Tatiana - Imperial Ruler Of Dragon's

Chapter 8

She resumes driving after regaining composure but this time, she makes sure to keep her eyes trained on the road, while I decided to keep the rest of my questions to myself so I don’t distract her again. We got to the private airport half an hour later and I see a massive jet standing proud on the walkaway.

The white jet is already fired up and when Katrina and I step out of the car, the guys from earlier -Troy and Gavin- made their way over to us. I didn’t have the time nor the right mind to study the two yesterday but now that I do, I have to say they look hot as hell.

The green-haired Gavin has a heart-shaped face with dark brown skin and dark brows that gives you a hint of his natural hair colour, chocolate brown eyes gleam mischievously in the sunlight and I wonder what he’s thinking about. He’s wearing striped cotton shorts, black high-tops with a white, cotton poplin shirt tucked into his shorts.

The shirt showed off his lean physique and the pants tighten over his thick thighs with every step he takes, he walks casually with an easy grin as if he couldn’t quite get himself to rush, unlike Troy who walks with a commanding stomp to his steps. Troy can only be personified as tall, dark, and dangerous with jet black hair, piercing sea-green eyes, light ivory skin tone with heart-shaped pink lips and a sculpted build.

His entire presence exudes control and dominance and a sudden wave of unease runs through me when he draws closer. He’s dressed in black fitted jeans, black combat boots, a tight white shirt with a black leather jacket worn over it. He must like black.

I pull my shoulder bag over my head just as they got closer and much to my surprise, Katrina rushes over to kiss Troy on the mouth, hard. He responds in kind so I take it upon myself to look away from the passionate couple. I make eye contact with Gavin and he steps forward with an amused smile on his lips. Raising his hand to wave, he introduced himself. “Gavin Martin, it's nice to finally meet you.”

“Tatiana Valdez.”

“They’re going to be taking a while, so we better get your bags.” He says, motioning to the couple with a thumb over his shoulder.

I nod immediately when I looked over to see things have gotten a little heavy. Katrina is now hanging off his body with her legs wrapped around his waist while her hand is trailing a path up his shirt, Troy, on the other hand, is gripping the back of her head in a fist as if he couldn’t press her face to his hard enough. He also has his other hand groping a butt cheek and squeezing as hard as he can which elicits a small moan from my super, horny cousin.

“What about the others?”

“Candy and Kimmy are already on the plane waiting.”

“Alright.” I follow when he walks around the car to open the trunk, he stares at the 4 suitcases in disbelief before turning to me with a raised brow. “My mothers doing,” I shrug sheepishly. “She pretty much packed half my closet in there.”.

Chuckling, he picks up two suitcases and pulls them out of the trunk with ease. I watch the way his biceps bunch up with effort and clear my suddenly dry throat, feeling flustered. To distract myself I grab Katrina's duffel bag and follow behind as we walk past the still interlocked couple and head towards the plane. A handsome, male flight attendant stepped out from the plane and tries to take the suitcases from Gavin, but he shook his head immediately.

“There are two more in the trunk of the car.” He told him and with a nod of greeting at me, the male attendant hurries down the stairs.

I step into the extravagant plane behind Gavin once he slips inside. Seated right in front, I spot Candy and the dwarf named Kimmy. As soon as they both spotted us, Candy grins at me with warmth. She gets to her feet with a bounce and rushes over to hug me, her rainbow coloured hair bouncing around her shoulders. “It’s so nice to officially meet you, Katrina can’t stop talking about you.” She pulls back and I couldn’t help but smile at the excited grin lighting up her entire face.

She’s cheerful.

“It’s nice to meet you too, though I can’t say she’s told me anything about any of you.”

Candy shrugged, her head tilted to one side. “Oh, please it’s alright. Given the circumstances, it’s only natural she wouldn’t have mentioned us.”

The fae made a guttural sound at the back of her throat, and it took me only a second to realize she’s clearing her throat loudly for attention. We all turn to her in surprise and see her glaring reproachfully at Candy. I took my time in studying dwarf like a fairy and admired the only physical, attractive quality on the fae which is her gorgeous honey blonde.

Candy giggles at the sight of her glare before turning to me with a shrug. “Sorry, this is Kimmy Quartz. She can get a little impatient when she wants something and right now she wants to meet you.”

Raising my hand, I smile awkwardly. “Hi, it's nice to meet you.”

She returns my smile with one of her own, and I tried not to flinch. Instead, my expression grows surprised to see her drop into a smooth curtsy. The lace ends of her dress grazing the floor. “It's nice to meet you too Lady Tatiana,” Straightening, she studies my face and sigh. “You look so much like your father.”

“Oh,” I mumbled, slightly uncomfortable with her calling me… Lady. It sounds so formal. “You know him?”

“Of course I did child, I’d known your father for over 160 years.” It wasn’t lost on me that she used past tense about knowing my supposed father but I decided not to ask.

“That’s an uhh… that’s a long time.”

“It’s quite small when you’ve lived for over three hundred years.”

I have to say, I give myself full credit and a pat on the back for not overreacting to her statement. I just simply nod with what I hope is a smile on my face.

“Kimmy, stop freaking out my cousin.” I turn to see Katrina and Troy walk in hand in hand and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

“Tatty, I want you to meet Troy. My mate. Troy, meet my beautiful cousin Tatiana.”

I raised my hand for a handshake and smile. “It's nice to meet you.”

“You too.” He replies with a curt nod, reaching out to shake my hand in his vice-like grip. He turns to everyone when he releases me and commands. “Get situated in your seats and buckle up, the plane is about to take off in 10mins.”

Immediately they all follow his instructions and I blink at their quick reactions, looks like we all know who's in charge here. I take a sit a couple of aisles down from everyone else and Katrina settles beside me with a small smile.

“You’re mate?” I question quietly as we buckle in our seat belt, and she nods with a happy smile, her eyes resting on Troy’s form a couple of seats down.

“It’s just a little joke between the two of us, we like to say we’re made especially for each other.” She grins cheekily.

“Well, aren’t you cheesy now that you finally have a boyfriend?”

“Whatever.” She sticks her tongue out childishly in response.