Chapter Thirteen
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Wren
It had been mind blowing, being with her but I still felt guilty as I gathered her into my arms on the bed. Our bodies coated with sweat.
Opal was shivering , the sweat from the heat of our love making cooling rapidly on her skin and I pulled her even closer. Letting the warmth my dragon naturally gave off surround her. Hopefully I could keep her warm that way.
I hated the fact that she didn’t have her dragon anymore. I just didn’t understand why she would lock that part of her away. Even when she had been in danger of being raped she hadn’t pulled that damn collar from her neck.
Was she that disgusted with her dragon that she would rather be hurt then free her.
It made unbelievably sad.
“That was.” She sighed and finally her head came down to rest on my chest. My heart beat just a little faster as she relaxed against me.
“Amazing, perfect?” I chucked, letting my cheek rest on her mussed up hair.
“Wren….”
She was going to say she regretted it. I knew her. I knew how her brain worked. Opal might be a dragon princess but she was the queen of self sabotage. Even hundreds of years ago she had been the same and the centuries hadn’t changed her.
“It was perfect.”
I blinked back my surprise. Turning my head to stare down at her. My eyebrows knitting together.
“I’ve missed you so much Wren.” Tears made her voice thick , her breath hitched and my heart shattered into a million pieces. “I’ve missed you every day. Every single day.”
“My love.” My voice wavered and broke. What could I say to that? They were the words I had been longing to hear for years. And yet they were heartbreaking.
“My love.” I said it again. My arms tightening around her. “I have missed you as well.” The next words out of my mouth were true. Probably my only truth. “I love you Opal, I have always loved you. From that first moment you fell into my arms. And I have never stopped.” Blinking rapidly I willed myself not to cry. But it was hard.
This was everything I had dreamt of. Everything and more.
Tilting her face up towards mine, I brushed my lips against hers.
“I love you… Wren I wish things had been different. I wish….” She lost the battle to not cry . Tears fell freely down her cheeks and I kissed each one away.
I hated that she was crying. I hated even more that she had been going through the same hell I had been for years and years.
“We can’t change the past. Even though I wish we could. But we have the future. We have now.”
We could make it work this time. I knew we could.
“Could we stay here?” Her words were hopeful.
I wanted to give her everything she wanted. Just like I always had. “For a while but you will be safer with the resistance Opal. They will look after you.”
Her pale eyes widened. “And you?”
Sighing I pulled her head down to my chest. “I will look after you as well, Opal. Now and for always. I will never ever let you down again.”
Watching her sleep, might just be my newest past time. She looked peaceful when she slept and I hated that I would have to wake her soon.
But morning was fast approaching and I needed to get supplies if we were to stay here for a while. Still, I could let her sleep for a while.
I could enjoy the feel of her body next to mine. My eyes had fluttered closed when I remembered.
I had promised Opal that I would be there for her. Promised that I would love and protect her from here on out. And it was all a lie.
I couldn’t do any of that. I couldn’t keep her for ever. She wasn’t meant for me, however much my dragon wanted her to be.
Fate was cruel indeed. We loved each other , our dragons were meant to be together forever and yet history had to repeat itself.
Opal had a destiny no one could fight against. She had to mate again. But not with me. With a gold dragon. A gold dragon that may not even exist. It was the only way our people would be truly free. A child born of that union.
Which meant I had to let her go again. I was under no illusions that this time it would kill me. I had barely survived the last time and this time… this time I would have nothing else to live for.
She would be lost to me forever.
And my dragon would wither and die. There was no escaping it.
But I could keep her safe until the day she became someone else’s… again. I would give everything I had to her until that day.
Staring down at her sleeping form, I let my lips capture hers. My fingers gently trailing down her cheek. She moaned softly under my touch. Her hands reaching for me. “Love you.” She mumbled .
And my heart broke into a million pieces. “I love you too,”
Our eyes met as hers fluttered open. Sleep clouding them as she gazed up at me. And the love in them floored me.
I didn’t know how I was going to tell her the truth. I just knew I had too.
“We need to talk my heart.”
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