Treasure Of Dragons, Royal Dragons Book 1 Chapter 71

Desiree

I just lay there, as over time the venom finally started to leave my body and I was able to move in incremental steps. I felt my fingers, then my toes, then it worked its way up my body. Eventually, I was able to move. I finally walked, limping in severe pain, to the bathroom. I saw myself in the mirror. My hair was a rat's nest. I had bite marks all over my shoulders as they hadn’t healed. I knew they had forced the mating bonds as I felt the unwanted presence in my chest. 

My lip was busted and blood was all over my chin, and had dripped down to my chest. I focused on that for a moment. Then I moved down my bruise-covered body, to the dried white on my thighs. I ran to the toilet and proceeded to puke my guts up over and over. I couldn’t stop throwing up. 

I crawled into the shower stall and turned on the hot water. I felt so cold I needed to feel the heat. I scrubbed and scrubbed, I huddled on the floor and threw up again and again. I have no idea how long I huddled there under the scalding hot water. I just kept scrubbing, but I couldn’t get clean. I would never be clean again. 

I did eventually put my clothes back on that I had been wearing, not even caring if they were clean or not. I wasn’t clean so I thought I would contaminate any clothes that touched my body. I just huddled on the floor in the corner. I just rocked thinking of my mother and sisters. Were my sisters going through this same hell? My mother had tried to stop this but my fathers hadn’t cared. They didn’t care if they hurt me, they didn’t care, that was the bottom line. My fathers had never cared about me, they had condemned me to this hell. 

I saw Anthony, and I pulled into myself getting as far into the corner as I physically possibly could. He squatted down a little way from me and he looked at me.

“I’m sorry it went that way. We honestly thought the venom would help you enjoy what we had done. We never thought for a moment that it would work differently on you. I am sorry it wasn’t pleasurable for you. We will try to find what will make it so for you next time.” 

The tears started pouring down my face at his mention of another time. That they would continue to assault me no matter what I said. They had discovered my weakness and the way to basically hold me hostage while they used me. 

“You are our mate, and we will make the best of it. Our people are on the brink of extinction, and you must help us to replenish our numbers. So, yes, we will have you as our mate. Maybe now that we are mated your dragon will appear and she can help you. I’m not sure why I can’t feel her now, but she I am sure is there, and she will come out. That should help you deal with being a mate.” 

He got up and left. What he didn’t know, I knew what happened to my dragon. Whatever the venom had done to me, it had also locked her away. I couldn’t feel her anywhere. I think my dragon was actually dead because of what they had done to me. 

Anthony

I had never thought in a million years that the venom wouldn’t work, in fact, it acted like a paralyzing agent on her and she wasn’t able to move or hardly speak. We had continued to bite her trying to push the response we expected her body to have. It never worked, in fact once she started having trouble breathing, we had to stop biting her. 

She cried the whole time, but we needed to complete the mating bond. Our people needed new children born, and with how many children her mother had been able to have, we were counting on it being the same for her. 

When I sank inside her the first time and she screamed as much as she could, and I could feel that she was totally dry, I felt like shit. She was hysterical as she was in a lot of pain, as she’d of course had been a virgin. We ended up trying to use lube to stimulate her, and to at least make it easier for her when her body never responded to anything we did. She never once had an orgasm. I had never even considered the possibility that with my own mate, she would never feel pleasure at my hands. 

I was thinking about what if this was the way it would always be. We assaulted her, she knows it and we know it. Although we will avoid that like the plague, well until it happens again. If the venom doesn’t work on her, and her body doesn’t respond to us, and she refuses to let us touch her, what are we supposed to do? 

My brother Paulo was waiting for me, “How is she?” 

I looked at him, “Bad, I don’t see that changing any time soon. We have to get her to at least be somewhat together tomorrow, We are supposed to check in with her and the Balaurs tomorrow. Ria is going to take one look at her daughter and know she was right the whole time. I never in a million years would have expected her to be.”

“So, if she doesn’t respond to us, and our venom doesn’t work, what do we do Anthony?” 

“The only thing we can do, she’s our mate, we mate for life, there’s no going back. We’ll have to find a way to get her to respond to us, or something. I can’t feel her dragon either, I felt her once or twice during the mating, then she disappeared.”

“Anthony, what if she no longer has a dragon because of what we did? What will happen then, she’ll never shift, she won’t be able to pass the dragon onto our children, she won’t have the same healing or life span as us. What do we do Anthony?” 

“I don’t know Paulo, we will have to talk to Dr. Histos, and see if he knows of any time a dragon disappeared or died when their human didn’t, and what the repercussions might be. I am not sure with how my dragon is reacting. He’s sad, he’s very sad, but I don’t know if it is because of what we had to do to our own mate, and that she hates us, and didn’t respond physically to us, or if it’s more to do with her dragon not being detectable.”

I knew tomorrow was going to be bad, but I didn’t honestly realize how bad.