Treasure Of Dragons, Royal Dragons Book 1 Chapter 121

Ria

“Okay, I think we need to go a little further back. We had talked about Braun and his brother and their whole world of fucked up. Well, when I was 14 he was supposedly arrested and sent to prison because of all of that bullshit. What I didn’t tell anyone until very recently is that he really liked to think of himself as a scientist. So, he experimented on me. He told me specifically that part of these experiments was for the purpose of him being able to use me to breed him an army or some shit. So, I know that part of all of those experiments and treatments led to me having 19 kids to begin with, and being able to get pregnant constantly, well until I finally had the plumbing removed.” He grinned with me at that.

“The other thing that I think now, that I didn’t even think about until back at the Village when you said that a male’s bite is toxic to a female, is that my body and my dragon react differently because of all of the fucked up shit Braun did to me, and gave me, and experimented on me with. So, that is one thing I have thought about. 

I took a big breath and let it out, “Well, when he was arrested, I got put into foster care, foster care with me was just like a lighter version of being around Braun. I still got abused by those who were supposed to be parental and sibling figures. So, I said fuck it and ran. I lived on the streets for several years. I felt like no matter what bad shit happened to me on the streets, at least there it didn’t parade as something good and honest, no it walked up and told you to your face it was bad and evil and it would fuck you up. It still felt better for the honesty part of it. Then just before I turned 17 I had made my way up to Ohio, to Broken Bridge. There was a shelter there I would go to some nights, and a woman named Maggie who volunteered took a shine to me. She told me about a friend named Elizabeth Drayton whom she wanted me to meet. Eventually, I gave in and met her.” 

I had to stop and gather myself together. I hadn’t talked about Elizabeth and that whole thing in years, and it was still hard for me to do so now, “The second I met Beth I felt like she was love and light, and I was enamored of her. He worked with a good friend at CPS, Jennifer Montgomery to push through making Beth my foster mom. She had 3 other kids with her, Cin, or Cinnamon Sugar, whose mother had named her while high as a kite, and she became my sister the second we met. The two younger boys Marcus and Elija Montoya, became my brothers. They were my family in every sense of the word, and we loved each other very much. I had gone with Cin, as was our normal habit on Saturday mornings when it was open, to the Farmers market, we wanted cherries so Beth could make a pie.” I had to stop and there were tears falling down my face, he reached over and held my hand. 

“Beth encouraged me to apply for college knowing how much it meant to me. So, when a well-dressed gentleman professing to be from Cornell with papers showing a full-ride scholarship I didn’t hesitate. It was no time till I was on the college campus with a new roommate and met her brothers. After they got that letter about the whole threatening war thing, they decided the only course of action they had was to take me and mate me, believing that as soon as I learned they were attempting to prevent a war, I would forgive them and it would all be sunshine and roses. So, Natalia drugged me, they took me to their private plane, they all bit me, they all mated me, and I woke up here in Romania and learned that dragon shifters existed and that I was one. To say I lost my shit would be an understatement. With my background, and always being told I was only worth what was between my legs or my uterus, or that I would have everyone I loved ripped away from me, and I was created to be owned and used, the fact that I had been taken and lost my family and now had all of this shit happening again, created so much shit with me, I ended up trying to kill myself when I leanred I was pregnant and that I did indeed have a dragon inside of me. Drago and the guys had been out flying, his dragon caught me when I threw myself off the battlements.” We had to both just sit there for a few minutes after I said that.

“After learning that I was carrying the first set of triplets in dragon history, Drago went to a witch friend not too far from here that they often worked with, so yes she was another cog in this whole shit show of who are these people really, and had her work a very strong spell into this cuff that I have on my wrist. He put it on me, told me it would prevent me from ever hurting myself, leaving, or hurting them or any other dragon, and that was that. They believed that I couldn’t let my family know I was a dragon shifter so they faked my death and made sure I would never be able to set foot in the US again. My sister Cin didn’t believe I was dead, and I have never explained why she would have thought that to the guys, but she went looking for proof and help, got tangled up with the wrong person, and he killed her. Then my foster mom Beth lost it, the state took the boys, they went back to their druggie mom, there was a fire, Marcus died with their mom and Elija was badly burned. Beth went off-grid and disappeared, I learned several years later that she died of a heart attack. They believed if they loved me enough, I would get over how this all started, and things would be fine. They thought they had no choice but to prevent a war. They thought so much bullshit that is now coming out is bullshit it’s hard to wade through. So, part of all of this is knowing that because of all of the wrong beliefs they had, it led to so much with me, and what they then did to me, and thought would be okay, so it’s all a big huge rabbit hole to hell now, and I am still trying to find the light sometimes.”

“Okay, I don’t know about you, but I need a break before I blow a gasket after all of that.” So we went outside for some fresh air.