After Ragnar closed the door, Elena asked him worriedly, “What happened?”Ragnar turned around and answered, “He wants to talk about our father.”That was something unexpected. When Elena was still with Cory, Cory rarely mentioned his parents. Elena assumed that was because he came from the royal family. She actually didn’t know how the relationship was between Cory and his father.Cory always followed the old king’s orders with complete obedience and he always acted abnormally humble in front of the old king. And Elena couldn’t tell if he did it out of respect or something else. Whenever she asked Cory the reason, Cory always gave her the same answer, “He is the greatest wolf on earth, babe. There’s no room for me to speak.”“What do you think he is up to?” Elena asked worriedly. It was just not usual to get a visitor at this late time. It was already 2 a.m. Ragnar shook his head. He had no clue about Cory’s intention, but he wasn’t worried. Cory was much weaker than him, and in a
The moment Cory fell on the floor, Ragnar clutched his glass with anger. Wolves didn’t pass out because of illness like humans did. Apparently, Cory drugged himself, or let’s say, the old king drugged Cory for some sick reason. Either way, Ragnar had to take Cory to the hospital now. “Or we can just leave him here and go back to enjoy our engagement night with her,” Raven swung his tail indifferently, “Even if he dies, it’s none of our business.”“They saw us with him in the bar, alone,” Ragnar said. He was pissed off by his sneaky brother’s dirty trick. They indeed got witnesses tonight, but those witnesses would portray Cory as the victim, him as the perpetrator. “If he died, or someone else found him like this. They would assume we attacked him or did something to him. The old dog would have the excuse to arrest us and execute us,” he said. Raven grunted with dissatisfaction. He hated those calculated sneaky tricks. If he wanted someone dead, he would fight fair and square.“Are
As soon as the doctor left, Elena felt something odd about the hospital. Before she was locked up by Cory, she had been in the hospital a few times for general physical examinations, and none of those visits was as quiet as now. There weren’t many patients in the hospital, but there were always doctors or nursing workers in the hallway, busy with their work. And the nurse’s lounge near the stairs was always a noisy place. No matter what time it was, you could always hear arguments or talk, sometimes even laughter came from there. Wolves are not like humans. They rarely get deadly sick. The hospital was never a grave place, more like a comfy rest station. But right now, the whole place was as quiet as a graveyard. There was no noise anymore, not even any sounds. After that doctor left, the hallway suddenly became completely empty, as if there weren’t any people in the building anymore.Elena got a bad feeling. She whispered to Ragnar, “Wait for me,” and then stood up and started to
It had been so long since Cory lost his mother. On that afternoon when he was 11 years old, he heard his mother arguing with the old king in the office because he was too weak. It was said there was a sort of magic that existed in this world that could make a weak wolf strong. His mother was fighting for him for that tiny possibility.The old king knew how to do the magic. He was such a powerful wolf. He knew about everything, but he refused to help his son and killed his mother for it. Cory would never forget about that afternoon when he came back home from the forest. The old wolf was pacing in the living room anxiously, waiting for him. When he saw Cory walk inside the house, he smiled at him very rarely and his tone was gentle. He asked the little boy, “How’s the school doing?”Cory clenched his little fists nervously. His father never smiled at him. He knew something must have gone wrong in this house. He said, “Everything is great. Thank you for asking, Father.”The old kin
“If I were you, I wouldn’t do what you are about to do,” Raven said, turning around to face his younger brother, and staring at him. From the moment Cory showed up at the stairs, Raven had noticed something. Cory’s wolf was abnormally large and strong but its motions were really slow.Maybe it was because they were related by blood. Raven could just feel that Cory was enduring enormous pain the whole time. The old king panicked and made the wrong decision when he decided to attack Cory first. If he had spent more time observing, he would have noticed that Cory’s wolf could barely move, not to mention chasing and pursuing him. He basically sent himself to Cory to be killed. Not that it would have changed his fate if he had chosen to attack Raven first. Whether Cory was in the hospital or not today, Ragnar would decapitate the old wolf quickly and nicely. Now he had finally got his revenge. The burden on his shoulders lightened. Ragnar had no intention of executing his younger brot
Cory was dead. Until Ragnar landed on the floor and shifted back to his human form, he still couldn’t believe that his younger brother had just died to protect him. He stood on that messy floor motionlessly, trying hard to persuade himself to believe what had just happened, and then slowly, and hesitantly, he walked back to that crushed table with countless pieces of broken glass under his bare feet. That golden arrow dug out a hole in the window when it ran through that heavy silver barrier. Under that sole beam of warm morning sunlight, Ragnar saw his younger brother lying there on that pile of junk na/kedly, and lonely, with his eye wide open. The holes on both sides of his head were still dripping blood and there were so many bruises and cuts on his body. His left eye now was a complete blood hole, and … he was just … dead, not breathing, cold and motionless. Ragnar would have cried if he hadn’t run out of tears when he lost his human family three years ago. He wasn’t suppo
Ragnar lost his mind. There was a transparent magic barrier around the dragon’s borderline, he couldn’t break through it. He tried everything he could, slamming against it with his body, smashing it with trunks and rocks. But nothing could break that transparent air wall. Without the permission of the dragon’s authority, nothing from the wolf's land could reach the dragon’s territory. Ragnar got so angry. He howled, growled, snarled, throwing his body towards that transparent air wall again and again, but none of those were useful. He just couldn’t break through it and get that shrewd dragon princess. He was so pissed off that he started to destroy everything in his eyesight with his head and body, and claws and teeth, even Raven couldn’t stop him. The man had never been so angry since he was born and he wanted to kill and destroy everything.It was all his fault. It was all because of him. He should never have trusted Lennie. He should never have accepted her help and he should
After the last member of the wolf committee left, the room turned to dead silence. Elena turned around and hugged Ragnar.She knew why he agreed to do so, but it was so unfair.He was such a great man, so caring, kind, and gentle. Why did all those cruel things keep happening to him?! It was so wrong!“I am sorry,” she cried, “I am so sorry…”Ragnar smiled. He felt so happy to have someone cry for him. But he had learned how to deal with sadness and loss a long time ago. He had gotten too much experience with it.“It’s alright,” he said, and then printed a gentle kiss on her hair, “I will be alright.”Elena sobbed on his chest.Her father, Orion, exchanged a look with Elena’s mother, Eleanor.Cory’s death was unexpected news to all of them. But at least, there was one positive aspect to it. From now on, they weren't be “banished” from the country anymore.“If you don’t mind, Allie and I will do the Beta work for you for the moment,” he said to Ragnar in a calm voice, “L told us, you d
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