"Damon, why don't you get us a refill? then we can discuss it. Adom drinks a whiskey sour, just put it on his tab" Clary asked her mate, nodding when he glanced at her with a confused expression on his face before disentangling their hands and heading to the bar."You're here to show him what a rejected mate looks like, aren't you?" Adom asked as he watched Damon wander over to the bar where Rong had just started his shift, the sun having set while they had been talking. "You can be a sneaky bastard sometimes, do you know that Clary?" he asked as Damon moved to the bar, unprepared for the misery that was Rong."He needs to see. I think he genuinely doesn't know the consequences of the authority actions," Clary said as she too watched her mate waiting to get Rong attention. "I didn't believe him at first when he said he had no clue, but something makes me believe him," she said.Damon stared at the vampire behind the bar, he looked like something from one of Moni zombie movies she insi
Clary opened up for her Alpha when felt his tongue dart out, sighing at the shocks that flooded her body as she accepted Damon tongue into her mouth. It was even better than she imagined as swirled her own tongue into Damon mouth, breathing hard as she inhaled her mate's oxygen, needing it desperately, refusing to part her lips from her Alphas just to breathe, who needed to breathe anyway? A giggle bubbled up through her at the thought. The giggle turned to a small whine when Damon broke the kiss with a small smile."What's so funny, Omega?" Damon growled against Carly lips, breathing hard from the lack of oxygen."I was wondering how long I could survive on your breath, Alpha" Clary whispered, pressing her lips softly to Damon again, not quite ready to break away. She melted when Damon kissed her back, one, two, three small pecks what stole her breath again at the softness of it. She buried her nose in Damon neck, inhaling his beautiful scent as she pressed his nose to the scent glan
"What is wrong with you?" Damon asked his best friend as they rounded the last corner, entering the quiet road where Clary store was located. He stared at the dopey expression on her face, her gaze unfocused as she grinned at him before shaking his arm off and crossing the road, not even looking before she stepped out onto the empty road. "Moni, focus! What is wrong with you? Moni..." he snatched his hand back from her shoulder when she spun on her heel and snarled in his face, what the fuck? He followed her cautiously when she turned on the spot and dashed across the road.Moni rubbed her hand across her stomach, trying to sooth the butterflies that had taken flight there, completely ignoring Damon as she moved forward. Well, it was more like she was being dragged forward, she thought to herself, grinning as she practically skipped down the sidewalk. She giggled at the happy, complete feeling that bubbled up from the tips of her toes to the very ends of her hair. When had she started
Damon gaped at his best friend, watching the realization sink in as she stared at David. He watched the emotions roll across her face like a tidal wave, complete and utter happiness turned to shock, fear, desire, confusion, need, pain, self-loathing, anguish, to say she looked conflicted was an understatement. He glanced at his mate when he felt Clary squeeze his hand. Clary looked equally as shocked as he was. His eyes snapped back to Moni when he heard a ragged gasp escape her."But... but... but..." Moni gasped out as her world crashed down around her. Everything she thought she knew about herself, about her life and what she wanted from it was quickly disintegrating, sliding out of her grasp before she could grab a hold of it.But she didn't want a mate. But they caused nothing but heartache. But this wasn't supposed to happen to her. But she had never felt so safe and complete in her entire life. But she hadn't even had a will of her own, so consuming was the pull. But she never
The thought made Moni shudder. He couldn't think about her like that! She was broken, she was selfish and unworthy of that look in his eyes, the look that said she was the answer to every question he had ever asked. She would destroy him; she would drag him down and cause him nothing but misery and heartache and pain. Because that is what mates do to each other, she only had to look at those clave files to understand that she only had to think of her mother's bruises and broken bones, of the tears she had cried and the blood she had bled. She only had to think of her cold lifeless body to know what kind of destruction she would cause him.So, she had to leave him before it was too late. Before he ended up just like her mother. She had to protect him from the monster that she would become. She couldn't let go! She tried, but her body refused to obey the instructions her brain was screaming at her, unwind your legs, untangle your hands from his hair, loosen his grip, climb down and walk
"What are you two laughing at? This isn't funny" Moni said, glaring at her best friend and his mate. Her mate was flat out telling her that they would be mated. "I don't know how to be in a relationship, I will make your life a misery. You will hate me. I'm bossy and stubborn and a downright bitch" she said as she watched her Omega, waiting for him to dump her on the floor and run for the nearest portal. The thought made her stomach twist."You think I know how to be in a relationship?" David asked incredulously. "I've never had anything even close. I've had arrangements at most, just because I'm an old man, it doesn't mean I have any more experience in the matter. How about we learn together? You may as well just agree now, you think you are stubborn? You have seen nothing yet" he said with a smirk, pulling her in a little tighter.Moni glanced around, seeing the way they were all staring expectantly at her. Why are they all ganging up? She wondered, she glared at the three of them,
"Who are you to speak to me like that?" Adira growled, shaking Jordon hand off when he tried to restrain her. Every one of her maternal instincts was pushing her towards her brother, to protect him. Even if it meant protecting him from himself. "You would tor...""I am his Alpha, you will not speak to him like that" Moni said, staring the fairy down. She growled when Adira tried to move past her again. She didn't know whether the rage flashing red in Adira eyes and the magic dancing at her fingertips was directed at her or David, but she wasn't letting the woman near him, she didn't give a shit that the woman was his sister."Oh, you're his Alpha are you?" Adira said, the ice in her tone cold enough to freeze the blood in a man's veins. "What kind of Alpha sticks around only to torture their Omega, to toy with his heart before rejecting him and ripping away every one of his hopes and dreams? You get away from my baby brother now before you cause him irreparable damage, damage that his
"So, the authority just banned originals from mating mixed blood?" Jordon asked from the loveseat, staring at Moni and Damon, shaking his head when they nodded. "I understand why they did it, it was their children. But how long did they think that law would last? It is inhumane to keep mates apart." he said.The irony wasn't lost on Damon, that a vampire was telling him what was inhumane and what wasn't. He had spent his entire life following the law, implementing it, never really thinking about the fact that there were people out there living without the other half of themselves. Because it hadn't happened to him, it had never had any effect on his life, on the lives of those he had cared about. The feeling of shame welled up in him again, he was embarrassed that he had never looked beyond his own life to see the pain others were going through."Don't, Damon. Don't put this on yourself" Clary said when she saw the look on her mate's face. "This isn't your fault. We are going to fix i