[Rosalynd]
“That’s for stealing my mate!” Axel growls, his teeth bared, hackles raised, his hands partly transformed into claws.
Evander’s personal guard moves forward to intervene. The king puts up his hands to reassure his men and signal that they shouldn’t get involved.
“And that is for not telling me about my grandmother!” He shouts as he punches him again. Evander stumbles and Axel pulls him forward by the collar of his dress shirt.
“And this,” he pulls his arm back to deliver one more punch, “is for making us wait while you put your nasty smell all over our girl you sonofabitch!”
[Axel] “So you and Rosie need to have this miracle Fae baby to save the universe? Is that what you’re trying to tell me?” I am standing next to a window that isn’t emanating sunlight, but something different, more eerily blue in cast, something closer to twilight and not a true morning. My hands are resting on my hips to keep me from strangling him. “Not in those exact words,” Evander confirms as one of his servants pulls his corset vest a bit tighter. It is made of very expensive-looking fabric. Probably silk and gold and Faerie dust. I don’t know, but combined with the way they are lacing him in, he looks both slender and buff simultaneously. I find myself mesmerized as they pull the laces tighter.
[Gideon] So much has changed about Rosalynd, and now that I am aware, now that I can see it, I cannot unsee it. Much like Enchantra, when faced with something bigger than herself, she transformed into something new, something big enough to handle her changing world. For Enchantra, that meant becoming a warlock. For Rosalynd, she’s become a chimera and she doesn’t even know, she doesn’t know a thing about what Vincent and Esther did by creating her. I know, but I’m afraid to tell her because I’m afraid of how she will look at me differently once she knows my involvement in it all. Rosi
[Rosalynd] By the time Gideon and I finally parted, there was no question in my mind about how he feels about me, nor how I feel about him. As our bodies connected in every possible way, our souls blended, we could see clearly into one another, reading the surface of our hearts. It was an experience far more intimate than any I have experienced so far with any of my lovers, and will likely always be that way between us. We still have a long way to go in our relationship moving forward, but this afternoon we made a connection, a true connection.As he hurried into his pants, the maids returned, tittering as they watched him cover his bare ass. I was still covered by my slip, and the maids had seen me in the worst situations. Sometimes Evander can be very creative.
[Evander] Gideon. I wasn’t expecting him to kiss me, especially not on my wedding day. It was an innocent, friendly kiss, but with the visions I was given by the Oracle, I know it could be so much more between us. I've seen the future, our future, and it is full of love. Looking back at my bride, I know she feels it too. Damn it. Have we just lost him forever? “We need to go find him, Evander,” her large gray eyes are pleading. “Please. We can’t lose him. We need him.” “Are you sure?&rdqu
[Axel] I’m hungry. I’ve been hungry since we arrived. But I remember what they say about drinking faerie wine and eating faerie food. That you can lose yourself to it. That you can lose yourself to Faerie. Seeing the amber-stone ring on my hand, I realize I may already be lost. My grandmother was one of them. She always smelled of fresh-turned earth and bay laurel, never the patchouli smell of Evander. Wouldn’t she have smelled more repulsive if she had been Fae? “She was our grandmother,” Conner reminds me. “She smelled like home.”
WARNING: Non-graphic description of sexual assault. If you want to avoid reading it, I have marked the start and end with ***[Gideon][Flashback--Freshman Year, HSU, 24 years ago]***A tug on my pants wakes me up. It is dark, too dark, I can’t see anything..I had fallen asleep after our teacher guided us through our first spell as a new coven. He seemed very pleased with us, especially Esther and I. “So much power,” he had said. “I think you have the potential of being a Matched set.”I don’t know what he m
[Evander] As Rosalynd and I pull him back through the woods, I remember how sweet he was when we were both younger. He has grown up so much. I guess in many ways we both have. He’s no longer the kid who believed in the magic of fairy tales, but a grown man who has looked into the darkness and grown stronger, more sure of himself. When the Oracle gifted me with another vision, one that it didn’t share with Rosalynd, it showed me a single face. His. Gideon. My dear companion and friend. It didn’t show me just one image, but several. In the blink of an eye, I saw a lifetime of love, seve
[Axel] "Axel, sit down," my grandmother orders, pointing to a nearby bench. My body responds like it always has when my grandmother makes a demand. I sat. Immediately. "Good boy,” she grins down at me. If she pats me on the head, I’m biting her hand off. I don’t care if she’s my grandmother. She’s pissing me off. “I’m not a puppy,” I growl at her, letting a bit of Conner shine through with the glow of my eyes. “And I’m not your little boy, not anymore. I am Alpha of the Eel River Pack and a companion to your King and Queen.”