Chapter 8
My heart skipped a beat, and I quickly looked over at Draken.
Dragons were known for their simplicity, unlike scheming and manipulative humans. I was genuinely afraid Arya’s twisted words might plant a seed of doubt in him.
But he remained unmoved and shot her a look of pure disgust. “If it’d been you set for the matrimony, I wouldn’t have touched you ever.”
Arya stood frozen, as if his words had struck her like lightning.
“Why? What does she have that I lack? Why do you all keep doing this to
me?”
But she never got the chance to touch me again. With
a
dragonlands and declared severance of ties with the lion cl
tinto madness. Clearly,” of her tragic
triggered and drove her to insanity.
mere lift of his chin, Draken ordered her expelled from the
“The wife of the lion clan’s head has committed the gravest of -an attempt the dragon clan severs all ties with the lions.”
to
harm the dragon heir. From this day forth,
Only then did everyone realize that the human who’d married into the dragon clan had been pregnant for six months.
“Turns out the dragons were the smart ones. The baby’s been coming for months, earlier than the lions!”
“Of course! Dragon pregnancies are longer, or the little dragon would be toddling by
“No wonder dragons are so rich. They got lucky even with pregnancies!”
now.
