Chapter 133: A dragon’s broken promise
Cass decided that worrying about something that didn’t actually bother him in the long run, didn’t matter. He knew that dragons as mythical creatures lived for a very long time. How else would someone like Draken be remembered as a founder of this Kingdom when Cass knew it hundreds of years old?
If he just raised his head up, and didn’t squint too hard, he could not worry about this at all. It was none of his business that a dragon had been ’stuck’ as a fledgling for a few decades before he came to serve him. Nor that there was a high chance he would have stayed as a fledgling unless Cass had noticed him, not freaked out, and then Draken started paying attention to Lord Blackburn after that.
He shouldn’t think about how that complex situation got them here. It was fine. He was fine.
What he was curious about was how long of a lifespan fairies had. Were they the same as humans, or were they longer, like dragons?
Draken and Byron were chatting to each other as Cass pondered, but it was Draken’s laughter that pulled Cass out of his thoughts.
"My advice? You’re a shadow dragon. Use it to your advantage." Draken was telling the other man, his hand slapping him on the shoulder. He was still in his shifted form, and Cass wondered how he had even been able to get so distracted that he forgot about that. Damn the man and his attractive body.
"You keep saying that, but I’m the only shadow dragon I know. My parents abandoned me." Byron said. The way he said it, so matter of factly, had Cass’ heart squeezing in sympathy. Yeah, he could relate to that.
Apparently his parents, together, had dropped off him and his sister, saying they were going to come back, but never did. Cass had been too young to remember, but his sister hadn’t. She’d never forgotten.
Draken’s expression froze, and both Byron and Cass did as well. It was strange to see Draken frozen. Swinging from one emotion to the next? Not unusual, but frozen? What was it that had caused him to freeze like that? Byron only spoke the truth.