THE KEY (parsnormal/fantasy romance)

I talk to myself

Rät by Penelope Scott (if you cant tell, I love Penelope scott) "I loved you, I loved you, I loved you its true"
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Valentino
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She really thought she could run away. And then she tried to make her father not go, probably so she could get more attention from servants and stuff. How dare she.

She will not leave again

Yeah

Not unless we're there

Yeah!

And we will be there, following through hell or heaven, to prove ourselves worthy 

Yea- 
wait wait wait.
 No! We're not doing that shit.

Why not?

I'm just not 

But she is your engaged and my precious 

She's barely my engaged and she will not be your precious.

She already is

No. If my dragon had emerged as a kid when we still had that bond, maybe, but he didn't emerge until I was a teenager and she betrayed me.

She would not

She did

No. My precious would never

Dude you have to deal with it.
 She's evil and trusting her will let her hurt us again. 

He didn't say anything after that. I sat across from her in the car. 
She looked down blankly. She was greedy. Evil. 

I felt bad for her father, not understanding why his own daughter wouldn't want him in the palace. Zee's mother wasn't home so she was probably on a business trip. Zee never really spoke about her parents. I knew how her mom was always away on business trips for long periods of time, and never heard much about her dad. I thought it was because he was evil. 
Nope. Only because she was.

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I stared at her across the dining table. We would be announcing our engagement in the next month, but for now we were to 'get to know each other'. If she was going to act dumb and pretend she didn't know me, I would too. 

"What's your name?" I asked, and she furrowed her brows.

"Um..." she didn't know what to say. Guess she was surprised I was playing along.

"Zyla."

"No." Now she was lying to me to my face? 

She raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean 'no'? Want to check my birth certificate. Or check the letter that was sent to my door. It says Zyla," she sassed.

Feisty

Shut up

Then, another piece in my mind seemed to click together with another. I'd searched for a long time for Zee. I never searched for Zyla. She'd lied about her own godforsaken name.

I growled, unable to even speak to her anymore. Then I stormed out. She lied to me about her NAME. You would think of all the things she'd lied about, I would've at least known the name of who I was so angry with. 

But I didn't. I was so naive. Never again would I be weak and trusting like that.
 Trust nobody. 

But she is our precious. She would not hurt us. Trust me at least 

Trust nobody
Not even yourself

I silenced my dragon, and I felt him reluctantly go silent

Soft footsteps trails behind me and a delicate hand touched my shoulder. I whipped around.