Sharing Beatrice A Luna To Her Stepbrothers by Alexis Dee

303-Another One Bites The Dust.

Beatrice Dismay:

I watched Akin narrow his eyes in my face and then gulp. I feared hearing hateful words from him.

It would be too much for me.

’Stay!" He closed his eyes and whispered, ’Please, stay!"

He sounded like he was requesting. I kept staring at him before I cleared my throat, calming my racing

breaths, and then uttered, "I'm a weredragon!"

Zane flinched behind him. Maybe he didn’t know about the letter because the way he frowned and

approached us made it clear.

"I know,* Akin nodded, "Stay," he said again, despite being reminded that I'm the creature he hates the

most.

"So that you can punish me?" I asked in the softest voice because he was standing too close to me.

"I can never!" He sounded so offended when he heard me ask that.

"Then?" I asked again, feeling weirdly at ease. His energy was positive toward me. I could almost hear

his heartbeat from this close.

"Just don't leave me. Nobody has to know what you are," he requested while his brother agitatedly

walked beside us, running a hand through his hair and expressing his anxiety.

"I don’t want to live secretly anymore. Akin! I’m not ashamed of who I am. I am a proud—weredragon

princess," and as soon as those words left my lips, he stepped back and gasped.

"What?" Akin and Zane spoke in unison.

The two were staring at my face, but it was Akin who looked more shocked.

"You are the chil— one of the twins that you said—," Akin paused when he rubbed his face in his hands

and then sighed.

"Wait! What twins?" Zane frowned, hunching over to ask me.

"My parents said Pamela lied about everything out of anger and rage,* Akin whispered in disbelief. He

was now conflicted because I had a reason to lie about his parents just to clear the name of my kind.

"I understand if you don’t want to trust my words, but I cannot stay back. I have to clear the names of

my people and rescue them,” it felt so good to be finally talking about my people and my dragon.

"Let's get out of here first,* Akin said, then gently patted Zane's chest when he watched him open his

mouth to question me again. Zane looked frustrated that he didn't know about something before

anyone else.

"I’m not going anywhere. I am returning home," I protested, but Akin kept shaking his head at me.

"You cannot free them until you have proven them innocent. We don't even know how they are trapped

behind that magical door. What if my father and the council send people to collect you while you

haven’t even freed them?" he argued while deepening his stare into my face.

"Now please!" Akin requested, and I reluctantly nodded and walked behind him to his car. Zane sat in

his car, and soon we sped off to the house Akin had gotten me a few weeks ago.

Sitting in a car after he found out about my truth made me worry about how he didn't explode at me.

I kept my calm while Akin took me to this house, where I would spend the next few days until Akin

made sure everything was safe for me.

Zane didn't follow us because Akin told him to return to the mansion and stay with Sofia to ensure she

didn't tell anyone about me.

After we entered the house, he paced back and forth while I sat on the couch for the next few minutes.

"Tell me, what are you thinking?" I had to ask because it was about me. I need to know what is running

through his head at this point.

He stopped pacing and, with an aggressive grunt, sat down beside me.

"What made you think I will hurt you if I find out you are a weredragon?* He looked me in the eye

intently when asking me a question that he himself knew the answer to.

"Please tell me what made you think like that?" he asked again.

"Umm! Apart from the gazillion times, you said it yourself?" I raised my brow, murmuring softly but

making my point. He was the one who would always preach about ‘how he will punish the

weredragons,' and now he was asking me, what made me think like that?’

"Oh!’ he sighed, ’but did it never occur to you that you might be an exception?" His voice was coming

out in whispers this time.

"I couldn't take a risk," I said.

"Your pills!’ He suddenly straightened his posture before recalling my medicines, "You will need those

in order to hide your form for now,’ he suggested, but my head shake worried him.

"I am not upsetting Ace anymore," I pouted when denying the help of pills.

"Any which way, I am not transitioning before 20 says," I said, "18 now,’ I added as I remembered how

fast the days were slipping through my grasp.

"Ugh! It is fine. I will manage something. We have to first prove the innocence of weredragons," he

said, snapping his fingers after his statement as if he were busy thinking.

We sat in silence for another two minutes before he turned to me to raise some other questions, but

this time he was much calmer.

"Why change the rules for me?" I whispered before he could ask me anything.

The silence from his side was awkward but also racing my heartbeat.

”1 thought you already knew from that hallucination thing," he whispered, raising his face and meeting

eyes with mine.

"I cannot lose you," he said, staring profoundly and breathing so calmly that I was getting comfort from

him. We stayed looking into each other's eyes for a minute when his stare traveled down to my lips and

I lost my heartbeat.

I had to keep myself together because I didn't want to alarm him. He kept watching my lips before he

finally took them and buried his face in mine. I closed my eyes when I watched him reach for my lips,

and in the next second, our lips were connected for the very first time.