King Derek
After the scare we just had, I wasn’t looking forward to going to the Dragon Kingdom. It was my home for so many years, but now it feels more like my prison. I didn’t want to deal with my mother, but I felt obliged to help my father. He wasn’t perfect in my childhood, but at least he never hit me. He never told me how worthless I was and how the Dragons would suffer under my rule. No wonder after he told me my mate died, I turned to alcohol and random hookups. Anything to make myself feel something.
I always believed my mate would be better. She would treat me better than my mother treated my father. We would have this perfect love story. But my father crushed all hope when he told me she had died. I was looking for love in all the wrong places until she showed up in the midd
