King Ate POV "I don't care what you have to do, just get it done. I will not let the fact that you found your mate be the reason you let your job not been done. This is not acceptable." The door to my office slam open. Jodie is standing at the door. Her eyes were red and it seems like she has been crying. She looks at me like she will kill me at any moment. "Get out!" She screams to the soldier standing in front of me. The soldier looks like he was going to pass out at any moment. I think I need better soldiers. The soldier turns around and almost ran out of my office. "Who the hell do you think you are?" I ask now angry. "I need to speak to you and he was in my way." I rush towards her and grab her by her neck. "Listen to me real quick. You are not the queen. You don't get to demand that my soldiers leave. I was not done with him." I grind out all my words. Jodie pushes against me with such force that I almost landed on my ass. "Don't look so surprise dickhead. I work out. Don'
Samantha POV "Why can't you admit the truth to the both of us?" I ask walking up and down in front of him. "I am the king. If my enemies know that I have found my mate, they will use you to get to me." "Just stop lying to me," I screamed towards him. " You are lying through your teeth and you know it. Jade already told me that you do not want a mate, ever. So just stop lying please." I feel the tears running down my face. "I am not lying. What makes you think I am lying?" I can hear the anger in his voice. "You are lying." I ay in a small voice. " That might be a reason, but it is not the main reason. There is something going on here that you are not telling me." I look him straight in the eyes. I can see the shock on his face. "Let's sit down and then we can talk about this like the adults we are." He motioned towards the couch in his office. I sigh and went to sit down. He came to sit in the chair in front of me. He placed his head in his hands. "I wasn't always like this y
Ate POVHow did it all go up in smoke? I know I did the right thing. She will be in danger if she is with me. There is no way to get past that fact. She is so much wiser than I gave her credit. She took what I said and knew from the start that I was lying. I don't even know how she did it. It still astonishes me. I needed to get this out of the way. I will not be weak in the eyes of my enemies.There is a knock on the door. I look up, and Mark enters. "Was that Samantha leaving here? Did you tell her?" His eyes went wide. "No, I did not tell her. She figured it out on her own. From what I could gather is that Jodie is a childhood friend before she got kidnapped. Her dragon smelled me on Jodie. That is when both women flipped out and came here." Mark began to laugh. "I wish I was here to see that. If there is one thing that I love, it is when a woman loses their mind about something other than me. Okay, back to business. I am here because of a whole other situation regarding Samant
Ate Pov "I came home from one of my drinking binges. I have lost my job earlier in the week. When I got home, my wife was gone. She took the kids and left me. There were two letters on the table. The first was from my wife explaining why she left and that I should never contact her again. The other letter was from an anonymous person. It had a check-in for fifth thousand dollars. It stated that there was a little girl that I need to pick up and keep with me at all times. It told me where I could find her and what time. I went to the location. I found a little girl there crying. They told me that she was a dragon and what medicine I should give her. They told me that as long as I keep her hidden from the world, they would send me money. And they did. Each month I would receive a check for five thousand dollars. I used that money to pay for her school fees and everything else that she needed. It was hard since I could not go back to work and look after a child." "And you don't know who
Ate Pov Mark left moments later. I sat back behind my desk. I need to figure out what I need to do. I have two options. I either have to give in to the fate that Samantha is my mate, or take one of the other females in my kingdom and mate with her. How can this be so hard? If I do take Samantha, I place her into danger once again. If I take one of the other females, my dragon will fight me for the rest of my life. That would be horrible. I sigh and clear my head. I need to focus on what is in front of me right now. I need to find out what happened to Samantha. I picked up my phone and called her parents. Mister Jackson picked up the phone. "Hi, king Ate. What can I do for you on this fine day." He still sounds happy. I guess Samantha hasn't told them what happened a few hours ago. "Will it be possible for you and your wife to come to the castle?" There was a moment of silence. "Did something happen to Samantha?" "No, I am just trying to piece together what happened all those ye
Samantha POV I wake up in a dark room. I am trying to figure out what the hell is going on. The last I remember is seeing Jodie on the side of the road. She was sitting in her car. I stopped behind her. she was crying. I remember a blow to the head and then darkness. I feel my head and found something hard. It was blood that already dried. The wound is closed. What the hell was going on? Why did I wake up in a room I do not recognize? I look around and see that I was placed on a moldy and old mattress. There is no bed. There was nothing else in the room. Not even a place to go to the bathroom. The mattress is on the floor. I can feel the cold through the mattress. I don't know how long I have been here. There is a small window on the wall behind me. The last rays of light are filtering through the window. It must have been hours, since my stomach is growling. I try to get up and realized that my foot is in shackles. I try pulling on it, but it was no use. There is a sharp pain
King Ate POV "You can not enter!" I look up to see Mister Jackson running into my office with one of my soldiers right behind him. "I need to speak to you!" Mister Jackson said ripping his arm out of my soldier's hands. I wave the soldier away and motioned to Mister Jackson to sit down. He sat down with a thump. You can see that his age is starting to catch up to his body. His movements have become stiff in these last few years. "What can I do for you, Mister Jackson?" I sat back and crossed my arms over my chest. "Samantha is missing." He had tears in his eyes as he looks back up. "What do you mean she is missing? I just saw her yesterday." I sat up straight. "When was she here? What was she doing here?" "She was here just before I called you to come for the meeting. Why she was here is not important. What is important is how do you know she is missing? Maybe she just went with her friend Jodie. I do remember she said that Jodie is a childhood friend." Mister Jackson sighed an
King Ate POV I dialed Kaleb's number. It went straight to voice mail. I tried a second time and after the third ring he picked up the phone. "Hi, this is Kaleb. To whom am I speaking?" He sounds winded, perhaps he was busy working ut. "Hi, Kaleb. This is King Ate from dragon island. Do you a moment to talk." "I have nothing to say to you. You can call my king." I hear his voice fading. This means he is going to drop my call. "Wait, please. This is about Samantha." I can hear the begging in my voice. I do not even know why I am begging. "You have one minute after that I am putting down the phone." I fill him in on everything that we have found out these last few days. I also told him about Samantha that went missing once again. I left out the fact that I am her mate. He does not need to know that. "You do know that I am not her favorite person right now? I sent her away. She would not want me to be the one to save her." "There is no time for personal feelings. One of my own