Chapter 21 - The Revelation

I

While scanning the mind of Princess Trisha, Dareon could see ashes therein, smokes clouding it. He tried to breathe fire over it through his mind, but the fire pass through the ashes and became smoke thereafter. Her mind remained blurry and dark.

With such, Dareon felt uneasy. He could surmise that Princess Trisha has dark secrets that need to be unraveled.

“Welcome to the family Dareon.” It was the King Father of Princess Shelyca who had spoken while his Queen continued to look at Dareon with a smile on her kind face.

Dareon nodded to Princess Trisha as he disengaged his hand out from her hand and gallantly vowed in front of the King and Queen of the Kingdom of Gold Valley. “Thank you, Your Majesty,” he softly whispered.

“You may call him Father and me as Mother. You are now our son.” The Queen stated with gentleness. As the Lykan Luna or Queen, she could sense that the husband of their daughter Shelyca is not an ordinary man.

“We will let you rest for a while. Princess Shelyca’s room is still as clean and as orderly as when she left it weeks ago. You can use it or you can use the biggest guest room.” The Lykan King stated to which Princess Shelyca nodded.

“I missed my room Father, we will stay there.” Princess Shelyca replied to her King Father with a smile on her lips. She looked at Dareon and put her right hand around her left arm.

“I know you will choose it. Go then both of you and have a rest and just ring the bell when you want your food to be delivered to your room. Tomorrow, we will eat breakfast together.” The Lykan King said while giving his daughter his go signal to go.

“Thank you father and Mother; see you tomorrow then and Princess Trish.” She said as she bade goodnight. “Let’s go hubby?” she winked at Dareon who nodded and graciously excused himself from the presence of the King and Queen, including the Second Princess of the Kingdom of Gold Valley.

The King and Queen, including Princess Trisha, followed the back of the couple with their wondering eyes. They have the same questions in their mind. Who is Dareon and what kind of a man he is? All of them felt his strong presence and they knew at the onset, he is neither a werewolf nor a regular human being.

“There is something in our son-in-law that I felt; a strong and powerful aura. Did you feel it too my Queen?” Princess Shelyca’s Father asked his wife as they were already on their bed about to sleep.

The Queen smiled and nodded. “Yes my King, he is not an ordinary man. I felt it too and I wanted to know the truth behind his bluish eyes, which I saw changed into deep dark brown as he was looking at Princess Trisha.”

The King and Queen looked at each other, kissed each other’s lips, and then said their sweet goodnights before drifting into their deep slumber.

II

“Wife, why is it that Princess Trisha’s features are too different from yours or even from your parents? You got the mixture of your parents' attributes, I noticed it.” Dareon suddenly asked as they were already lying on Shelyca’s big round bed. It is time to know things about that Second Princess, who brought into his senses some doubts.

Shelyca moved to her left side to face her inquiring husband. “Well, we are not actually sisters by blood. She was adopted by my parents when she was just an infant. We are almost of the same age and we grew up together.”

“I see, you know her real parents?”

“Nope. Someone just left her in front of the palace gate and my parents never hide the truth from her. So, she knew very well that she is an adopted daughter of the King and Queen.” Princess Shelyca explained.

“Hmmm, were you that close when growing up?” he further inquired.

“Not really. I was closer to my cousin, Krista, who became my Personal Assistant when we grew up. She was with me during the accident. She saved me by blocking her body before the bullet hits me. She was my savior and my best friend and I am really missing her a lot.” Sadness suddenly crossed Princess Shelyca’s face as she remembered about her cousin Krista.

Dareon put his arm underneath her head and kissed her forehead. “I am sorry, wife; I was late in my rescue. I was not able to rescue her anymore,” he murmured.

Shelyca looked up at him and smiled. “Maybe Moon Goddess wanted her to rest already, otherwise you might have been earlier in your rescue for us. So don’t say sorry hubby, it was not your fault and I owe my second life to you.”

With those words, Dareon out of the blue frowned. “Did you marry me out of gratitude or because you were just forced by the situation during that time?” he asked looking at her sadly.

“Honestly yes but, oh, don’t be offended hubby because right now, hmmm, I guess I am starting to like you.” Princess Shelyca whispered fanning his ear.

“Like me? Hmmm, that is okay for me, for now,” he said as he suddenly grabbed her waist closer to him while he intensely looked at her.

“And how about you hubby? Where you just forced to marry me, to save me from those Pirates’ Captain hmmm?” she asked with squinting eyes.

“Honestly yes but, oh, don’t be offended wife, because right now, hmmm, I guess I am starting to like you,” he said grinning as he only repeated what she replied to his question a while ago.

“Grrr, you have no originality. You answer me truthfully,” she hissed.

“Do you really want to know the truth wife?” his face is flushed.

Princess Shelyca smiled sweetly. “No need. I felt it at the onset. You were head over heels with me,” she said teasing him.

“Hmm, you were a right wife. Do not make it as a joke, because that was actually the truth,” he admitted while looking at her tenderly.

This time it was Princess Shelyca whose face became red as a cherry. “Ohh,” all she could mumble.

“I like your ohh wife. I wanted to hear it from you again as I make love to you,” he teasingly whispered as he bites her right ear while his hand already started to travel down below her waist.

“Ohh hubby, are you not tired yet? You flew so long,” she asked while arching her body when she felt his hand caress her budding flower.

“I am a dragon, remember it wife and dragons never get tired, especially when we are talking about making love,” he whispered again and then captured her lips with his kisses.

Thereafter, the room of Princess Shelyca has been suddenly filled with ohhhs and ahhhs of two bodies, burning with passions and desires for each other.