Kidnapped by a Dragon Billionaire - Chapter 82

Zi Mei is confused and shocked that Thorin Loong had healed so fast, his wounds are already sealed. She asked him yet again who or what he is.

Thorin Loong sighed. He continued to lean back and closed his eyes, his long lashes sweeping his sharp cheekbones.

“Lil Zi, will you stay with me if I tell you the truth?” he murmured. He opened his eyes and regarded her with his deep dark magnetic eyes.

Zi Mei took another step away from him. She is filled with a flood of emotions and confusion and need and fear. She is also so curious, she wanted to agree to whatever he is suggesting just so she can get his real answer.

“Why don’t you tell me first before I agree to anything?” Zi Mei replied instead. Despite her curiosity, she refused to agree to something without any terms and conditions listed. She may be a college student but she is not a naive and stupid.

Thorin Loong sighed dramatically and flung an arm over his face, covering his eyes. There was a pregnant silence. Zi Mei crossed her arms and waited. She will not back down. She needed some answers. He didn’t even tell her what had happened to him.

“Look, you are right. I don’t deserve you, not when I ran away and left the others in a war, that was not cool at all, in fact, that was so cowardly, I don’t think I can live this down,” he mumbled.

Zi Mei has no idea what he was talking about at all. He was wearing his suit when he came back bloodied and injured. His suit is torn and stained with his blood but still a suit. Who wears a designer suit to a war? She didn’t realise there was any war in this country either. Did he go to some other country in the middle of the war? If so, it doesn’t make sense that he flew back all bloodied and injured and no one offered to help at all. Or maybe he was referring to something else metaphorically as a war?

She looked at him. He is always well dressed. He is a billionaire and a CEO of a large company. Maybe he is also a mafia leader? Maybe the ‘war’ he was referring to was a gang fight? That would make perfect sense, she thought. Many mafia big boss nowadays have large legit companies as a front to cover up their underworld activities. Maybe that is why he knew when those men from a gang came to threaten her at her house.

“Okay, so which gang are you from?” she asked boldly. Nothing like asking directly. Maybe he will reply her.

He lifted his arm. He opened an eye and regarded her with that eye.

“What are you talking about?” he asked, puzzled.

“Well, you talk about a war when there are no wars around here so it could only be a gang fight that you are referring to as a ‘war’,” she rationalised.

Thorin Loong chuckled at her reply. He covered his eyes again with his arm and groaned.

“I can never live this down Lil Zi,” he mumbled again. He removed his arm and sat up, barely wincing over his healed wounds by now. He looked at her solemnly.

Zi Mei crossed her arms. The handsome CEO Thorin Loong sounded so unsure of himself, so defeated and forlorn. Was he putting on an act, she wondered. She finds it hard to believe that someone so high up in society and so successful could sound so defeated and forlorn.

“Just tell me what’s going on, I am so confused at this moment,” she said.

“I suppose I can tell you everything now,” he sighed. He patted the empty space next to him. “Will you just sit down? I am getting a creak on my neck looking up at you,” he added.

Zi Mei chose the armchair across from him instead.

“Fine, talk,” she said.

“I hope you will listen without interrupting me,” he said.

She nodded in agreement and waited.

“I am a dragon shapeshifter and I am the leader of the council of elders of our Heaven’s Descent clan,” he started.

Zi Mei narrowed her eyes. It sounded as if he has decided to lie to her again. She bit her lips to stop herself from interrupting. She will see how far he will go with his lies. She crossed her arms and looked at him, keeping an expressionless face.

“The demons started a war against us, to tilt the balance to their side…by the way, there are five different dragon clans and we are here to keep the balance of five elements,” he continued.

Zi Mei bit back a sarcastic remark that came up. She had agreed not to interrupt him.

“So, one of the demons attacked you to get to me and it became a full out war and the war spread out, they took more humans and dragons to gain more power. In the fight with a particularly powerful demon, he managed to strike be through my abdomen,” he pointed at his healed wound. “It went clean through and he stole some of my essence in the process,”

He inhaled and exhaled deeply.

“Like a coward, I disappeared and came here instead of staying on to continue the fight…I left the other dragons to continue the fight,” he said sadly. “So, now you know,”

There was an awkward silence. It was all so fantastical, Zi Mei felt a strong compulsion to laugh. Yet, she remembered the demon that looked like Darren clearly and how it had attacked her. This was the only reason that she did not fully doubt Thorin Loong’s story.

It was one thing to believe in a demon that she saw herself. It was quite another to believe in dragons and a war between dragons and demons.

“Dragon shapeshifter?” she ventured. She doesn’t even know what it actually meant.

“What does it mean anyway?” she asked.

Thorin Loong explained briefly that he is a dragon who can take human form. He opted not to explain the human match part.

“Why would the demon get to me to get to you? We are not related in any way,” she pointed out.