Dragon's little flower

Chapter ten

Taking her sight from him and looking around, the girl finds nobody else in the surrounding area. Frowning, she searches with her eyes Belletem's mate, the one he talked so nice about. This action makes the young man chuckles briefly, but finding the problem still unresolved, he takes both of her hands in his, which brings her attention back to him.

„Fina", prolongs him: „I'm talking about you!"

Raising her eyebrows like a sea rising its waves on a windy day, she finally comprehended who was his mate. Closing and opening her eyes slower, Seraphina pounders a few breaths on his words. All the romantic phrases he poured out earlier were meant for her.

Wanting to double-check, she asks: „Me?"

„Yes, you're the person I've been dreaming about since I learned about mates. I craved what others had, I wished to see the tiniest bit of yourself to know you exist." Smiling, he gently strokes her hands: „I'd traveled to the furthest lands on earth. I worked and socialized until I was too sick to do it more. I'd studied many languages in case you weren't from here. What I want to say is that I waited and waited a long, long time for our first encounter. I searched everywhere, and I could have searched some more, and I still wouldn't have found you. You know why?"

„Why?"

„Because when the time was right, you, my little princess, found me." and with that statement, Belletem comes forward and kisses the top of her head, sealing his words with powerful force.

Continuing eye contact after his action, the girl says absolutely nothing. Worried, he asks her how she feels. Her answer shows the statement made her overwhelmed and she's still analysing his words.

„I feel we took a step back in time and start thinking like people from ancient times, where everything is based on proportions and measurements." Crossing her arms, she adds: „to me, it sounds like your whole life was a complete chaos until we met and now that I appeared, your life is in perfect harmony, it's in balance. You know, when everybody says that the universe has perfect calculations, that if it was with the tiniest angel offset, everything would crumble to pieces and life wouldn't be possible? I feel like you said the same thing to me but put it in the opposite order."

He understands her, but once the band was ripped off, the whole truth had to come to light.

„That is how I've seen the world until now. Unfortunately, this news is not the cherry on top..." ruffling his hair, he shifts his balance from one foot to another.

Raising her eyebrows again, she waits for the last information.

„I have not been completely honest with you about who I am, socially related, I mean. I'm glad you know me as Belletem, the dragon shifter you adore. However, most of society knows me as the son of king and queen. So, Seraphina, my title doesn't represent me entirely, but it's a part of me, one that I should have made known to you by now."

Shoving one side of his mantle in the back and off one of his arms, he bends his upper body as a sign of official greeting: „At your disposal, Belletem Māori, the oldest son of king Conon of Isauria and queen Saturnin the first. "

Grinning a big and beautiful smile, she is pleased he has introduced himself properly. Out loud, she murmurs a „finally" which instantly makes Belletem straitened.

Now it was his turn to be silent. He could see Fina looking at him, hoping for a reaction. She knows? But how? He hadn't said anything until now, and he thought he looked like a simple, maybe noble man at most, nothing higher in rang than that. How has she been so calm?