The Dragon Prince’s Forbidden Affair

I couldn’t tell him I didn’t love him or didn’t want to be with him because it was all I wanted. Tears ran down my cheek. “I love you too Lexus.” He pulled me to him and kissed me with passion.

“Ew.” Cade groaned. “You guys are gross, is it over?”

I pulled away and looked at Cade. “Uh no… we’re not going through with the rejection.”

Cade rolled his eyes. “Whatever, let’s go back to the ball.” He ran to the river and fell to his knees as he threw up.

Lexus laughed. “Let’s go before someone comes looking for us.” He looked down at me. “I’m going to end this with Sadia in the morning, I just don’t think right now at the ball is the right place.”

I understood. “Okay.” We started walking down the hiking trail.

“Wait for me.” Cade ran to us. On the walk down I had to fix my bun and dust off the ends of my dress.

When we walked in, my father walked right to me. “Sorry I missed your call, they’re about to announce to everyone that you’re the new generation's holder. Where have you been?” He looked at Lexus who walked past us to Sadia. “Oh…”

answered for me

father sighed. “Really Cade? These events aren’t for you to get drunk and make us look bad. Come

a new holder

as the first. I guess that’s because they didn’t know who I was, not until now. I wasn’t paying attention to the rest of what the Queen said. I was too busy watching everyone staring at me. I hoped it wasn’t obvious that I had been crying. I noticed Vella glaring at me as she took two shots. After I walked down off the stage reporters tried to

pulled me away from them. “Aqua, these are my

didn’t look happy. She glared at Konn. “You knew I wanted one granddaughter. I love Cade and Gray but I wanted one girl and this whole time

people who knew the better honey. It would have come up

I would have insisted we raise

you both.” I

“You’re just going to have to catch up now, I wish I knew what advice my father would give you. I guess Cade just wasn’t meant to be the holder, he had so much potential.” He was obviously disappointed but trying to be nice about it. “We’ll come back to the castle in maybe a month and a half. I have old things

met my grandfather, but I already didn’t want to disappoint him when it came to being a successful holder. I could tell it meant so much to him and he was doing his best to accept and

we done talking, I found Calvin. “You were gone for an