Chosen By The Dragon Kings novel Chapter 37

Abigail’s POV

I returned to find out Silas had marked her; she has been asleep for two days now. The dragon kings have been on edge and everyone has been walking on eggshells. The atmosphere has been thick with their anger and I was becoming anxious. I hoped Elora woke up soon because I had a bad feeling that Silas was about to go on one of his rampages. One of the cooks told me she sacrificed herself so he wouldn’t kill me and my family, that she was also the reason the power was back on.

Walking down the corridor to the library, I place the tray of coffee on the end of the desk while preparing their dinner plates. They had been scouring the books in here for days, barely leaving except to check on Elora. I usually ignored them when I had to serve them, but something with the way they were speaking made me tune in.

“She won’t allow it, Silas. She will never forgive you,” Matitus tells him.

“It’s the only way to break the curse unless you have a spare oracle we don’t know about.”

“There has to be a loophole there always is, you know this. You force her hand she will hate us.”

“She will never know; we can tell her it’s how we break the curse on the fae. And what does it matter. The only fae other than her is Marian, and she is too old to use magic” Silas argues.

“So, you expect her to give up her magic, become the sacrifice?”

“Yes, she is our mate, her duty is to carry our children. She doesn’t even know how to use her magic, she won’t miss it.”

“The book said we just need to find the oracle and reverse the sins of the past to break the curse, we are already reversing them. We marked her, and she didn’t reject us. But doing this will make her,” Dragus says siding with Matitus.

“He is right Silas, if they say there is an oracle, we will find them. We found her didn’t we?”

“We killed every fucking witch alive, there are none. So, she is the only way. We need a magical sacrifice or spill the blood of the oracle. Elora wouldn’t want an innocent dying for us, I know if she had to choose, she would give her magic up.”

“No, she won’t. You think she will turn her back on the fae. You’re asking her to give up who she is” Matitus yells.

“No, we will find the Oracle kill them, the curse breaks and we live happily ever after with our mate” Dragus tells Silas. Silas punches the table and I hear the wood split and I jump, looking up all their eyes are on me. Like they didn’t realise I was in the room. Silas eyes flicker like a reptile as he walks around the desk, stopping next to me. My hands tremble and my heart thumping loudly in my chest.

“You speak one word of what you have overheard to anyone. I will make you watch as I skin your daughter alive, understood?” I nod, words failing me, and I become paralysed by fear.

“Get out,” he screams, and I bolt from the room.

Running down the corridor, I head for the kitchens. Peter is sitting there waiting for me still and I reach into his pocket, finding the castle phone. I know he just used to ring his brother before running off to my room. Closing the door, my hands tremble as I punch in the numbers. The phone ringing and I feel my heart thumping against my ribs painfully. The phone rings out and I hit redial.

“Come on, mum pick up” I mutter in panic when I suddenly hear her voice. She sounded like I woke her.