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It’s something I have to face. What makes it difficult is having watched how interested Yazmine had been in learning about dragon shifters. Her keen interest, coupled with her interest in the finer details, makes it hard to imagine that she will leave eventually.
Gulping as I step out of the lift, I reconcile my inner turmoil by imagining that my trepidation stems from becoming a father. I’d barely given it a second thought. With the fossils and Yazmine’s research serving as a distraction, I hadn’t paid much heed to it.
Yet, through all her work, she cared for finer details, like the pendant hidden in my nightstand. To imagine that she cared enough to learn about me is almost unbelievable.
It was as unbelievable as finding my brother outside her bedroom door, about to knock on it.
“Felix?” I quiz, slowing my steps as my heart begins to race in my chest. What is he doing here at this time of the night?
“Oh, hey, Aragon,” he smiles as he retracts his arm and turns to me. “What’s up?”
“What’s up?” As I march toward him, I bleat with a scornful scoff, my steps becoming more purposeful. Instinctively, my fists curl on my sides. “These are my quarters, brother. What are you doing outside Yazmine’s room?”
Felix frowns just as I feel the heat rise behind my earlobes. Internally, I’m raging, and it’s boiling up to the surface.
“I—I’m here to thank her,” he says hesitantly as he takes a cautious step back.
I scoff under my breath, the rage building up inside me too intense to keep contained. All I see is red.
“Thank her, huh?!” I roar, shoving my brother by his shoulders. “You expect me to believe that?”
“Aragon, what are you—”
“No! You think that just ‘cause I didn’t want her as a mate, you can have her?!” I spit venomously. “That’s not how it works, Felix!”
“Aragon…” Felix says calmly, lifting both hands in a show of surrender. “Relax, man. That’s not what’s happening here. I came here to thank her for finding Grandfather’s bones. That’s all. I don’t want her.”
“Good…” I grate through gritted teeth. “She’s mine,” I growl.
“I know,” he nods but raises one brow. “Is she, though? Is she yours?”
His words seem to strike something inside me that douses the flames of my anger and clears my vision. It’s the way he eyes me suspiciously as if he doesn’t believe my proclamation.
In hindsight, as I lug in deep breaths to calm myself, I realize how terribly wrong that statement is.
She’s not mine. Not in the true sense of the word, anyway. I’d only fucked her on my birthday. I didn’t claim her as my mate or acknowledge it, anyway.
Running a hand through my hair, I bashfully turn my face away. “Fuck. I’m sorry, Felix. I overreacted.”
Felix chuckles lowly as he takes a step forward, placing a hand on my drooped shoulder.
“No harm, no foul,” he relents. “Although, I must say I haven’t seen you like that in years.”
“Like what?” I frown as I lift my head. Thankfully, when I meet his eyes it isn’t anger I find in them.
Instead, it’s compassion when he says, “Passionate, Aragon. I’ve only ever seen that fire out on the field.”
I blink fervently, digesting my brother’s observation without running from it like I always do. Since returning to the island, my family has been pointing out how different I’d become. Jaded by the world of the humans.
None of them know about Delilah. But Felix just pointed out that she’s become a far thought in my mind, a spark of who I was before meeting her showing up now.
All thanks to Yazmine.
Felix witnesses the flashing of an array of passing emotions on my face. He simply chuckles lowly before shoving his hands into his pockets. I’m too stunned to say a word as I watch him pucker his lips to start whistling a familiar tune as he saunters away. He disappears into the lift, leaving me to mull over my outburst and the subsequent discovery that I have a lot to thank Yazmine for.
Turning around slowly, I lift a trembling hand to the door and give a firm knock. When there isn’t an answer, I decide she must be asleep. I’m about to leave, when I’m gripped by a strangling sensation in my chest.
What is going on with me? I frowned deeply, glaring at the door as if it would open just from the fear of my wrath. But really, I’m in deep thought, wondering how on Earth a weak, fragile human can turn my whole world inside out.
