Dare To Love A Dragon - Chapter 122

“Are you okay?”

Ander asked peeping through the door of Avan’s room. He wanted to make sure that the boy was in the mood to talk before he went in.

Avan nodded his head to him. He pushed the door open and walked, turning back he locked it. “You haven’t said a word to me since we came here,” Ander stated. “Have I done something wrong?”

“I was just tired,” Avan responded with a weak smile.

Ander strode over to him by the window and wrapped his hands around Avan’s waist. The boy panicked and moved away immediately. His reaction caused Ander to frown.

“What is the matter?”

“My body aches all over,” Avan said stepping a distance from him. His behavior didn’t settle well with the dragon king, he didn’t want to admit anything even though his instincts were warning him.

He took a step to close the distance between them, even then he moved away in the opposite direction.

“Why are you avoiding me?” He braced himself to ask when he couldn’t stand the act anymore. “Is something wrong?”

“I have told you my body hurts, if you touch me it will hurt more,” he said to him nervously.

“Fine, I won’t hold your body but can I at least hold your hand?”

“I am tired Ander, I want to go to bed,” Avan said sternly leaving no room for argument.

Ander respected his request and exited the room. He had pictured their reunion and what just happened was not how he had imagined it. He thought that it would be magical and memorable but all he got was cold treatment.

He caught a glance of Ella approaching the room and pressed his back to the wall. Muttering a spell under his breath he made himself invincible.

Ella walked right past him and went into the room. She had got snacks to share with Avan as they talked.

“Hope I’m not disturbing you?” she asked in a cheerful voice.

“Not at all, join me,” Avan said patting the space on the bed beside him.

Ella happily jogged to the bed, took her seat, and waved the snacks before his eyes in a childish way. “Which one do you want?” she asked him.

“Any would do,” Avan told nervously playing with his fingers. He felt bad for how he had treated Ander but he couldn’t help how he felt. The last thing on his mind was to be in Ander’s arms not after everything that happened.

He didn’t know how to say that to Ander. It’s not like he didn’t like the male anymore, the problem was an entirely different story.

“What’s wrong?” Ella asked noticing the change in his facial expressions.

“I don’t know,” he replied.

“Tell me and ill try to see if I can understand,” she said encouragingly. She knew that answer from, he normally said that when he was confused as to what he was feeling and couldn’t pinpoint it if asked to.

“It’s Ander,” he started nervously. “I don’t know about how I feel for him anymore.”

“Explain it to me then. How do you feel?”

“I…i…I like him but I don’t want to be with him,” he let out.

“You are not confused, you just need some time away from Ander. I for one think that would be good for you, just focus on yourself,” she advised while munching on the chips. “Or these chips, they are amazing,” she added wished they had chips back in Arimelari.

She was discovering delicious foods she never even knew existed. “Or find someone knew, a new crush will even out the old,” she added.

“You think so?” Avan asked unsurely.

“Yes.”

“If you say so,” Avan said grabbing the bag of chips from her.

Unknown to them Ander overheard the whole conversation from the door. Hearing what Avan had to say made tears fall from his eyes.

He walked away from Avan’s room feeling like his heart had just been hammered to pieces. It was heartbreaking to hear the only person who never left his side say that he wanted nothing to do with him.

He returned to his room. Switched on the lights and decided to retire to bed and worry about his problems later.

“Didn’t think you would return tonight. I thought you and your lover would be celebrating your reunion,” Amaru said sitting up on the bed.

“What are you doing in my room?” Ander asked wiping the tears from his face so he doesn’t see.

“First of all, this is my room, and secondly what made you cry?” he asked his voice getting dangerously low.

“I am not crying,” Ander said getting in the blankets too tired to go to his room. He was emotionally and physically exhausted.

“So water magically falls off your eyes?” Amaru let out sarcastically.

“Yes, and I hate love.”

“Want me to help you forget about love?” he offered. Ander nodded his head, he didn’t want to feel the pain in his heart. All his work and planning to get them away from Arimelari proved dangerous for their love and he just say without worry that he doesn’t want to be with him.

The only reason he saved the whole family was for Avan and the male didn’t think before saying that he wasn’t wanted by him.

Amaru laid hugging him from behind. His hands-on the dragon absorbed all the negative energy from him, all the pain and heartbreak he felt gone by the time Amaru was done.

He felt nothing.

“You good?”

“For now, tomorrow things will go back to hurting again,” he said in an indifferent tone of voice.

“Then I will help you again. I don’t mind,” Anaru whispered in his ear. “Want to go for a ride?” he asked him.

Feeling nothing in his heart or body, he didn’t feel the need to go to sleep anymore and there was no harm in going for a little ride so he agreed.

Amaru released his shadow which formed a pair of wings on his back. “Hold on tight,” he advised and lifted off the ground. They left the house through the window.

“This is not a ride, I thought horses when you suggested that,” Ander said when they were on the air.

“If that is what the king wishes for then I shall grant your wish,” he told to him. He searched from the skies for anything that looked like a horse. After flying over the town for half an hour they came to a ranch filled with horses.

“Wish granted,” he said proudly. Gently the shadow set them down before going back into Amaru’s pocket.

Amaru led the way to the stables for the horses. Ander’s face lit up seeing all the horses he could ride. Being a dragon he had always intimidated all other animals and they avoided him. Before he never cared to learn how to ride or to go for a ride but this was different.

It felt like a fresh start one that he would regret if he let slip by him. He just couldn’t stop himself from taking this chance and the many more that awaited him in this new place.

“If I knew that a horse ride would earn me a chance to see such a bright smile on your face. Then I would have done this a long time ago,” Amaru said admiring the dragon’s smile.

“You have a beautiful smile,” he complimented.

Ander felt his cheeks flush hearing the compliment but his smile didn’t fade.

“So dear husband, which horse do you want to ride?” Amaru asked and he raised his eyebrows in question. “Did you forget that we are married?”

“Sadly no, that reminds me. I should get annulled from Natalia before she starts calling me that.”

“But she is cute,” Amaru teased.

“Cute but a nuisance nonetheless,” Ander said having his eyes on a black horse. Getting close to the horse, the horse backed away sensing a superior being near it.

The horse was afraid, feeling Ander’s dragon aura he went down to the ground in surrender.

“Here,” Amaru offered. He cloaked Ander’s aura and his dragon side. He did the same to him and made the dragon try again. Feeling the previous domineering aura gone the horse got back on his feet and allowed Ander to pet him.

“This feels nice,” the boy let out happily. He couldn’t stop the smile on his face, he felt happy after a long time. The last time he was truly happy was on his birthday with Ander, thinking of that made his smile fall.

His happiness was replaced with sadness thinking of the words the boy said not too long ago. He sighed and rushed to climb the horse, his leg slipped.

THUD!

He fell to the ground. Amaru started laughing seeing him on the ground. “First time on a horse?” he teased.

“Yes and you would fall too if you had your heartbroken,” Ander replied. His words halted Amaru’s laugh.

“Did Avan say something to you when you went to him?”

“He doesn’t want to be with me,” Ander whispered.