— You will be my fiancée, Agnесс, only if your blood carries power capable of deceiving the priest.
— And if I refuse, then what?
— I bought all your father’s debt notes, — the dragon looks at me with pity, — you have no choice. Either you play the role of my fake true mate, or you go to forced labor. Only you’ll have to go there naked — everything down to the last thread on you will be counted toward paying the debt.
My father lost the family fortune and soon after that he went to the next world, leaving me his debts. And now I must pretend to be the true ruler of the dragons, risking my act to anger the gods — or else rot in the mines…