The Dragon Prince's Forbidden Affair novel Chapter 96

"It's been half a year. how much longer does he need?" Lexus didn't reply because he fell asleep.

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In the morning we got ready. "You still haven't told me how work's been."

Lexus chuckled. "We're on vacation, I don't want to talk about work." I looked at him seriously. "Fine, work is good. I'm practically running Viv's business myself. We're considered partners now."

"What do you even do?" I felt weird that I didn't know but it's not like I didn't try talking about it before.

"She's a noble. Her business is creating work for the people of her kingdom, selling them land, and giving them protection. She works closely with the king and queen too." I noticed he was feeling admiration for Viv.

"How do you feel about Viv?"

Lexus sighed. "She's always been a really good friend, she's still a really good friend. I enjoy her company and I missed her but not in a sexual or romantic way." Since we were mates I could tell when he was lying, and he wasn't. "I love you Aqua, I only ever blocked my emotions and thoughts from you out of fear. It's hard to open up this much to someone. I lost my two best friends, and I don't want you lose you. I'm not going to block you from feeling my emotions or thoughts when we're away from each other anymore." He wasn't lying.

I smiled because I realized Lexus wasn't hiding himself anymore. Not at all.

We met with the others around noon. Mom sighed. "I'm nervous, we should do something else before we visit them."

Dad held her hand. "Don't worry, it's better that we get this out of the way okay? Then we can show Lexus, Cade, Sadia and Gray around."

We all started walking. I noticed Cade staring at my parents' hands as they held each other's. He looked at Gray. "Why'd you want to come so bad?"

Gray smiled. "Isn't this where Aqua lived before? It's so cool that it's a whole other world. Didn't you want to come badly too?"

Cade shrugged. "It's cool I guess."

I looked at my phone and noticed Sadia texted me: When are you going to make up with Cade? He won't admit it, but he missed you. He didn't mean what he said about the defending your parents thing. He's been having to be there for his mom a lot so it's weird for him to have to be around his dad who's so happy with someone else.

I never thought about how it must have been with his mom. Not in that way anyways. When we got to our family home I didn't feel good. It was one thing to visit when my adoptive parents were out of town, but I knew they were here. Tay told me they'd be here, and our grandparents would be too.