Page 241 of The Wild Prince's Favorite
Without warning, Alezya suddenly walked ahead of Kassein.
“Down!” she suddenly barked.
All three young dragons froze and immediately laid belly-flat on the ground.
After a second of being completely still, they slowly turned their big eyes to her with a shocked, almost scared look in her eyes, while Tievin carefully stepped away from them.
“Ah!” Kiera scoffed. “...I’ll be damned. Well, she definitely has the dragon mama thing down!”
Kassein silently agreed, smiling proudly. It was pretty funny to see the rowdy triplets lying down, quiet and scared of Alezya’s scowl.
After a second, two of them sat up, while the other remained lying down, rolling onto its back, and all three of them kept their eyes on Alezya, their tails swishing left and right with interest.
“Thank you, my lady,” Tievin said, with a nervous look toward the triplets. “That was quite... Wha–Whose dragon is this?”
Niiru had come into the cave and popped its head out from behind Alezya’s legs, watching the tamed triplets with a curious expression, as if trying to figure out what it had missed. As if feeling bolder now that those three were acting calm, the little black dragon began strolling around the cave. It stopped to sniff a dumbfounded Tievin and then glanced around the tiny cave before walking away to venture between the legs of the nearest men.
“Oh, I’ve been waiting for this,” Kiera smirked.
“W-w-what is going on?” Tievin insisted, blinking at the young dragon. “Whose dragon is this, Your Highnesses? Lady Alezya?”
As Tievin was pointing toward the small dragon, Niiru came around, sitting before him.
“It’s Niiru,” Alezya said.
“Niiru?” Tievin repeated. “That’s... What kind of name is that? Whose dragon is this?!”
Kiera was biting her finger with a large grin, her eyes darting between Kassein and Tievin with excitement. After a second, Kassein let out a sigh, and stepped forward, wrapping an arm around Alezya and splaying his hand on her stomach.
“It’s Alezya’s daughter’s,” he said. “The egg that hatched, the young dragon we were missing. That dragon is Lumie’s.”
Tievin scoffed.
“No,” he spat after a second.
“No?” Kassein repeated.
“N-no, Your Highness. Miss Lumie is not your child. She doesn’t have the Dragon’s Blood, nor was she fathered by one of... of your relatives, that we know of. It can’t. It cannot be.”
“Kein spawned Niiru’s egg,” Kassein said.
“B-but!” Tievin squawked. “I-it would need to beyourbaby’s dragon to be Kein’s!”
“There’s an egg for my biological child too.”
“Your... Y-your... But–W-...Wha-... B-but the two eggs–”
“Both eggs are Kein’s,” Kassein explained with patience. “The one that hatched fast was Niiru’s, Lumie’s dragon. The one we were looking for. The other one is for my baby that Alezya is carrying.”
Tievin opened his mouth, but no sound came. Kiera let out a sigh.
“Nevermind, this is boring. Anyhow, we found the missing dragon and Alezya’s for sure pregnant, Tiev.”
“Really? For sure?” he exclaimed. “B-but this dragon–”
“Is her first child’s. Lumie’s,” Kiera sighed. “Kein decided to give her a dragon. Crazy, we know, but that’s the theory Lorey came up with, and so far, there’s been nothing to prove her wrong. Niiru is Lumie’s dragon, the one that hatched ridiculously early, and the second one is for the unborn babe Alezya’s carrying. The egg is still growing in the Onyx Castle’s garden. And look at the scales she’s got. White scales. Like the other egg. And Niiru? Black as his egg.”
There was a long silence. Alezya frowned, probably from hearing her name several times, while Tievin had stopped reacting entirely. He was properly stunned, silent, and immobile. Kiera tilted her head.
