"You know Henry fucking Verrono, kid?"
Gunners face went pale as I mentioned his name. He stood closer to the cell, placing his hands upon the bars, the minute he heard his name.
Henry Verrono, was a well known billionaire that ran the Verrono group of companies along side his brother Roman a dangerous pervert who'd come very close in having his way with me. But i'll get to him much later.
Henry Verrono on the other hand. Now, he was a hundred times more dangerous than his wild card brother.
"Wait, you know him too, Mr Gunner?" I asked the convict from the opposite cell to mine.
Gunner sighed out deeply, and wore a more concerned look than before.
"I had a run in with him a couple of years ago. Actually, I stole a couple of goods from him with my team, whom he hunted down and fried out."
That got my heart racing.
Gunner obviously knew something about him that I did, when he narrowed his pale blue eyes at me.
Officer Scott fired a Gunner a puzzled look, from where he sat. He was just about to say something to him, before I spoke again.
"Oh my god, he's going to fry me next, isn't he?"
"Well, you witnessed a murder. Of course, he's coming after you. As far as I know, Henry Verrono doesn't leave any witnesses alive." Gunner commented literally telling me indirectly, 'you're dead, kid.'
"Wait, how did Henry not get to you, if you stole from him?"
"I got lucky. I managed to escape and-"
"Gunner, shut up before I shut you up." Scott said, not looking towards him.
"Kiana, sweetheart calm down. Who is Henry Verrono?" Scott asked in curiosity.
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🐲 A/N: This story will now take a turn in the past by rewinding back to three months ago...
It will return to the present after a few chapters.
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Kiana: Story Time!
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{{FLASHBACK}}
3 months ago...
∽ Bella Verrono.∽
After finding out about the sudden tragic demise of her best friend, Anjana Malhotra.
The secret dragoness of over 1415 years, walked down in her high heel shoes, dressed in a sheer white suit.
She had black hair tied to a bun and a quarter of her silver hair parting from her left side.
The doors of her Empire that she ruled over for more than 6 centuries, opened up.
Her dragon children stood from their chairs as she entered like a Queen. Bella then took her seat at the head of the table, and looked towards her children in absolute grace, silence and authority.
It had been hard on her to rule her husband's empire when a deadly knight that hunted their kind took him from them 7 centuries ago.
"What's the emergency meeting Mother?"
Her silver pearly eyes landed towards her eldest, who now ran the empire with the rest of his siblings.
"I'm glad you asked Henry. I'm taking in a girl to be part of our special family soon."
"A girl? Is she hot?" Roman the second oldest teased earning a glare from his dragon mother who flicked her finger and produced a small blue fireball, that struck his head.
"Ah, Ma! What was that for?" Roman rubbed his forehead, feeling a slight pain of her small fireball.
Bella was an old dragon and she couldn't muster up fire energy as much, since her inner beast lay deep in a slumber, after her true mate past away many centuries ago.
"Refrain yourself from your stupidity, for the girl you'll soon be meeting is coming a week from now."
"Jason." Bella said, as the powerful Beta dragon guard of the Verrono clan then pulled up a picture on the white screen.
"Her name is Miss Kiana Malhotra."
Jason had the pleasure of meeting her once at the funeral that Bella had taken care of for her departed mother.
He on the other hand, found her rather cute and adorable when he sensed her blushing before him, when they first met. He could still remember her sweet intoxicating scent as clear as day.
She held a scent like no other human, and he was looking forward to seeing her again.
Henry, Roman and their sister took in the appearance of the young looking girl.
"How old is she?" Asked a curious Roman, whilst his brother took in her appearance, with his straight poker face.
She was nothing special to look at. If he had to rate her on her looks, he'd give her an average 6/10.
"She's seventeen and she's from Arizona,"
Jason stated.
Petra scoffed.
The 121 year old dragon heiress did not approve of any outsiders coming into their clan house.
"So, you want to adopt this peasant-looking kid mother? She looks so frail and weak. Is she even a dragon?" She asked suspiciously.
For most dragons had beauty that could make any mortal cause an accident, with just one glance.
The girl in the picture looked rather ordinary, with her hair styled in a french braid that went down past her waist. She almond brown skin which looked quite pale and very dark chocolate brown eyes.
Petra, the blonde-headed fashionista with sea-green eyes, was not impressed with her baggy-looking attire, that consisted of a oversized hoody and a cheap looking ripped jeans.
She looked more like a peasant, that shopped at Primark.
"No, Miss Malhotra is -"
"Human." Bella replied, shocking and stunning her dragon children all at once.
"Excuse me?!" Petra scoffed in immediate disapproval.
Roman let out a hearty laugh, whilst Henry internally rolled his eyes, thinking his dragon mother had lost her mind.
[R] Ok. I get it she's lonely, but she's going overboard here.
[H] Is this human girl a replacement as a cat or a puppy?
[P] Clearly. Can you blame her, she is old and wants another pet to get her through the next century. I can't believe she's actually choosing this teenage mortal dirtbag. We need to stop her!
"You want to take in a lamb?! Mother? You can't be serious." Petra protesed.
"Oh, but I am." Bella smiled, making Henry secretly shocked.
He hadn't seen her mother smile like this in over a century.
He gazed at the girls picture once more.
"Why her mother?" Henry asked out of curiosity.
What had this lamb done to make his very sad and depressed mother, smile so brightly like the sun was out.
When clearly it was pouring heavily outside.
"Well, Henry, I was best friends with her
mother. May Moon rest her soul. Before she passed, she'd asked me to take care of her child, if anything happened to her. Besides, I owe her since she once saved my life out in the lake when that crazy knight hunter whom I was fleeing from shot me down,"
Her dragon children were stunned as they had no idea that this attack had ever happened to her.
"Mother, when did this happen?!" Inquired Henry who clenched his jaw, secretly angry at her for not telling him or any of her dragon children the truth.
"Twenty years ago. I didn't wish to alarm you since I took care of the hunter that wished me dead." She spoke darkly, causing a wild chill down Petra's spine.
Her boys, on the other hand, had seen how she took care of things in the past.
She was afterall a powerful Alpha she dragoness that reigned fury when they dare tried to attack her and her family many moons ago.
They learnt most of their fighting and survival skills from her all whilst their father was alive.
Roman smirked whilst Henry held a poised stoic expression upon his silent, curious poker face.
"Wait, Kiana's mother saved you, from the Hunter's poisonous arrow?" Roman asked, quite interested.
"How did you survive, Mother?" Henry asked sharply.
It was not her secret to tell.
"That's not important right now. All that matters is this child will be under our care from now on. I wish you all to treat her with respect and courtesy when she comes to live with us for a while, until she turns eighteen."
Petra scoffed bitterly.
[P] Mother has seriously lost it!
She growled through her private mind link with her very silent brothers.
"You don't have to worry about that, I hate the stench of humans. They carry stenches of pigs in a sty, urgh. However, Mother, it's not wise for her to live on the territory, we are dragons and you know how we get on the full moon nights."
Her daughter reminded making Bella's gaze dart towards her next.
"That's right, some of us can get loud, that's why we moved out in the first place." Roman high-fived his serious toned, expressionless older brother who internally, found his comments amusing.
"Apart from being wild, there is a major factor to consider that we get extremely hungry," Petra said on a serious note.
"You do not need to worry about that. You can carry on being dragons so long as you do not reveal your beastly side."
"But mother!"
"You all are forbidden to use your mind hypnotic powers on her. Especially you Roman, I know you like toying with the human maids that work for us. But if you ever-"
"Mother, relax I'd never toy with her." Roman said nonchalantly manner.
[J] Yes you would.
[H] Yes you would.
[P] Yes you would.
Jason, Henry and Bianca fired easily through their private mindlink with their notorious playboy dragon Roman, who hid his smirk.
"Mother I strongly suggest that-"
"Petra, I will not hear another word of protest. This girl is like a daughter to me and I will see to it that she is well taken care of."
Bella slammed her palms angrily upon the table, then stood up from her chair and so did the rest of her children. She was their ruling Queen of their pack house after all, and soon Henry was going to take her place on his next birthday.
She walked towards the door, when Jason opened the door for her.
"Oh, and if any one of you dragon eggs get tempted to bite or claim my dear girl, I will open the portal of hell from which we once hailed from and throw you in."
She darkly threatened, as she turned on her heel leaving her dragon children speechless and stunned.
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Petra who was first to leave from the meeting room.
"She better not live in my mansion. Urgh, she'll just stink up my place!" She whined.
Petra made her exit leaving the two main brothers who ran the billion dollar corporation of clubs, hotels and restaurants, shared their thoughts.
"Well, this explains her sudden trips constantly to Arizona."
"And all this time I thought she had a secret lover?" Roman said sighing out.
"Hmmm, I guess we'll need to put up with her for a year." Henry said, not quite fussed about the lamb.
"Don't you find it strange that Mother didn't tell us about how Kiana's mother actually saved her from a poisonous arrow that struck her down?"
"Mother keeps a lot of things from us, Roman." Henry said with a slight annoyance.
"But I bet, the girl probably knows the truth."
"What?"
"C'mon you know as well as I do. Mother hates the mortals. She suffered alot with Father trying to survive their mob attacks centuries ago. This girl can't be...Nevermind."
"What are you trying to say Roman?" Henry asked trying to figure him out.
"Nothing." Roman grinned, not knowing if he was correct about his hunch or not.
"Well, I hope you behave. I don't want her to be troubled by your playful ways."
"Brother, I hope you can keep your claws off too. I know how jealous you can get when I find a new play toy to play with." Roman sharply reminded, earning a playful smirk from his elder brother.
"Roman, you have nothing to worry about. You can play with Kiana all you like so long as mother doesn't find out about it. I on the other hand, prefer my she-dragons. Human girls are weak, clingy, and fragile in bed. It's annoying when I can't use my usual force with them when trying to satisfy my needs during the full moon nights."
Dragon men were exceptionally high in stamina and they needed a strong she-dragon to calm their heated nights. Sasha gladly obliged to satisfy Henry since she could handle his heat.
"Oh, but now that she's coming around, we better have stock of our Moon Pills."
Although they no longer preyed on humans like the good old days, they still needed to tame their natural predatory beastly side. Humans were just like lambs to them. They were more like forbidden lambs since they signed a treaty with the town mayor, with some exclusions.
"Speaking of which, has Sean delivered?" Henry asked whilst curiously staring at the new girl's photo. He couldn't help but think, that she did look cute at a certain angle.
Roman checked his phone and saw no text message from his delivery boy.
"It seems like he's been delayed?"
Henry shifted his gaze away from the girl's photo and scoffed coldly.
"You better pray that's the case. I'd hate to find out if he's up to something."
Henry said darkly and got up from his chair, and walked out.
Running the Verrono corporation came at a cost. They had enemies lingering around them constantly and Henry had fried too many to count. The Moon Pills were very important to them, since their clan depended on taking them especially during the full moon nights.
If a dragon didn't take their special pills on time, it would be bad news for the humans in town. A dragon could lose it self to it's beastly side and turn rogue.
Something which the Verrono clan house had prevented from happening over the past two thousand years.
Meanwhile, Roman looked at the mysterious girl's photo on the screen. He had faith in Sean that he'd deliver. If he didn't well that asswipe would have to deal with either him or Henry.
Kiana Malhotra.
What's so special about her?
The thought puzzled him.
Nevertheless he smiled to himself.
He was couldn't wait to find out about her and make her his new toy.
He was more curious as to why his dear dragon mother would take in a mere mortal.
They had many hotels all over the states and at least 3 in town. Why wouldn't she just put her up in one of the hotels?
Why bring a girl like her home to the house of dragons?
No, his secretive dragon mother was hiding something about this girl, and he intended to find out about her, one way or another.
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🐲Roman is on to her, but what about the other dragons?
🐲 What will happen next?