~ Rayna ~
Fangs...
Diamond eyes...
Fangs...
Diamond eyes.
Fangs.
Diamond. Eyes.
Dragon.
I had come to terms about the fangs part when I woke up in my bed—to which I failed to recall getting in, and in my cotton nightdress to which I couldn't remember actually wearing.
By Hollywood standards, dragons have incredibly large teeth, but what I saw last night was terrifyingly gigantic. And it was connected to a head and a body that was a hundred times more.
That said, my mind cried out, 'A dream!'
Because I was certain dragons like what I saw last night didn't exist. Werewolves, yes, but dragons? And that big? It couldn't possibly.
But as I left my bedroom to be welcomed by the morning light, walked straight to the living room balcony, and checked the railing where I clearly remembered its claws perched, I realized I was wrong. Totally wrong. The steel was tented to the degree where
~ Rayna ~ETA was fifteen minutes from our building to his estate at Breezy Point. The specific location was already registered on the copter's system, so I didn't do much work except stabilize it and ensure that no bird—or dragon—would run over it midair.The thought of it was laughable and well, absurd, but after what I experienced last night, I wanted to be cautious. There was no harm in doing so. However, deep inside me, I wanted not to recognize its existence. Knowing that a werewolf existed was enough. I couldn't bare it if a dragon shares this world too.Our flight, in the majority, was silent. Well, that was for the first five minutes. After that, my boss spoke, and it was all about last night."I apologize for my rude behavior last night, Rayna. I hope that didn't discourage you."‘Discourage me?’ What an odd way to put it."No worries, Mr. Windstorm," I answered while my attent
~ Rayna ~Every detail inside the room was expensive-looking as expected; from the walls, to the ceiling, down to the carpet. As opposed to my suite in OWTC, this one had a fireplace in the living room, with an antique-looking mantel I could only see in the movies. Like my first bedroom, my sleeping area here had a balcony, but instead of the city, it was overlooking the ocean and the hillside. It was a million dollar view.Back against the steel and glass railing, I watched the trees past the manicured garden below me. They were tall, but not that tall to obstruct the beautiful view of the beach shore and the ocean kilometers away. This here...this view here, I agree, money could only buy.Mr. Windstorm's Breezy Point estate gave off a certain vibe
~ Rayna ~The dream started off as a simple scene where the twin healers Lady Tara and Lady Sierra taught me how to heal using the energy in my hand. I was a simple human, with clearly no magic within me, but my palm felt warm and a neon yellow glow emitted as I brought them together close to an almost lifeless half-humanoid, half-wolf creature—a lycan as per the twins—with fur the blackest of black. It was lying on the ground with its head pillowed by dried leaves, so frail looking despite how monstrous it appeared.‘Focus, luna,’ Lady Tara said while looking at me with gravity.‘Luna?’ That is a weird name to call me, I thought to myself.The glow brightened further when I did as she said, staring at the lycan even more and summoning an even greater energy from my hand. Finally, it jerked a little, showing that my healing was taking effect.“Good, that’s it, give your healing energy
~ Rayna ~I was ready to meet it the second time: witness its jaw-dropping size, watch the grandeur of its wings and the deadliness of its scales. But I wasn’t prepared to feel this minute again, like a chick to an adult human... I felt so vulnerable as it showed its entire form, first its head, then the rest of its pound-for-pound muscles, and gazed down on me.“It is you!” I gasped as my greens met its diamond ones. “You were in my visions!”“Hello Rayna...”I staggered backward as it spoke to me loud and clear in my mind. I was certain now. The voice maybe guttural and edgy—a typical for a beast—but it had a ring of familiarity in it.“Dragons are truly real...” I muttered to myself, finally stamping this idea in my head. I didn’t mean for it to sound like a question, but it answered:“Like werewolves, yes.”Good heavens
~ Axel ~The last thing I want to do was to lose my control in front of Rayna, and I almost did just that at our dinner. At our first dinner which I planned to end in a romantic way: greet her a goodnight, kiss her, walk her back to her suit, or maybe have her spend the night in my bed, whichever applied.Instead, I dismissed her in the damn abrupt and coldest way.I knew I should have kept my jealousy in check, but the lid just blew off after thinking about Rayna and her experience with the alpha king of the werewolves. I saw red, literally, with my eyes quickly changing colors. My skin erupted in goosebumps and I almost released my scales if I didn't stop it just in time.The moment she exited the main
~ Axel ~Meetings with my elders and the other clans were always tiresome; too many differing views, too many ideas, and too many dramas. My presence was always needed whenever one of these meetings was held, and this time around, my estate at Breezy Point was the chosen location for our next meeting. It was, for me, very timely. They always wanted to know if I already found my mate. Their future queen. Now they would.Since we have a network of businesses all over the world, every clan leader in their respective countries possessed their own circle of power. They were CEOs like me, ruling over their subjects like I do to them.Sitting at my right was the CEO of our oil and refinery business, Rohan Shadows. His headquarters was in Dubai. Younger than me b
~ Rayna ~All the pieces of the puzzle finally fitted into place. The clues I got from the very first moment Mr. Windstorm and I met to the present all suggested him as the dragon. I would be stupid if I didn't figure that out this early in my employment with him.It was a mind-blowing revelation, and honestly, I was still coming to terms with it, but I was sure of one thing: I wanted to see this dragon change into the man
~ Rayna ~Axel’s soft laughter echoed in my ears then. “Don’t worry, Rayna, I won’t let you fall,” he said as his other arm secured my waist. “I couldn’t wait to share the sky with you. I apologize, did it scare you?”I bit my lips as I stared down at his now-dwarf Breezy Point estate. I could see everything from my peculiar angle. I could see the many roads twisting and turning. I could see the beachfront, the ocean, and the hills filled with trees. These were the usual scenes I get to behold whenever I fly my planes, except that this time, I was not inside any four walls and I have no floor to support me.“I told you I am not afraid of heights, right?” I returned to meet his smiling gaze. “But this, this is different, Axel. This is insane. You are flying without using your win