Alle Kapitel von A Kingdom of Corruption and Chaos: Kapitel 11 – Kapitel 20

It took me a few days for the venom to actually dissipate enough for me to be able to get out of bed. Luckily, Jaxon never came back after the first time, and no one tried to bother me since I had woken up, but either way, Xavier left Bane with me throughout the day. Lexi and Genie ended up coming to visit pretty much every day after classes, bringing their dinner in so they could eat with me, and catch me up on everything that's been happening in our classes. Generally, they ended up leaving after helping me work on some of the classwork they brought for me, not being able to stay too late, with having classes in the morning. Xavier, however, surprised me; he came back every night. Normally, he would come in around eight or nine before spending the entire night beside me. It was far more than I was expecting from him, but I was so grateful for it. While I felt bad about the fact that he was actually sleeping there, it couldn't have been comfortable, but I really didn't want him to st

Xavier stopped just as he got to Bane's foreleg, and I looked up, and up... and up. 'There's no way for us to just take a horse or something?' I asked Nova, but instead of her soft, feminine voice, a deep, rumbling, masculine voice answered me.'Don't insult me, girl. It's not like I would let you fall... very far. I'd catch you before you hit the ground, for Nova's sake, of course.' Well, I see their bond is increasing, and the dragon absolutely reflects his rider.'And just exactly how do you expect me to get up there, let alone fly?' I shot back, and he huffed out an exaggerated sigh as those piercing golden eyes looked me over. I'm sure if a dragon could roll his eyes, he absolutely just would've.Xavier chuckled behind me, and I glared over my shoulder at him. I was not going to be taking their shit today. Any of them. "What are you laughing at?" I questioned, making him grin even wider."The fact that he just called you a fiery, demanding little girl," Xavier answered, and Bane s

Sadly, it wasn't long before the dragons got up, and we headed out once more. Half the day we were on Bane's back, but the second half would be on horseback. When we landed in a clearing outside a dense, snowy forest, causing the huge black and white horse to start prancing around the tree that it was tied to, I could sense the immediate change in Xavier. His whole body seemed to tense. The closer we had gotten to landing, the quieter he had gotten compared to the constant teasing banter that he had goaded me into practically the whole morning. Even his tone had changed back to having that hard edge to it, more like what I was used to from when we were at the academy."Have you ridden before?" He asked as he handed me my backpack before taking his own, along with all the other supplies off Bane's back."Once or twice, but I grew up on a dairy farm, and the village was small enough that you really didn't need a horse to get around anywhere," I answered as we climbed down from Bane, and

Once we were back in the tent, he started a small wood-burning stove that instantly started warming the small space as we unpacked our things and went about setting everything up that we needed. There was already an extremely comfortable looking bedroll stacked high with different fluffy pelts and furs with a thick quilted blanket on top, but I started pulling out my bedroll anyway. I wasn't about to take his bed, not when he would be the one actually fighting out here."What are you doing?" He asked as he stopped what he was doing to watch me as I started making space to lay out my bedroll."I'm not going to steal your bed, not when you're the one that's actually going to be fighting out there." He sighed at me, looking up at the ceiling as if praying for patience before bowing his head and pinching the bridge of his nose like he was annoyed, causing me to stop entirely as I just stared at him for a long moment."Ari, over half of this camp's soldiers are Vampirian and Fae, and none o

I didn't have much of a choice at the moment as Xavier approached me. While every instinct in me was telling me to run, that he was the enemy. I was trembling, and far too badly hurt to move even an inch in the way of running. He pulled his cloak from his shoulders as he walked towards me, kneeling in front of me to gently wrap the soft, thick fur around my trembling form. He carefully tucked it around me, protecting me from the frigid air, and even as pissed as I was at the moment, it was so warm that I wouldn't have been able to pull away from him even if I had wanted to."Will you let me explain?" He asked, but his normally hard tone seemed so unsure as I just looked up at him. How could this have happened? Bane knew he had to of, and somehow he was still able to bond with him... Nova knew and kept it from me this whole time. That one hurt the worst. She knew, she had to have known, considering she wasn't shocked in the slightest when she saw him, and yet she never gave me any warni