His Forever Love, Her Second Chance

More Questions Than Answers

My parents went on to explain everything and I'll I could do was look at them in disbelief. How could they have kept me in the dark for so many years? They lied to me, and for my own protection? I didn’t understand any of it.  

“Sweetheart, please say something, ask us anything you’d like to.” My father said and I was pulled out of my thoughts. I gave him a puzzled looked, and asked “How do you know I’m a shifter? What makes you sure? The doctors say I am bi-polar, how can I be a dragon?” I didn’t realize my voice was getting louder as I asked them question after question. “Lyneth, you’ve been seeing the pack doctor, he was instructed to keep things quite until we knew for sure that your dragon had surfaced. Please don’t blame Dr. Shultz for this, he was simply following our orders.” my mother explained, and it only made me more upset. “So why was I given medication? Explain to me why the meds calm me down when this stupid voice acts up?”  

“What you have been given is not treat any medical condition sweetheart, what the meds do is dull the voice a bit, long enough for us to figure out why it’s taken her so long to come forward. Clearly, we were wrong, she’s stronger than we thought.” They had spent years drugging me?!?!? How could they? “We did it to...” my father began, and I cut him off very dry, “yeah I know “protect” me, it’s still wrong!”  

“Lyneth, what is her name? Your dragon, what is her name?” my mother asked me. That’s what she cares about, my dragons name? “If you’re talking about the voice in my head, she calls herself Naga” My parents looked at each other in shocked, like I had said something in some other language. “Why are you giving each other that look? What’s wrong now?” My father came up to me and put his hands on my shoulders, “Sweetheart, we’re not 100% sure, but if Naga is who we think she is, she’s an ancient dragon, descendant of Echidna, the goddess of dragons. That explains why she might have taken so long to surface.” If I thought I had question then, boy was I wrong. My head was spinning in every direction possible, and I couldn’t make it stop.  

“What does that mean dad?” “What that means is that when word gets out of who you are we will soon be at war. Many Kingdoms will come and ask to join us in peace, others will ask for you be married to their next in line Alpha, while others will simply come for war.” As the words sunk in, I became more aware that I really could be a shifter, a dragon. “Lyneth, your father and I will do everything in our power to keep the peace within all the kingdoms and we will never marry you unwillingly. Dragons have mates, our mates are everything to us” she said as she took my father's hand and looked him in the eyes, “Your mate is your other half, he is what you live for, the air you breathe, the reason why you want to wake up every day, who you would die for, and should the time ever arise, who you kill for. Sion is my mate.” My father wrapped his hands around my mother and took her into his embrace, and I'm pretty sure he just sniffed her neck.  

“Gross!! Did you just sniff mom?” They both just laughed at me and then father explained, “We all have a distinct scent, your mother smells of roses and lilacs. Her sent is unique to her and it’s exhilarating to my dragon. You see, your mates scent calms you, sooths you.” I gave them a questionable look and just shrugged my shoulders and I asked, “If you say so. How did you know Sion was your mate?” “Your dragon will tell you, well more like she’ll scream it.” Mother laughed and gave father a kiss. “Guys! Stop it this is serious! Stop all that mushiness”  

They both stared at me, “Is something wrong? You’ve never cared about us being affectionate, what’s going on?” said my mother as she let go of dads embrace. “I...this...I can’t, this is just too much for me too fast, I have to go” that’s all I could say to them, for now. No way was I about to tell them that I might have found my mate and that it could be Flinn. I grabbed my phone and car keys and headed for the door but before I reached it my father met me there. “Sweetheart, it’s going to be alright, but please stay within the kingdom, do not venture off past the areas we have shown you. I’m begging you sweetheart.” My father has never been the type to beg, and you can see the distress in his face, as if it pained him to let me walk out the door right now. “I won’t dad, I promise” I gave him a kiss on the cheek and a big hug, and with that I got in my car and drove off.  

As I drove all I could think was everything my parents had talked to me about. I was a dragon, apparently a very old one at that. And from what little I did understand I had just made the kingdoms stir with all sorts of feelings against my parents, who just so happened to be King and Queen. I don’t if I'm upset, disappointed, hurt or just overwhelmed. I what I did know was what a mate was, and it seems that Flinn could be just that, or at least I think he is. I kept on driving, I was headed to the only place where I could always be at ease with myself and hopefully this would help me make sense of my life thus far.