The Dragon Prince's Forbidden Affair novel Chapter 21

He looked at me in the corner of his eyes. "No, Saturday night fucked me up." The night we spend together. "The mate bond is getting to me, it's better if we have as little interaction as possible before the full moon." I wonder what he meant by that, was the mate bond getting to me? I felt it strongly, even more since that night, but I'm used to ignoring my feelings... It gets easy to ignore when you've been rejected so many times. Lexus probably never had to ignore his desire for someone.

We walked until we got out of the castle. He didn't shift into his dragon form, instead we walked. I couldn't keep my eyes off the sky because the dragons were so incredible. I wanted to fly so badly. I felt Lexus pull me to the right. "Wh-what?" I said as I saw a dragon kid fly right past me.

"You have to pay attention; kids fly low a lot and can barely control their direction." Lexus looked up to see what I was looking at. Then he looked back at me. "Do you want me to fly us?"

I shook my head and blushed. "No, it's fine." I kept walking and he took the lead. We didn't talk for the rest of the walk.

When we got to the village we were immediately greeted. The village was small, but it had a warm feeling. I loved places where the community was friendly. Everyone seemed close and I'm sure they all knew each other. We were taken to a private area to talk about the problem. "Werewolves." The representative for the village said. "The local pack have been threatening us and stealing our resources. They're an annoyance and they've been everywhere."

"I'll deal with them myself." Lexus felt responsible for the werewolves. She gave Lexus more details than we left to find them.

"Are we going to the pack house?" I asked. It would be a nice excuse to see Calvin I guess. He had been texting a little over the weekend.

"You sound doubtful but weren't you defending Sadia?" I asked.

"I've been having many doubts about a lot of things lately Aqua. Ruben only hates me because he sees me as competition. I never gave him a reason to act on his issues with me until I decided to marry a member of his pack. My parents thought I could handle this one task but I'm the one who caused it." He opened up to me and I craved more of that. "When I first met the pack, I hid who I was because it was an escape for me. Me and Ruben were friends until they all found out. He was the only one to know at first. I couldn't hide it for too long because it's not like my family's faces weren't all over the news. His pack started to look up to me the way they looked up to him. As a leader and he resented that." They might have been good friends by know if Ruben didn't let jealously and insecurity get in the way. I kind of understood Ruben in a way. I knew Sadia saw me as her friend but I'm jealous that she gets to have my mate. I don't want to resent her. Lexus is kind of a jerk so maybe it's better that she has him. Lexus stood up. "I'll be back, I have to try again because I can't report back with nothing." He shifted and left.

I sighed and stared up at the sky as I waited. I didn't doubt that Lexus could figure all of this out. As his possible future adviser maybe, I was supposed to do more. How could I if I can't even shift? I never advised anyone. I'm not great at telling someone what they should do, and I never have been. If Lexus came back empty handed, I'm not sure what he should try to do. The only other thing I could think of is confronting Ruben. That might not do anything either. Cade would be better suited in advising Lexus and he'd probably know exactly how to help him. I jumped when I saw a wolf leap out of some bushes. "Uh..." I wasn't sure what to do or how I'd protect myself if I needed to. The wolf before me had to be one of the ones giving the village trouble.