The Dragon Prince’s Forbidden Affair
CHAPTER 26.5: Twenty Years of Love

CHAPTER 26.5: Twenty Years of Love

I went into my hotel room and cried. Gram held me the whole time. I decided to go out and have a goodlast day with Gram before she left that night.

Towards the end of the day Konn messaged me to meet up but I ignored him. After a while I had to talkabout it one my time to gram. “I don’t get it… we spent so much time talking before. Why wouldn’t hepush having a family into the conversation?”

“To leave the door open.” Betty answered. “Most men do it, but you’ll recover Mae.” She finishedpacking. “Do you still want to stay here?”

I nodded. “I have to Gram.” This place was still everything I wanted; I wasn’t staying for Konain.

She kissed my forehead. “I love you Mae, as much as the daughters I gave birth to. I hope your heartheals soon. You have so much love to give.”

I nodded and watched her leave with her bags. My phone rang and I saw that Konn was calling me. Itook a deep breath and answered. “Yes?”

“You didn’t answer any of my messages. How much longer are you going to be here for? I want to seeyou before you leave.” He sounded so genuine. “I’m outside your hotel now.”

I looked out the window and spotted him. “Konn, I’m not leaving… I’m staying here.”

“Oh.” I wasn’t sure if that was disappointment or just shock. “That’s great.”

“Is it?” My eyes watered.

“Yeah, I’m not sure what else you want me to say. Can I come up to your room?”

“I don’t want to have sex.” I whispered.

“Mae that’s fine, I just want to see you. Are you okay?”

“Are you married Konn?” My voice shook as I asked.

All I heard was a sigh than he broke the silence. “Can I please come up and we can talk about it?”

“Okay…” I told him the room number and hung up. I opened the door for him when he knocked.

He walked in and sat down on one of the two beds. I sat across from him on the other bed. “I ammarried and it’s new. We have a son-“

“Then why have we been having sex? I thought you actually liked me Konain.” I felt humiliated. “Wecould have just stayed friends.”

“I do Mae and that’s why. There’s so much about you that I like. That’s why I wanted to see you againwhen we were kids. There’s something here that I don’t have in my marriage. I know that soundsterrible but it’s true.” I squeezed my knees and started crying. He liked me but it didn’t matter becausehe was married with a child. I kept wishing that I had come here and found him sooner. Konn got upand walked to me. He sat next to me and hugged me. “I’m sorry Fairy.”

We cuddled then we fell asleep, but I woke up when he was leaving. “You’re leaving?”

Konn nodded. “I have to, but we can meet up again in a week. We don’t have to have sex if you don’twant to.” It was more than sexual for him and me too.

“I’ll think about seeing you again…”

I didn’t have to think about it for long because after a week we met up again. Konn even helped me geta job as a sorceress for a school. Not as a teacher but to cast spells for them. I guess they neededbasic spells done to deal with day-to-day problems. They also needed protection spells which was a

big one. We hung out whenever we could which wasn’t often but after a few weeks we started havingsex again. Before I knew it, we were having an affair for nearly half a year.

“I love you, Mae.” Konn whispered into my ears while we were doing foreplay.

I moaned. “That’s not Funny Konn.”

“I’m serious, I love you.” How could he love me? “I’m in love with you Fairy.”

“I love you too Konain.”

That was us at our peak. When I found out I was pregnant everything came crashing down. “I’m sorry Ishould have never told you.”

He chose his wife and their child over me and ours even though he claimed to love me more. I didn’tknow what to do but I didn’t see Konn again for the rest of my pregnancy. It would have been too hard.I thought about reaching out to my family in the outside world. I didn’t, they probably thought I wasdead because I didn’t keep in touch. I told Gram and she offered to raise the child with me. She evenoffered to raise it by herself, but I refused. She was too old to raise a baby on her own. When I gavebirth, I did it in the home of my new coven. A few of the older witches delivered her. “What do you wantto name her?”

“Aqua.” I said and held my baby for the first time.

Aqua stayed with me for a few weeks. I was getting attached but I hadn’t decided who I wanted toadopt her. “Mae, Konn is at the door, so you want me to tell him to leave?” I was staying in the covenhouse ever since I gave birth. I couldn’t care for Aqua here in this world. I could barely take care ofmyself and I didn’t want the coven to have to. I was young and in a world that didn’t cater to humansthe way the outside world did.

“I’ll see him.” I walked downstairs and to the door with Aqua in my arms. “Hey…”

Konn looked at her. “She’s beautiful.”

I nodded. “Take her. I trust you more than myself to decided who should take care of her.”

Konn agreed and left with my daughter.

Years went on and I built a life for myself in a kingdom that was new and full of different species. Istayed in the same coven but lived in my own home. I went for my morning walk and when I walkedback home Konn was sitting at my doorstep. “Konn?”

Konn looked up then stood up. “Mae. I know we both moved on with our lives but… Mae I nothingchanged, no matter how much I tried.”

I looked at his shoulder. “You’re marked.” He wasn't marked the months of our affair.

“The mark came three years after my marriage because the prince who is king now had to approve. Ittook him a while,” he explained. “That’s not going to be a problem, you’re good at protection spells.” Iworked at the school for years casting barrier protection spells. A strong one was already around myproperty.

“I didn’t give up my child for you to still be in my life Konn. I don’t even know where she is.” All I knewwas she recently turned five.

“She’s being raised by your sister. I thought the best place for her to be with blood, distant family in thehuman world. She lives in the house you grew up in. I check on her twice a year without being seen.”

I didn’t like the idea of that, but my sister wasn’t a bad person. She wouldn’t make a bad mom. “Is shesafe there? What if she shifts?”

Konn nodded. “She’s safe, your sister and her husband love her, and she has a little sister she loves. Ithought about sealing her shifting abilities, but they might lay dormant. There aren’t manyhuman/dragon shifter hybrids, but they usually don’t shift until adulthood. Maybe then I’ll seal them,doing it now could mess up her development of them.”

I took a deep breath. “As long as she’s okay…”

Me and Konn fell back into our old habits. I thought a lot about going to get Aqua, but it never feltright.