King Derek
I had to leave the room before I did something I surely regret. The woman I believed was my mother, wasn’t. I spent so much of my life begging her to love me, and she wasn’t even my blood. She was my mother’s replacement.
Looking back on my childhood, it all made sense. It explains why she hated me and resented my father so much. Why they fought all the time. I understand, but it doesn’t erase how she treated me. I didn’t ask her to be my mother, and she took everything she couldn’t take out on my father out on me.
And they have a son together, so where does that leave me?
“Right where you are, Derek. We are a gold dragon. Royalty. She can’t strip us of our title, and she can’t make her son king. We are King. But we aren’t the only victims here,” Magnus said. I sighed, kno
