Kidnapped by a Dragon Billionaire - Chapter 56

Instead of breaking into tears and sobbing her heart out, Zi Mei swiped the tears away roughly. She stood up so suddenly that her chair fell over and people in the cafeteria turned to stare at them. She doesn’t care if everyone stared. Thorin is breaking up with her! He is discarding her like yesterday’s garbage. After all that she went through with him. After that devastating miscarriage. After she gave her heart to him. This is what he does? He breaks her heart, stomp on it and throw it back at her.

She glared at him, her face red with rage at the thought that he was really treating her like some plaything that he can throw away at a moment’s notice.

“So that’s it? Pay me and throw me away? That’s all?” she said, her tone cold and chillingly soft.

He stood up casually and picked up her chair. Thorin is not one who relished people listening in to his private affairs so he took her arm to guide her out of the cafeteria.

“Let’s talk this over in the privacy of our room,” he murmured.

“No!” she snatched her arm away from him. “You just said you want to cut all ties with me. Do it now, then. Cut away!” she challenged him. She is now so filled with rage, she wanted to lash out at him and make him regret treating her this way.

Thorin held her elbow again and tightened his grip. A frown curl over his brows.

“Let’s talk in our room,” he repeated.

He gave her a stern look but she ignored it. She snatched her elbow away from him and stomped out of the cafeteria while other curious diners stared at her and then at Thorin, whispering among themselves. Thorin didn’t bother with the curious mortals. He went after Zi Mei and found her fuming at the lounge area.

“Come, let’s talk somewhere private,” he said.

She glared at him, her eyes shiny with unshed tears but didn’t reply.

“Tch. Lil Zi, don’t make this harder that it already is,” he said impatiently. He reached out to grab her and suddenly they are back in his house. In the English garden. The one she liked the most. Zi Mei stumbled away from Thorin. For a moment, she was disorientated and nauseated. Teleporting or whatever this is called was not for her. A wave of dizziness came over her and she stumbled to ‘their’ bench to sit down. They came here so often, they even have a bench she identified as theirs here, she thought as she lowered her head to stop the spinning. Thorin came to her and rubbed her back. She tried to shrug him off but she was to nauseated and dizzy to move.

“I am sorry. I had to get us out of there before you blurted things that other mortals are not supposed to hear,” he said.

She didn’t reply. She waited till her head has steadied and the nausea has passed before she sat up. Thorin is still rubbing her back gently. In his infuriatingly warm and caring way. She wanted to kick him. Why is he still so nice and caring to her if he meant to get rid of her now? She pushed his hand away and glowered at him.

“Stop pretending to care. You are obviously discarding me, getting rid of me, I don’t need you to pretend to still care for me!” she hissed at him.

He looked saddened by her outburst but she wouldn’t buy it. He is surely putting on an act.

“I didn’t want to be kidnapped by you in the first place! I didn’t want any of this at all…so good, now that you are releasing me, I should celebrate!” she continued, putting on a false front that this is what she had wanted all this time.

“Lil Zi,” he sighed regretfully as if wanting to say more.

She ignored him. She is on a roll. She must not let him know how much this hurt her. How much she wanted to curl into a ball and crawl into some corner and die. It hurt so much. It hurt even more than losing their baby. She just can’t get any break. She may be rich now but what is the use if the one man (or dragon) she loves doesn’t love her and now wants to get rid of her?

“Remember this is your decision to release me from your stupid contract. I am so glad I don’t have to be your sex and baby making slave anymore,” she said. She forced a bitter smile.

“At least now I am rich, I can enjoy my life as a young rich person as I am meant to without the responsibilities of getting pregnant, having miscarriages and giving your half dragon children,” she spat out viciously.

“Lil Zi,” he tried to take her hands but she snatched her hands away and jumped up from the bench.

“Well, at least I won’t get forced to stay in this prison anymore and I get to have a life with my normal mortal human friends,” she said.

“Lil Zi, will you just let me explain?” he said quietly, his tone so soft, she almost didn’t hear him. She stopped her angry rant and looked at him. Really looked at him. He didn’t look smug or happy or even angry at her vicious diatribe. Instead, he looked upset. The same expression he had when she had that miscarriage. She crossed her arms on her chest and lifted her chin to glare at him.

“Okay, then explain,” she said.

“The demons are after you because you have a dragon scent with you, something that signals them that …how do I explain it…that you belong to me,” he said.

She narrowed her eyes in disbelief. What a load of nonsense, she thought. So, now she’s supposed to believe that she smells like Thorin? She couldn’t help herself but lift an arm and sniff herself. All she smelled was the lavender body shampoo from her shower at the hotel this morning.

“No, not that kind of smell,” Thorin said. “Every time we made love, you absorb some of my essence, and you give off this scent that’s like a dragon and other shapeshifters and demons will know that you are not a normal mortal, most will know that you are a dragon’s match,”

“What does that have to do with you breaking up with me?” she asked.

“If we separated, you go on with your normal human life in the human world, I wipe all your memories of me and our kind, I will also wipe the essence from you so that you no longer smell like a dragon’s match,” he said.

Wipe her memories???

“What? You are going to make me forget everything? Will I go back to my old life?” she asked. Does this mean she goes back to her old life, the one scraping to make ends meet with her gambling father and the loansharks at her door?

“No, no, you will get new memories of winning the lottery and your father running off with some of the winnings but you still have a lot in your account, your friends and every other human around you will have the same memories,” he said.

“So, in the end, I still don’t matter. You still want to get rid of me,” she bit out. No matter how he said it. The crux of this whole thing is that he wants to get rid of her.

Maybe the demons were just part of his whole orchestrated plan to frighten her so that he could give her a good excuse to get rid of her, she thought.