*LYCIA*“Are you feeling alright?” Seff’s husky voice whispered to me as I felt him press a kiss to my cheek.I felt a smile appear at his words and as I turned around to look at him I lost the smile. A searing pain ran through my back making me wince and groan. “I want to say that I am but after the back breaking fucking you gave me from yesterday till morning today, I don’t think I am in any position to say that.”“I am sorry,” he said, his face contorted in worry and guilt as he saw me slowly pull my aching body into a sitting position. “Can I do anything to help?”“I would have told you to make me a healing potion but since you can’t do that I’ll somehow bear through this until we go home. I am sure once I take that I’ll be fine.” I said, making him frown and all of a sudden I could feel my own heart squeezing with sadness. But I wasn’t exactly sad…?“Seff, are you sad?” I asked, looking at him wide eyed, “Hey don’t be, I am fine. I would have done it all over again. That was the
*LYCIA* “What the heck are you yapping about? Are you crazy? Don’t listen to his words, Seff,” Esme laughed trying to dilute the situation but I could tell that Travis was serious in his suggestions.“No, it’s alright Esme you don’t need to defend me,” he said in response and taking my hand under the trouble he tightly held onto it making me look at him. His deep blue eyes were flicking between gold and blue and I knew he was angry.Clenching his hand back I tried to assure him that I was here for him and the touches seemed to work as he glared at Travis with bluer eyes and stated, “What we do or do not do doesn't concern you. I am Lycia’s mate and I will be her husband too. As long as she wants me I‘ll be anything for her but if you try to interfere in between our bond and take her away from me then I will be forced to do something about it. You shouldn’t underestimate me.”“Just saying that you would be anything to her doesn’t give you the qualifications to be that.” Travis argues
*LYCIA*Seff was livid.His body transformed on his own as his eyes shone golden and without a second thought he jumped off the ground and struck at Alora with his claws making a gash appear on her arm that she had used to protect herself.“What the fuck is wrong with this dog! Lycia, control your pet!” she shouted and then threw him off herself using her magic.“He is not a dog! He is my mate, stop insulting us and apologize for what you did,” I said, wishing for Seff to stop. Mom wouldn’t like it that he was fighting with her sweet sister.The magic didn’t work on Seff much as he rushed towards her once again. The magic Alora used on him only weakly pushed him back but didn’t hurt him as he struck at her with his claws again.‘Seff let her be, please’ I spoke to him in his mind but Seff ignored me and once again he used his claws to strike at her, this time breaking her barrier and throwing her to the side of the room with his giant paws just as she had done to me.Alora fell agains
*LYCIA*“I still don’t think we should be taking them with us,” Mom worried as she looked at both Seff and me ready and waiting in the living room.“I understand why you are worried, dear but Lars will need them to understand their connection with the spirit. We will have to take the risk,” dad said, going over the same conversation for the hundredth time since yesterday.“Don’t worry ma’am,” Seff said stepping forward, “I will protect Lycia, besides the mate bond is also there so you wouldn’t have to worry as much as before.”“Yeah, Mom and I are capable of taking care of myself too. I have grown stronger, maybe not as much as you two but I can handle myself,” I said, trying to assure her that everything would be alright.“You promise to stick next to me and not wander off on your own?” she asked, still a little agitated but she looked a lot calmer than before.“Yes, “I promised, letting her pull me into her embrace.“Fine I will trust you two but if something happens to you then be
*LYCIA*It had taken us around an hour more to find Lars' house and when we had reached there we found that he had been waiting outside for us to let us in through the protection dome he had built around his small house.He had ushered us in his small house and made us sit, finally taking a seat on a chair adjacent to Dad.Now that we had settled, I finally got the chance to examine him closely. Long tresses, raven and lustrous framed a thin bony face with slender eyes, deep set and peering at us with joy.“I can’t believe it has been so long since I last saw you! You haven’t aged a day,” Dad cheered, making me wonder just how long it had been since this man had looked this old.“Oh you shouldn’t flatter me, I always looked like an old man but years had always been kind to you and they still are,” he said and then flicking his eyes towards Mom he smirked, “Or does love help you maintain that youth?”“As brash as ever, huh?,” Mom muttered and this time I couldn’t stop myself as I blur
*LYCIA*I didn’t understand what happened but I felt someone grab my hand and the next thing I knew I had been thrown away. I felt my body smack against something hard but it wasn’t I who had taken the brunt of it. Seff had been holding me from behind protecting me from feeling pain.I couldn’t hear his groan because of the noise of the blast but I could feel his pain along with mine. He was hurt worse than I was. I wanted to check on him but my body had been shocked for a few seconds, unable to process properly. The smoke was heavily filtering the air around us, making me cough as I finally gained back some of my movements.Gasping and getting off Seff I scampered to check on him but the smoke clung heavily to the air making it difficult for me to see. The coughs that wracked through me made it impossible for me to speak and so instead I used the mind link as I asked, ‘Are you alright? Please say something!’‘Yes, I'm alright,’ he said in my mind, ‘But are you okay?’‘Thanks to you a
*LYCIA*“Alright I’ll look for more ways to search about the neighboring cults and try to find anything about them on my own while we wait for Lars to wake up,” dad said standing up to get to work.“Yes, I’ll see what I can find about all this too,” Mom said standing up along with him.“No, you both should rest for today,” I said, taking in how tired and weary they looked. I am sure I can’t understand what they feel as parents who are desperate to help their child but I hope they would understand that as their child I didn’t want them to be hurting as well.“We will do that later-”“No, I agree with Lycia, if the King and Queen of the coven are in a weak state then the coven itself is also weak. You also need to think about the people,” Seff backed me up and sighing they agreed.“Looks like our daughter has grown up enough to advise us now,” Mom merrily chided me, making me smile but all of a sudden the expression fell from my face.What was this pain?It was a dull wave at first but
*LYCIA*I didn’t think it would be this soon that I would step my feet back in this luxurious palace.“It’s the Second prince! Young prince is back! Open the gates, its Prince Seffastian.” The buzz had started as soon as the guard had come and taken a look at Seff. We had teleported just outside the palace gates and at the sudden static of magic the guards had immediately assembled around to check on the disruption when they noticed that it was Seff and almost immediately a car had been sent to the gate to drive us to the main palace.“I didn’t pay much attention before since you must have tried to hide it from me but you are well loved by the people here,” I noted wondering how I had been dense enough to not join the dots. But never in my wildest dreams had I thought that he would turn out to be a prince.“I think it’s only right for a princess like you to be paired with a prince,” He grinned and I had to chuckle at the boastful manner in which he had said it.Turning my gaze to look
(6 years later)*LYCIA*Blinking open my eyes I yawned and turned my head to the side to find that my husband and adorable mate was already staring at me.“Good morning,” I mumbled, making him kiss me.“Morning beautiful,” he said against my lips.“How long have you been staring at me, you creep?” I asked with a chuckle, realizing that it was still early in the morning.“Long enough to get me hard,” he said, swiftly turning us over so that I was now sitting above him as he clamped onto my thighs that were stretched out on his either side, with my crotch directly in line to his cock.“Seff!” I admonished him hitting his chest as I felt all sleep vanish from my mind with the straining hot dick I felt through the soft cotton of his boxers. The loose t-shirt I was wearing over my boy shorts moved out of the way leaving us touching directly save for our underwear.“What? I thought you promised that we would do something naughty today,” he said and I realized that he must have been looking
*LYCIA*"I can't believe you would be the first one to get married among all of us," Esme said, adjusting my veil so that it framed my face better."Hey, don't forget you were the one who wanted me to get into a serious relationship. I merely adhered to my best friend's request," I said, making her pout at me."Don't think that just because you made me your bridesmaid I will forgive you for keeping that secret about the spirit from me," she said, clicking her tongue in disapproval. "That isn't something you hide. You should always come to me first when something happens. I want to be there for you.""I've already apologized a million times for it. Please let it go for today," I groaned, her action reminding me of Reemus. The two were similar in that they both held a mean grudge.She grinned at my expression and then, facing forward, she said, "By the way, you look really sexy! Seff is going to lose his mind."Suddenly, there was a cough behind us, making her look embarrassedly at my d
"Give me some space and move as far away as you can," he said, motioning for us to stick to the walls and keep our distance."Are all magicians this strong?" Seff asked in my head. "I feel like every witch and wizard that I have seen so far are phenomenally strong.""No, I think it's just Lars who can get off a hospital bed and start to wield such strong and difficult magic like that," I said in slight awe at the power he held."Alright, I will start now. Don't try to intervene in between," he said, and then closing his eyes, he started chanting a spell in the old witches' language.Electricity crackled in the air around him as the clothes on his skin started to lift in the air from the waves of magic that he was sending out from him. Slowly, he was lifted off the floor, and just when we thought something would happen, he was plopped down to his feet, making him open his eyes and shake his head."Ah, I think I have become a little rusty not having used magic in so long. Don't worry, j
*LYCIA*So maybe I was wrong. The reason why Mom wasn’t worried wasn’t because she had been hiding her fears; it was because she had been working on it. So far, she had put ten tracker witches on Alora’s case to find her, and although they hadn’t been successful, she had been putting all her time and energy into bringing her out of whichever hold she had been hidden in.“It feels weird to be back here,” I commented from my spot on my bed, where I had been lying flat on my belly while Seff was seated on the sofa of my room, holding a cushion to his chest and taking in the room.We had decided to stay the night at the palace yesterday after the ceremony and had only returned back home just two minutes ago after having breakfast with Roz and freshened up.“Yeah, it does, but also kind of nostalgic and comfortable,” he said, picking at a stain on the wall of my lipstick form when I had once thrown it at him, and the stick had smeared red on the wall. “I can’t believe so much time has pass
*LYCIA*There was a still silence that hushed the people as they stared at the scene before them.“Your Highness,” the priestess started at the sudden change of the happy scene. “We shouldn’t do something like this on such a joyous occasion like today.”“It is exactly why it should be done today, in front of all these people, to show them their fates if they were to try to harm the crown and the royal family,” Roz said, his voice naturally reaching far and wide even without the microphone as people listened in on what their feared leader had to say.“But this is an auspicious occasion, shedding blood today…?” The priestess trailed off hesitantly, voicing her thoughts and those of the others who had been raptly looking at the scene before them.“Are you questioning your king right now?” Seff asked, looking over at her with a raised eyebrow.The question chilled my blood; there was rage behind it that couldn’t be masked even with the calm demeanor he had used to ask those words. He abho
*LYCIA*My heart felt like it would beat out of its cage and run all the way back to Amoret. Amoret was a small coven, so its population was small too, but with the way things had been in Darrow, I didn’t know how to face such a gigantic crowd.“Nervous?” Mom asked, coming to my side where I had been waiting to be called to greet the crowd of Darrow.“How could I not be? There are more than a thousand people out there waiting to see me, and millions more watching me back at their homes,” I said, feeling the anxiety eat at my nerves. "I knew what was coming for me, yet when I peeked out and saw it in reality, it was unbelievable. I can’t believe I am a part of the royalty of such a big kingdom."“Regretting being mates with that boy now?” she asked with a wicked smile on her face. She was teasing me and enjoying seeing me squirm, as if taunting me to have listened to her and stayed within the protective walls of the coven.“Never,” I admitted, “I almost died, fought a crazy manic culti
*LYCIA*"So you finally got rid of the Luna training, huh? Wasn’t this a bit extreme, though? You didn’t have to go and risk your life for it."At the words, I turned around to finally see the man who had been missing since yesterday after our return."Reemus! Where have you been?" I asked, rushing towards him. I had wondered about his whereabouts a few times but had forgotten to ask Seff about it."While a certain someone freed herself, I am still bound by my duties to get the Luna ceremony prepared for her," he said with a sigh. Then, with a small smile, he let go of his pretenses of being annoyed and said, "It's good to see that you are fine. I heard what happened, and it must have been really scary for you.""Of course, almost getting transformed into a chimera with my mate wasn’t the most pleasant of thoughts," I joked. But even as I said it, I felt my bile churn at the thought of it actually happening."Spare me from having to imagine that again. If that human hadn't already bee
*LYCIA*They knew.It was apparent by the silence that we now sat in after having just finished our lunch. We had been late because of obvious reasons, and by the time we came, dessert was already served to Dad and Roz, making us quietly hurry through our meal."Since we couldn’t talk while having lunch together," Roz said, looking at the two of us pointedly, "We should continue our conversation in the sitting room."Oh my goodness, I could see it from his gaze that he knew we were late because we were busy fucking each other.‘This is so embarrassing,’ I said, following King Roz to his sitting room, who was now talking to Dad again.‘Is it? I feel quite content, though,’ Seff grinned, glowing from the post-orgasmic bliss.‘Don’t joke about it! I can’t even look Dad in the eyes,’ I said, groaning as I remembered Dad politely smiling at me when I walked in and apologized for being late. ‘We should have stopped right there in the bathtub. Why did you have to seduce me to do it properly
"Lycia! Oh, my goddess! You are back!" Dad's worried voice fell on my ears like a salve, and tears spurted to my eyes like those of a child. I turned around to let him gather me in a hug."My sweet child, I am sorry. It's all my fault. Are you alright?" he asked, his shaky hands reluctantly pulling away from me to look me over. I could see in his eyes that even as I stood there, he found it difficult to believe that I was before him, safe and sound."Why are you covered in soot? Did she try to burn you?" Roz's aggravated voice roared out his anger and concern as he grabbed Seff by the shoulders and turned him around to check on him."We are fine, but let us talk about everything after Lycia and I take a bath," Seff said, pointing at his attire and our state."Yes, of course, but first, tell me, are you both hurt anywhere else besides this?" Dad asked, still anxious as he examined my burnt hands. He didn't wait for my response as he closed his eyes and started working on healing my han