Following all those dragon girls downstairs, Elena surprisingly found that instead of the dining hall, they went directly to the garden outside from the side door.It was late spring. The weather just started getting hot, but the plants hadn’t decided to go green yet. Withered weeds were everywhere and half of those trees were still bald. Lennie somehow found herself a place for a huge sunshade.A red carpet decorated by golden threads was under her feet, and in front of her was a long dining table for more than a dozen people. Lennie was sitting in a big luxurious armchair like she was already the Queen. Several wolf maids wearing exactly the same uniform as Elena were standing behind her with their heads lowered, waiting humbly. Ashely was the first one to step forward and saluted Lennie.“Your Highness,” she came to the side of Lennie’s chair and lifted up her thin dress along with an elegant bow.Lennie then gave her hand to Ashely for her to kiss. When their eyes connected, Ele
“What second chance mate? What are you talking about?” That was a totally unexpected answer. Elena was stunned, “We haven’t rejected Cory yet. How could we ever find a second chance mate? That’s not how it works.”“I don’t know,” Nyla’s tone became a little anxious. “I just have this feeling, Okay? We are going to the Rogue’s land anyway. Our parents are there, remember? So why not let Lennie sell us? I am sure she can find a way to bypass Cory. It’s two birds with one stone. Why not give it a try?”“Because we are civilized persons with dignity. We don’t sell our peers and we don’t allow ourselves to be sold,” Elena couldn’t believe what she had just heard. “Don’t you know what happens to sold people? They got slave marks on their necks, chains and shackles on their limbs. They will never be free again. They will never belong to themselves. They will get masters to tell them what to do. They might spend the rest of their lives in cages. Do you really want that kind of life?! Do you
Amidst the most furious rainstorm of the year, in the middle of one of the darkest nights, a young girl in a white dress was stuck into the last wagon which was heading towards the rogues’ land on that day.A newly branded triangle mark was on her neck which showed her number was 10712, and a bronze anklet on her left ankle classified her as one of those lowly Omega girls. But there was another thin silver anklet on top of that bronze one. It symbolized she came from a high-ranked family and could sell for a good price.The loader put a pair of heavy shackles on both her feet and locked the chain to the hook in the middle of the floor. After counting the number of those sold girls one more time, he locked the door from outside and yelled to the driver to start off.Once the wagon started moving, the rainstorm outside became less scary. Some of those girls started to whisper to each other, but most of them were staring at that new girl who was passing out facedown on the floor.“Do you
In the city named Skylinea, there was no daylight throughout the year. Every morning at 7 o’clock, the Rogue Alpha woke up in his bed amidst deep darkness as if it was still in the middle of the night. He stared at the plastered white ceiling for a while, and sat up, walked into the bathroom to freshen up. And then, he went into the kitchen, and started to cook breakfast. One cup of milk, two fried eggs, some bacon and onions, and broccoli. It was the breakfast he had at his human home on the day of his 18th birthday. And it was his last meal as a normal human teenager also. “When are you going to get over it?” After he set the plate on the dining table and sat down on the chair, his wolf Raven started to question him, again. “It has been 3 years. When are you going to stop drinking that stupid milk and get some real wolf food?!” The Alpha didn’t answer him. He just sat there, quietly eating his eggs. Those tall street lamps outside the building were really bright.
“Shall we continue, Alpha?” He froze there, and lost himself for too long. His Beta, Ethan, couldn’t help but ask. The girl standing inside the room looked so frightened and nervous. She tried to stay strong by biting her lip and clenching her fists after saying “Hello” and getting no response. But they were wolves. They smelt fear.Ragnar kept silent. To continue meant to ask her to take off her clothes and check her body.Behind the mirror, except for him and Ethan, were two young doctors, one female and one male. Raven started raging in his head again, roaring, “If you dare to ask her to take off her clothes in front of all those people to humiliate her. I will c/rack your head like a walnut!!!” Ragnar replied to him with nothing, just kept thinking.The rules he made for those rogues were that all those bought girls needed to be inspected to eliminate possible diseases or even a spy. No one should be the exception. And he needed to see her body by himself to confirm if she had
After Elena arrived at the hospital, which was on the second floor of this cement building, the doctor ran a full physical examination on her. Her health was in pretty bad shape. Except for those needle holes on her arms, bruises on her chest, the doctor also found overlapped bite marks on her shoulders and back. Some of them were nearly cured; some of them were still fresh. Those long blood scratches on her thighs were caused by wolf claws. It seemed like she fought with some fierce wolf repeatedly but lost a lot. And she lost her ability to heal also.“Were you born with a wolf?” Wolves who couldn’t heal themselves were very rare, nearly impossible to exist. The doctor had to consider the possibility that she had never been blessed with one.Elena chewed her bottom lip. She was lying on the examination table, eyes fixed on the bored pale ceiling-almost exactly the same ceiling she was facing every day and night back in the kingdom’s hospital.“Yes,” she whispered, but would rather
It was a small apartment with one or two bedrooms, not exactly that kind of fancy suite an Alpha would like to stay in, but more like a plain house of ordinary people.The furniture inside was pretty common but homely. There wasn’t much decoration around, just a typical single male’s apartment, a little messy but pretty clean.Elena found the light switch in the living room beside the door, but it didn’t work. She then gave up. And Ethan closed the door behind her.“Good luck,” he mouthed to her with an assuring smile before he left.And then, following that light click of the door lock, everything just sank into deep silence.There were bright tall street lamps outside, so the apartment wasn’t in complete darkness. Still, it was dark, and cold, and lonely, and somehow, stifling, like at the bottom of the ocean.Elena stood in the middle of the living room and waited for a while, still couldn’t decide what to do next.Suddenly, on the opposite of the front door, through the hallway, o
“What the hell are you doing?!”The moment Ragnar left the bedroom, his wolf Raven started to frenzy.“Are you crazy?!”“Why did you stop?!”“She kissed us!!! Didn’t you see that?!”“She likes us!”“Fuck! Ragnar! Fuck! What the hell are you doing now?!”Picking up his coat from the coat hanger, Ragnar went out directly from the front door. The elevator wasn’t quick enough. He charged downstairs through the staircases.Raven roared and nagged in his head as he always did. Ragnar didn’t reply to him until he had left the building from the side door.“She doesn’t know,” he said, walking towards the black Jeep parked outside.“Doesn’t know what?!” Raven was so sick of his dragging. “Can’t you just clear things up once and for all?! Why on earth did the Moon Goddess pair me with such a pathetic fool like you?!”“She doesn’t know we are his brother,” Ragnar replied, getting into the car, and then started the engine with the key.“So what?!” Raven was so pissed off. “We are older than him. H
Simon shifted to this huge, yellow dragon and roared into the sky. He flashed across the dark sky like lightning, and then disappeared into the thick night chasing the wolf carrying his sister.Once the snow stopped, the temperature started to rise. Everything around started melting slowly. Elena felt her phone vibrate. She pulled it out of her pocket and checked, and then saw a message from her mother.He is awake. It said.Elena let out a relieved sigh and smiled. The sky above her head had never been so clear. She knew it was the end of it.All these hates, and betrayals, and revenge, and greed. It was finally cleared out. They were free now. She and Ragnar, they could finally start their new life.“We need to get home like now,” Nyla strongly urged in her head.Elena nodded her head, and then looked around.The two dragon Betas were still there. The demise of the Princess was a huge deal. They needed to find a proper explanation to their Alpha.After meeting Elena’s eyes, the old
She squatted in front of the wheelchair to get closer to him, and then kissed his hand with tears streaming down the corners of her eyes. “I am sorry, Simon,” she said, “I am truly sorry.”Simon leaned forward a little to stroke her hair. “It’s alright, Little one. It’s not your fault,” he said, and his voice was so gentle, “It’s nobody’s fault. No one could foresee this to happen.”Lennie shook her head. She held her brother’s hand with both her hands and leaned on it with her forehead. She knew it was time to tell him the truth, and she felt so sorry and regretful that she had to disappoint him. “I am sorry, Simon,” she raised her head, looked towards her brother, and confessed, “I killed Cory the other day because I want to have my own kingdom. I want to be a real Queen, Simon. I am sorry, but I just … want it.”Simon’s face turned pale. His heart sank. No matter what horrible mistakes Lennie had made, he would forgive her as long as she didn’t mean to be bad. They all would. But
Hearing Lennie’s “confession”, Elena knitted her brows. Nyla whispered in her head, “She is lying again.”Elena knew but she didn’t interrupt. She knew Simon would naturally trust Lennie more than her and she was just here to make sure the necklace to be destroyed. She needed to save Ragnar first. Simon widened his eyes. He recognized it was the necklace Lennie had been wearing since she was a child. But he couldn’t understand how a necklace could threaten people. “What does it mean, Little one?” he asked, but in a soft tone, “You have to explain to me first.”Lennie sniffed, wiping her tears with the back of her hand, and then explained, “There is a werewolf living in the necklace. His name is Tyron. He is the ancestor of the wolf brothers. He started to speak to me in my head after I turned 18. He threatened me to kill all the wolves, the old wolf king, Cory and his big brother, Ragnar. He hated them for some reason. He wanted to destroy the wolf kingdom. And he is very powerful,
The moment Lennie locked her eyes with Elena, she clenched her fists. She had never expected to meet Elena at her own home, and she didn’t like it when Elena spoke of her necklace in front of all the others. It was supposed to be her secret.She stared at the unexpected guest and smirked, coldly.“How dare you come to my home, you pathetic loser? You are not welcome here,” she said. Elena didn’t reply right away. She took off her cloak and passed it to Brian, and then said to the dripping princess in an indifferent tone, “I wouldn’t call myself a winner if it was my mate who poisoned my brothers.” She had just learned from Jack that, not only Alex, Lennie’s youngest brother, Liam, was affected by the snow too. Lennie clenched her fists even tighter. She hated what Elena was suggesting here. She wasn’t Zeno’s mate. She was a dragon. She was herself. She would never be anyone’s mate. “I guess there is a reason why your stupid ex put you into that hospital,” she said contemptuously,
Lennie was in a huge fury.The meeting place she agreed with Elena was where she escaped from Ragnar the day before. She reached the same place long before sunset and observed the whole place carefully in order to catch Elena.Her permit to the wolf kingdom had been deactivated. But to make the exchange, she and Elena, one of them, must cross the border. She knew Elena wouldn’t come into the dragon’s land, but it didn’t matter.She brought a special plant with her. It looked like a piece of dead vine, but was actually alive. Once the vine reached its target, it would grow rapidly to wrap the target up and then drag the target back to its owner.Her third brother, Simon, brought it to her from one of his mysterious trips years ago as a toy. Lennie hadn’t played with it for a long time. It took her a while to dig it out from her piles of precious gifts.She then carefully twined the necklace on that vine. If Elena wanted the necklace, then she would have to take the vine with it and tou
“Who is that?”Noticing Elena had turned back, Chris reined the horse too and came near her.Elena didn’t reply. She was hesitating whether to check it or not.The sun had already gone under the horizon. Lennie should have already found that she didn’t go to the borderline to exchange the necklace. She must get in touch with dragons before Lennie figured out what she intended to do.And they only had two horses. It wasn’t that easy to help an unconscious person.Chris made no further comment, waiting for her decision.Elena hesitated for like 5 seconds, and then got off the horse and walked closer to that person.The snow had covered most of his body. Only the shape of a person and some of his clothes could be vaguely seen.Elena knelt beside him and wiped the snow off his body with her gloved hands. A tall man lying face down gradually showed. He was very strong but na/ked with clothes piled on his back. It seemed like he passed out somehow in his dragon form and shifted back to huma
The blood-curdling screams and curses were horrifying. Lennie felt cold sweat had soaked through the clothes on her back. At the same time, she was being enveloped by another ball of white light. The next moment, she was sent back to the library. She found she was sitting on the carpeted floor with that old book on her lap, at exactly the same posture as before she was transported. Only now the book on her lap was wide open. But all its pages were blank like nobody had ever recorded anything on it. Lennie quickly figured out the book was spell-protected. Someone put a spell on the book which required certain keys to read the secret in it. And the necklace she placed right beside her leg was just the key. That young, but gut-wrenching voice was still echoing in her ears. Lennie took a deep breath to get it out of her head, and then bent over a little to pick the necklace up from the floor.This time she didn’t touch the ruby pendant, but used the silvery chain to lift it. She slo
Back to five hundred years ago, in the dragon’s castle of the dragon kingdom. One of the most powerful dragon leaders, and the sole Dragon Queen in dragon history, the fire dragon, Vivian, was sitting on her throne, quietly, alone. She used her left hand to prop her head, leaning against that magnificent but cold, stone seat. The winter afternoon sunlight ran through the broken ceiling, fell upon a bunch of debris on the floor. The whole place looked more like a ruin than a royal palace. She sat there, completely alone, still, staring at that sunlight and those remnants on the floor. After a while, a transitory shimmer shone through the egg-sized ruby on the necklace she was wearing, but she didn’t notice it. At the same time, a strong, bearded male dragon walked into the tumbledown door frame, and then bowed to her. “The second of the Tinsley brothers asked to meet you, Your Majesty,” the male dragon said. His voice was thick and heavy, and echoed in this ruined throne hall. Th
Hearing Elena’s request, Lennie clutched the cell phone in her hand. The only reason she wanted the Moon Goddess’s relic was that she didn’t want to lose Zeno along with his incomparable power. If she traded the Moon Goddess’s relic using Zeno, then what she was trying to do now would be pointless.Although speech so, she couldn’t give up that easily. “Why do you want my necklace?” she asked questioningly. Except for herself, no one should have known the power Zeno possessed. Elena answered quickly and calmly, “In case your mysterious friend hasn’t told you. He is actually a werewolf and belongs to us. He is a property of the wolf kingdom, Princess. That’s why we want him back.”Lennie bit her bottom lip. She had already known Zeno was a werewolf from their conversation yesterday. But if Elena knew Zeno was a werewolf too, it would be a different story. There must be something special about Zeno. She thought for a few seconds, and then said, “Fine, you can have my necklace. Come t