Captured by the Dragon

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ing born into middle class families. Luckily for them, they amassed a fortune by running a catering business that really took

married off young to a family that was even more rich. I was meant to be the golden child to them—the one that never talked back and always did a

one knew we belonged with the rich. Our clothes always had to be set right with not a hair out of place. I think they trul

e of my piano competitions. “And—fix your hair! They’ll mistake yo

gain perfect in her eyes. I smiled at her and everyone around us. Only whe

lasses were easy to keep up with and the distraction of love was off the table when there were no boys ar

eldest daughter walk down the aisle to wed the man she had hand picked. If I was honest, it made me a bit nervous to even think about having my

n’t in his usual space today. Other students hurried past me to their own cars and I waited

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have to attend an impromptu charity gala tonight and we needed the driver. Pleas

Okay,

could hear the slight shift in her tone. My mother always loved to show the world my talent—even more than I did. For

eyes tightly. “Great. Okay.

ished she would let me have a moment to breathe. I shoved my phone deep i

still knew the way as if no time had passed at all. It was only after I had already entered that I noticed how different it was. Darker, quie

s down here—she would remind me of all the young girls my age that had been taken from walking home alone like this. Tak

ere crossed out in thick black paint while the humans looked victorious. I had never seen a shift

Dylan and he was rumored to be on the path to lead the shifters one day, which made him one o

eye to eye. They were banned from this land. If just one made the mistake to wander into the human world, they would be ki

how they tortured humans. Especially if they happened to be a woman. It

y even kept me up at night to know that shifter

el walls and let my mind clear out all the fog. I almost didn’t

e crusted with dirt and his clothes were torn as if he

I saw that the lump was a dog—and it didn’t look like it w