Captured And Broken Luna

3: Hiding In His Wardrobe

[MIKEL DIEGO]

I scented the beautiful human, and I knew she had run into my bedroom. But how? How did she escape Abigail and Nana's clutches?

I closed the door first, knowing she wouldn’t be able to escape or fly out the window. I doubted she could fly.

I had to dismiss Abigail and Nana to avoid raising panic around the whole palace.

I was the dragon king, but my mother the queen and my sister were around, and they hadn’t seen her—except for my chosen mate, Zuri, who was with me when Aaron arrived with her.

Zuri’s eyes had burned with disgust. The human was pretty, and worst of all, Aaron brought her naked without her clothes. How?

I had felt a hardness seeing how sexy and curvy her waist was.

I am a dragon king and 540 years old, but since I was conceived and birthed, I had never seen a pretty human female like her.

We didn’t grow older in our kingdom, but we abducted human females to use them for crossbreeding to maintain balance in our system, since female dragons hardly birthed many baby dragons.

They were jealous and possessive of us and hated the idea of us taking human females away from their parents’ houses to use them for breeding purposes, but we had no other option.

I accepted Zuri as my mate 300 years ago, when I came of age and before I lost my father.

Zuri hadn’t yet conceived for me since then, up till now, and I didn’t know why.

Zuri refused to leave, and worst of all, she didn’t support me in the idea of taking a second mate.

I knew Zuri was burning with rage seeing me stare at the pretty human with lust.

Aaron clearly triggered me on, knowing she was cute and purposely bringing her without clothes.

She possessed a strong personality, and I also had a lot of questions to ask Aaron. He needed to explain to me where and how he chose to bring her bare, with a multitude of people gathered in front of our open magnificent palace staring at her.

I’m sure a lot of them would soon come to purchase her, as we sold any new human captured to become a mate for any dragon family that wanted them.

"King Mikel, we need to talk!" Zuri’s loud voice echoed in the passage after I had dismissed Abigail and Nana.

I walked up to meet Zuri to avoid her stepping into my room.

"Talk about what, Zuri? I will see Aaron later and find out why he chose to bring the human without her clothes on. I’m sure it wasn’t intentional," I said to Zuri calmly, but she was raging as if she wanted to let out fire and burn the human female to death.

Some human females had been killed by jealous female dragons, and I just hoped I could protect this pretty, stubborn human female from my mother, my sister, and most likely Zuri. Aaron isn’t a problem.

Aaron has his own mate, Aspen, and she had given birth to two daughters for Aaron: Lily and Lola, who were twins.

Aspen was pregnant again, and I'm hoping it will be a male dragon so that I could rest knowing the male child of Aaron would be my successor to the throne, to continue ruling over our kingdom.

"King Mikel, I don’t want that human kept in this castle with us. Let her be sent away to wherever she came from. I don’t need her around here," Zuri complained bitterly.

I continued walking away through the passage so that Zuri wouldn’t scent the delicious human scent, and we met with Aaron along the way.

Aaron indeed knew how to show up when I’m in distress. He asked, "What’s going on here? Zuri, you know our tradition. Or do you want to wipe out our entire clan? You’re unable to birth a son or daughter for my brother, and you’re worse, sending away all the pretty females we have brought. Are you a witch, Zuri?!"

"Enough, Aaron! Let her be," Mother interrupted as she walked up with Lucy to meet us.

"Mikel, Aaron, where is the new female that was brought? I heard she was brought into this palace without clothes on?" Mother asked, peering at me.

"Mom, I need to be left alone. Abigail and Nana are dressing her up and preparing her to be sold tonight," I lied. The pretty one wasn’t going anywhere.

I was the king, and whatever decision I made was final.

I was soft at heart, but that didn’t mean I would sit back and watch this pretty human sold to a male dragon in my clan when I am still unable to have a child of my own.

It seems the gods of our lands have chosen to bless me, not just with any human, but with a pretty human at that, and I smiled.

"Hmm. It’s alright. Come, Zuri, let’s go. Besides, you don’t need to worry about the lady. She will be sold tonight," Mother told Zuri as she walked up to meet her and pulled her by the arm to follow her. Lucy only stared at me and Aaron in silence, her red eyes fixed on me.

Lucy had stubbornly refused to leave the palace, as she didn’t want to lose her princess title. Well, luckily for her, we didn’t grow old and still maintained our youthful skin. Even as our age kept increasing, we remained the same, year after year, unlike the humans.

I heard some dragons had lost their human mates, but this pretty one wasn’t going anywhere.

I made up my mind to turn her into a dragon. Only I, Aaron, and my sister, Lucy had the power to do that, being born of ancestral royal dragon blood.

Although we didn’t tell the other dragons about it, so they might not be aware of the fact that we can turn a human into a dragon, I was ready to try that on that pretty one.

I patiently wanted to dismiss all of them, shut the passage door, and be left alone with the human female while waiting for night to fall so she could be sold.

Although it wasn’t auction season, since Aaron had brought her without clothes, a lot of dragon males had seen her and how endowed she was.

I’m sure they would be ready to drop millions in gold to have her, even for a night, but I wouldn’t let that happen.

"Brother, what do you think of her?" Aaron turned to face me, and I breathed out in relief.

"She’s beautiful. Where did you bring her from? She looks like the other princesses that have been sold," I said.

"Yes, brother, I think so. But she’s strong and ruthless. She was the one who killed those two guards we sent to abduct the human females and bring them to the palace," Aaron said.

"How interesting. But I think I like her, and that would be a bit of a problem, since she escaped from Abigail and Nana’s clutches and is in my chamber now," I told Aaron, and his jaw dropped.

"What? That’s even better, as I purposely brought her for you. I could have killed her, since she disguised herself as a male, but when I saw her burning yellow eyes—the kind only the royal family of Sunfield has—I perceived her scent and immediately knew she was of royal blood. But I was confused seeing her dressed as a male. She’s tough, brother. Though she looks small, you have to be careful with her. She wouldn’t hesitate to cut off your rod."

Aaron smirked and showed me his arm, which was still healing. I asked, "She did this?"

"Yes. She’s a perfect sword-mistress, and I’m sure she will want to avenge her late family and her sisters’ disappearance."

"Hmm," I hummed.