Page 76 of The Breeding Cave
“Ruby?” I asked. “How do you know who Ruby is?”
“Why didn’t you tell me about her?” she asked, wiping her eyes.
“She’s not important to me.” I rocked her. “What was your nightmare about?”
“The dragons had burned down the entire forest. I was tied up to a metal pole in the center of the chaos, and … and Ruby was there as a monster. And …” She paused and let out another sob. “And you were with her.”
“We were working together, but not for long …”
“No, you were there as a couple,” she whispered. “You kissed her. You loved her.”
“I don’t want to kiss her, and I really don’t love her,” I said.
Yeosin stayed quiet, but then slipped out of my arms and put distance between us, her tears gone and her arms crossed. “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have cried. I … you … I think you should be with her,” she whispered.
“What?” I exclaimed.
What the fuck was going on with her? Moments ago, she had told me not to leave her. Now she wanted me to be with Ruby? What the fuck had happened in her nightmare that caused her to think this?
“You should be with her,” she repeated. “She’s strong. I hold you back.”
“No, you don’t.”
“Look at my body,” she whispered. “These scars will continue to burn.”
“We will find a cure.”
“What happens when they burn so badly that I miscarry? Or can’t get pregnant at all?” She shook her head and stepped away from me, her gaze on the ground. “It’s not like you mated with me because you love me. You mated with me to have children.”
Not true.
“Do you love me?” she whispered.
Yes.
“Yeosin,” I said, staying in control, “it’s not that simple.”
Again, she stayed quiet.
“Was that all that happened in your nightmare?” I asked after I realized that was all she’d say unless I asked her.
“There was this voice …”
“A voice?”
“Someone who said—never mind.”
“What’d the voice say?”
“That they were coming to save me.”
I gritted my teeth. In her nightmare, I had been the villain. Not the savior. So, it had to be someone else’s voice. Someone else who had promised my mate that they’d save her. And I’d bet it was whoever the fuck that monster had been in the shadows this afternoon.
“Was it a female’s or male’s voice?” I asked.
Yeosin stayed silent.
“Yeosin, female or male?”
