The Dragon Prince's Forbidden Affair novel Chapter 76

We sat in silence for a while before I broke it. "I'm really sorry about what happened between us."

Calvin shrugged. "I would have chosen a Prince over a future Beta too," he joked.

"I didn't tell you all of my dream... me and Lexus are mates. In the dream she explained why she chose us to be. I needed a mate to ensure that I'd come back and not stay in the human world."

"What? I guess that's possible, Diana has the power." He turned around. "Wait, someone's up. Sadia?" My heart skipped a beat.

Sadia walked from around the corner into sight. "I was coming to let someone in..." This was the first time I saw her since I had been here. "Are you and Lexus really mates? Or is that just another lie?"

I didn't know what else to say. "We are..."

She stared at me for a while. "I gotta go let them in..." She turned around.

"Wait who?" Calvin asked.

"Cade."

"You can't let him in Sadia." He turned to me. "You have your necklace don't you?" I nodded and pulled it out of my pocket. I wanted to see my brother, but it wasn't the best idea.

"Are you serious? Cade's been worried sick about Aqua." I wasn't sure if Cade would care at all after how terrible of a disappointment as a sister he said I was. "Everyone in the castle already knows she's here."

I frowned. "How?"

"They have an oracle who they had a vision. I just found out now. Cade isn't going to drag you back." She walked out of the longue and down the hall to the entrance.

I put my necklace back in my pocket and took a deep breath. I stood up when Cade walked into the longue and the first thing he did was hug me. "I'm sorry about what I said."

"It's okay... I'm sorry I wasn't there for you." It felt like we hadn't seen each other in so long but it was only a few weeks. "I'm better now, I promise I won't push you away." I wanted to be a good sister.

Cade pulled away. "The king and queen want you come back but I'm not going to force you."

"No way." Calvin said. "That's not what our goddess wants."

"If you come back you can be with Lexus. They know your mates now. They're fine with you being together just not in the public's eye. They're giving you two options. That or using the sixth stone we can transfer your holder abilities from you to someone else. They won't bother you anymore and you can be with Lexus. Either way you can be with Lexus, if you don't take either offer they won't stop trying."

I didn't love either of those options. I loved my abilities, and the moon goddess chose me to have them for a reason. "Aqua, we already have a plan, you don't have to go along with this," Calvin reminded me.

Cade stopped. "She specifically chose you. What but..." I didn't expect him to be jealous.

I stopped and turned to him. "It's not like that, I'm not special or anything. She chose me since I wasn't going to be raised in the castle."

We continued walking. "Why wouldn't she want the holder to be raised in the castle. They're supposed to be."

"No that's bullshit. The royal family has been manipulating our family for generations. I know that now so I can't work for the royal family anymore and I can't give my abilities to anyone else to work for them," I explained.

"That's a big accusation Aqua." Cade sighed. "Maybe other kings and queens knew about it but the current ones couldn't have known. They were probably taught the same as us." He could have been right. They might have not known they were passing down a lie. "We'll explain what Diana said to you and maybe they'll leave you alone." I'm glad he believed me about the dream.

We didn't talk for a little while before I asked, "Are you... with Sadia? Does she hate me?"

"We're together, yes but she doesn't hate you. She's still hurt by what you did. She misses you but she doesn't know how to forgive you or trust you."

"I get it. I miss her too, but I don't know how to apologize in a way that she'd appreciate. She knows me and Lexus are mates now but that doesn't really justify what we did." I didn't know what it was going to be like to see Lexus again.

"You'll both figure it out." Cade opened the door for me, and I walked into the castle it was late so no one was really around except guards. We walked up the staircase and my heart dropped when I sensed Lexus. It felt so intense.