Dragon king's Angel

Chapter 11

Ase

I never would have thought of Conner that way. I really thought he and William were close.

We all looked at each other because that was a lot of information to take in.

We came up with a plan for all of us to meet in private. We need to chat properly and mother and father, Loki and Oden need to be involved in this. Katy and Conner made plans to meet tonight so they can talk. I can see Katy is worried about accepting him. He would need to be put into our pack. If he accepts, then we know he is telling the truth about what he told us. Not wanting to be in that pack.

I pulled Katy aside and Frida joined us. We reassured Katy we are with her and whatever she chooses we will all be by her side.

I do want her to be with her mate, but I worry she could be hurt.

Frida and I kept reassuring her all would work out. Katy was not happy about the secret thing as she had been itching for Ashley in the ring, but she understood and respected what Conner said.

The rest of the party went off without a hitch. Everyone enjoyed themselves, ate, drank, danced and chatted.

Ashley at one point had left Williams' side. She was gone for a while. When she came back from around the back, she looked a bit devilished, her hair out of place and smudged lipstick. Whatever, that is their problem.

Dimitri asked me to dance, and we got to spend some time together. He told me about his tribe, all the people there.

I will be the first person to leave this pack to be with their mate. Mother and father know I will be in safe hands, especially as dragons have the oldest magic ever exist. I will really miss this pack, but I guess new adventures await.

We all enjoyed the rest of the party into the early hours of the morning.

Dimirtri joined me in my room that night. We just cuddled and kissed. After, I had a good laugh about how tall he was trying to fit on a double bed. I never needed a big bed, but now I should have gone for the bigger bed. Dimitri never complained once, he got comfortable cuddling up to me.

We did not take it further as we are not allowed to go further as needs to be done in his tribe, they have a special tradition that has going for over a thousand years and I will learn when I am there. I don't mind, as long as we can be together, that is all I care about. But damn it was hard.

That night was the best night's sleep I have ever had in my life. Dimitri was so warm. Usually, I'm always cold in the night, and my nightmares have been a lot better the longer I was away from the pack, I only get one now and then. But tonight, it was the best sleep. I don't even remember if I dreamed.

I prayed to the Goddess before falling asleep to help us all, help Katy and Conner. Prayed for William and Ashley to not know who I was, to keep this pack safe.

I thanked the Goddess for also giving me a mate, a very sexy dragon.

I noticed when Dimitri took off his shirt that he had a few tattoos dotted around his chest of wildlife and dragons, it came from around his back. I couldn't wait to explore them later.

I absolutely love tattoos, maybe one day when I am brave enough, I would get one.

In the morning waking up in Dimitri’s arms, I look up and Dimitri was already awake and watching me sleep, I felt my cheeks heat up as I must look a mess from sleeping.

‘’Good morning little one, did you sleep well?’’ Dimitri asked in that gravelly voice of his, which seemed deeper this morning.

‘’I did thank you, how did you sleep?’’ I asked a little awkwardly as I couldn’t stop thinking about if I looked a mess.

‘’Best sleep I have ever had little one.’’ He kissed me on the forehead and said, ‘’Ill let you go to the bathroom and get ready for today, I’ll go to my room and get ready, I will be outside waiting for you.’’

When Dimitri left the room, I quickly bolted for the bathroom and got myself ready for the day. As promised Dimitri was outside waiting for me. We made our way down to breakfast going where everyone was sitting.

Walking past I looked in the dining room as a few whispered, tense words were said, as if someone was telling off a child. Lo and behold Ashley and William.

The eye roll was hard to resist, but when I see my father’s face, I nearly stopped in my tracks, he looked pissed. He looked over at me closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then the mind link came through.

*I swear to the Goddess I need to buy you extra chocolate or ice cream or something to make up for when you came here, how the hell you put up with these two is beyond me, I am ready to kill them! *

*I know father, they are hard work, just go to your happy place, it’s the best way to ignore them. Do you need any help, have a pretend meeting or something? *

*It’s ok sweetheart, but thank you, go and get breakfast. *

I felt guilty leaving father with them, but I know he could handle them.

Stepping into the kitchen a lot of people were already up eating, laughing and sharing stories, some were outside sparring. It looked like it was another beautiful day, the Goddess is keeping the weather good for us.

After breakfast we all made our way to the trials so the other packs who didn’t compete yesterday will have a chance today. This year a lot of packs have applied so it will be a weeklong maybe over a week.

Today I will be sitting with Dimitri, Damion, mother and father. I never have sat in the audience booth to watch, usually we do not have as many packs turn up for the tournament and I would watch from the side lines as I done my daily chores, helping where I was needed.

The smaller packs seem to have been practicing a lot more, they are the ones who always come each year to help them train harder and learn about what we do to never be invaded. The bigger packs seem to be getting cockier, believing they have more numbers, so it makes them stronger. The hard lesson of reality all packs go through is just because you have the numbers doesn’t make you better than the smaller packs, training, dedication to learning and taking advice helps you to stay safe, the bigger the pack the more lazy they can get as it is always, someone else will do it, we have enough warriors and other excuses, it will get you killed.

It was very interesting to sit and watch everyone, but I did get a bit bored sitting there. Gunner was running the show making sure no one cheated and some of our warriors kept an eye n the packs as some liked to wind each other up, especially the Alphas, they just can’t be together. One pack caught my attention, the Snowstorm tribe, they had a new Alpha who was female. She never reacted to the bait of the males and was extremely strong when she done the trial. I had to go and greet her.

I let everyone know I was going down to speak to her and Dimitri got up and followed me without a word.

The female Alpha sees us walking over and her back straightened and her face went blank, she was on the defense.

‘’Hi, I’m Ase and this is my mate Dimitri, I just wanted to come over and introduce us and say you were amazing on the trails, your pack is very good also they have been trained well under your leadership.’ The Alpha female relaxed when I said this and stuck out her hand to introduce herself.

‘’I’m Raven it’s good to meet you both and thank you my pack has been working extra hard this year for these trials, I took over a year ago when my father passed away and have been training with them.’

‘’I am so sorry about your father, he would be proud of what you have done in a year.’

I had a great chat with Raven and learned a lot about her pack, they live at the edge of the mountain and are the watchers. Her pack was always strong until one day they got invaded, they couldn’t call out for help as all communication lines were broken. That was the day she lost her father. Raven had not had a chance to mourn. Instead, she honored him by training harder and her pack to train harder, no one was left out of training not even the kids, the mistake her father done was not letting the kids train as he wanted them to be kids. I understand what he was doing but they do need to learn to at least defend themselves till help arrives.

Dimitri joined in the conversation and gave a few tips to Raven for her pack, and she was grateful for it. We met her mate Fenris who also was a great fighter, Dimitri and Fenris ended up having a chat about fighting and different moves, me and Raven spoke about her father. She was so brave and strong telling his story to me, I just pray to the Goddess to keep her and her pack safe, to keep giving them strength and to help Raven mourn her father.