by Elisabeth -
“No!” Alcide stopped him from telling him. “I don’t want you to tell me anything.”
Apollo smirked,
“Fine but you might want to get back in there. They cleared the floor and everyone is dancing including your Bella.”
“Dancing with who?”
“The guy who is trying to make her his too...Don’t kill him Herakles.” Apollo said but his advice fell on deaf ears as Alcide was already marching back inside.
~E~
Arabella knew that she was …drunk but she couldn’t think straight as Jared led her off the dance floor and back to the dressing room. She didn’t really question him because they had become friends over the year that they sang together. It took Arabella a moment to realize what Jared was doing as he pushed her up against the wall and began to rain kisses on her neck.
“Wait… Jared.”
In her drunken state, he thought she was indicating that she enjoyed this but it was the opposite. She groaned not liking this at all. She didn’t want Jared especially not like this.
“Jared… please. Stop.” she said in the tiniest voice ever.
Arabella’s body started to shake as she thought of what happened to her 8 years ago, when she was 19. She had gone to a house party ignoring what her father said and she was raped. Her mind went back to that moment and she begged him to let her go, to get off her but nothing came out of her mouth.
“I am not a monster. I am not a monster.” She said as tears poured out.
The next moment was a blur for her as Jared was no longer kissing her neck. She thought he heard her and willingly stopped but a voice yelling prompted her to open her eyes. When she opened her eyes, she saw as Alcide rained blow after blow on Jared. A man who looked exactly like Alcide yelled again,
“Paúe! Herakles paúe! (Stop Herakles Stop)!” Apollo screamed.
That was the only thing that saved Jared’s life. Alcide stopped and then picked up Jared by his neck bringing his ear close to his mouth.
“If I ever so much as catch you looking at her, I will cut off every part of your body and keep you alive as it happens until I feed you your own heart. Am I clear?” Alcide didn’t wait for Jared’s reply as he threw him across the room like a rag doll.
~E~
Alcide turned to face his brother and Arabella. He looked at her fragile state and then at his brother who cocked one of his eyebrows. Alcide rolled his eyes and walked over to Arabella, looking at her as he said.
“Don’t ever drink like that again.”
“I-”
“Let me repeat that in a way you understand. You don’t drink without me present. When I said, you were mine, I meant it.”
Without giving his brother or her a chance to speak, he took her hand in his and walked away. As they walked to the car, Arabella stared down at their joined hands feeling something become more and more alive within her just as she first felt it when he buried himself inside of her replacing what that boy did to her years ago, she was in trouble.
Chapter 4
Arabella thought she had dealt with what happened to her but tonight proved her wrong. She looked at Alcide as he had his back to her while making her some tea. She didn’t understand how or when their dynamics had changed. She looked at him even with his dress shirt and suit pants on; she could see what his naked form looked like. What she was mostly mesmerized by was his tattoos; he had a tattoo of an outstretched bow and arrow covering his whole back. There was a huge tattoo of the face of the Nemean lion that took up his whole right side from underneath his underarm ending at his torso. On his left inner bicep, there was a huge club and on the left side of his chest was the name Megara with the Roman Numeral V right under it.
As Arabella was about to ask a question, her phone rang. She looked at it and realized it was her father. He hadn’t called to check on her or anything even after she texted about living with Alcide.
“Hi, daddy.”
“Belle, sorry for not calling in so long. How have you been?”
“I’ve been okay daddy. Are you gonna come visit me soon?”
“Oh, I will! Just have to wrap up a few things here in New York then I’ll come back to Cali to see you.”
“You’re in New York? But Bernice said she saw you yesterday.”
Alcide was minding his business at first, but that statement got his attention. He looked up at Arabella who looked hurt but plastered a smile on her face believing whatever he said. Alcide didn’t want to interfere with giving his opinion of who he knew her father really was. He took his phone out of his pocket and texted his private investigator. He watched as she said her goodbyes and I love you to her father. Alcide tried hard not to roll his eyes, he wanted to scream that her father gave her to him willingly and didn’t even bat an eyelash but he knew she had enough for tonight.
“Meet me in the master bathroom after you change.” He simply said to her as he handed her the tea he made her and walked off.
Arabella was confused with his request, but nonetheless, she drank some of her tea and took it to her room.
~E~
Alcide filled up his enormous tub that was custom made for his size with hot water and added the oil essentials to it. He lightly chuckled shaking his head knowing that he’d never done this before for anyone in his life. He heard when Arabella came in the bathroom behind him. He turned around and loved that she wore one of his hoodies that engulfed her so much so that she looked like a little girl playing dress up in her father’s clothing. He smirked as he walked up to her and reached out caressing her cheek. He looked at her as she looked back at him in shock.
“Are you okay?” Was the first question he asked her.
Arabella nodded but said nothing as she was the first to break eye contact and look down at her red toenails.
“You know…” Alcide’s deep voice traveled from her toes all the way to her head warming her body as it always did. “You can say one thing out of your mouth, but your eyes never lie.”
Arabella looked at him not understanding what he was saying.
“It’s true,” he continued. “I look for the truth in your eyes,” he said as his hand traveled to the zipper on the hoodie and he zipped it down. “You can’t seem to hide the truth when it comes to that. I see the storm in your eyes, the confusion, the hurt, the pain...Ari, I see it all.” He said as her hoodie dropped to the floor leaving her completely naked.
Alcide traced her collarbone with his finger all the way to the side of her shoulder. “I can see what you want just by looking into your eyes Ari. The way you’re looking at me, the way you want me to inflict a different kind of pain that turns into pleasure. The kind that you’re addicted to even if your mouth says otherwise. Your body. This perfectly crafted body of yours calls out to me every night. It yearns for my touch. It begs for me to touch, to twist and knead and to perfect it in a way that only I can.” Then he ran his finger down until he reached her hand without breaking eye contact.
Arabella’s heartbeat quickened as Alcide simply spoke to her. She loved the deep rumble of his voice that overtook her whole body in one go. She didn’t realize how much his words affected her but he was right, she couldn’t turn away from him. She was addicted, and she craved for him to make her forget, to erase everything bad that had been done to her body. She needed him to continue doing that. She was almost there; she needed to get there. His words broke her train of thought.
“I’ll give you what you want, what you need, what you crave. I can worship your body just as much as others worship me.” He chuckled, “A god like me is willing to worship you, willing to let you bring me down to my knees.” As he said this, he got on his knees and leaned in kissing her belly. He wrapped his big arm around her waist and pulled her close. His calloused hands caressed her back and gripped her butt as he squeezed. He pulled her in as close as she could get to him and he inhaled her scent.
Arabella felt his cool breath on her as he spoke,
“I can taste you on my tongue a
t just merely inhaling your scent. Your sweet, sweet nectar that possesses me taking me to a place I wished never to return. A place I no longer think about but that taste and feeling brings me there. His tongue snaked out of his mouth and licked, tasting her skin causing her to shudder.
“Mmhmm.” Was all Alcide said as he continued to lick up her body stopping at one of her ample breasts taking it into his mouth and then moving to the other one doing the same.
Alcide popped it out of his mouth and stood up to his full height. He looked down at her and slid her up to his hard, taut body. Her body automatically wrapped itself around his. Her limbs knew what to do. He snaked one of his arms up to the nape of her neck and pulled her in for a kiss. He couldn’t concentrate on anything else as he kissed her. Alcide kissed her for so long not knowing when he finally stopped.
Arabella gasped when he released her and couldn’t stop her body from trembling with such need for Alcide. She didn’t think this was possible, but here she was wanting him so much more than she’d ever want him before. He kissed her again, this time a quick one and he looked her in the eye. She saw one of his full eyebrow cock up, and she realized that he said something to her.
“Huh?”
Alcide chuckled,
“Undress me.” He simply said as he slid her down his body.
Arabella couldn’t stop her trembling hands as she unbuttoned Alcide’s black dress shirt. She breathed a sigh of relief as she got the last button open and then she moved to his belt. She struggled with it for a moment hoping that he would help but he made no attempts to do so. She continued and finally unbuckled his pants moving on to the button and zipper getting those open with ease. She removed his pants as he removed his dress shirt. Arabella’s eyes seemed to expand as she reached out touching his lion tattoo causing his taut abs to constrict.
“You’re not done.” He simply said waiting for her to remove his boxer-briefs.
She sharply inhaled and then exhaled as she moved her petite hands to the Versace waistband. She watched as Alcide’s big hands engulfed hers helping her pull them down. As she slowly pulled them down, his member sprang out, and she couldn’t help herself as she became enchanted by it. The mere girth and length of it had her hypnotized, and her tongue snaked out as she licked her lips.
She didn’t lose eye contact with it as she pulled his boxer-briefs all the way down to his feet. She kept staring at it and from the angle that she was at, she looked into Alcide’s eyes. He smirked at her and winked not saying anything letting her enjoy what she couldn’t peel her eyes from. She came back up and reached out for it but Alcide swatted her hand away, and she gasped looking at him with a frown.
This caused him to chuckle softly.
“I promise you can play with it after you soak in the tub.”
Arabella had completely forgotten about the bath that he ran for her, and she looked behind him. Her body was on autopilot as she went towards the bath and got in. She hissed at the scorching hot temperature of the water and made room for Alcide to get in behind her. She couldn’t help but smile when he sank in right behind her pulling her close to him.
Chapter 5
Arabella threw her head back as Alcide ran his fingers over her belly underneath the water which was surprisingly still hot. There was just something about the way he touched her. A simple touch from him drove her into overdrive tonight, and she had no idea what to do. His hand continued to move down until he reached her pearl. He took advantage of her exposed neck and buried his nose not being able to get enough of her scent.
Arabella reached behind him placing her hand on the nape of his neck. She pushed his face deeper into her neck and moaned when he sank his teeth into her skin. He removed his fingers when he couldn’t hold on anymore. Setting his hands on her waist, he placed her legs over his pushing her back further away from him. He angled her and positioned her on top of him and entered her roughly. Arabella let out a loud moan and placed her hands on the sides of the tub as he began manipulating her body excruciatingly slow.
“Please…” Arabella begged. She couldn’t handle the slow but rough speed he was using. She felt hot tears threaten to escape as her lids were shut.
“What do you want from me, Ari?” Alcide asked.
At the mention of her nickname escaping from his lips, Arabella’s body couldn’t help her reaction to him. She gripped the sides of the tub as she slid up and slammed back into Alcide causing such blissful friction, it almost knocked her out. She arched her body a bit more, and she picked up the pace. She opened her eyes and looked into the wall to wall mirror in front of her. Her eyes met his and nothing could turn her away from the look he was giving her. As they watched each other, their bodies were in sync, and everything else fell away. They didn’t care for the water that was now all over the bathroom, all that mattered was that they reached the climax that they both yearned for from each other.
~E~
“Alcide…” She said as softly as she could muster calling him out as if she were a nymph gifted by his sister, the goddess Aphrodite. His name on her sweet lips caused his body to jerk in reaction.
“What do you want from me, Ari?” He asked her once more.
He knew what she wanted. What she was too shy to say as he lifted her up and slid out of her. He heard her groan at the emptiness that took place now when he was no longer connected to her. He wrapped his arm around her waist and stood up out of the water. He didn’t say a word as he carried her out of the bathroom and entered his room. He placed her on the bed and didn’t take a minute longer as he flipped her over to her back entering her without so much as a warning.
Arabella wrapped her arms and legs around Alcide as he picked up the speed and became rougher. She loved this feeling much more than the slow, intense feeling of what was happening in the tub. She didn’t understand that, and she wasn’t sure if she wanted to because she knew she was too afraid of what that would mean for her. He bit her shoulder causing her to moan louder than before, and her nails clawed deep on his back, drawing blood. If it hurt him, Alcide didn’t indicate it; instead, he wrapped his long fingers around Arabella’s throat and moved his head back a bit to look into her eyes.
He smirked as he saw the lust shown in her eyes and then he chuckled like a madman.
“You think I forgot about earlier tonight eh?” He asked and Arabella’s eyes expanded. “The way that little mortal was looking at you with his beady little eyes. The lust that filled in them when you sang out to him like a siren who was enchanting her next prey. The precious smile you gave him and the way he yearned for what’s mine. You think I forgot?” His deep voice seemed to get deeper causing her body to explode at that moment.
Arabella didn’t know what was wrong with her, but the more his jealousy bared its ugly teeth, the more her body called him in further. Her eyes fluttered the moment his words sent her to release. The way he was moving inside her had not changed. He didn’t decrease or increase his speed but it felt like he did.
“Open your eyes and look at me!” He roared.
She opened her eyes and looked at him as his eyes seemed to get darker in color. He leaned in and roughly bit her bottom lip then traced over it with his tongue. His long fingers moved from her throat to her jaw as he was close to her face and his demeanor seemed to get softer as if remembering something. His next words surprised Arabella.
“No one will ever hurt you again Ari. Not that mortal nor the poor excuse of a father that you have. I will not allow anyone to ever to hurt you again, not even me.” He captured her lips into a maddening kiss that led them both to their climax, and he released her lips kissing her neck and shoulder. He smiled as he kissed her feeling her heartbeat as he was still inside of her.
“Oh God,” Was all she said with a satisfied tone and then proceeded to pass out.
Now that’s literally the definition of putting her to sleep, He heard a voice in his head and rolled his eyes.
Apollo, get out of my head before I crush you. He
responded.
All he heard was the loud laughter of his brother, and then it faded.
Chapter 6
Arabella woke up with a gasp as if she had woken up from the dead. Half of her body arched as her fingers gripped the sheets and her head fell back. Her legs were spread apart by Alcide’s arms as he tasted her sweet nectar. His tongue seemed to have some sort of magic attached to it because it drove her insane. One of her hands shot out and gripped his hair. She heard as he groaned from the intensity of his hair being pulled and he dove even deeper if that were possible.
Arabella moved her other hand and ran it through his dark hair as she wasn’t sure whether she was running away or towards the vigorous sensation. She never knew herself to be so into this passion, but something about Alcide drove her to the brink of madness and then back to normality. Arabella’s eyes crossed as she screamed out her release louder than she’d ever done before. She started to chuckle as she came down from her high and then it rose to pure laughter as she’d never known before. She was genuinely happy, and she didn’t know she could reach this kind of happiness. She looked at Alcide as he moved up and looked at her while she laughed.
As her laughter quieted down, she reached out caressing his cheek and loving the feel of his perfectly trimmed beard.
“You’re like the human form of a drug, and I find myself with an addiction problem.”
Alcide smirked,
“I am the human form of a drug, the worst kind actually but I’m afraid there is no cure to your addiction problem.”
Arabella smiled knowing for sure that she didn’t need the cure at all. In the little months that she was there, she had fallen for a stranger that brought her heavenly bliss on earth.
Alcide leaned in and kissed her when he reluctantly pulled away; he looked into eyes that were experiencing a storm.
“What is it?”
“I’m scared,” Arabella said softly.
“Of what?”
