The Dragon's Second Chance: The Past

Chapter 17: THE REASON Part 4

Princess Nuri’s POV:

I had been extremely surprised with myself for a while now. I knew I had only turned fifteen today, but Roark being with me all the time was making it intensely difficult to stay in control. I did not want him to leave my side, but I did not need to ask because he never left.

He had already asked me to marry him multiple times, but I always gave the same answer “I want to see the world, inclusive of the mortal cities before I have to take on the role of Queen. I want to go on adventures... And I am sure you will say marriage is a thrilling adventure by itself, but I will not get married till I am eighteen.” Mother and Father had been ecstatic to know that I would wait to get married since they were worried about the relationship progressing too quickly.

Today, on my fifteenth birthday, to my absolute surprise Roark excused himself to meet with his father. I knew King Fin had come to wish me for my birthday, but why the secluded meeting. “There is nothing secluded about it, he might be wanting to discuss certain confidential information or details. But I am sure he will tell me everything once the discussion is over.” I told myself.

But I could not seem to help myself. Since the day of my 12th birthday, I could always tell where Roark was, I could feel him. And so I traced my steps to the abandoned corridor. As I approached, I could hear someone pacing. This was not my mate, and right enough it was King Fin.

I wanted to move away since I could tell that the discussion was going to be an extremely serious one, and even took a few steps away. But then I heard the King talking, and then I heard something which drew my complete attention.

“Why have you not managed to get her to marry you yet?”

I got extremely excited, I wanted to marry Roark and knowing that even the King was anxious about it made me sway with excitement, but what I heard next made me freeze. 

“You know that you need to get her pregnant, so we can make work on our plan.”

Wok on our plan? Why do I need to get pregnant right away?

“And these orthodox King and Queen are not ready to let you’ll share a chamber even after me trying to convince them that the distance would weaken you’ll.”

What?? What is going on?? 

“Mark the damn female as yours and be done with it. She will not be able to resist once the marking is done. You know what happens to a marked unmated female... They go into intense heat, where not mating causes immense pain. Just do something about it. And quickly.” 

I had never thought I would hear such words in my life. The mate bond was sacred, a soul bond. Marking was meant to be entered in mutually, and I am sure Roark felt the same. Why was King Fin pressuring him? But what I heard next, felt like being stabbed in the heart with a cold spear.

"Yes, my King."

Roark agreed with him? I could not believe this. My mate, my fiancé did not seem to mind the idea of marking me without my consent.

My breath began to quiver, but I hid. After a couple of seconds, they left. They did not know I was there. They did not know I had heard everything they had just said. 

The moment they were out of earshot, I moved. I needed to get out from there, but I did not realise that I had tears streaming down my face, neither did I realise that I had started running. I hid my presence as I did not want anyone to see me in such a state. Before I knew it, I had gone past the guards, left the castle, and continued to move without stopping.

When suddenly “Breath Nuri... Breathe. I know what you are going through. But I just need you to breath and focus.”

It was Octava. “Where have you been? I tried connecting with you...” I trailed off realising that even though she had not responded to me I had not been worried. “What is wrong with me Octava? Why was I not worried when you were not responding. Why is all this happening to me? Why would Roark do this to me? I am his mate.”

“Nuri, listen to me. He is not your mate. I am so glad you can hear me now. I never stopped connecting with you. You just could not seem to hear me. But now everything will be okay. But at the moment, the first thing we need to do is leave this place, at least temporarily. We need to know what happened to us.”

I did not want to leave my mother and father, but from the way Octava spoke, I knew there was no other option. This had to be done. And so we started moving towards the border of the Draconis clan territory. 

We would decide where to go from there.