I wasn’t looking forward to my second class of the day since it was just Konn teaching me how to do his job. “I do a lot more than just advise. While the king and queen run the kingdom, I help them out by running the castle so that everything else is easier for them. The guards report to me if they see or deal with anything out of the ordinary. I deal with it then I report what’s important to the king and queen. I also filter a lot of their work out from most important to least important and take care of whatever other tasks they give me.” He was making their job a lot easier on them.
Lexus called me this morning and made sure I took my medication, so I was able to concentrate well. The reason I wasn’t looking forward to this was because of yesterday and how I got upset about not being included in his family. “Noted.” I said without physically taking notes.
“You’re not interested?” Konn asked so I guess I wasn’t doing the best job hiding my emotions.
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I didn’t have a relationship with Konn before, so I didn’t have the same feelings as they did. “It was like a normal lesson,” I answered while staring down at the paperwork. “I think I upset him.” It was better for me to open up instead of what I was doing before. Cade was my older brother so I felt like I should get advice rom him and to do that I have to open up Cade stopped writing and looked at me. “What do you mean? He’s not very expressive of how he feels, maybe you misunderstood.” I read through the first document then spoke. “I think I’m stressing him out by being here. He said things were hard and that we all were trying to adjust.” I put my elbow on the desk and rest my head in my hand. “Things would be easier if you or Gray were the holder instead of me. Then Konn never would have had to come get me.” Cade scoffed. “You really would want that? Obviously, things are going to be difficult at first Aqua. You’ve been here for less than a month. Out of
I frowned. “You can always drink water; I want to enjoy the festival. Would it be weird if we just stayed together?”Lexus looked around. “It’s not like we planned this, if anyone asks, we’ll just tell them what happened. They’ll assume I’m just being nice since you have no other choices.” I was more excited to be with Lexus at the festival than Calvin.“Oh, how selfless of you,” I said sarcastically. We started walking. “Do you really see me as your friend?”“Yeah, I do,” Lexus answered while looking over the crowd. Knowing that he saw me as a friend made me feel like we really were getting close. “That’s the main reason I asked Cade to help us earlier. We didn’t need the extra help. I thought you could spend a little time with your brother.”I blushed. “That was nice of you.” I stared at his hand but knew I couldn’t hold it
I waved to Cade when I saw him with his family. They walked to us, but Lynn looked annoyed. “Hey Aqua, Lexus, where's your dates?” Cade asked.“There was an emergency, so Calvin and Sadia had to leave. Sadia sent me a text letting me know everything is fine but I’m not sure when they’re going to be headed back. They might miss the fireworks. We decided to wait for them together.”“I hope you guys are enjoying yourselves,” Konn said. I was since I was here with Lexus.Vella was with them and she looked annoyed too. “Yeah, I hope so too.” She was bitter in tone. She must have still suspected something was going on.I wished I could spend the rest of the festival with them. “Thanks, I hope you guys enjoy yourselves too.” I watched Gray pull on Konn’s sweater. “Dad, come on, I wanna play that game.”I wish I could play with my younger brother but I couldn&rsqu
“You hadn’t shown up to your first class yet, so my father sent me to figure out where you were. Just let me in Lexus!” Cade yelled. Lexus held the door, so it was only cracked open while Cade pushed against it. “I’m not decent Cade, I overslept. I’ll get ready and just show up late.” He looked at me. He wasn’t wrong about being indecent, he only had his boxers on. I sat up and looked around panicking. I didn’t have any clothes on, and I looked a mess. It was obvious I slept here. I jumped out of bed and started putting my clothes on. “I just want to talk and to know where my sister is.” He whispered. “She wasn’t in her room and you were with her last. I’m just a little worried.” He sighed. “I’m sure she’s fine Cade, just come back in fifteen minutes.” Lexus said and lightened his grip on the door since they had calmed down. Or he thought they did because Cade pushed his way inside. His eyes widened when he saw me buckling my pants. “What
We walked Lexus the rest of the way to his next class and Cade walked me to mine. I had to do a lot of meditating in the class that trained my abilities. My teacher was the castle’s Oracle. He knew a lot from experience and some of our abilities were similar. After I walked with Lexus to his last class. I had met up with Konn for my last class. “I heard you overslept.” Konn said. I chuckled nervously. “Yeah, the festival made me exhausted. It won’t happen again, I promise.” That was the only question he gave me about this morning. I wanted him to know I took this job seriously, so I needed to make sure this didn’t happen again. It could have easily been Konn finding out instead of Cade. He started our lesson and he spoke a lot more than yesterday. I thought a lot about last night because I hadn’t exactly processed the fact that me and Lexus had sex for the first time. So much happened earlier this morning that I didn’t get to really think about it. My
In the middle of the night, I heard a knock on my door. I walked to it and opened it to see Lexus. “Can’t sleep?” Lexus walked in. “Nope, you have room for one more. In your bed.” He clarified. I yawned. “I do but can’t you just smoke? Couldn’t you just smoke last time too?” I sat down on my bed. “I heard it puts you right to sleep. Lexus sat on the other side of my bed. “Yeah, but I’d rather sleep with you because this’ll give me a lot better sleep than smoking would.” I turned the light off. “I officially met Gray earlier today.” Lexus took his slides off and laid down. “How did that go?” “Not the best, he was upset that he’s not the holder.” I thought of how his disappointed face looked. “Cade’s being a great brother and I’m sure my relationship with Gray will get better.” “But?” Lexus asked. “I miss my adoptive siblings. I was raised with them and was kind of close with them. I even helped raise the youngest a lot.”
I stared at the picture as Tay continued to talk about it. “There aren’t very many pictures of her, and I’ve never met her but Mom has talked about her. Apparently, she disappeared like twenty years ago. A lot of people thought she was crazy. She’d draw… dragons a lot.” “Lexus my mother’s name is Mae. Are there any other pictures of her Tay?” I asked. Tay rolled her eyes. “I’m obviously emotional, you can’t tell me you’re a mythical creature, show me proof and then ask me for pictures. God where is your human decency? Oh you’re not human, that explains it.” She rambled as she walked to the bookshelf and grabbed a scrapbook. She opened it and showed me a page with pictures of her mom and Mae. “Wow.” My dreams of the future were blurry, but this was definitely how she looked. “I think that’s her; I think that’s my mother.” I looked at Lexus. “Now that I know her name and how she looks I can find her.” I took a picture out of the scrapbook. The one I took
Cade’s POV I had completed a request by Princess Hannah, and I answered my phone on the way to finish something my Dad assigned me. “Cade get over here.” Lexus said over the phone. “I need you.” I stopped walking since I didn’t want to get further from his room if he was requesting my presents. “I’m still working unless this is work related.” I was helping out around the castle doing whatever I could. Since I officially wasn’t an aid for Lexus anymore, I didn’t have an exact position here. I was able to choose just about any I wanted but I didn’t feel passionate about any of the jobs here. Lexus scoffed. “Call it work related if you want just meet me in my room.” I thought about being a guard, but my Mom wouldn’t be happy about that. Her worry isn’t unjustified. There weren’t many attacks or threats around but when there is guards always get injured. Plus, she’s been tense ever sense Aqua arrived. I hated that she felt threatened with my sister around, but I
Quinn’s POVOne of the other kids pushed Zaya down so I tackled him. “Hey stop!” Zaya yelled as we started to fight then jumped in so now we we’re both fighting this kid.The boy shifted into his dragon, so we’d get off him then he shifted back. “Whatever, I don’t want to fight either one of you. If I did I’d hurt Quinn cause she’s part human and sick because of it. Plus, her mom is always watching.”I glared at him and stood up. “I’m not sick because I’m part human.”My sickness was common among both humans and dragon shifters.Zaya spit at him. “She could take you and her mom isn’t always watching, you’re just scared of her mom.” She grabbed my hand and walked towards the pack house. “Sorry the kids here aren’t like the kids in the village you live in.” In the village there were hybrids and other mixtures species kids
In the morning we got ready. “You still haven’t told me how work’s been.”Lexus chuckled. “We’re on vacation, I don’t want to talk about work.” I looked at him seriously. “Fine, work is good. I’m practically running Viv’s business myself. We’re considered partners now.”“What do you even do?” I felt weird that I didn’t know but it’s not like I didn’t try talking about it before.“She’s a noble. Her business is creating work for the people of her kingdom, selling them land, and giving them protection. She works closely with the king and queen too.” I noticed he was feeling admiration for Viv.“How do you feel about Viv?”Lexus sighed. “She’s always been a really good friend, she’s still a really good friend. I enjoy her company and I missed her but not in a sexual or romantic way.” Since we
My mom called me over to talk about something important. “Okay so after a lot of convincing from Konain.” All I could think about was how it annoyed Cade when she called Dad that. “I decided I’m going back home.”I raise my eyebrows. “What? No, you can’t, you love it here-”“To visit, only to visit our family.”I exhaled out of relief. “Oh yeah, they think you’re dead or they did. They saw me ride off on a dragon the last time I saw them, so they probably think that you’re with me or something.”“Are… are my parents still alive?” Mom asked nervously.I nodded. “Grandpa and Grandma are still very much alive. They just sleep a lot and don’t like being bothered.”Mom laughed. “So, they’re the same. So, you were raised by my sister and her husband but no one ever talked about me? Not even your grandparents?&r
I did a few more jobs, some required the gems, but most didn’t. At first I was doing jobs that asked for a magic user but now that people knew the current holder was taking jobs they asked for me specifically. My coven went through a lot of the jobs and sorted them for me from least difficult to most difficult. Other covens and sorceress agencies tried to recruit me, but I liked staying with the one who delivered me as a baby and that my mom was a part of. Once I was done I met Cade and Sadia at a small restaurant. “Hey.” I sat down and put my bag under the chair. Cade smiled. “I assumed you’d be late since you’ve been so busy with working.” I shrugged, “I do as much as I can since Gram warned me about how long I should be working a day. I don’t want to overwork myself again. I usually work when Lexus is working.” Sadia was staring at the menu, and she wasn’t saying anything. Cade spoke instead, “How’s he doing working with Viv?” I
Aqua’s POVLexus shook me awake. “Babe, you told me to wake you up whenever you overslept.”I opened my eyes. “It’s hard not to sleep in sometimes.” I sat up. “You were really rough last night.” I blushed. “It makes me want to sleep longer.” I yawned. “And I hate going anywhere with visible hickeys.”I got out of bed naked, but he pulled me back and kissed my mark. Marks are really sensitive if someone else touches our marks the other will feel pain. When we touch each other's marks, we feel… pleasure. “I wish I could go with you today.”I rolled my eyes. “You have to start work don’t you?” I moaned when he kissed my mark again then pulled away and got up.“Yeah I do but I still wish I could go with you.” He got up. “If you get back before me you should start packing.”“Packi
I took a deep breath and got ready to explain. “Fine, I went to go see a friend about a job, but you know that don’t you because you used one of the gemstones to spy on me then you sent Cade.” Aqua glared at me. “You’re avoiding the question. Yes I used one of the gems, but I didn’t send Cade. I told him who you were with and he felt the need to confront you. I told him he didn’t have to go and that I trusted you, but he went anyways.” “Viv put her hand on my shoulder and gave me quick peck on the cheek. That’s all,” I explained. ‘The conversation didn’t sound like that was all,’she thought. “You can hear what you see with your third eye?” I didn’t realize that she could hear our whole conversation, that put me in an awkward position. She sat down on the bed. “Only with the gem, you’re constantly reading my mind which I’m fine with, but I can’t read yours if we’re not together." She sighed. “This is stupid, this isn’t worth fighting over
Lexus’ POVWe walked into Viv’s office. “True mates?? You're Kidding.” She threw her hands up. “I might have a mage employed who’s strong enough to prevent even a true mate from being able to know.”I sat down in a chair in Viv’s office. “I’m not cheating on my mate Viv. You’re either offering me a position or you’re not.” I cared about Aqua too much to risk losing her. Aqua is all I want, and I finally have her.She frowned and sat at her desk. “Fine but I’m not going to stop trying. I only just took over business for my parents so I probably need you at a high position, that would take a lot of pressure off of m-” She stopped when she saw a portal opened outside.I stood up and walked to the window. “Cade? He can’t be here for me since he hates me. Did you guys plan something?”Viv shook her head. “I haven’t se
The woman Lexus was with stopped when she got to the top of the staircase. “You don’t have to walk so far behind me. You're mated aren’t you? I’ve heard rumors about it, apparently you ran off with the holder and you’re marked. You both are very controversial now.” Lexus chuckled. “Yeah I know. If you knew I might have been marked then why would you touch my shoulder and kiss me?” I didn’t feel good after hearing that someone kissed him, but I didn’t stop watching because I had faith in him. She leaned over the staircase railing. “I kissed your cheek, it’s not a big deal. I just wanted to mess with you. I think I can offer you a job since you are a childhood friend.” She gave an expression of thinking. “You’ve been taught to rule since you were like twelve so I can offer you a job to be in charge of one of our branches.” She walked down the hall. “It’s a shame you’re marked.” “Viv, I’m not here for you to realize your childhood crush. I’m here to find w
Mom and I were on her bed in our pajamas drinking tea, “So is Lexus always high?” Mom asked. We were on the topic of relationships, so I guess that’s why she had to throw that question in. I chuckled nervously. “Only a quarter of the time. More often now that we’re not in the castle anymore. Do you think that’s bad?” Mom shook her head. “I guess it’s fine as long as he does what he needs to do.” She took a sip of her tea then said, “It was just a little bit of a surprise seeing him like that after dinner two weeks ago.” I could understand that. “Mom… have you been keeping up with the news? Everyone’s calling me a trader.” Mom sighed. “Yeah I’ve seen it. Don’t let it get to you Aqua, you’ve been doing good.” I had told her about the little things I was doing for the village I was staying in and the neighboring villages. I think you should start doing bigger things you know. Magic users and spell casters usually take jobs posted online