“Allessa we’re losing her. Do something now, sister! I can’t lose her she means everything.”
Frantic my sister quickly spoke. “Lycan, she will soon be gone from us all. She found us, so I don’t know where she’s going, but most likely back to whatever it was she ran from, to him- the traitor, so you must help us keep her here.” She said, getting the Lycan’s attention while his struggles to free himself continued; though, minutely lessened.
“I promise you she will be yours, but calm yourself, or she will be none of ours.”
“Never, Allessa… do you understand me. I am your King, and I forbid it, I will never give her to him!”
“Do you rather lose her to the traitor Dracos, who stole her from us, meant to keep her forever by force? Trust me brother!”
“I promise you Lycan, or I’ll die a terrible death, she is yours… there is nothing no one can do to change it. It is destined.” My sister admitted.
“Leave us! I will not have your eyes watching us.” He roared brutally through his fangs.
“Yes, but not without giving her some protection against you. I do not believe you so much better than them. You will not force her!” She yelled.
She closed her eyes, began humming, speaking in what sounded like an ancient tongue, and I heard him struggling against whatever it was she did to him. “My Queen, my sister… you must listen. He will feed you his blood and you must take it. You can control him through your spoken words. The spell I have placed on him will force your will on him. Just say what it is you want him to do. If he does not listen he will feel excruciating pain, but first he must assent to it. It is not a simple spell to take someone’s will from them.
“DO you agree to this, Lycan?”
“If I agree, she will be mine! And you will not use this power over me to unleash punishment or kill me.” He demanded.
“No we will not do you harm. Yes… she is your destiny, and you will be hers, Undoubtedly.” She answered, desperate for him to agree.
“I consent!” Upon saying the words his body constricted and he howled in pain.
The blue light I felt and saw faded when my worries for him intensified, almost like I wouldn’t be at rest if he was in pain. I screamed, “Luke, no.”
My eyes pleaded with my sister. “Please stop hurting him.” I cried.
“It will pass soon enough, sister. It is the magic working itself over his willpower.”
“Brother, follow me if you please. We must give them some privacy until she has recovered.” She looked at my brother with concern in her eyes over my reactions to Ly’s pain. I’d seen her shock.
“I will not leave her with this savage. I rather cut off my own head. “She,” he said pointing at me, “is clearly… not in her right mind.” He spat.
“You must, and you will, or I shall force you to, with all due respect My King. I can guarantee, you do not want to witness what is to come. Besides with all that has transpired here tonight, there is much to talk about. I assure you brother, all is not lost.”
With concern dripping into every word, she said, “My Queen, when you drink… see it for what it is and nothing more, he is just a source of sustenance and nothing else. You must believe this. No attachments will be formed then.”
“Leave witch, it’s too late for the both of us. Our bond was formed long ago. She can’t help but desire me when she drinks.”
I heard the door shutting and both felt and heard the Lycan land on the ground over me. His bare feet were shoulders apart trapping me on either side of my hips. He crouched over my body, his hands gripping me- his face came down as he rubbed himself against me, nuzzling me. I was terrified because he felt and sounded so animalistic. He lifted me to him, smelling me… inhaling my scent deeply while his hands gripped me- he growled deep startling me.
“Stop… you’re not thinking clearly.” I told him, afraid of what he might do to me.
“You smell of another, I won’t allow it. You are mine, always have been.”
His voice sounded foreign, all gravel like making it difficult to understand him. “I warned you not to run, told you they would all pay with their lives. One day you will force me to impose all of my promises on you at once.”
He didn’t warn me about them, but I wasn’t going to argue because he obviously wasn’t going to harm them now.
“They’ve washed my scent off you. Never do it again, or I’ll do worse than Darius ever did.”
“Don’t…” I was about to warn him not to threaten me, but his movements stopped me.
Carrying me while shielding me with his body he jumped through the window.
As Luke ran further away with me in his arms, I heard my brother’s yells. “She will make you bring her back, Lycan. She is ours as much as she is yours.”
“Never!” He told me more than he answered them.
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When he was far enough and my brother no longer followed, perhaps our sister had forced him after all, he stopped… placing me on the soft grass. What a welcomed change. I looked up at the crescent moon, avoided looking at him- not wishing to see him as he was. The first quarter moon will be in two nights. The full moon was closing in on us. I needed to ask my sister what to expect with the Lycan. If the spell she had just cast would even work against him once he turned.
“I will never forgive you… for what you did to us, leaving me the way you did, Beauty. I warned you never to run from me. I’ve never known such pain. I know you have never known it as well. You are barely here.” He said being gentle with me again.
“I’m here until I choose to be. You’d be wise to remember.” I said with a false strength... pretending once again.
“Make no threats, or I will chain you to me. I’ll do what I have to, to keep you.”
“You are no different.”
“And you keep reminding me. You enjoy torture. You love giving it as much as you love to take it. You’re an expert at it. I wonder if it was you who began to implement it and not Eros as you blame.” He said as his hands found my thighs and forced them open to him.
I tried speaking to him… to get him to see reason, my hands gripping his wrist. “I only ran from you because you did the same to me, remember?” I said looking at his naked chest as he came to kneel over me. He was now unbuttoning his ripped pants and my perverse hands just followed his movements not really able to stop him.
He was almost entirely human again, all except his silver eyes, claws, and fangs. I watched him, watched his body undulate as he moved over me.
“No, I stayed… I just needed some time to think- alone. I was patient with you many times. Afforded you many moments to dwell on your troubling thoughts, yet you couldn’t reciprocate? I was trying not to scare you because I needed you so very much, my beast… he was driving me then- demanded I make you mine. He demanded I finish what we started back at that circle. I was only trying to be reasonable.”
Chapter 14: Beg, Plead… Let Me Hear You Say My Name
“Well, I don’t want your beast or you… so I gave you your precious space. You should be thanking me and doing the same. Why don’t you reciprocate?”
“Why is it that as honest as I am with you… in return all you do is lie to me? Thanking you, are you even listening to me? I’ve wanted you since I first set eyes upon you which was long before you stepped into the cave. I’ve wanted you long before the mere images the witch, you saw dead at my feet, showed me. Lured me to what she thought would be my death. I saw you and my body became inflamed… just as you described you felt in the circle. Yet, you described it while calling another’s name!” He said shaking me.
“Do you know what that does… to have the one you love in your arms, but hear them call out in need for someone else instead?”
With the accusation… I remembered Eros. The pain he caused me when I ran to him because I’d heard him calling for me… only to have my heart ripped out when I found him in the throes of passion with a new lover.
/> “Beauty all I’ve done is opened myself raw for you, why do you deny my love for you… don’t you see you can have it all with me. I will always follow you.”
“You want honesty… I’m not ready for what you wish to give, I don’t think I ever will.” My face turned from him… I wanted to get up and walk away. I couldn’t so I decided to anger him further… perhaps I could get him to walk away from me. “You heard the witches, they said it was meant for a dragon to find me within the circle.”
“No, you are meant for me! It is why I find you when another will try to claim what is mine!” He fervently objected.
I refused to believe what he said was true. “The poison… they must have seen me traveling alone. They probably even thought I killed you, God knows I’ve wanted to too many times. If I called anyone, including you, it’s only because I was poisoned by the witches. I knew not what I felt or said. It was induced. All of it, even when I begged for you.”
He watched me looking like he was about to attack me himself. His eyes told me I was taking things too far.
“Now, I don’t even know what’s real, you saw the dust she blew on my face before I killed her. I don’t trust anything.”
He was searching my eyes for truth in my words.
“Beauty, I ran away in the cave because I couldn’t forget how you smelled of another when I first met you, how you called me his name while you drove me mad with wanting you, rubbing up against my dick. I remembered you like that… from long ago, I was rubbing you between your thighs with the leather handle of a whip. You were blindfolded on the floor of a bedroom I don’t recognize… begging to feel me and not the whip. I know you lie when you say you feel nothing because your reactions for me haven’t changed no matter how much time has passed- you are still just as desperate for me.” His hands began moving over my robe, warming my skin with his touch.
“I can’t help but remember your touch, your sweet kisses… wanting more of you. What kind of a man do you take me for? Now you wish for me to believe you felt nothing for me. When you know me… my touch. It is a lie. I’m not made of steel. I feel!” He roared as he tore open my robe. The silver buttons went flying everywhere. “Only I shall dress you in the finest jewels.”
My hands slapped his away as I covered my breasts. “I suppose you feel you have a right to look at what giving up your freedom has bought you.” I said dejected as my face looked at his lips, fangs… him.
His hand came down over my ribs, palming my skin. I gasped from the currents traveling through my body. My ribs stuck out stretching my skin, hollowing my stomach as I inhaled.
“Let me go, I’ve given you no right to touch me.” My hand shot out, slapping his chest. I’d intended to reach his heart, but instead I only pushed him a fraction away.
Growling deep within his throat he said, “You mean to berate me now for wanting you with me, for giving you what you want, what you won’t allow yourself to have… to feel.” He hoarsely demanded.
“I can’t give you what you want. They are all wrong. We are not destined!” I said breathlessly because although I was fighting the heat his hands caused, I did feel. I was so confused because he felt like the beast I knew, who drank from me, and I drank from when I allowed myself to want, to desire someone other than Darius. It was why he had always felt so familiar. Now he spoke of things I felt were true… our earlier times together, yet I remembered nothing.
“Who are you, why do I recognize your touch?” I asked becoming almost hysterical from my doubts.
“Are you finally willing to admit you know me just as I’ve always recognized you as my mate? Are you ready to mate with me now?”
I tried to get away, but he pressed down over me.
“Tell me, Dragon Princess… what is it you want? Because if you say his name, I will call you out on your bluff. I will prove to you, when I’m making you mine… fucking inside you, you’ll feel me all the way to your soul and then you’ll know how you have deceived yourself. You will beg for me again. We belong together. The witch you found dead in the cave tried to end me by saying your body craved a dragon, it craved what you were. She died because of those words.” Both hands cupped me now. His words were harsh but his hands were firm, caressing me softly, soothingly… destroying me.
“She did not lie. I promised him, I would always return to him.” I said as my back arched pushing my breasts against his hands while my hands grabbed his wrists to pull them away.
His eyes were fierce, as he lowered himself on me, fitting his hips in between my thighs. “Then you gave him empty promises because the very same witch showed me our future. Your sister has seen it. I saw the knowledge of it in her eyes just now. She promised me upon her life, you would be mine because she has seen the same future. We will be one, you and I. It is the reason why I allowed you your precious distance. While others tried to capture you, keep you imprisoned making it impossible for you to find me.”
“They tried so hard to be the one, but they couldn’t prevent destiny. I could afford to give you all the distance you needed because you will always come back to ME! Even if you don’t recognize it now.” He alleged claiming my mouth.
Chapter 15: He Wants to Love Me
I took what he offered and bit his lips viciously drawing his blood. I’d craved it so much, just as I craved him now. I knew I had to fight it, but I didn’t begin to know how to do it.
Feeling his strength immediately move through me, I took control- landing over him and returning his passion filled kiss because tasting him, feeling his tongue repeatedly stroke my mouth… I believed him.
Something happened to me in that circle. The witches did something to me… the poison I drank confused me, they wanted him to die, but the truth was I wanted Luke. When the poison subsided it was Luke I had been dying to touch. His caresses I was breathlessly hoping for. I had agreed to marry him. In those moments, I had meant those words. It was the reason I ran so fast away from him.
We were both reverently watching each other as we greedily held onto one another… kissing, mindlessly ravaging.
I sat straddling him, completely in awe over him. Demanding more each time his tongue stroked me. I bit his mouth unable to stop myself from drinking, and plundering his lips. He growled deep in his chest enjoying the piercing pain followed by exquisite ecstasy. I knew this was what he wanted, for me to be lost in my need for him. I didn’t understand how we were here, how he and I reached this place together, our need for one another reaching so high. He was a stranger, yet he felt so personal to me- a mirror image.
I lowered my lips on him, licking a path over his nipple and began nipping it, sucking it, nipping it again when the wound closed until I bit down harder, and I continued drawing him in. I opened my eyes watching him give in to me so eagerly. I couldn’t allow myself to only want his blood. It was an addiction, I was slowly trying to draw strength so I may pull away when his neck arched and his arms opened to claw at the turf- giving to me so freely. My body instantly craved more of him, but I didn’t trust it… didn’t trust my feelings for him. I thought of Darius then… of how I’d lost myself to him and knew of the consequences I paid. His hand shot out grabbing my nape, “NO you give me everything you feel, no holding back.”
I drew away and surprisingly enough he released me.
“You wanted honesty, well… I can’t give you what you ask. It’s too soon, I won’t give into you because I can’t help but think it’s a mistake.” I was kind because I left out that my heart still belonged to another.
I slid off him to lay with my gaping gown by his side on the grass. As soon as my head touched the grass he was over me, carrying me away.
My arms embraced his neck while I kissed him there because I knew he wouldn’t force me, if he had any fear at all- it was to turn into either one of them. I had meant to draw out more blood, but quickly thought better of it. “Are you taking me back?”
He shook his head… determined to keep me.
“Then, where are
you taking me?”
“I may have lost my mind completely, but I’m not ready to take you back… even if it means having you constantly tear me down. Beauty you didn’t think you were done with me so quickly tonight, did you? I promise you, you won’t ever be done with me.”
He was angry with me for being afraid of my emotions. He expected more, maybe even… expected trust from me.
He’d always been so honest with me, so I asked something that kept pulling at the small satisfaction I felt. “What happens on the full moon?”
He stopped so suddenly, becoming so still… before he smiled down at me and said, “I become a mad man only capable of thinking of all the ways to fuck this sweet little body of yours.”
“Then nothing changes because you’ve looked just as you described since I first saw you,” I said playfully not wanting him to know. I knew something seriously wrong happened. It terrified him, and he didn’t want me knowing even though it was only a week and a half away. He was no different; he too would trap me given the chance. This was the end of the road for us… I just couldn’t show it.
He carried me over to a hot spring. I hadn’t realized we were still so close to the desert preoccupied with my thoughts. He traveled faster than anything I’d witnessed. I couldn’t in a hundred years out run him. My only chance was tracing, but that was doubtful at best sometimes because I hadn’t mastered it yet.
He stripped me so quickly, I barely caught my breath as he threw me over his shoulder and into the water. I came back up sputtering very un-goddess like. “Oh, I’ll make you pay for that Ly,” I said as I ran out after him. I traced in front of him and jumped him. He caught me, held me tight against his body kissing me wildly while taking us both into the water. He cradled me in his arms. I felt him, all of him… he was so aroused but made no move to claim me even though I knew by the stern look on his face he wanted it more than anything else.
Perhaps he listened, knew it was unwise to rush me. But it sure didn’t stop him from kissing me. The man or beast was a master at kissing me. I could orgasm just from kissing him. I was panting completely mad with desire when, he pushed away from me, “Beauty… No. It’s too much, yet I will always want more. We have to stop, Emmaley.” I found it funny how he was now trying to do the honorable thing.
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