Bound To The Ice Dragon King
Chapter 189: True love

Chapter 189: True love

Without hesitation, Draven charged at Alina before she could finish her mocking remarks. Ice powers surged around his body, he was only focused on attacking Alina. Without a moment to spare, he aimed his attacks at her.

Draven’s countless attacks were so fierce and direct that all his weak points were exposed to Alina, but she was unable to get to him as he gave her no chance to come closer. Furthermore, she was also trying to protect Enzo from any of Draven’s fierce attacks.

However, it seemed impossible for Draven’s attacks to meet Alina, as she was quick to counter it or effortlessly dodge it.

When Enzo noticed that Draven’s attack weren’t meeting Alina, he stepped away from her and yelled out, "Draven, attack me!"

Draven didn’t refuse at the slightest, without a care, he raised his hands and changed the direction of his aim to Enzo.

Alina swirled around and looked at Enzo with varying degrees of pain and anger. She had no choice but to run to him to protect him from Draven’s attack. However, at that moment, Draven noticed that Alina was unguarded running towards Enzo, thus he changed his aim again back to her.

Draven hit her squarely on the stomach, and Alina stumbled to the ground. But she got up as quickly as possible as if the hit had been nothing. She turned back to attack Draven.

Without his core, Draven’s strength and powers were limited, and when Alina sent her attack, it hit against his chest and he stumbled backwards coughing blood and clutching his chest.

And when Alina raised her hands to throw another bigger attack, Enzo quickly ran out from behind her and threw himself towards Draven. Alina didn’t have time to withdraw her attack, and it slammed squarely against Enzo’s fragile human back.

At the impact, there was a snapping sound, that was the sound of his spine breaking and a huge damage done to his already fragile body. Enzo immediately collapsed into Draven. Blood flowing out of his nose and mouth.

Everything had happened so fast that Draven stared at the man in his arms in disbelief. Even Alina stood frozen and didn’t react. Then, she glanced down at her own hands as if she couldn’t believe she’d hurt Enzo with her own hands.

"I didn’t mean to..." She mumbled.

Draven continued to stare at Enzo, he almost couldn’t believe that the man had risked his life for him. Enzo seemed to be in so much pain that speaking was difficult, but he choked out, "Draven...I heard everything Alina did to you because of me. She hurt you for my sake..." His voice cracked as hot tears filled his eyes, "Even though I hate to admit it, I think I was her past husband. And now I want to repay you with my life. I am deeply sorry I caused your pain, I hope you find it in your heart to forgive me..."

"Nick, no..." Alina started to take trembling steps towards Enzo, she would heal him with her powers. But as if Enzo knew what she intended to do, he pushed Draven back and looked at him with tears filled eyes. "Please, freeze me to death and break me to pieces." He pleaded desperately, "Don’t leave any of my body part for her!"

Draven finally snapped out of his daze and reacted, he raised his ice wreath hand and struck Enzo who started to freeze on the spot.

"No!" Alina raised her hands to stop the freezing. However, this time, Draven struck her and sent her flying far away from Enzo. By the time she recovered and tried to save Enzo, it was already too late. Draven snapped his fingers and Enzo’s frozen body broke into tiny pieces.

"Nickolas!" Alina yelled out, she ran towards the spot and began to gather the melting pieces on the ground. "I sacrificed a lot to bring you back, Nick, how could you do this to me?! Why?!" She cried out like a wounded animal, her tears streaming down her face uncontrollably.

Alina cried helplessly on the ground, her shoulders violently shaking from her sobs. She cried her eyes out, and then suddenly stopped and glanced up towards Draven with red eyes and trembling lips, "You killed my husband!" She yelled, "You killed my Nick!"

Actually, even if Draven hadn’t done that to Enzo, he wouldn’t have survived from Alina’s attack. However, Draven didn’t even hesitate to admit it, "Yes, so what if I killed him? You also killed my Rheanna!" He looked at Alina with a murderous gaze that still hadn’t receded. To him, Alina’s hands were stained with Rhea’s blood. Even if he would give away his twenty years of hatred, Rhea’s death must be avenged by all means.

Alina stood up to her feet, flames swirling around her body like a devil from hell. The wind around her picked up and the temperature rose.

Draven’s ice always swirled around his body and he gazed at Alina with hate as she returned his hateful gaze.

The two stood in the middle of the mansion grounds, and as they engaged into a fierce battle, the entire earth shook and the ground began to split into two. Even the clouds darkened anomalously, with thunder rumbling loudly.

They fought each other as if to kill, they threw each other against buildings, destroying the mansion and beautiful fountains. However, as the fight continued, Draven began to fall in disadvantage because of his lack of core. He was injured in several places in his body, and his ice powers began to shrink.

As Alina’s flames were about to engulf Draven, a loud roar followed with an ice breath from the horizon froze Alina’s flames. Then, a mighty Dragon descended in the middle of their battle.

King Henry in his Dragon form fought Alina’s flames, while the two princes supported Draven. Prince Stefan was in his Dragon form, while prince Zade helped Draven onto his brother’s back.

King Henry managed to weaken Alina and as his sons soared into the horizon with Draven, he also followed behind them.

In the middle of the ruined grounds, only Alina remained, she did not give a chase and watched as the dragons flew away into the horizon. She helplessly looked down at the grounds where Enzo had been killed. She had lost the only person remaining in her life, she had nothing left now, everything was taken...

Draven and prince Zade sat on the other prince’s back as they flew back to the Dragon realm.

"You didn’t find Rhea’s whereabouts?" Prince Zade asked.

Draven felt a jab at his heart at the mention of Rhea’s name. His eyes burned with tears and his throat clenched with emotions. He dipped his head, "She’s dead..." He mumbled with a cracked voice.

Prince Zade went silent hearing that. He could tell Draven was in pain at the death of his partner, he had no words of consolation, thus he patted Draven’s shoulder and let him grieve.

They flew back to the palace, they had just landed when they saw the entire grounds filled with people. The Princes brothers and wives and children were anxiously waiting.

Draven watched as the two Princes ran to their wives and hugged their children, and the pain in his heart increased as he remembered he no longer had Rhea who always worried about him, nor would he ever know the feeling of having a wife waiting anxiously for his safe return.

Despite the wounds on Draven’s body, he didn’t feel the pain, because the pain in his heart was too overwhelming. He could hardly breathe properly. The more he watched the princes with their family, the more it reminded him how alone he was in this world now, thus he turned on his heels deciding to leave the palace.

"Draven!"

His ears twitched. He instantly stopped his steps, a flash of disbelief in his blue orbs, ’That voice...’ He quickly turned around and saw Rhea pushing aside people to get through to meet him.

In that moment, time itself seemed to halt, it felt like a beautiful dream created by his mind to soothe the burning coals of pain that were scorching his heart, his sight was fixed on her, like a pleasant illusion and despite that he couldn’t look away from her, everything blurred away around him, he could only see the woman, who he had believed was dead running towards him with a worried expression on her face.

"Draven_oh my goodness! You are bleeding! Who hurt you, did you fight with that witch? Did you_"

Draven didn’t let her finish her questions, he didn’t hesitate and tugged her hand and forcefully pulled her into his arms. He wrapped his arms around her slender body, and without hesitation, he crushed his lips against hers. It felt so real, almost as if he wasn’t imagining her at all.

And then realization dawned on him, the warmth of her body in his arms, the softness of her lips against his.

’His Rheanna was really alive...’

Draven deepened the kiss with that realization, relief, joy, gratitude had all flooded into him at once with a fiery burn of passion to make her his and never let himself lose her, he kissed her desperately, hungrily, and when she parted her lips welcoming his kiss, he plunged his tongue into her mouth and stroked it against hers.

He tightened his arms around her body and pulled her against his body as if not wanting any gap between them. He kissed her like tommorow didn’t exist and it was all this moment, this one moment with her in his arms. He didn’t want to let go, he would never let go.

Is this what it felt like to truly love someone? Is this what it felt like truly like to desire someone? When the thought of losing them tore you apart, even living would feel like an endless torture, every breath in their absence felt like pain, an unensing ache in the heart, where you felt them bonded to your very soul.

He thought he’d loved before, but it was nothing like this, he thought he’d desired before, but it was nowhere near this...

Perhaps this was true love!

At that moment, Draven realized his feelings for Rhea were far beyond what he had thought. He love her, he needed her in his life, and he wanted her so much he was willing to let go of everything and marry her as soon as possible.