopping by the forest edge, she stood with her back to me.

“I know you’re there, so let’s get this over with” she told me, and I didn’t understand what she meant at first until I walked over to her. Then I saw it, pure determination in her eyes, and I knew what she wanted to do. I begged and pleaded with her and she told me she was happily married, but just to keep her I will share, we could share her. I just didn’t want to lose her.

Our meeting was cut short though when a little girl came running from the castle, calling for her mummy. I watched as my mate embraced her, picking her up. She didn’t want a mate, she had a family already. I couldn’t bear to watch and left. I heard her call out to me, but I shifted and didn’t look back. My soul felt like it shattered to a million pieces.

Father was furious when I returned home with no information. Matitus knew the moment I walked in the door, he felt my pain, shared it, and so did Dragus. Dragus thinks we can convince her, that the mate bond will sort itself out. He is right, she won’t be able to resist the mate pull, won’t be able to stop the dragon heat. The more time I spend with her, the stronger the pull. Once the dragon heat starts, she will beg us to mark her, she would be ours. She just doesn’t know it yet.

Everyone knows once the dragon heat starts there is no stopping the bond from forming, and even if she could resist, she would soon be forced to choose us. No one has survived the past the third dragon heat and she would know this, and I know that is why she tried to reject me. Little does she know to reject one, she will have to reject all three.

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