Harley didn't realise that she was being held in contempt, she had full confidence in her system and the love points that she has collected. She believed that as long as she had these love points in her hands, she will have the hearts of the four consorts in the palm of her hands.
What she never stopped to consider was the system was after all just a machine in the end, how can it calculate love points for her? Though this world was nothing but a world full of fantasy, the beings that lived here were nonetheless very much alive and out of control of the system.
And even more so, love was a complicated thing. Even living beings had a hard time deciphering what exactly love was—— was it just a chemical fusion of hormones or something more? No one had a correct answer to it, love wasn't often as it was described in the books there was no feeling of bliss or fluttering butterflies, it was much more complex. A feeling that no matter how a person tried to put in words they couldn't, was it attachment? But it was more than that wasn't it? Was it an obsession but it wasn't that intense either?
So how can a mechanical system understand love and even count it? Even Yakov and Harley didn't quite understand that feeling yet.
" Are you done?" When Harley finished eating, Yakov put down his teacup before handing a cloth napkin to her.
" Yes, I am done," answered Harley as she took the napkin and wiped the smudge of sauce on her lips. " Thank you very much Yakov, I … Today everything happened so suddenly that I couldn't even stomach everything in the morning and went hungry."
" I understand," Yakov snapped his fingers and the plates that were sitting on the table vanished at once. Once the plates were gone, he placed his hands on the table and intertwined his fingers before solemnly looking at Harper. " I know this is hard for you, but we had no choice but to abort the plan, as you can see—— I have no powers left in my hands, the same could be said for the rest." His expression turned a bit helpless as he spread his hands. " The Dragon Queen seemed to have gotten wind of our plan and subdued everyone before we can even put it in motion. If we try to still go ahead with our previous plan, then I am afraid that not only I but everyone else will be killed too." And putting extra emphasis he added as he directly stared at Harley. " Even you."
Then he smiled all of a sudden as he added, "It's a good thing that you are no longer by her side, in case she gets mad and kills you in a heat of the moment."
The surroundings turned silent as Harley swallowed audibly, a shiver running up her spine, she clenched her fists that were resting in her lap. She understood everything that Yakov was trying to say but she didn't want to let go, for months she has been dreaming of sitting on that dragon throne from becoming an omega nobody to the Queen of all and most importantly——-
She swoop a glance at Yakov, his emerald green hair was fluttering in the air and he those amber eyes that glowed with a mysterious hue… with just one glance her heart couldn't help but skip a few beats. He was too good looking, even his hands they were like a work of art. Though she didn't have a thing for hands before but ever since she started to get close to Yakov and the others, she couldn't help but dream about those hands doing all those unsaid things to her.
But if the dragon queen doesn't die then how will she be able to get close to these men?
Trying to take a steady breath, she asked, " Will you try to do what you planned in the near future?"
" In the future?" Yakov raised his hand and cupped his face with his fingers splayed over his tanned skin. " Of course, I will keep trying, until I succeed in killing her." And snatching her from the rest.
Yakov didn't say those words, because Harley had no right to listen to them.
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Aileen watched Harley go and then turned to his master. " You still plan to go ahead with that risky decision you took?"
" If not?" said Yakov with his lips curled in a satisfied smirk as he tapped on the table with his other hand. " She is mine, the day she walked by me and sensed that I was her mate… she was mine from that day on and I have no thoughts of sharing her with three other bastards."
" She is the dragon queen, my lord."
" I am aware of that, yes." As Yakov stood up from his chair, he looked over to the Dragon palace that was dark as the finest scale of her dragon form. " But I really don't care about that, I have planned for years —— even stole the water of Faes, that my father kept hidden in the secret basement in case of any emergency to revive her.. it would be such a pity to give up just like this, don't you think?"
" what about the other three?"
" Fu*k them." If there was one thing that Yakov learned after staying in this harem and watching his mate's attention be taken away from him, it was that life was too long for him to suffer like this…. If there was something that he wanted then he believed in going after it and getting it for himself, even if it meant snatching it from others. For a long time, he had wanted Bree Dragniere, now that he finally got his claws on her he was going to keep her next to him, no matter what!
" I don't think that the Queen will agree to stay with you if you lock her up like that." pointed out Aileen sharply.
Yakov threw his head back and stared right at the long stretch of the black tower where Bree would be working on the pile of documents and with a twisted smile, he whispered. " What if I were to break her legs, even if she dislikes it … she will have to stay by my side, don't you think so?"