Kidnapped by a Dragon Billionaire - Chapter 55

Over at breakfast, although Thorin didn’t really need to eat, he took a few slices of toasts and ate some of it. He didn’t want them to look too awkward in which Zi Mei is eating while he sat there staring at her. Zi Mei took out her phone and sent messages to her friends to check on them. None of them replied. Not even Darren. His status on the messaging app showed that he was last seen yesterday morning. Which was weird. She clearly remembered sending him a message and he had read it.

She decided to ask Thorin more about the demons. She needed to know more about these chaotic creatures so that she is better able to deal with them.

“Can you tell me more about the demons please? The one that attacked me yesterday looked and sounded exactly like Darren,” she said after she has eaten some pancakes and an omelette. She surprisingly had a good appetite this morning, despite what happened last night.

“As you can see, they can take human forms, like us, but the way they do it is vastly different from how we do it,” he said. He looked hesitant to explain further, as if trying to hide something. She narrowed her eyes at him.

“How?”she asked.

“Well, they have to absorb the essence of the human they want to imitate,” he said cryptically.

“What do you mean by ‘absorb’ the essence?” she asked.

He looked away and pretended to take a bite from his toast. Then he took a sip of his coffee.

“Well?” she asked impatiently. Then her face filled with horror. Surely, he doesn’t mean the demons have to EAT the human??

“Don’t tell me they ate Darren????” she exclaimed, fear and terrifying horror gripping her heart.

He widened his eyes but then chuckled at her horrified expression.

“Don’t worry. They didn’t eat Darren. He may have kissed one of them though,” he said.

“Kissed?” she repeated mindlessly. She switched from worry that Darren could be dead to disgust that Darren had kissed that foul smelling thing. “Ugh. That’s disgusting, how can he even kiss something that smells like a dead rat,” she said.

Thorin raised an eyebrow.

“How would you know what it smelled like? Did you kiss the demon last night?” he asked casually.

“The thing choked me, had its face so close to mine before it threw me off the balcony,” she told him.

Thorin frowned.

“That doesn’t make sense. Usually mortals can’t smell them, not even face to face, unless they kissed the demon,” he said. “I am pretty sure your friend had a horrible experience and is sick today,”

She shuddered. Ugh. Kissing that thing will be like kissing the putrid corpse of a rat. Gross. She wanted to gag just thinking about it. If Darren had kissed that thing, surely he’s now throwing up non-stop.

“But why would he kiss a demon? That’s gross!!!!” she said. She looked at Thorin. “What do they look like if they did not take on human forms? How did it even entice Darren to kiss it??”

“They can do it in his dreams, they probably took on a form desirable to him to get him to kiss it in his dreams,” he explained.

Now, that makes sense. You can’t smell anything in your dreams. Can you? Now she’s curious what Darren had dreamt about. It must be one heck of a sexy dream, she thought. But wait, this means they can attack any human, even her, through dreams.

“So, can they do that to me in my dreams too??? Fucking demons. How do stop them from entering my dreams?What if my nightmare last night was not a nightmare?” Panic is now rising within her again. Can they enter her dreams even with Thorin next to her?

“I suspected they tried to enter your dream state last night but failed to enter it because I was there, so they sent in nightmares to disturb your sleep,” he told her.

At least he’s being honest this time, she thought. This scares her even more. The fact that they can attempt to harm her through her dreams is scary. This is like the old 80s horror movie of the ghost that attacked people in nightmares.

“How do I block them? What if you are not there and they attack me in my dreams? How can I continue on as normal with demons after me?” she asked, panic is now suffocating her, making her hyperventilate. Thorin reached out and patted her back. He inhaled as if getting ready to say something monumental.

“I have thought about it and I don’t want to interfere with your normal life…I am willing to release you from our contract now, cut all ties, and they will stop going after you,” he said softly.

She stopped hyperventilating. In fact, she stopped breathing entirely and stared at him in shock. It took her a few moments to realise that she needed to breath. She choked in some breaths. Does this mean Thorin doesn’t want her anymore? Is he leaving her?

“Look, the money I’ve paid you is yours to keep and as a bonus, I will even bank in a few more millions for you, just in case, for a rainy day, and after we have cut ties cleanly, you can go back to normal life,” he said.

Why is he talking about money at this moment? Her heart is breaking into pieces at this moment. The old dragon has decided to discard her. Cut her lose. Get rid of her. She is no longer his mistress. No longer his baby making slave. No longer his anything. It didn’t even matter what role she played in his life, she wanted to be with him. She had hoped to stay with him for a few more years as his mistress, as his sex slave, anything, it doesn’t matter. Their short few months together are barely enough.

“But…” she couldn’t bring herself to say anything more.

Tears are welling up in her eyes now. She had only made the resolve not to think about feelings and love but here he is, breaking her heart and stomping on it. He had spoken of the ‘cut all ties’ so matter-of-factly, it was as if he didn’t feel a thing. It was as if he was merely giving an employee notice to leave the job.

Is this the last time she will be sitting with the handsome old dragon, eating breakfast, like a regular couple?