Chapter 3 - Fraya

He placed me onto my feet and took a step back, moving to stand with Gabriel near the book shelf whilst I began drowning in my own panic, something was going on here that I didn’t know about and I didn’t feel comfortable telling them anything until I knew what they had planned for me.

“Feel free to show us at anytime doll.” Maddox says firmly, no hint of kindness in his tone As he leans back in his chair.

“Not until you tell me what’s going on, you were bringing me here long before I admitted what I was.” I growl, my tone just as harsh.

Gabriel laughed, but it was a dry and humourless sound “So you do have some brain cells left after the crash.”

“Yes plenty.” I snap, “but watch your tone Gabriel Cross, I don’t have to show you anything, I only told you to save my own skin. I can quite easily shift and leave.”

“You can try.”  Snarled Silas, his eyes ablaze with anger. “But you wouldn’t get far, we know who you are now.”

“That’s why I’d leave the city.” I counter, “ I would be gone before you could follow me.”

Maddox slammed his hands against the desk, his emerald eyes now blazing with the same anger as Silas. “Your assuming we’d let you live at all.”

“So that’s why you brought me here!” I shout, my own anger rising to a height I never knew possible. “You just want to kill or use me! Just like everyone else!”

Kaelin slammed his foot against the bookshelf as hard as he could, gaining everyone’s attention as we all turned to look at him, steam coming from his nose in waves, proof that this dragon king was about to lose control, I took a step back out of instinct when he looked at me, ready to defended myself should it come to that, only he turned on his fellow dragons, his skin beginning to glow.

“How can you all talk to her like that?” He shouts, his voice echoing with a fierce growl, before he turns back to look at me. “You are our mate, we sensed it the moment your car hit ours, if you are what you say then you wouldn’t know this, pheonix’s cannot tell their mate by smell alone like other shifters.”

I frown, I never knew I would be gifted a mate, but four, surely that’s impossible? How can one girl be shared by four beastly strong dragons!? That wasn’t possible.

“I can’t be.” I gasp. “I can’t be all of your mates.”

“You are.” Gabriel nods, his eyes softening slightly. “I knew instantly as soon as your scent mixed with mine.”

“As did I.” Agreed Maddox.

Silas nodded, but remained silent, still attempting to calm his temper.

“Then there is only one thing I can do.” I say with a sigh, my heart breaking as I go to say the words, the words that would free me from them. “I Fraya Faulkner reject….”

I’m barely able to hold in my scream when a fireball is thrown my way, the damn thing spearing me right in the chest. I collapse backwards, my head smashing into the wood of the door as I take a shallow breath, my heart once again skittering in my chest. had one of them just tried to kill me, or did they know I was immune to fire? it hurt, though I suppose 21 getting hit by a fireball directly in the chest would hurt. it didn't just sting, it felt as though it was burning away pieces of me. I jumped back to my feet, ready for a fight, my eyes glazed over with anger tears, how dare they do this to me?!

“What the fuck!?” I scream, my anger souring as my skin began to glow with a orange tint, the burns barley leaving a mark.

But that wasn’t what pissed me off, they dared call me their Mate And then they tried to hurt me in the next second, tried to burn me, burn a phoenix. it was almost laughable alright would have been  if I wasn't so angry, fire cannot kill me, it only makes me stronger, simply  singeing the skin on the outside, whilst on the inside it gives me power.