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Chapter 50

We waited, I told Aldrin what he looked like, which was easy because King Darshan and his son looked exactly alike. His father, though, is a little more brooding. Not that it mattered with the amount of people in this cave, it is literally a sea of men, and we can’t exactly go wandering to find him. I start to feel my magic getting stronger. Aldrin was right, the sun is recharging us. Even Aldrin didn’t look so deathly pale. His skin regains color as we both try not to move, letting the sun beat down on our legs, the warmth of it creating a warmth inside us both.

Jed is still taking blood, but he starts becoming frustrated. Mostly because our magic dwindled throughout the night the process had slowed dramatically almost to a standstill. It isn’t until Malika screeches that the curse is coming back which made me wonder how Pluto is fairing back at the castle, if he too is reverting back to the way he was.

Jed however didn’t realize the scales returning on his back, though we can clearly see them as they start to return, and it isn’t until Malika points them out when Jed races to his side. He screeches as his tail returns, that is when they realized the curse wasn’t broken. That our blood wasn’t working the way it should.

His anger feels like a red-hot poker as he stalks toward us. He grips my shoulders, shaking me.

“What did you do?”

I shake my head, nothing I say will make him believe me, he will just assume it was the Fae’s doing like for the last hundred years they blamed us, blamed us for their own sins.

“Fix it!” he screams, sinking his teeth into my shoulder. My magic falters for a second. He drops me to the ground, and I don’t move, thankful to be under the sun again, this time completely though. I am bleeding profusely from my shoulder as my blood coats my skin. Aldrin tries stemming the bleeding as my life’s blood leaves me. Jed gasps as my magic runs through him, the scales disappearing as he looks up at the sun.

“Malika, drink from her, we need to keep them alive if it is to remain,” he says just as Malika storms over to me, his teeth sinking into the same spot, making me scream. Aldrin pulls on me, trying to get me out of his grasp as he drinks deeply. So much blood leaves my body that I become a crumpled heap on the floor as he drops me. Aldrin pulls me to a sitting position, his arms holding me up as I lean on him.

More men step forward in panic, reaching for me, reaching for Aldrin, as they try to get our blood. “It’s the curse, it isn’t broken, we can’t break the curse only King Darshan can!” Aldrin yells at them.

Jed freezes looking around before his eyes go to us.

“What do you mean?” he demands as the Dragons suddenly step aside, letting him walk back through to us.

“The curse was caused because of the Dragons, you cursed yourselves only his sacrifice will end it,” Aldrin tells him. I can barely sit up as my body goes limp from the blood loss.

“You’re lying, the curse was caused by that Fae bitch Blaire, everyone knows that,” Jed says, punching him and knocking him to the ground. My head smacks the rock on which we lay.

“Give her blood. We need her, we can’t let her die,” Jed says and Malika shoves past the three Dragons that are about to attack us. He bites his wrist and grabs my hair, forcing my head back, his blood filling my mouth healing the wound, when I grab his wrist. He seems amused for a second. Little does he know his blood is strengthening me, giving me power the more I drink from him.

“Dragon whore,” Malika says.

“She is pregnant, you fool. You’re slowly killing her and their baby,” Aldrin says, getting on his hands and knees. Jed stops sniffing the air and so does Malika.

He storms back over, ripping me to my feet. He tugs up my loose shirt, which belonged to one of my mates. He gasps and drops me.

“You’re pregnant?” he says while pacing back and forth.

“They are going to kill us. How did you not know she was carrying their young?” Malika says, but he doesn’t move his wrist away. Instead, he bites his other wrist as his fear takes over. He hands it to me, and I lock eyes with Aldrin, who nods, looking to his wrist. I grab it, biting down and Malika groans. I can sense his fear in his blood, it is disgusting. I want to pull my lips away, my gag reflex kicking in from the now foul taste of his fear. I pull away, knowing if I don’t, I will bring it back up.

“We leave at dusk we will have to sneak her out, they have been circling for hours already trying to find a way in, but this makes sense now, why they haven’t entered they probably worried we are going to kill her if they burst in,” Jed says looking to the sky.

Malika nods, leaving me on the ground at his feet, when I see a Dragon chained to the wall watching me, curiously. His eyes inquisitive.

“We will take her through the back of the cave as soon as the sun goes down,” Jed says looking behind us and I see a crack through the wall.

“We will need a distraction though,” he says, looking back around the cave at all the men. Malika and Jed walk off when the Dragons come closer again. I scream, pushing back and forgetting the Dragon chained to the wall. When I scream out, one reaches out to me.

The Dragon against the wall lunges to attack—only he doesn’t.

Instead, his talon pierces through the chest of the man reaching for me, ripping him closer before biting into him.

I watch in horror as half his arm is torn off, the noise sickening.

Blood sprays everywhere. His screams pierce the air.

The other men jump back.

Jed rushes forward just in time to see the Dragon devour him in another bite.