Chapter 42
My mother threw a worried glance over her shoulder as she left. Sinking down in one of the chairs close to the fireplace. My father makes his way over as he sends a ball of fire into the fireplace to increase the heat in the room. With my mothers out of the room, he can have it hotter in here. My father would burn down the world for my mother's and the fact he keeps his home to the temperature that keeps both his mates comfortable tells me the type of man he is. My mothers had told him they would find a way to live closer to the core for him and he refused. So now he just ups the heat when they both are out of the room.
“talk to me son.” his deep voice comes to me with a sigh I spill everything that's happened in the last week and how I just left her with the fae king. Just nodding as I tell him about everything then I drop the bomb that she has to go back to her time to keep the balance and how I was gonna live now that she marked me. When I finish he looks at me with both sadness and concern. “my dear boy it does sound like the goddess has a test for you with your mate. But you know she wouldn't do something unless it's for the good of everyone including you. I don’t think she would give you a mate just to have her ripped from you. As you know we live a long time and can activate a resurrection. But if there are no dragons in her time I don’t know if you would be born again. Does she know how long the dragons have been missing and is she sure they are gone and not hiding or something?” shrugging as I don’t know the answers to those I didn’t ask too much as I didn’t believe her for a long time. “what about her mate back in her time?” “what makes you think it's not your mate as well son? As you know dragons have two mates. Hmmm maybe well you know Mia is a firefox but she carries my genes so she could have a dragon under the right circumstances so maybe there are other offspring of dragons that don’t know they have dragon blood in them. Can you get me some of her blood maybe I could read her fire?”
Nodding I stand ready to go to my room here I have a lot to do here and it's been a long flight. Heading down to the floor I shared with Mia. Finding Mia laying on a couch one of her legs was heavily bandaged telling me this was not a normal attack. “Mia what happened?” rushing to my little big sister's side. “some odd-smelling odd-looking witch stumbled by my cabin. I went to help big mistake I tell you hugely. don’t help odd witches ree. Her eyes were a deep black and I thought she would need a healer but no she struck me and then sliced my leg to the bone with a black dagger thing. It didn’t hurt at first but now it burns. It should be healing and it's getting worse. After she cut me and I fell to the ground she sliced off a chunk of my hair and gathered the leaves with my blood on them. She took off not once saying a word to me. She's evil but I can't say where she went it's like she just disappeared.” she huffs out as I make my way to the chair next to her. She soon starts sniffing the air. “you smell different what happened?” shaking my head letting her know I didn’t want to talk about it. “has father called the fae maybe they could help figure out what the magic is. Or at least something to increase healing or something?” she shakes her head. “I smelt fae on her so I didn’t want them near me again.” “you can call the fae for help mi the fae you smelt on her is not of her its of someone else who is with the fae right now trying to figure out how to find the witch. She's up to no good and needs to be stopped.”
With a shrug she just lays back looking up at the ceiling. “so who the female I smell on you big brother?” “I think you know mi why play games and if you can smell her on me you can smell its the same fae blood can you not?” she shrugs “who is she? Never thought you would be unfaithful to your mates?” growling at her words before answering “I have never betrayed my mates and you know I wouldn't. The female you smell is my mate mi for goddess sake who do you think I am one of those humans that cant keep it in their trousers?” the giggles I hear coming from her tell me she got her way and got me to spill why I smelled different. “when will you be bringing her home? What kind of fae is she?” “oh mi she will not be living here and I don’t get to keep her. She with the fae king he said shes the daughter of his daughter and from the witch that attacked you and what she has told me they are not of this time and so will have to return to her time and as soon as possible. The witch is already messing up her time. I saw welts and scars show up on her out of thin air. Do you know what it's like watching someone get hurt badly in front of you and you cant stop it cause you can't see what's attacking her?” she shakes her head “well I do. Not to mention princess Maebug made a play to mate with me again in front of her. Then prince Kalaban somehow broke her heart. How do I heal someone I can't keep. Father said the goddess wouldn't give her to me just to rip her away but what if that's what she did”
A loud roar shakes the mountain stopping our conversation. Without a thought, I rush to find my father. In the entry was an ice pixie from one of the lower peaks cowering in front of my father. “what is it?”
“prince Kalaban is missing. To help search for him I will call in for the trackers to be ready for when they arrive at the fairy grove” and he charges to the ice wall melting it as he gets closer. Once outside he jumps from the balcony shifting into his huge orange and black dragon flying west.
