When Jasper’s phone call came in, Cory was still crying in the basement.Elena’s acceptance reached him at the very second he finished his rejection. He begged and implored Nyla to speak with him, to reverse that rejection, but there was no use. Nyla didn’t even move in the cage.He laid on the floor and cried, and had never felt so helpless before. But when he picked up the phone, his voice sounded normal to Jasper.“What’s up?” he asked in a raspy voice, lying on the floor, with tears still on his cheeks.Jasper was supervising some workers to deliver the furniture Lennie ordered for the wedding venue. He panicked when he saw the news that popped out on the phone screen and instantly called Cory.“Did you read the news?” He asked nervously, speculating whether his king had found out this horrifying fact or not.Cory frowned. He noticed there was something wrong in Jasper’s voice. He quickly sat up from the floor.“What news?” he asked.Jasper swallowed uneasily. He hated to be the p
The moment Lennie showed up at the door, Cory felt panic. In recent days he was so preoccupied by the sudden appearance of his big brother and the mysterious Princess Lyra. He almost forgot that he still had a bride to take care of. And Lennie wasn’t exactly an easy-going person. His mind went blank for a second, and then he quickly put on a so-called charming smile. “Lennie, you are talking with me! I am so sorry about … everything,” he said, walking towards the cold-eyed dragon princess. Lennie snorted. She put contempt in her voice to show how much she despised her faithless future husband. “I am not talking with you. I am talking with the true inheritor of this kingdom,” she said, eyes glancing through Ragnar again, “Just a little reminder to both of you. I am marrying the legitimate king of this kingdom, not a fickle-minded bastard like you.”Cory’s face changed after hearing that. He stopped in the middle of the room, staring at Lennie with shock and fury. He had always ass
The moment Elena heard that voice, she knew it was Lennie. She would never forget the voice of the woman who put her through the ordeal. And she hadn’t even a clue why Lennie was here. She exchanged a look with her parents, and then decided to answer the door. Lennie had already known who she truly was anyway and, she had been seeking an opportunity to confront that shrewd dragon princess.“Go back to your room,” she mouthed to her parents, and then walked towards the door.Once her parents got inside the bedroom, Elena pulled open the door and then saw Lennie standing outside, smiling at her. “Hi, sweetie,” she said with an intimate, sweet tone, “I’ve been thinking of you all the time since the last time we parted.”Elena curled her lips too. She could play this phony game if that’s what Lennie wanted. “I’ve been thinking of you too,” she said, “It’s such a shame that a smart princess like you has to marry a scumbag as her husband.”Lennie’s eyes turned cold, but she didn’t drop
As the ambulance drove off, the forest stayed without any change. Elena then knew it was the end of this heartbreaking trip. She stood in the dark forest and watched that ambulance leaving her eyeshot, and had already figured out what happened next. Ragnar woke up in the hospital and accepted Lennie’s help to become the Rogue Alpha to get his revenge. On her first day at Rogues, Ragnar once told her a friend of his lent Ethan to him to manage the rogue’s city. Now Elena finally knew that that friend was Lennie, and Lennie and Ragnar had already known each other long before she even knew Ragnar’s existence. It was so cruel and so harsh. Still, Elena felt glad that Lennie showed up and saved Ragnar’s life. She helped him to survive. “What’s now?” She turned around and looked at Lennie and asked. She knew there must be a very good reason for Lennie to take her here to review Ragnar’s past. Lennie wore back that hearty but fake smile. She said, “That mark really helped sharpen your b
Ragnar was on the very verge of losing it. Every cell in his body was in a huge fury, roaring, burning to bite the old king’s head off, to shred him into pieces, and to burn him into ashes. He wanted his blood on the scene, and wanted the whole world to know what a despicable cowardice their respectable king was. But he couldn’t do it. He couldn’t afford to lose it right now. Lennie made it very clear that if he didn’t play along with the king, she would harm Elena and her wolf. And if he attacked the old king in front of the whole country and failed, the king would have the perfect excuse to lock him up and execute him. He couldn’t just hand the victory to the old wolf like that. He must wait for the perfect opportunity to kill that old dog once and for all. “Just stay patient…” Throughout the whole night, he kept telling himself and Raven so. Inside his head, where no one could see, his eyes were bleeding blood, but in front of that curious, overenthusiastic crowd, he ha
The moment Elena heard that question, she felt her head explode. Her breath had already stopped the second he knelt in front of her. She couldn’t believe this was happening and his eyes looked so genuine and happy. He was meant to ask her to marry him, not just playing a trick to make her happy, or doing a smarmy act. She felt her heartbeats first stop and then it started to pound wildly. The whole world went into silence. Even those hungry media held their breaths, watching nervously and waiting for her answer. Elena even heard Nyla whimpering in her head, begging for her to say “Yes”. Only that it was impossible. Nyla was still in a coma. But Elena knew she should say “Yes”. And she wanted to say “Yes” because she really, really, liked him. She knew that he was the one she was going to spend the rest of her life with, and she would never forgive herself if she let go of him. Hence, she said that word, first with a little hesitation, but then a genuine happy smile on her face. “Y
Lennie had never been so angry before.She was sneak attacked by someone who was supposed to be a useless slave and an ignoble worm. When they first met, Elena was such a helpless love-brained moron. She was in love with a piece of garbage like Cory, and she let a man manipulate her life.Lennie despised such women. She thought that all weaklings should just go die and she should never have sent Elena away in the first place.That night, when Elena knelt under her feet, Lennie admitted that she was overwhelmed by the pleasure of power. Elena begged her like she was already the Queen of Supreme, and she just enjoyed the feeling of deciding someone else’s fate.“What the hell,” she thought back then, “Look at her. She was such a pathetic lowlife. Even a bedbug could have a better life than her. Even if I sent her to her mate, what could she do? She is doomed to die by her stupidity.”She sent Elena to Ragnar as a bad-taste joke, enjoying how Ragnar would react after finding his mate was
Cory was in a struggle. Elena’s engagement in front of the media, and Ragnar’s statement had made it impossible for him to get Elena back. He knew he had lost his mate forever and he knew he would never get a second chance with her. He felt so heartbroken, regretful, and angry, but he also knew he got to grab onto something useful before he was completely kicked out of the game. His big brother was so much stronger than him, and his people obviously favored Ragnar over him. Those newspapers described Ragnar as a victim who was mistreated by the kingdom, which made everyone who had read the news want to make up for him. Cory hoped they wouldn’t make up for him with his throne. He surely didn’t want to lose his throne.Suddenly, in the middle of his thoughts, the heavy double door of the living room was pushed open, Cory quickly stood up from the sofa, and then saw Lennie walking in with a dark face. Her clothes and hair were kind of messy with dirt on them as if she had just got i
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