The Dragon King's Mate (Burning Kingdom Book 1) by Lola Glass

Author:Lola Glass [Glass, Lola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

I was about as slow at reading as one could possibly be, but after two or three hours of walking up and down the shelves on the side of the room not devoted to fiction, I finally found what I was looking for:

A history of the prison land and its monsters.

There were plushy chairs both small and massive around the room, so I curled up into a small one off in the far corner and opened up the book.

Focusing hard enough to read the tiny words and complex writing made my head hurt, but I continued onward slowly.

Time grew inconsequential as I continued to read. My hunger, too, until the library door opened and a growling man walked in.

I glanced up from my book, meeting Kadoc’s angry gaze.

“You weren’t in your room,” he said, his voice clipped.

“Been here for a long time.” My eyes dipped back to the page. I was reading a story about some ogres locked on the prison land, and didn’t want to stop.

Now that I’d seen Kadoc, though, my stomach decided to remind me that it had been ages since the last time I ate.

“You’re hungry,” he growled at me.

“Reading, actually,” I said, absentmindedly.

He ripped the book out of my hand—though he was more careful with the book than he was with my actual hand—and set it down on a table off to my side.

I reached out in an attempt to take it back, but he captured my wrists and said nothing until I looked up at him.

“Go on. Tell me you’re hungry,” he said, his eyes hot.

I could see the request he didn’t add; that he wanted an apology from me, too.

And he could be damn sure he wasn’t getting one.

“I’m fine.” I tugged my wrists from his grasp, and he released them.

“You’re not fine,” he growled back at me. “Eat.”

“No,” I snapped back.

I wasn’t even sure why I was arguing with him at that point. He was right; I was hungry. But he’d pissed me off earlier, and he still hadn’t apologized for treating me like I was a skies-damned slave.

And while I may not have known much about fated mates, or any other kind of mates, there wasn’t a chance I would want to spend my life or any large amount of time with someone who couldn’t respect me or treat me like an equal.

Equals or enemies, I’d warned him.

Though I wasn’t sure I could uphold the enemies part, I would figure out a way to do it if he wasn’t going to give me my freedom.

“Fine.” His voice was clipped once again as he spun on his heels and strode out of the room.

I watched him go, my heart pounding erratically. He had to have heard that, didn’t he? The way it was beating?

If he had, he just didn’t care. But maybe he hadn’t.

I wasn’t sure which option I preferred.

Picking the book back up off the table, I set it down on my lap and focused on the story again.

A little time passed, and my eyelids grew heavy while my stomach grew achy.

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