Free The Pearls by Michelle Farrell Page B

King now, my parents were killed, but please let me finish.”
    “Sorry” Zoe said
    “Anyway, they sent out letters to all the other Kings and Queens, they were looking for another King and Queen that were expecting a child too. See in my culture or whatever, Kings and Queens are born around the same time, and they are always soul mates. Anyway they got a response from the King and Queen here in America. I am from Ireland originally and my home is waiting for me to come back. Well this King and Queen in America were having a child too. My mother and the Queen here sent letters back and forth and made arrangements for us to come meet them around my fifteenth Birthday. About a month before I was born the letters stopped, but that didn’t cancel out the meeting. So when I was fifteen we came to America, we went to the place we were to meet them, and my parents were killed. I watched them get killed and when my mother was dying she finally told me why we came to America. She told me the one we came to meet was my soul mate and that there are others that I and she need to find.”
    “What does this have to do with us then?” Justine asked
    “My parents are Dragons. I am a Dragon, well technically not yet, I haven’t turned yet, but it’s there in my blood.”
    “You are insane.” Justine told him, Zoe just sat there soaking it all up.
    “I am not crazy Justine; do you see the flecks in my eyes, the ones in yours and in Zoe’s?”
    “Yes? So, those have been there since I can remember.” Justine told him
    “Well those are markers, you both are full-bloods, and Zoe is also the child the King and Queen here were expecting.”
    “My parents left me , they didn’t want me, just because I have some flecks in my eyes does not make me some damn Dragon.” Zoe was standing now hands still shaking.
    “Your name is Zoe Mechelle Devonshire.”
    “W rong its Camden.” She told him
    “Not according to this .” He handed her the birth certificate and a newspaper printout.
    “That is yours and that newspaper tells what happened to you.” He explained
    Zoe read the papers and started to cry.
    “How can you be so cruel ? This may be me, but even this clipping says my mother left me, on a doorstep, a fucking doorstep like the trash, she didn’t want me!” Zoe was yelling now.
    “She did want you . I have letters that prove how happy your father and mother were. I also have this, I think your mother knew something bad was going to happen and she left this with a lawyer in the town you were born in. That Lawyer died before he could get to you. I was contacted by another lawyer two days ago and he found this information in a safe built into the floor of his office building. He called my mother to make sure you were really there and safe, when he found out my parents were killed he contacted me. And I am here now.”
    “Wait , wait! So you’re telling me my mom and dad is a King and Queen?”
    “Yes, but I think they were killed too”
    “Killed?”
    “Yes Zoe, you are now a Queen and there is something killing all of us” Kaiden told her.
    “What do you mean killing us?” Justine asked
    “I mean, when we turn into our Dragon we must fly, over the last twenty years most of the Dragons don’t come back, they are disappearing, and from what I know, you and I are the last Pearl Dragons. Justine you are an Onyx.” Kaiden told them
    “ Wow,” Justine said. Justine stood there looking between Kaiden and Zoe. She was soaking all this information in. It sounded so farfetched but she wanted to believe it, to her it explained everything.
    “Can I have that package please?” Zoe asked
    Zoe opened the package and began to read. Moments later she had tears running down her face. Justine had never seen Zoe openly weep and it made her speechless.
    Kaiden just sat there in silence and let her have her moment. Obviously her mother had left her a letter in there too. He wasn’t sure what to say or do so he just sat there. He