The Dragon Prince's Forbidden Affair novel Chapter 57

How Did This Start?

Lexus' POV

Six years ago.

"You're going to love the pack house," Ruben said to me. "You can bring Cade around next time."

I followed him. "Okay but you're not going to mention that in the prince, right?" I didn't want to be treated the same way I was treated in the castle. If I were then there would be no point in me being here.

Ruben scoffed. "I can keep a secret Lexus." He opened the door to the pack house. "This is where all of the pack members eleven to nineteen live. Since I'm the future alpha I'll be in charge of this house when I'm older. Even after I'm nineteen, plus there are a few who are over nineteen who are supervisors who report to my father. When my father is ready for me to lead the pack, I'll take over the main pack house. Right now, this house is run by the beta's son since he's a lot older than me."

I looked around at the wolves. They seemed stronger than I thought, especially the older ones. I respected them right away for that. "There aren't any dragon shifters in your pack?"

Ruben chuckled. "There's one but she's a screw up. She thinks she's better than us because she's stronger than most of us. She's selfish, she doesn't understand how to treat us like family. We're pack that's how it's supposed to be. She thinks we're so against her." He didn't make her sound all too great. "She acts like a boy too. I wish you were in our pack." He started to introduce me to other pack members, and I didn't meet the girl he was talking about.

I came over whenever I could for the next few weeks. Cade came along with me half the time. It was hard sneaking away from the guards, but Cade was a lot of help with the warning texts he'd send me when he wasn't with me.

I finally saw the girl Ruben was talking about. "Hey stop!" She pushed one of the boys messing with her. "I'm not afraid to breath fire in your damn face Phil." She threatened. "I swear to Diana I hate you guys."

One of the girls walked to her. "Stop saying that Sadia! You act like you're not a part of the pack, they're just teasing. They know they're not really going to hurt you."

Sadia spit towards the girl then got tackled by her. "See?" Ruben said. "She takes everything too personally."

"Hey!" I said but they keep fighting.

The girl shifted into her wolf form and Sadia shifted into her dragon form which was barely small enough to be in the halls.

I shrugged. "Maybe I don't." I left and came back with a first aid kit. "Fine I do." She seemed cool to me in a sad way. I started cleaning her new cuts and bandaging them. "Why do you get into fights with your own pack?"

"They don't see me as part of their pack that's why, it's because they treat me the way they do." I sighed. "I'm not as aggressive as they think, I just don't know how else to react. I don't know how to turn things around, they hate me."

"Ironic since you're the one yelling that you hate them," I joked.

After that we were friends. We'd talk sometimes when I came over and I even had her over the castle a few times. My parents loved her right away. As we got older, we got closer as friends.

"Lexus it's hell here. I've been trying to be more friendly like you said for a year. I just don't have a connection with them. They'll only ever see me as the aggressive defensive girl who doesn't belong." She pouted. "Can you talk to them?"

"No Sadia, me talking to them won't do anything." I refused. "Just leave, you're eighteen now, it's not the same as when we were fourteen."