You haven't paid for her yet...
His words cut me like a knife.
Pay...pay for me? how could you?
How could i not? you are a ripe piece of fruit for me to sell .
My father laughs in my face . It's hurt more than any bruise he has ever left on me. Alarik looks down at me, for a fleeting moment, his hard shell cracks , and there's softness in his expression.
You heard your father Beauty,he wants payment. Then , his softness disappears..... replaced by a lice of wrathful fire.
Tell me.... how would you like to pay him for all he's done to you,Alarik questioned.
I looked uo atmy father. The man who abused and beat me. The man who would sell me to the highest bidder.
Alarik growls vengeance dripping from his tongue.
Give him what he deserves, he said with a sly smirk on his face.
Pay him what he wants. My weight in gold,Beauty answered.
Alarik stares at me for a moment, hos expression unreadable. With a curt nod, he reached inside his pocket, Fishes dozens of gold coin and throws them at mg fathers feet.
There. pick them up like the scumbag you are.
Even now he's sticking up for me , i said to my self....Listen I'm still not going with you,Beauty said.
I'm afraid you have no choice.
With that ,Alarik skin ripples like a molten lava ,darkening and changing as he begins to grow.
He's....shifting.....
He trippled in size ,furryof claws and tail and razor sharp fangs.
Finally where Alarik once stood an immense dragon now towers over me.
Alarik: !!!
His glistening onyx scales ripple in the moonlight like black diamonds his eyes glint bright blue, just as fierce as when he was a human.
B--Blue eyes? that means he is the...
Before Gregor could finish his sentence, Alarik opens his incredible wings . I try to run but he sweeps me of the ground, holding mr between his taloned claws as he soars upward.
No....Wait.....Beauty screamed.
The whipping wind, thick with arsh, rips my scream away . My head snaps back and i black out.
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Strange voice float in through the darkness... sweet, clean fragrance follows, I feek as if i am floating.
Beauty: i must be dead.
My eyes flutter open,and when my vision clears, My heart siezein my chest.
I'm in a dazzling castle,the likes of which i have never seen before. Dozens of dragon shifters stare at me as i pass.
Nice catch Alarik, she lokks delicious, A girl from behind said.
That's when i realize it. I am slung over Alarik shoulder as he stalks down the hall. I kick and scream. He pushes open two thickdoubled doors, carrying me into a bedroom. Red velvet and black leather line, it's high walls.
You won't keep me here ,you can't, Beauty said.
I can and i will.,Alarik retorted.
Alarik flings her onto the four poster bed ,She immediately leaps of it and bolts for the door. His strong arm slips round me and he throws me back on the mattress as though I weigh nothing.
Stop. what do you think you'll accomplish by getting out there,Alarik asked.
I'll escapethos place and finally be free, Beauty replied.
Freedom? There's no such thing for me and you, Beauty, Alarik said .
Who are you and how do you know my name , Beauty asked ignoring what he said.
I know more than that , he said.
I back up on the bed ,but he catches my wrist that burned and scared.
When did he bandage it? when i was unconscious?
Alarik grio is surprisingly gentle . He unwraps my arm to reveal the black ,runic marking that snake up my flesh.
What's this .... i asked.
The reasin i know your name, the reason i can't ever let you go.
My flesh pulses mysteriously jn his grasp. He raises my wrist so the black marking glint in the light.
Thisis a Dragon mark . A mark left by ab Alpha Dragon when they he takes a mate for life.
when he....mates for life.
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