The Dragon Queen and her mates.
Chapter 212: A good leader

Chapter 212: A good leader

Dedicating todays Chapter to 394everr.

Bree’s eyes widened as she reach her hand to wipe the black ink on the side of Yakov’s face but just as her fingertips were going to skim over his skin, he caught her and calmly said, " You do not need to do this, your majesty, please do know that you are the queen of the Empire and the wife of the heir of Sceptre family, do not ever touch something so filthy with your bare hands."

" But it has stained your face," she could not understand it, this Yakov was the same man who planned to kill the Dragon Queen but now he wasn’t even letting her touch the ink stains on his face.

She really couldn’t figure out what was going on in his head.

" My entire being only has one sole reason to exist and that is to protect you," he said taking the handkerchief that Aileen has handed to him after taking care of the man who tried to attack her. " It doesn’t matter what happens to me but your majesty, you cannot allow yourself to get hurt, do not ever forget that."

Bree felt her heart slowly getting gripped as she looked at the man in front of her, how can he be so dynamic? One second he wants to kill her with his hands but in the next second, he would turn around and face every danger that was heading her way, if she wasn’t wrong then it was Yakov who called Blaise to investigate the matter of her kidnapping as well.

As she looked at Yakov, she pursed her lips... looks like she never truly understood what kind of man he was.

Yakov didn’t know what was going on in her head, after he was finished wiping the black ink, he turned around and looked at the man who was struggling on the ground after he was tied up by the knights and resolutely asked, " Who ordered you to do this?"

He didn’t ask why the mad did it, instead, he went straight to the point and asked who was behind this. Although they already knew who was the one behind this entire ruckus, Yakov wanted to use this chance to let the Duke know that they weren’t as easily fooled as he thought they were, did he think that they were going to dance to his rhythm, no matter what? Heh, he sure was a funny man.

With a cold glimmer flickering in his eyes, he twisted his head slightly so that he was looking at the Duke, the man was smart enough to know that he needed to pretend as if he had no idea about what Yakov was talking about, he slightly tilted his head and looked at Yakov with a bemused yet polite expression.

"Who ordered me? No one did!" The man on the ground, however, raised his head and glared venomously at the dragon queen before shouting at the top of his lungs. " That woman right there is nothing but a murderer, she killed his majesty and even executed Prince Leon. As a princess what rights did she have to do something so ruthless as that, who does she think she is? She should have bowed her head and peacefully left the matters of the court to the men but she took the matters into her hands and rebelled creating a mess out of our country, as a woman how dare she sit on the throne that belongs to his highness, Prince Leon?"

The man bitterly spat on the ground, he didn’t look terrified of the gazes of the man who were looking at him, instead, he snarled vengefully and screamed in delight, " Brianna Dragonire, no matter how you pretend, the throne will never be yours, one day you will lose everything! I curse you! Now get away from the humble shrine of the late Emperor, you do not deserve to touch his esteemed majesty’s memorial! You murderer!"

Yakov saw the exact moment Bree’s face lost all colour, those amber eyes widened as she looked at the man in front of her before taking a few steps back, if not for Blaise who helped her up, he was sure that she might have fallen on the ground.

Blaise caught his gaze and both of them turned to look at the man who was still shouting at the top of his lungs, from just one look they could see that he was some crazed fanatic who believed the warped methods and laws of the late Emperor and came to trouble Bree, neither of them bothered about how the Duke found this man, what they cared about the most was that the Queen didn’t deserve to see this.

’As a woman just how much money do you need to survive? It’s your brother who needs it the most, stop whining and hand over your month’s salary to me, I need to pay the instalments of your brother’s house or else he will be evicted.’

A menacing face and contemptuous voice snarled in her ears, Bree thought that she has forgotten them but the voice of her parents was still echoing in her ears, they have always put her brother on a high pedestal and she had to take the back seat.

Why? All because she was a woman? It was not as if she was the one who chose her gender, did she? And just because she was a woman, she didn’t deserve to sit on the throne? The blood drained from her face as she turned around and walked away, not because she was upset but because she was afraid that she was so furious that she wanted to wield her sword and chop the man for good.

Yakov watched Bree leave, he knew that she was angry could feel it through the energy that was brimming within her, his wolf wanted to take the man down, claw his sternum out and choke him on it but he didn’t think of avenging himself or Bree, instead, he turned around and rushed after her, as she turned around the corner of the plaza.

She was walking so fast that he had to pick up his pace as he ran after her, for once he was glad that he was born a werewolf, with his sense of smell he was easily able to pick up her scent or who knew when he would have lost her.

Why did he feel like he has been socked in his stomach seeing her angered like that?

She didn’t need to hear that nor did she deserve to feel what she was feeling at the moment.

As the two of them reached the harbour, he caught sight of the dress that was fluttering behind her in the sea breeze and he followed her wake. " Your majesty."

She ignored his call that was when he picked up his pace and shouted, " Brianna."

" Leave me alone," she waved her hands as she stomped down the stairs that reached the beach, palms out and face-front. " Would you please leave me alone and let me wallow in anger and disappointment of realising how I am not worth a damn just because I am a woman."

He should, there was no point in chasing after her like this but he couldn’t turn around, his body did not seem to be under his control, because he hated the way she was condemning herself, she has done a phenomenal job despite being thrown into a mess that wasn’t hers to clean and he would deserve to be smacked in his face if he was to leave her alone when she needed him the most.

The fact that his priorities were slowly shifting spooked him, as a man who knew what he needed to do and what kind of goal he had in his mind this scared him but he wouldn’t let her talk shit about herself much less question herself because of a crazy fanatic. " You do not need to condemn yourself for a man like that, you are worth millions of that man."

She scoffed as she strode past the seagulls that were fighting over the crab that they have caught, causing them to fly away in a frenzy.

He followed after her. " You can never outrun me, your majesty."

" That’s only until I shift and fly off somewhere far where you will leave me alone."

" I am not leaving you alone."

She came to a sudden stop but she didn’t look at him, he watched as she raised her arms and hugged herself. " I always knew that I wasn’t a good leader, pretty shortsighted of me to think that I could do it but how am I supposed to do something as difficult as leading the Empire when people don’t even want me."

The dragon queen was confident enough to ignore everyone and everything but she wasn’t, she couldn’t ignore the fact that she wasn’t liked by her people.

He heard her sniffle and felt his heart tighten, crying woman scared the shit out of him but if he walked away now then he would become a severe douchebag in the eyes of many, so he took a moment to consider what he needed to do before he raised his hands and placed them around Bree’s waist hugging her from behind. " You have always been a good leader in my eyes your majesty, that man has never seen you burning the night oil but I have and I know that you are putting your people before yourself, as a leader this is the best you can do for your people and the Empire."