Blood in the rose thistles

Chapter 21

Cale can feel his hair is being delicately combed by someone. Gentle fingers brushed past his forehead and moved through his hair. Except for the sound of a book turning, there was no other sound. It's already past bedtime and no one from his group will enter their room just to brush his hair.

"Your back?" Cale opens his eyes and sees that his head is on Alexina's lap while she is sitting on their bed and reading a book.

"As you can see. And how can I sleep when you suddenly pulled me and put your head on my lap when I was about to lay down." Alexina said and pushed Cale's head back to the mattress. She put the book in the night stand and turned the lamp off. As she was doing that, Cale looked at the wedding ring in her hands that was on the mattress.

"I want to sleep. My entire body is aching from their training." Alexina complains and lays down on their bed.

"You should try to be a slacker. Just like me." Cale suggested and pulled the blanket to cover them up.

"Are you kidding yourself? You? A slacker? You must be dreaming." Alexina laughed and turned her back on the dumbfounded Cale.

"I'm a slacker, do I?" Cale asked but Alexina just laughed.

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Cale suddenly grips the headboard of their bed when he can feel someone pulling his feet.

"I don't want to!" Cale sighted when he heard that familiar word again. He keeps his grip tighter so that he won't be pulled out of their bed.

"Alexina, it's too early." Cale grumbles and because this hero thinks that breathing is exercise making him weak started to feel that his grip is losing from the tug of war that is happening between Alexina and Rosaria-nim who is pulling Alexina's feet out of the bed, while Alexina is holding Cale's feet.

"Then you should ask these ancient dragons in here. I only have 2 hours of sleep."

"Stop being a child and let go." Cale looked behind him and saw Rosaria-nim spanking Alexina's butt, just like a mother discipling her daughter in most of the country in Asia.

"That hurts! Oh.." Alexina who accidentally let go Cale's feet and Rosaria-nim took this opportunity to lift Alexina's like a bag of rice and jump out of the opened veranda, that Cale surely remembers being closed when they sleep.

"See you later." Cale waved his hands to the pouting Alexina who just rolled her eyes at him.

"Now, let's go back to sleep. " Cale goes back to sleep like nothing happened.

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"Where mommy?" Ambrose asks Cale who is eating grapes while laying down in a blanket that Cale doesn't know where they got it. Ambrose is also doing the same thing.

"Got kidnapped by the ancient dragons." Cale simply answered and looked at the carbon copy of himself staring at him from above.

"What are you doing?" Alaric asks them, and puts his hands on both sides of his hips.

"Letting the blazing sun melt my body until nothing is life." Ambrose, who is bored as he can be said, closed his eyes.

"Hmm...then train with your sword." Alaric suggested which Ambrose ignored. Alaric stayed there, looking at his father and his twin who is lazing around.

"If you don't want to then I'll just bring you there." Alaric stated, and pushed Cale out of the blanket. Cale rolled to the side, and when their father was not there, Alaric pulled the blanket towards the side where Choi Han was waiting for them. Ambrose mumbles some complaints which his twin ignored.

"Daddy! Next month, May 11 is our mothers birthday and ours will be May 12! We will be eight that time" Alaric shouted and Cale just waved his hands at them still laying down on the shore.

"Peaceful."

"Then let's break that peace of yours."

"Go away, Alexina."

"Nope. Not happening." Cale groaned when he felt Alexina sitting in his abdomen.

'Is my family really in the habit of putting their weight on me?'

Cale opened his eyes and saw gray eyes looking at him. With her almond-shaped eyes, pointed nose, and voluminous lips, Alexina smiled. That smile can catch any man's heart, but unfortunately, she is already tied down to Cale until death.

"I can feel the Minor Gate of War starting to show its presence." Cale stopped looking at Alexina and put his hands on Alexina's waist.

"Then you will be in the front line when that time comes?"

"Worried about me?" Alexina muttered. Cale trailed his view over her features, taking a minute to the view in front of him..

"You tell me." Alexina smiled and pressed her lips to him. Cale sat up, not breaking the kiss and wrapped his arms around her waist tighter. Cale gently bit her lips asking for access and she obliged, her lips slightly parted, having him access to her. After a while Cale broke down from the kiss and started kissing her neck, gently sucking on the white flesh upon him. Cale can hear her moaning, as he was leaving some mark. Cale snapped open the four buttons of her white top and left some marks lower as he started trailing his hands in her corset and started untying it, it's already half way done when they heard someone talking.

"I'm pleased to see you in this state, making heirs to secure the future generation but not in this place children and absolutely not around this time."

Cale immediately let her go, and stood up, looking at the ancient water dragon, Aquaria-nim who was looking at them. Cale looked at Alexina who was trying to button her shirt up, so Cale moved to her back and started helping her tie the corset that he undone earlier.

"After you make yourself presentable. Go to the library, we need to talk to the both of you." Aquaria-nim orders them and walks away.

"You leave quite a lot of marks. Hmmm...I wonder how to cover this up." Alexina turned around, tilting her head to let Cale see the trail of purple marks on her neck and upper breast.

"Should I apologize?"

"Nope, no need." Alexina laughed and told Cale to keep tying her corset.

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Cale and Alexina looked at the 3 ancient dragons who were seriously looking at them.

Alexina nudged Cale's side and whispered, "What did you do?". Cale looked at her in horror.

"You out of the people asking me? Do you think I have the guts to make 3 ancient dragons mad?" Cale whispered back and both of them sat up properly when Rosaria-nim sighs.

"Alexina, listen carefully child. You and your husband will be going to the ancient ruins of the temple where your ancestors lived when they are alive."

"Me?" Cale pointed to himself.

"Us?" Alexina asks and the dragons nod.

"Hold up. I don't know where the ruins are. Do you know where?" Alexina innocently ask the dragons who are dumbfounded because of her question.

"You don't know where it is?" Eruhaben confirmed and Alexina nodded her head.

"Are you sure you don't know?" Aquaria asks again.

"Yup. I don't know where it is."

"That will be a problem. We also don't know where the ruins are."

"So...what should we do?"