JasonIf she was trying to scare me, it wasn’t working. If she was trying to show me that she didn’t believe in fairy tales? Challenge accepted. I would prove to the little princess that fairy tales could exist. First, I had to show her a part of my life. I needed to know that she would be able to fit in. I knew I would fit in her world. I have spent my entire life looking in. I knew how their politics worked and what to avoid.She returned dressed like a warrior princess! She looked so good that all I could think about was ripping the clothes from that perfect body of hers! This was going to be tougher than I thought it would be!ElizabethJason and I skipped lunch and went straight to the training grounds. I had to search for my clothes since I hadn’t worn them in years! The tightfitting shorts almost didn’t fit me anymore! I felt incredibly self-conscious! I usually wore dresses that didn’t show my legs, or very form-fitting dresses that showed my form. I haven’t spent much time on
ElizabethI rolled my eyes at my own thoughts. I wasn’t going to reject him. Deep down I knew that. It was time I stopped fooling myself. My sense of duty was too strong and, besides, he might be my only chance. Second chance mates never happened for Lycans. That much I also knew. It was scary to realize that if I didn’t accept him, I could spend the rest of my life alone. I didn’t want to be the princess who died a spinster!Jason walked me to my room where he softly kissed my cheek before saying goodnight. I smiled and as soon as I walked into my room, I realized that it was the first time since we found out that we were mates, that I didn’t have to fake my smile. I went to bed feeling hopeful. My dreams were once again filled with images of a naked Jason and when I woke up in the morning, I felt sticky with sweat and other things! I was a little surprised to find Jason alone in the dining room for breakfast, but I quickly found out why.“Now that we’ve set a date, the wheels on thi
Elizabeth“Jason, if this isn’t going to work for you, then I would prefer we call it quits now.” I was stunned at the sound of my own words! I sounded so cold! When did I become this girl?“No, that is not what I meant.” He sighed, pulling his fingers through his hair, but before he could finish what he was going to say, my brother arrived, and we had to sit down for dinner. I wasn’t spared by his mother, who had far too many questions about her future grandchildren and when we were planning on starting a family. I didn’t have answers since Jason and I hadn’t talked about it yet, which made things uncomfortable. What made me even more uncomfortable was that he didn’t stand up to his mother on my behalf!After dinner, the ladies went to the library for tea and Jason joined the men in my brother’s office. After sitting there trying to avoid his mother’s questions about grand-babies for over an hour, I was actually relieved when he appeared at the door and invited me to join him for a w
ElizabethIn the weeks leading up to the ceremony, I got over myself a little and made peace with the fact that Jason was my destined mate. My entire race believed that the moon goddess sent us the mate that was perfect for us. Why was I questioning it purely based on speculation? So, I gave Jason the benefit of the doubt like I wanted him to give me. I tried to get to know him and found he was actually a nice guy.We had a lot more in common than I realized in the beginning, and I quickly found out that although he was a physical person, he also liked to spend some time just hanging around and catching up on the latest news in the papers. I wouldn’t say that he loved reading as much as I did, but at least I could sit beside him and read my book while he read the papers.I grew more and more comfortable in his company. We went to read to the children every morning, and I was feeling my body grow stronger with each training session we had with the warriors in the afternoons. Time went
ElizabethWe quickly figured out who had been killed, and it was scary to realize that less than a quarter of our people were still alive. My fury grew the moment I realized that Jason and I hadn’t even had the chance to officially accept each other. We thought that we had all the time in the world. We didn’t. I thought we had time. If only I had known, then I would have done so many things differently!I had completely skipped denial and gone straight into anger! I was furious! I wanted to rip her eyeballs out of their sockets and feed them to her! I was angry at the ones who were supposed to see this coming. I was furious at my family for not making sure the vampires were completely gone! My father and brother huddled together, and I just knew they were working on some ridiculous plan to try and get us out of this.I also knew their plan probably wasn’t going to work. I had a feeling that bargaining was not on the table. From the little I had seen of the vampire female, she was here
ElizabethMy questions were echoed by my family as soon as I was returned to the cell. Why did she want to talk to me? What was that damn woman trying to find out? Was she trying to show my brother her strength? My head was starting to ache with all the questions and I told my family I needed some sleep in the hopes that some of the questions would stop. As I lay down on the hard, cold floor, however, my mind wouldn’t stop going through our conversation over and over.She didn’t ask me anything important. She just wanted to relish the fact that I was in immense pain after the loss of Jason! It was the only thing I could think about. It was just strange that she didn’t try to drag it out. The questions eventually died down, and I fell asleep out of pure exhaustion.I was woken when my brother had returned yet again. She clearly enjoyed taking her rage out on him, and I was fuming when he returned. They hurt him just enough not to kill him. He refused to tell us what she did, but from t
ElizabethI needed to find help, and not the human kind, but it was clear that I also needed food. Over the next couple of days, the food helped me to regain my strength. It was growing tougher by the day not to tell them where I came from. Who I was and what happened were the questions Mark wanted to know most about. They were kind people, but there was no way I could involve them in any of it.I had been recovering for three days, and I was becoming very impatient about moving on. The first night that they left me alone in my room, I escaped through the window and disappeared into the forest. All I could do was hope that they wouldn’t come and look for me. I was grateful that they didn’t take me to a human hospital. I knew they probably had blood samples and that humans would soon have a lot more questions.It was just far too dangerous to stay one minute longer. As the leaves of the trees slapped against me, I wished I could have told them everything, but I pushed on. I had a long
ElizabethI wasn’t nearly prepared for the way the witches were planning to attack. As our castle came into view, they started to descend! I could only hope that my family was still alive. It had been over a week since I left. That vampire female might have decided to kill all of them to punish me for leaving! Within the blink of an eye, we touched the ground and the vampires nearby started writhing in pain.I looked around stunned as the witches used their magic to incapacitate the vampires. And here I thought we were the strongest of all the supernatural creatures!“Show the way girl!” The high priestess’s voice brought me back to the task at hand and I rushed to take them to the dungeons. As we ran, the vampires fell one by one. My mind kept trying to go to the female vampire and I kept forcing myself to think about the task at hand. At one point, the vampires were going to outnumber the witches, and I wasn’t sure if we would be able to get to my family in time!We turned the last