The Dragon Queen and her mates.
Chapter 41: Reapers.

Chapter 41: Reapers.

Bree turned silent as she finished listening to Dion, her expression turned serious as she realised that maybe she might have made a mistake in her anger after all. She just wanted to scare Ahmar off so he would stay away from him, make him realise that she wouldn’t let his vulgar remarks slide off but she never wanted to hurt him much less punish him like a criminal. She rubbed the ring on her thumb instinctively —- this was one of her habits, she liked to wear a thumb ring and rub it when she was nervous, it helped her to calm her anxiety down.

Of course, the dragon Queen had no such habits but if she wanted her head to work straight then she needed to keep a close rein on her anxiety in case it started to run out of control.

" Your majesty?" Dion called her when he saw that she was sweating nervously. " Are you all right, your majesty?"

She wasn’t all right at all, after sending that ticking bomb into the black tower she wanted to extinguish much of its fire but from the looks of it, she might as well have stuffed more explosives inside it!

Bree pressed her forehead as she ordered Dion, " Go and ask the guards of the black tower to release Ahmar."

She knew that as her aide Dion did not need to do something like this but she thought that as long as she sent Dion to the black tower, the others will be able to understand where she was coming from. Though she had no intention to stay with her mates like a married couple but that doesn’t mean that she will let anyone slight them either, it was better for her to send Dion instead of one of her guards at least she will be able to give out the message that she wouldn’t let anyone insult her consorts.

And it wasn’t that she could allow them to be insulted either, what if those jerks thought that she was being too much of a tyrant and sent her head rolling? What will she do then huh? Why didn’t no one tell her that the black tower was also a chamber of torture and they didn’t ask for permission from her anymore? They should have told her at least then she wouldn’t have made a mistake like this. Though she was regretful, there wasn’t much Bree could do about it now —— it wasn’t like she could go on her knees and ask for an apology right? Because as the Dragon Queen she cannot just apologise to anyone willy-nilly.

Sigh, even being a queen was too difficult man.

Why was she the Queen anyway?

Dion understood what Bree was trying to do, and his eyes lit up as he realised that maybe the cold and heartless Dragon Queen finally had a change of heart and was no longer as inhuman as she was once before. He clenched his fingers and a determined blaze started to burn in his eyes, maybe now there will an opportunity to change the current situation of their Empire! Now all the responsibility of letting the future generation being born rested upon his shoulders!

With a determined heart, Dion looked at Bree and said, " Your majesty, if you are worried about the second consort then why not do this?"

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The sound of whip crackling against human flesh echoed in the dingy cellar and Xander who was on the verge of breaking down tugged at his hair...what should he do? What should he do now?

As he watched his master hanging from the ceiling and being whipped by the black tower guards, Xander felt like he was going to lose his life worth half a century. How can they do this to the second consort? No matter how angry the Queen was she will never let these guards hurt her mate right?

"You boorish bastards! How dare you hit the second consort!" He shouted when he saw Ahmar’s body tighten with pain when the barbed whip hooked in his flesh and left an ugly cut on his chest. Xander’s eyes started to brim with tears as he watched his master being whipped like a criminal and he couldn’t help but curse the inhuman guards who weren’t stopping not even after watching the blood trickle down his master’s body—— his master was half vampire and had the blood of omega mixed in, he was a lot weaker to the silver needles than any pure blood vampire and yet the guards were using silver dipped in basilisk’s blood to hurt his master.

However, the guards of the black tower were rumoured to be heartless, they were pesky creatures with long hooked hands and were draped in black cloaks that hid their faces—- Grim reapers were what they were called and they had as much sympathy for anyone who was locked in the black tower as much the Dragon Queen had love for her mates meaning ——nil.

They were unsympathetic and sadistic, feeding off the pain of the culprits who were locked in the cells here, if there was anything good about them, it was that they weren’t as strong as the guards of the prison who wouldn’t let go of their prisoners even in death, they wouldn’t let them live and neither would they let them die, compared to them at least these grim reapers were better.

His shouts were unanswered and so were his tears in the end Xander turned to Ahmar and shrieked, " At least drop your walls second consort, let the Queen feel how much pain you are suffering because of her! Then maybe she will stop this torture for you!"

Ahmar however didn’t open his eyes nor did he let his walls down. Let Bree feel his pain? Wouldn’t that just show her how weak he was that he couldn’t even take on this much torture? No way, there was no way in hell will he let his walls drop and let her feel what he was feeling —— because he will never let anyone in his heart much less the woman who was the cause of his pain.