Treasure Of Dragons, Royal Dragons Book 1 Chapter 106

Ria

I wasn’t able to really wrap my head around what the fuck was happening. It seemed like suddenly everything was upside down and topsy-turvy. I was looking at the face of the man whom I had been told was my father, and was dead. My daughter, Hope, just touched his face and pulled up his dragon, she talked to it, then she just gave it a wet baby kiss.

She turns back to me and holds out her hand opening and closing her little fist, so I step forward. She reaches up and pats my face just as she had done to David, and I immediately feel my dragon slide forward, and I know scales are rippling across my face as they had done on David’s face.

The instant I look up and meet David’s eyes it’s like getting struck by lightning in my chest. I suddenly feel this huge tug, like now he and I have a rope tied between us and I can feel it pulling. I hear a low growl from his dragon, and mine responds. He steps forward with Hope right between us, bends down, and sniffs. Then he huffs air at me and my dragon purrs to him in response. This isn’t the same sound she gives to the guys, this is different, but I apparently don’t speak dragon, because I have no fucking clue. 

Hope turns and latches back onto me, and just like that, the moment is over. I grab her and pull her to me, my dragon slides back behind me, not gone, but not in my face either. I look down and she is smiling at me and still patting my face. I look up and David is looking at me just blinking, like he just got smacked upside the head like me. 

“Okay, I have never seen anything like that before. So, I am probably reeling just like you two are. What happened between your dragons? I knew they were talking, but I wasn’t exactly sure what all happened.” Drago is watching us.

“We have a connection. I felt that. I have no idea what that means though, so again. I have no fucking idea what the fuck is going on. I think I am going to take Hope in the other room and sit down before I fall on my ass with her in my arms.” With that, I do exactly that and go sit on the couch with her on my lap.

Drago actually brings me my coffee and sits on the coffee table, then he sits next to me. He’s not being cuddly or anything, just being there like he is supporting me. I actually do appreciate it. David also comes into the room but he sits in the armchair on the other side of the coffee table. There he can see me, but he’s not crowding me. 

“When your children were born did you feel a connection to them from?” He asked both of us.

“Yeah, as soon as I see them I love them and feel like they are mine and I will do anything for them.” I tilt my head not quite sure what he is asking.

“Yes, there’s a connection I feel to all of my children, the ones that are not biologically mine, the tie forms after they are born, and I feel it attaches to me,” Drago said and I looked at him blinking. 

David just nods his head, “What just happened was similar to that. My tie to my daughter had been severed a long time ago. It was one of the reasons so many of my family said she was dead. I still didn’t believe it. That connection you felt, that was the connection to my daughter that had been missing all of these years, reforming. You are my daughter, there’s no doubt.” 

I just sat there stunned, not sure what to say. I am glad when Hope starts getting my attention and I know she’s hungry. I pull the throw off the back of the couch and use it as cover, then I get myself situated and she starts to nurse. She watches me and I watch her, she keeps smiling at me and patting me, but she does that a lot. I am humming to her while she eats.

“Where did you hear that song?” David’s face is bone white as he asks me that

“Ah, I don’t know. I have always hummed it to myself, I have heard my dragon make a humming sound that is like it, and I have always hummed it to my children.” I’m not sure what’s wrong.

“Your mother used to hum that song to you all the time.” Now, I feel color leave my face and Hope fusses, so I go back to watching her and humming. 

“Okay, let’s just establish, we have now been given plenty of evidence that you are father and daughter. We also know who Collette was and the reason why she probably did what she did, but as we can’t ask her, that is speculation on my part. So, now the question is what do we do from here?” Drago looked at both of us.

“I honestly don’t know. This is all so foreign to me. I don’t know what to do.” I know I am feeling lost. 

“Okay, let’s just start from there. How about right this second, we give you both a bit of time to just absorb that information. I am not sure how much longer they are going to be able to keep the celebration going. I know Pyre is really upset, David, so she wanted to know how you were doing. I know that the guys and the other kids are going to be very anxious to see you as well Ria. So, what if we call a halt right now? We can decide if we want to pick stuff up later this evening, or if we want to wait until tomorrow. How does that sound to both of you?” I looked at Drago, very grateful right this second that he was helping me deal with this. 

“I think that is a good idea. Yeah, I should talk to Pyre so she knows what’s happening.” David looked at me and I nodded, letting him know I would be here. 

I watch Hope as she watches me, then her eyelids start to droop, and eventually she falls asleep, and her little mouth falls open, and I pull her off my breast. I get my clothes all situated and then put the throw back on the couch. So, now I just have to figure out what the fuck to do from here.