The next morning, I wake to sunshine streaming in through the window and a raging headache. As I try to sit up my whole body complains, and I realise that the adrenaline must have kept the pain at bay last night.
He is speaking to me but staring at my ribs, then he reaches out to touch my bruise. I flinch slightly, not really from the pain, it's more to do with the tingles I feel when his fingers connect to my skin, and my breathing starts to quicken in response.
That was intense, I've never felt such an uncontrollable need to be inside a woman in my whole life. At the point, which the coffee machine interrupted, I had been ready to take her on the kitchen floor.
After the events of this morning the bike ride to Embers feels different, calmer somehow. I'm not fighting my urges that are building from her touch. Instead I'm accepting and enjoying them, which is taking all the stress out of the ride.
The drive home is horrible, all I can do is try to prepare myself for the disaster that I'm going to walk into when I get home.
***Flashback***
***Back to Present***
As the weeks pass, I notice that the texts from Lilli change from hopeful and jolly, to sheer desperation. She describes how she is having to spend her days with her parents and how not being able to leave their home is driving her crazy.
“Really? Just because I got into a fight with some guys who held a grudge, knowing that nothing like this has happened to any staff before me? He made all these changes just because of that?”
Lance. “Ouch! Will you be careful?! That Hurts!” The doctor is working on removing the arrow from my arm, but he is being especially rough about it. “Hold still, please your highness. It is embedded quite deeply into your muscle. If you wish to retain the full use of your arm, I suggest you stop complaining and sit still.” “Argh!” He pulls on it again, the pain is excruciating, this is the sec
“Very well. Drake I formally accept your request to marry my daughter and once Lilliana resumes her duties you will accompany her to enable you to learn how you can best support her. Rex and Tony are to become your personal security detail and I hope that this will prove to be a much more harmonious arrangement.”I cannot help but laugh at the last part and from his smile I can see my father sees the funny side too.“Thank you, father. I promise to make you proud.”“I know you will Lilliana, that is all I wanted to discuss with you all for now, you may do whatever you wish from here until things are settled once more.”At my father’s dismissal we leave the parlour and Tony hands Jacob back to me. I decide to go to my room, so I lead Drake and the others upstairs. Upon entering my room, I can tell immediately that it’s been kept clean and just as I left it, which is both a relief and a little sad, knowing that they believed me dead. “Here, I will take the little lad to our room and we
“Not to worry, it will take time, but he will become comfortable with us.”“Drake, would you like to meet him properly?”
I'm frozen in shock after my father finishes speaking, it's all I can do to hold tightly to Drake's hand, whilst holding a sleeping Jacob in my arms. Can this all truly be real? Or am
To have her in my arms again is amazing, I feel whole again, it's simply incredible. I never want to let her go; never again do I want to be separated from her. I feel her begin to shake a little and I realise that she is finally allowing herself to relax, I press my face into the crook of her neck, inhaling her scent. She smells different, like pine and fresh spring water.
After the deep cold and darkness that took over my body when I was shot the first thing, I feel is warmth. It's a strange warmth not, like a blanket or a warm bath but, drier more intense.
I throw myself off the cliff as I hear Rex and Tony yelling at me, terror in their voices. I am falling but I feel no fear of losing my life, instead I feel a change sweeping my body, everything feels stretched, but it’s as though a hidden piece of my soul has been unlocked.
I wake to a black wet nose in my face and hideous dog breath, that almost makes me pass out.“Ugh oh wow, Fang blagh go away I can't breathe.”
“I did do my job you’re the one who pointed a gun at us and killed her.”“How dare you?! That is slander and I will not stand for it!”