Bound to the Dragon Lord
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I read a love letter out loud in front of four hundred people. It wasn't mine — and neither was the humiliation.
That was the day he found me.
Kaelen Dravos, the last pure-blooded dragon lord, hadn't left his mountain manor in twenty years. He didn't come down for politics, for power, or for war. He came down for me — a broke, debt-crushed academy girl who couldn't even afford to fix her broken shoelace.
He said I owed him two million gold coins. He lied. What he actually wanted was far more dangerous: a blood contract. My presence, my obedience, my life — bound to his by dragon's law, for as long as he decided.
I said yes. Because eleven thousand gold coins of debt doesn't negotiate, and neither does a brother facing prison.
But there's something Kaelen hasn't told me. Something about why I — specifically — can silence the monster living in his blood.
And I'm starting to think the answer is buried in a name that someone erased from the Imperial Registry twelve years ago.
A name my missing father warned me about.
Before he disappeared.
That was the day he found me.
Kaelen Dravos, the last pure-blooded dragon lord, hadn't left his mountain manor in twenty years. He didn't come down for politics, for power, or for war. He came down for me — a broke, debt-crushed academy girl who couldn't even afford to fix her broken shoelace.
He said I owed him two million gold coins. He lied. What he actually wanted was far more dangerous: a blood contract. My presence, my obedience, my life — bound to his by dragon's law, for as long as he decided.
I said yes. Because eleven thousand gold coins of debt doesn't negotiate, and neither does a brother facing prison.
But there's something Kaelen hasn't told me. Something about why I — specifically — can silence the monster living in his blood.
And I'm starting to think the answer is buried in a name that someone erased from the Imperial Registry twelve years ago.
A name my missing father warned me about.
Before he disappeared.
















































