Page 59 of Rescued By The Dragon

I shoved passed the movers and made my way toward his office. As if on cue, Damien stepped out from behind a pillar.

“Move.”

He chuckled. “Look who it is, the failure of the family. The Dragon Prince that is outrunning his duties, and disappointing both parents at once.” He chuckled. “How is the human mate, Dor? Is she worth pissing off Mother?”

I glared at the side of his head as I neared Father’s office. “I’d do anything to piss off Mother. If you’re so bored you have to hang around and dig information out of me, two girls are dying for your hand at Amara’s house.” I stopped at the door. “I know how much you like redheads.”

I shoved open the door and walked into their meeting.

My father glared at me. “Look who decided to show up after he flew away with his mate, without introducing us, and marked her. Damn, son. You could have got her name first.”

I rolled my eyes and glanced at the King of The East Kingdom. He stood to shake my hand. “Hello Dorran, I’m Criss, it’s nice to officially meet you. Georgina told me so much about you.”

Oh God …

“That’s great. I need to speak to my father alone, please.”

My father glared at me as Criss walked out of the office and shut the door behind him. “What possesses you to do the things you do, son? Why are you this way?”

“Oh, here we go with the dramatics, Dad. This is important. I need to know reasons why a human would be banned from the kingdom.”

He leaned forward, his heavy brow low and his fingers interlaced on the desk. “Is your mate in trouble?”

“No.”

“Then why do you need to know?”

“Amara’s stepmother is trying to keep her there, and not let her be my queen.”

He laughed. “Why on earth would she want to do that?”

“Because it’s her stepmother, and she hates her. I need to protect Amara. I need your help.”

Sitting back, he shrugged. “I’ll tell you what. You bring her to dinner to meet us, and I’ll help you with protecting your mate.”

Bringing Amara to dinner sounded worse than cutting off my left wing. “I’m not sure that’s a good idea. Mother is being cruel to her—,”

Dad waved me off. “Oh, you know your mother. It takes her time to warm up to people. Bring her tonight. We’re having dinner with the royals of the East Kingdom, and I want them to meet your mate.”

What other choice did I have but to keep my dad on my good side? If I was going to have him kick Helena out, I needed to at least attempt to do as he asked of me.

“Okay.”

He slapped his knee dramatically. “Good deal. I want you to get acquainted with all the royals.”

I stood slowly. “I need to get back to Amara.”

“Dinner starts at 7. Don’t be late. Your mother will have a conniption if you’re late.”

“We wouldn’t want that.”

Chapter Twenty-One

Amara

“Sit down,” Toby said. “You’re driving me crazy.”

He was leaning back against the couch, flipping through movies on some streaming channel. I hadn’t stopped pacing since Dorran left the mountain. The drowning feeling that my stepmother wouldn’t step off gnawed at me.

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