CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN
**TESSA'S POV**
After telling them my history, Lily was less panicky but Aran had a deep sense of respect for me afterwards.
“It was really bold of you to do that. We've been here for years and no one has ever tried running away from the general,” she said when I finished telling them how I'd run away from Xavier.
“Don't be too hard on yourself. My father set the stage for me to never be comfortable with being treated like crap so I couldn't even sit still no matter what.”
“But how did you end up falling in love with him?” Lily piques, her eyes filled with interest.
So I continued my story, giving them details of my life that I'd not sat down to process for a while.
“Wait, your father is the king of earth? Why can't we just fly there? It's probably closer!” Lily exclaimed.
“First of all, my home is with Xavier now. I don't think I'll be able to live well knowing I can't be with him again, and two, more importantly, my son is in that ship, and I don't even know how he's surviving. He was sick from my stomach and I'm not even there to protect him,” I said, a tear escaping my eyes.
Lily placed her hand on my lap.
“I'm sorry you had to go through all that. It's because you have a lot to achieve and you needed to be prepared for it,” she said compassionately.
“Yeah, this won't be possible if you'd not gone through all of that,” Aran added, and I realized a friendship was being born out of this chaos.
And I was grateful for it.
***
“You're going to hit them! Stop!”
“Lily shut up and let her concentrate! If we ram into those ships because of you, I'll give you fins for real!” Aran screamed at her, saving me the hassle.
We'd been flying for another three days when the plane picked up a signal.
Now, what I'd learned so far was how to get the hell out of Drokos and follow the path the location device set but maneuvering out of the way for an impending collision wasn't part of the course.
So not only was I trying to keep us afloat, but I was also going through all those big texts again in my head to figure out why the throttle wasn't going the way I wanted.
“Maybe it's because you've already programmed your destination,” Aran suggested as nothing I did worked.
“Remove it let me check,” I told her, hoping she was right.
I didn't even know what type of ship was heading our way.
If they were Draks returning from a conquest, we would definitely be in a shit load of trouble because how were we going to explain being with their ship? We were three women alone; there was no way they'd listen to anything I said.
Also, I wasn't fit to fight for long, I'd been holding this protective ward for the last week and with minimal feeding.
All I had energy left for was breathing, nothing more.
Immediately she took it out, with no difficulty seeing as she was superwoman with a different body frame, the ship plummeted to the ground
“Oh shit!” We both exclaimed at the same time. I'd not been prepared to pull the throttle well so the loss of direction threw us out of balance
“Put it back for crying out loud!” Yelled Lily from where she was sitting, grabbing the chair tightly even though she had her seatbelt on.
“Don't do that,” I instructed Aran who watched me intently as I pulled the throttle, pointing the nose of the plane up as much as possible.
“Aran, help her, damnit!” Lily screamed and this time, Aran listened.
I didn't even realize how weak I was already, but her energy was unmatched, and in no time, we were rising up just as the ships heading our way became visible to the naked eye.
“Shit!” I exclaimed as I realized it was a Drakkonian ship.
“What do we do? What if they attack?” Aran asked in quick succession, coming to the same realization as I'd done.
“Let's just fly ahead of them. Hopefully, they don't attack us,” I replied, my heart beating wildly as we moved above them.
It seemed they weren't even planning to attack because they'd pulled their entire fleet away from our path and we flew past without any collision.
“Thank the gods!” Lily exclaimed in relief just as I sighed.
“Aran, put back the location device,” I instructed before putting the plane in idle mode.
I relaxed on the ship as everywhere became quiet and calm.
“But what do we do if we actually come across ones that are combative?” Aran asked me, expressing what was on our minds.
“We'll sort that out later, I'm too weak to think right now,” I replied and got up from the chair.
There was a little bed at the back in the middle of the chairs. I'd not crossed this path since we set out to escape.
But in that moment, I just needed to put my head down or I might go crazy.
A sudden wave of sadness gripped me as I lay down. I felt like a fraud and a big ass failure.
‘What the fuck was I thinking? I even went as far as dragging these women with me with no solid plan,’ I screamed at myself, overwhelmed by my own failure.
I was failing my child, these strangers, and even myself.
If Xavier tried coming for me, I'd be failing my people too.
How I was so dumb as to allow myself to get kidnapped by these Draks, I don't know.
I couldn't even stop the sobs that wracked my form.
I had no idea how I was going to protect them or even make sure we got to our destination.
I felt movement behind me, so I sniffled and cleaned my face so I didn't scare the person.
It's probably Lily and if she saw me in this state, she'd go crazier than ever.
I turned around to try and give a pathetic look of comfort, which was all I was capable of at the moment but it wasn't Lily that stood there looking at me, eyes wide.
It wasn't Aran either.
“Xavier?”
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