Dare To Love A Dragon

Alexander had asked his servant to summon the queen to his room. Olivia was brought to the room by Annak. She exited the room to give the two some privacy and went out.

"Why did you ask me here? Have you called for me to insult me as you had done before?" she asked him.

"I have called you here to fulfill your dreams. I am granting you the gift of being my only wife and the only queen of Arimelari," he said to her with an indifferent face.

"Why? Why would you do that?" she questioned suspecting it to be another one of his tricks to trap her somehow. He had been reacting lately in ways that she didn't understand and was cold towards her.

"Because I have realized that only you can understand me. No one else has ever been able to understand me more than you do," he said without even blinking an eye.

"Are you joking with me, Alex?"

"I am not joking. I now realize that my love for that man was the biggest joke of my life," he said making Olivia smile. She moved happily closer to the king and took him by the hands. She glanced at him.

"And if I come close to you?"

"Then I will not stop you, the whole of me exists only for you," he said in reply to her question.

"And if I kiss you then?"

"Then I will let you."

Olivia hugged him, she closed her eyes and pinched herself to see if she was dreaming but she realized that it was real when she felt the pain. It was as if someone had set off fireworks in her heart, she was filled with joy.

All that she had ever wanted was coming true without her having to do much. She didn't even know why the king suddenly changed his mind but was happy that he did because it worked in her favor.

'I am doing this only to protect my loved ones. Francis, Silvia, and their unborn will start their new lives today. I won't let you cast an evil eye on their lives,' he said n his mind and embraced Olivia in return.

"What about Francis?" she asked him.

"I have already divorced him, he is getting married in the wedding hall as we speak," he said to her. Olivia broke the hug.

"He is getting married?"

"Yes."

"But to whom? And why are we here instead f there with them? I want to go and watch," she said and turned around to head out but Alexander held her hand and pulled her back into his arms.

"I have given you everything that you have ever asked of me, including the right to have me all to yourself. Then how can you leave me and go?" he asked her holding her by the waist close to him.

"I am only going to see the wedding. It won't take long I promise," she said but Alexander refused her to leave.

"Stay with me. Let's have some quality time with each other and try to fix our broken relationship," he suggested to her.

"Okay," Olivia said half-heartedly, she was curious about the person Francis was marrying and whether or not he was getting married or the king was only playing with her. She sat down on the chair and let the prince have his way.

'I won't let you out of my sight until Francis is far away from here,' he thought. He got a board game for them to play.

"Let's see if you are still the best at playing this game," he challenged.

"I will win and that is for sure," she said and got ready for the game.

The game was tough with neither the king nor the queen willing to lose. They both kept a keen eye on each other to try and figure out the other's next move to win the game but none of them gave out their tactics to the other so it was had to win.

They played for hours with the first round not even done. They both were fierce competitors and worked hard to give each other a hard time during the game.

"You are not going easy on me at all. I am pregnant my king and so much stress are not good for my baby. Won't you lose for our child?" she asked him sweetly. The King looked up from the game and kept his gaze at her.

His vein popped with anger from the things that came out of her mouth. 'I have already lost the most important thing in my life because of that thing. How much more will I have to lose to him," he thought gripping the end of his robe in anger. He forced a smile on his lips and spoke.

"I would do anything for my son," he said sweetly on the outside when all he wanted was to barbecue the child and feed it to the mother for dinner.

Olivia smiled with excitement on hearing what he said, she played her next move and lost the game.

"You are allowed to lose to our son but your wife will never let you lose," she said and went to him. She gave him a snap kiss on the lips.

"With you around how can I ever look for anything else. I need nothing nor want anything," he said flattering her.

"Don't flatter me so much or I might blush my king," she said.

"You deserve all of me, my queen," he said. 'And I will give you all me that you will beg to go away from me but neither prayer nor medicine will help you when I am after you,' he added in his thoughts.

"You are the best, my king."

"No, you are the best my queen," he complimented. 'But I will make your life so pathetic that you will rue the day you came into my life,' he thought and let out an evil laugh in his mind. " You and your child will both suffer for the pain you both have caused me," he muttered.

"What?" Olivia asked.

"Nothing my queen. I was just saying that you and your son will both live a very good life in the palace," he said lying through his teeth.

"But he is not just my son but our son my love," she reminded him.

"Yes of course and that is why I love him so much that I granted all your wishes," he told. 'Had I insisted on keeping Francis here, you and your cursed child would have found a way to end him,' he thought.

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"Do you Sir Francis of Arimelari accept Lady Silvia as you wife, to have and to hold. To love and to cherish, for better or worse. On sickness and in health till death do you both part," the priest asked him.

"Yes, I do" he replied his mind and replaying the hateful words that Alexander had spoke to him. He was filled with anger and bitterness for the dragon king.

'My only mistake is that I dared to love a dragon,' he thought as he recalled all those missing pieces of his life that he couldn't remember. There was always something that happened when he was around the dragon that forced him to fall unconscious.

He recalled how most of his meetings with the man ended with him walking up from asleep with no memory of when he fell asleep or what had happened. Just like what he was being accused of. He had no memory of making Silvia pregnant or how he did it. All he recalled was being attacked by Olivia and then waking up in his room.

He was being accused and punished for a crime he doesn't even recall doing. The fact that the king spoke to him like that made him just angrier.

'You are not the only one who knows how to hate Alex. I hate you too, I hare you for all the things that you had said to me and the strange things that happened in my life since the day I met you. I hope that I never see or hear your name ever again in my life,' he thought.

"Francis," Silvia called to him. "The priest is talking to you," she said.

"You may each take your three I do's holding hands," he said to them.

Silvia reached her hand out to him, he took her hand into his, his heart was burning with hatred.

"Do you promise to fulfill your duties to each other as husband and wife?"

"I do," they replied in unison.

"Do you promise to accept each other and respect one another?"

"I do."

"Do you promise to uphold the honor of your marriage?"

"I do."

"I now pronounce you husband and wife," he said to the two of them. "Congratulations."

"Thank you," Silvia said to the priest as they both exited the palace.

There were many horses outside the palace waiting for them. The horses were packed with so much wealth as gifts from the king. He gave them everything that he thought they would need to live a prosperous life.

Francis looked back to the palace. 'You chose your son over me and threw me away so easily. Don't blame me for what I will do next,' he thought a glow flashed in his eyes.. He turned around and they both left.