Treasure Of Dragons, Royal Dragons Book 1 Chapter 47

Ria,

I am in the master suite every night again. My dragon is back so the guys are happy, but there are nights she doesn’t come forward, and I look at the ceiling or the wall as they use my body. They look at me funny on those nights, like I have robbed them of their pleasure because it’s me and not my fucking bitch of a dragon.

Bran is now 1 month old, so it was decided by the guys that he’s now old enough to take to town. So today, Drago, Ash, Natalia, the girls, Brand, and I will go into town to the cafe. At least they’re not subjecting me to shopping torture for today.

So the guards drive us to the Cafe just in time for lunch, but of course, I’m sure the guys already sent out the notice that the kids would be here today. I have already been warned to be on my best behavior. Ash has a sedative if I get too crazy.

So, I am now going to be subjected to watching my children be passed around to a bunch of people I don’t trust and hate, and I have no say in it. They keep saying I’m their mate, then they do bullshit like this and I laugh in their faces.

We walk in with both strollers and all of us adults, plus the guards. I see that there’s a special place set up in the back, with my corner spot all ready for me. Drago is talking to Helena about helping her to expand the Cafe. With us and all our entourage, it’s getting to be a tight fit.

So I walk over with Brand’s stroller and Drago is bringing the girls. The girls get set up in high chairs now, but Brand is in my arms as soon as I sit down. Drago gives me a look and I know he’s telling me to be ready to hand him over.

Helena sets down my tea and starts gushing about how cute he is, I just nod not really looking at her. I am looking down at my son’s face trying to brace for what I know is coming. Everyone orders, but me, of course, I just stick with tea so I don’t projectile vomit all over the damn table.

Before I am ready, but let's be honest, I’d never be ready for this bullshit. Drago comes to me and looks me in the eye in warning and takes him out of my arms. I look down at the table. I can’t look at any of these people touching my children or I am going to start screaming.

I put my hands under my legs and sit on them to keep them from grabbing something and throwing it. I am gritting my teeth and I am biting the inside of my cheek to keep myself quiet. I can feel my whole body shaking though, so there’s not really anything I can do about that shit.

I have to make my head go somewhere else or I am going to blow. Finally, I feel it work and I am just detaching from the whole scene, my head is drifting and I don’t hear or see it anymore. I like this place it’s quiet, and my heart doesn’t hurt here, because absolutely everything is numb.

Drago

I have become the villain I never wanted to be. I threatened Isobel to make my mate return to our bed. That first night, I was very surprised her dragon didn't come out, but she never did. Ria was there the whole time, and not once did we get a response out of her body. By then it had been too long and our dragons would no longer let us ignore it. So, I did what I had to do, to help myself, my brothers, and our dragons.

Now her dragon is showing up the majority of the time again, but there are still nights where it’s Ria, and there’s no response from her body no matter what we do, and she just shuts us out, no matter how much we try to love her, and tell her we do, it just doesn’t get through to her.

Today is another time that I am being the villain. I told her, along with coming back to our room and bed, she had to return to the cafe. Too many people and their dragons were becoming increasingly agitated and upset at not seeing her.

So when we walked in everyone was ecstatic at seeing her. She took her usual spot and got Brand out of the stroller to hold him. I looked at her reminding her that she has to cooperate and let people see him and hold him as well as the girls. That’s why we waited till he was 1 month old, so he would be bigger before anyone else held him.

We all order and talk over our food, but Ria just watches Brand and the girls, and talks to them some. Ash nods at me and he puts the girls, with Natalia’s help, into their stroller, and wheels them over to the area in the middle where the people swarm around them.

I walk to Ria and pick Brand up out of her arms. She specifically doesn’t look up at me. I see her tuck her hands under her legs and hunch her shoulders forward. I am very surprised when I see her whole body start to shake. It gets worse and I can see that she’s having trouble breathing. Then all of a sudden it all just stops. She rocks ever so slightly, but other than that, she’s completely still.

I am actually worried about what’s happening, and I can see Ash watching her too. After people have a chance to hold him, I take Brand back to Ria, I touch her and she looks up, but her eyes are glassy and blank, she takes him and holds him, even looks at him, but she’s still blank.

Now, this starts to worry me. She’s never been blank with the kids, only us, so I am hoping now that she has him back with her, she’ll snap out of it. I put him in his stroller and she followed me out of the cafe. She gets in the car and just sits there. I even need to remind her to buckle her seatbelt.

We get the kids in the house and upstairs to the nursery, Brand starts to cry and Ria looks at him. She takes him and sits in the rocking chair and starts feeding him, everything she’s supposed to do, but it’s as if a robot is doing it all. Ria is not really here, just her body. I catch Isobel watching with huge eyes, so I know I’m not imagining it.

She doesn’t smile at him, she looks at him and watches him nurse, but she doesn’t smile and make little noises and talk to him the way she normally does. Now, I am extremely worried about what today might have actually done to Ria.

Is she coming back?