Dragon Prince Fairy

Chapter 16

Aurora

I managed to sleep for a while. But when I woke up my mind started to wonder again. I wish my sister was here. She knew so much more than me and always helped me to think.

A knock at my bedroom brought me out of my thoughts and I shouted for them to come in. Ase popped her head through the door seeing I was up and still dressed she walked into the room.

"Aurora, I'm sorry if I woke you, but we need to borrow you. Someone was caught on our borders in a cloak. She claims to know you." I wasn't sure if I should go or not.

Taking a chance I went with Ase downstairs. In the living room a figure had their back to me, they had blue hair. I know that hair anywhere. When they turned, I couldn't believe my eyes, my sister was here. My little sister, Willow. I ran to her, and she ran to me. I couldn't believe my sister was here. Grabbing her face and looking at her, taking her in. Two years I haven't seen her for. She looks so grown up.

I confirmed I know her she is my sister, Ase and Dimitri nodded, and the guards backed away. Willow was here. I couldn’t believe it. I had been thinking so much about her and now she is here. She told us she had to run as the king who targeted me was now trying to marry her and they have never given up looking for me.

That bastard was just like his dad, he wanted to have more than one chosen mate. He wanted a lot of chosen mates. It made me feel sick that he targeted my sister, how our parents sold her also. She managed to escape before the curse was put on her.

I asked if it was ok to take her upstairs to my room which we can share Tyr’s parents agreed and let us go up. I see Erik on the way to the stairs he was stood near the kitchen door, and he was staring at Willow longing in his eyes. He never made a move towards her, never said anything which I found strange. When he sees me look at him, he just shook his head no.

Showing Willow to my room we got caught up. My poor sister being the next target. If I knew she would have been targeted, I would have stayed to protect her. I should have forced her to leave when I was running but she kept refusing, telling me it wasn’t the right time yet.

Willow told me the full story on why she couldn't leave when I did as she was researching and learning. She has suspected we was being lied to and then later found out about the curse on me. she stayed behind to go through the archives where the truth had been hidden from us all.

When she got promised to the king, she knew she had to run. Willow asked me about my life and what I had done. Telling Willow everything, she sat and listened. I have missed this. No judgment or interrupting me as I speak to her about everything.

Telling her about the curse I had, never to know my mate and now I may have one and thrown it away. We never see him downstairs so I couldn’t show her him.

"Aurora, how do you feel around Tyr?" For Willow to ask me this means she knows something.

"I feel comfortable and safe. He is the most gorgeous man I have ever seen. It breaks my heart to see him upset. It nearly killed me to walk away from him, and somehow I ended up here after a tree fell and blocked my path."

"Sorry Aurora that was me, I asked the forest to push you in the right direction hoping it was to your mate." Willow looked embarrassed telling me this. I knew the forest pushed me that way on purpose!

"Aurora, I have been following you for nearly two weeks. I had the room opposite you. You didn't leave for a week. When you did, I followed you here, the young dragon see me trying to help you, I ran hoping he would follow me to get him away from you, he instead took you back to the cabin. They forest wouldn't allow me to you. Until now."

My own sister has been here for a week! She couldn’t see me! We learn that everything happens for a reason, and the spirits guide us, I just wish they let her come to me quicker.

She told me everything she has done following me. "Aurora, I had to find you as the king didn't just want to marry me. He is still after you, to marry us both. He wants to go back to the old ways." That slim ball, he wants to go back to having multiple wives.

Before Kings were allowed to have multiple wives or a harem, this was stopped hundreds of years ago as the fairy population was dying off, but soon populated, this was another reason to shut our portal, the humans hunted us down. The spirits of the forest showed us a portal to another realm where we built new lives.

I felt guilty again for leaving her there. I should have stayed and just married the king. With this curse I was never to be happy, and now I am to be hunted. Should I just give up, and go back home? I need to keep everyone safe here. Maybe I should talk to Ase and explain I need to leave so I can keep everyone safe.

What would Tyr think?

Maybe I should talk to him, I need to tell him about everything so he would understand.

"Aurora, I also brought some over news about your curse. There is a way around knowing if Tyr is your mate." Willow smiled at me, before she could go on and get her hopes up, I told her I know about the marking.

Shaking her head no "No you don't understand what you have told me, the feelings you have with Tyr means it is true, they didn't put the full spell on you. All you need to do is kiss him."

"Willow, I have kissed his cheek before and nothing." Again, Willow getting her hopes up.

"Aurora, you are not listening, you need to kiss him, if he is your true mate. It will unlock the curse." Looking at Willow seeing she was being serious. I was happy again. I wish I had her when I met Tyr to tell me this, maybe then I would be happy with him.

Would Tyr go along with it? I haven't been the best with him pushing him away and trying to escape. To be honest I haven't seen him since arriving here. I see him at his grandparents and on the hill then he has been gone since.

"Willow, I have to tell the truth, I haven't been the best with Tyr, I have pushed him away constantly. To be honest since I came here, I haven't seen him once. What if he doesn't want me?" My heart started to beat faster, what if I have lost my mate, the biggest fear I have always had and now I have lost him for being so stupid.

Willow hugged me and reassured me that he is my mate of course he would want to be with me. The bad feeling in my gut started again. Why do I feel like I have lost my mate?

I went to the forest to ask for guidance and help me win over my mate. Hoping he still wanted me. No answer from the forest, this is not good. When the forest is quiet, it means you are on your own.

I sat on the floor a few tears escaped. Looking to the sky, I thought about the lady who visited my dream, I whispered a prayer up to her, to ask for help.

Again, I got nothing.

A few days passed and not once did I see Tyr. No one offered to tell me where he was. Each day I felt further away from him.

I spoke with Ase and Dimitri about the king looking for us. They assured we would be safe here and we can stay as long as we want. After these few days, I learned my mate is not welcoming me no more. Speaking with Willow, we agreed to leave tomorrow.

I don't feel right being here, knowing my mate is avoiding me, not wanting me. I have made the biggest mistake of my life. Now I need to live with it. In the morning Willow and I spoke with Ase. I explained I needed to go.

I asked her pass on to Tyr a letter I wrote out for him. Apologising to him and if he wants to move on, I will understand, I will leave the ball in his court. Thanking him for being patient with me and being so kind. I wished him the best future.

I added in there, that I hope they could keep an eye on Willow, I will be going back home in a week’s time, so the fairy king doesn't target everyone here for housing me. If they haven't found me first.

Soon I will be married to the king, I will make him oath me to not go after my sister. With an oath for us fairies he wouldn’t be able to go against it as it would kill him to do so. Then I would leave the world. No way could I be stuck to the king a dirty, nasty man.

Maybe in the afterlife, I might get a mate.