“I came because like I said, we don’t have a lot of time left. A little more than a day in fact. I’m here to help alleviate your fear and so that you can get use to me. After tomorrow this will no longer be an issue, but we both know that our first coupling is the most dangerous for us both.”
I played along like I was really giving serious thought to going along with something that could potentially bring about my death. But I couldn’t be too obvious either or he’d catch on, so I voiced some of my very valid fears.
“What if something goes wrong? What if you go too far…”
“Because if you’re hurt in any way, I will feel pain.” I didn’t know that, I thought that only came after a mating. My look of disbelief must’ve alerted him to my thoughts.
“It’s true! You should know by now that every mating is different. But I think when I bit you playfully last night I might’ve given you just a little bit more of me than I’d intended to.”
“You see, isn’t that what happened before, with…”
“No one knows what really happened between your ancestor and mine.”
“But she died…”
“Yes, and he spent the rest of his life locked away from the world in pain. But no one really knows what happened between those two because he’s never spoken of it. We know the end result, which is horrible, but no one knows about the lead up, what was done, what was said, that lead those two to the end they encountered.”
“Since no one knows how can you be so sure that it won’t happen to us?”
“Because, like I said. Any pain or harm that comes to you, I will feel it tenfold.” I wish he would stop playing with that mark, it’s torturously sexy and makes me want to…
I pulled my mind swiftly back from those thoughts, knowing that just one whiff of my sexual heat on the rise and he’d pounce. So I played along, nodding my head where I needed to, answering nonchalantly when a nod was not enough.
It’s a shame though, that I can’t have him. He’s about the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen and I’ve been around for thousands of years so I’ve seen all kinds. Even with all the danger I had to force myself not to get swept away by the look in his eyes and the way his lips moved when he spoke. Mesmerizing!
Lucien
She’s going to run, dammit! I felt it as soon as she had the thought but she pulled that trick with the flowering field as if I were a green wet behind the ears moron who couldn’t see through that shit. I gritted my teeth and played along, not letting on that I could see right through her.
I understood her fear and it was my own need to protect her, to make her come to me on her own without fear that was dragging this thing on more than it needed to be. The thing is, I was raised to be this way; can’t go against my nature.
Whether she’s my woman or just some stranger I happened to run across, I’ve been raised to protect all members of the immortal world as if they were my own, because they are. And none more so than she!
In the days ahead my whole world will revolve around her, I’m programmed to be that way. Not that I’d become a mindless idiot who follows her around with my tongue hanging out of my head. Or like some of my human brethren, give up my balls and let her walk all over me.
But I will in fact treat her like the most precious being in the universe and as such put her wants and needs before anything else including mine. Of course I’m not going to tell her that shit I’m not stupid. But as time goes on she’ll learn for herself.
It’s glaringly obvious though that she knows nothing about my kind and how we mate, something that’s not so hard to believe since the other clans of the immortal world had distanced themselves from us as much as they could over the centuries and make it a point not to even mention us unless they’re telling their young ones horror stories to keep them out of dangerous places. We’re everybody’s boogieman.
And since this was only the second time in immortal history that a union such as this was taking place, there never really was any need for her to know fuck all about the way we fuck our women. How we care for, protect and love them and our offspring. And as my princess consort her status among our people will be second to none. Except mine of course!
All she knew, all anyone knows come to think of it, is that the one and only time this shit happened it ended in spilt blood and death. I looked at her now as she stood in front of me, strung tight as a bow as she tried to hide her fear and unease from me.
I knew, I always knew, that the only way to dispel her fear was to get the deed done and over with. But I never knew that I was so soft as to want to give my woman the wedding night that every girl dreams of. Silly me!
I was pissed that in her mind all she saw was a monster. But if I showed her my anger now she’d probably die of fright. This side of her, the fairy, was vastly different from the other but I was getting to know them both since they both seem to be in attendance at any given time. I wonder if that has something to do with her body’s changes.
I’ve known lots of mix breeds in my time but I have yet to meet one who vacillates between characters the way she does. It promises to be a fun ride if she keeps that shit up. Her lying mouth was asking me all the right questions as she looked up at me with a wide eyed stare and all the while deep inside her she was planning to bolt.
I’d planned to spend the night, to hold her in my arms again though the pain in my balls still lingered from me doing that shit the night before. But the fact that she planned to escape me and was even now standing before me acting all innocent was truly pissing me the fuck off so I needed to get away from her before I did or said something I shouldn’t.
“I’ll let you rest.” She had a look of surprise that I capitulated so easily and I kept my face void of all trace of emotion so she wouldn’t know what I was really thinking. I still remember that first day she’d told her sisters that she couldn’t leave me to suffer; she’d had the heart for that at least.
Now I’m going to wait and see what course she takes, it will make the difference between how we deal with each other in the coming days. If she runs, I’m going to teach her a lesson, one that she’ll never forget.
She didn’t see the look I gave her before I turned and left the way I came. She was too busy congratulating herself on getting rid of me that easily without any mishaps. What an innocent, geez.
NATALIA
Whew, that was easy! Easier than I would’ve thought. I guess my shielding skills are pretty good if I could fool the high and mighty crown prince. I felt just a little bit guilty about deceiving him though as he left. I have to say that so far he hasn’t been anything like I’d expected, quite the opposite in fact.
Although there was no doubt about the strength and power emanating from him, he always seems gentle, like in the dream. If only we could live out our lives there, how much simpler things would be. But alas that’s not an option and the only alternative is to risk my life; something I’m not prepared to do.
I sat on the side of my bed feeling despondent with a certain kind of melancholic loneliness that I’ve never known before. I felt his absence very keenly, as if something vital were suddenly missing.