Aurora slowly folded the clothes in the satchel and placed them in the open wooden box. Sebastian watched her from the doorway. She backed him. Her hair was loose and her posture betrayed her sadness.She was avoiding him since dinner."What I said? Does it bother you?" He spoke up.She ignored him, picking up another tunic."I apologize."She still said nothing and he blew out a breath."I asked for you to end my life, Aurora because I detested myself, I detested what I had become and I didn't want to live a life deemed as a nuisance."She said nothing and he grew desperate."I do wish to end my life but not do badly. I am still trying to come to terms with what I've become. It's all still new to me, Aurora and I wish for you to see me in a good light."Her hands stilled and she slowly turned her head to face him. There were tears in her eyes."I understand, Sebastian but I can't help but feel bad. You don't need to worry."He took quick strides to her and sat beside her."I worry, A
Aurora suddenly stumbled and slipped from her high position up the tunnels. Sebastian was quick to catch her."Merciful Zeus, Aurora, you almost caused me an early death," he sighed, setting her on her feet."Apologies," she muttered, holding unto him. She looked up at the height she was and the long distance to the ground."You don't seem fine," he kissed her hair."I fear something bad has happened to Linus and Maximus," she muttered."How do you know that?""I do not, I… I just feel it. My heart isn't at ease."Sebastian pushed up her face and inspected it. Beads of sweat ran down her chin and her eyes were unsteady. He still didn't understand how she got her new powers of mind control. She could control anything and everything, living and non living, even causing her body to levitate."Then we must go out to look for them," he pronounced, tsking her hand and leading her back into the tunnels."But," she hesitated, "what if it is your brother?"He looked at her, "perhaps it's time
"What?" Lydia gasped, falling to her knees. Sure enough, the wound area was changing to an ugly green and spouting blabk blood.Sebastian grunted heavily, pulling himself up to a sitting position. He recognized the poison in an instant. Silphium. He had used it a lot, to poison arrows that were shot into the body of vampires. The injuries never healed and the vampires ended up dieing within a few hours.He turned his gaze to Aurora who was anxiously gauging the wound. He tried, he really tried to stay alive for her, to keep Mors' anger away but perhaps, his time was long due."Do not bother about me," he said to the frantic group, "I shall not survive another day. Go on with the mission.'Aurora met his gaze, her eyes filling with tears."Dearest Aurora," he sighed, taking her into his arms."It's not fair, it's not fair," she cried miserably. Aurelius and Luna turned away sadly, leaving the shed. Lydia followed."It's not fair," she wept, hugging him tightly."I'm sorry for the pains
"Mother," Aurora's eyes watered, her features miserable."My lady," Luna called, pointing behind her and she turned back to Sebastian who was terribly pale and ashy.She swiped a hand over her eyes, for ing herself not to cry."Bastian, you need to feed," she whispered, rolling up her sleeves and offering him her hand.He groaned, shuffling away from her. His eyes were bloodshot and his fangs out, he looked about ready to kill anything within sight."Do not fight any more, Bastian, you don't have to. Drink." She stretched out her smooth creamy skin to him. He shut his eyes tightly, his claws digging into his skin and drawing blood."Aurora, stop," he forced out in great agony."Animal blood won't work this time, Bastian, you know it. You want it, you need it, have it."She placed her hand directly against his nostrils. He shook his head wildly, scurrying back and hitting the wall. She followed, offering her wrist to his sharpened fangs. This time, he bit in sharply with a loud growl.
"Do not kill me, I beg you," Justus pleaded immediately, bowing to the ground, "I know you are now a powerful being with great powers but spare your humble servant."Sebastian's face scrunched up in confusion. This didn't seem like his pompous brother."Get up and speak to me," he ordered.He scurried to his feet."The emperor Thaddeus sent me," Justus spoke immediately, "he wants you to return home."Sebastian grew more bewildered."Thaddeus is now the emperor? What about Lucius?""Your honor, Lucius is dead. He was killed by the blood suckers."Sebastian tapped his forehead, remembering the moon goddess promise."Thaddeus is asking for something far behind him. I am now a blood sucker and I cannot live amongst you normal humans.""I know, your honor but we urgently need your help. Thaddeus is anxious to step down as he does not wish to be affected by the curse…""What curse?""The curse on the throne. Since father, everyone else that has ascended the throne has been afflicted in the
Thaddeus marched out of the dungeon and up into the main palace. Corpses upon corpses of dead Arab soldiers he had been scared into cowardice by. He knew the fight was a lost one and so he made no effort to fight but was it really Sebastian's little wife that did so?Getting to the throne room, he met Sebastian finishing off an Arab soldier with a stab of his claws."Good one, brother, seems you're one of the good blood suckers," he spoke, folding his arms behind him, his fingertips grazing his sword.Sebastian let go of the dead soldier, his nose picking up a familiar scent, his vision travelled and what he saw made his blood boil. He shut his eyes, calming himself and turned to his brother with a stern face."Where's Justus?" "Somewhere," Thaddeus shrugged, taking slow steps around."And my wife?"Thaddeus smiled, "I should thank you, really, she is a feisty one. Saved the day while I hid like the coward I am in the dungeons.""Where's she?"He feigned ignorance, "ran off somewhere
A year after…"Okay go on, children, go help mother," Aurora smiled at the little ones. They happily ran off, chattering excitedly amongst themselves."You'll tire yourself out if you keep attempting to be everywhere, my lady," Justus spoke, falling in step with her.She chuckled, "I am simply keeping myself occupied. Where have you been?"They walked together around the busy marketplace, enjoying the cheery mood of the villagers."Making preparations to find lord Sebastian and issue him a query for not visiting for two whole months."She laughed, "Don't do that, Justus. I'm sure my husband has his spectacular reason for doing so.""I know, I do not worry about him.""So why do you bother? Thank you, Zeus blessings," she smiled gratefully at a villager who offered her oranges from his produce."Zeus blessings," Justus bowed in appreciation."Because I worry about you. You're pretty lonely here without him and no matter how much you occupy yourself with your duties, it still doesn't fi
"Whatever happened?" She queried, bewildered. Her hands ran over his face, mesmerized."You happened," he smiled at her."What?""After I my close court with death and you saved me with you blood, I never noticed the effect it had since I avoided the sun completely," he paused, kissing her hand, "but once, over a month ago, I had to fight off enemies that tried to conquer us and the battle lasted into dawn. The sun shown down and we fled and I thought I wouldn't make it, some of us didn't but then I noticed that the I wasn't cursed with the sum any more. I could walk freely and bask in it's glory,"Her eyes were wide. She looked up at the sun and back at him."That's… that's…" she shook her head, still speechless.He nuzzled her hand, "I decided I had to get to the bottom of that miracle and so I travelled to see a clairvoyant which was why I was unable to see you for almost two months, my love and I apologize dearly. Finding a clairvoyant was harder than I thought as most of them wer
The next two days, they spent letting the fire burn. No one was satiated yet, no one could stop them, no worries could bother them. On the third day, they finally stepped out to get some cool evening air and some groceries. "Everything feels different, better," she spoke as they walked into a store together, their rented car parked outside. They were in Tanzania. They rented a lone beach house which required a twenty minutes drive to get into town. It was perfect, just what they wanted. "And why is that?" He teased as they perused through shelves, hands locked. "Because we are finally finally together and my expectations of you in bed was superseded..." "Isabella!" He whisper shouted, wide eyes fixed on her. She laughed, pressing a quick kiss to his agape mouth. "What?" She asked with a smile, "do I not get to compliment my husband's bedroom skills?" He shook his head, looking around to make sure no one heard. He looked back at her, "Isabel, seriously?" "We should expect a baby
"I think you have done really well for your first week. You should be able to do things without supervision now... I guess that's the person that's been picking you up since you first arrived. Your boyfriend?"Isabel's lips twitched. "My fiancee," she answered with a smile. "Oh, wow, that's great. When's the wedding?" Isabel opened her mouth to reply just as Ezekiel rounded the car with a big smile in her direction. "What?" She heard Irene gasp but her mind was clouded with too much love for it to register. Her legs carried her across the road to him. "I love you," she mumbled as he enclosed her in a hug. "I think our engagement is making both of us jelly," he laughed, kissing her cheek, "I didn't even realize I was smiling so wide." She kissed him lightly and stepped back a little. Oh heavens, she laughed internally, remembering she abandoned her supervisor. "Irene?" She heard Ezekiel mumble. She turned around, seeing the dazed look on Irene's face. "Don't tell me..." she mu
Ezekiel whirled laughing Isabel around. She was clad in a purple graduation gown, her cap hanging loosely in her right hand."I'm dizzy," she forced out between laughs, holding unto him tightly. He set her down on her feet and kissed her loudly."How does it feel?" He asked, beaming."I don't know," she laughed, "you are rubbing your excitement all over me and I don't even know how I feel.""Exactly," Lily intervened, "you are acting like you have never experienced a convocation before. Get off her."His entire family came to celebrate her, his cousin and his beauty wife included, with their baby."She's not your girlfriend, Lily, mind your business," Ezekiel eyed her playfully.They moved off to a little spot they set out for a picnic and they spent the rest of the day being happy for her. The group stayed an extra day before leaving. It was just two of them left now.When their relationship was a year old, they sat down for a serious conversation. They rented a beach house for the w
Sebastian was just bringing the car around when Isabel and Aurora walked out of the airport."You must be Isabel," the man she recognized as Ezekiel's cousin spoke when he got to them."Yes," she replied with a warm smile, watching how he casually put an arm around Aurora's waist and kissed her hair, "it's nice to meet you."They shook hands. They definitely had good genes in their family. Ezekiel was her boyfriend, the man she loved but she couldn't confidently say he was more handsome than his cousin."Ezekiel is bringing the luggage, we can wait in the car. You don't mind, Isabel?""Of course not, he left me with the luggage in the first place," she answered with a roll of her eyes. Their little group chuckled and they moved to the car. Sebastian hovered over his fiancee as they chatted heartily about school, life, and anything else. Ezekiel arrived soon and Sebastian assisted him in getting the luggage into the trunk.Aurora and Sebastian's wedding was a week away so the atmospher
Ezekiel knew that there was a Supreme Being helping him to restrain himself because it was a miracle he didn't lose control after what she just said. Was she so oblivious that men were easily triggered sexually or was she doing it on purpose? She worked at a bar, she had to know."Your body belongs to you," he said slowly, blowing out a breath, "and to the God who made you. If we are married, you can say that but your body will belong to me and mine will belong to you only because we chose to let it be so. Do you understand?"She clicked her tongue, laying her head on his chest. "Let's get married then, you won't have any excuse to deny me what I want.""Oh heavens," he laughed in disbelief but somewhere deep within him, he began to consider it.*Weeks flew by and Isabel didn't think she had ever lived life so happily before. She woke up happy and blushing, she was much more interested in her boring classes because he always praised her when she performed well in the tutoring session
When she awoke bright early the next morning, he was still asleep and she was late for class. She stood at the entrance to his hospital room at a loss for what to do. She could rush to class and return after school to take care of him or she could stay and be with him throughout the day. She wanted to do the latter as she was the cause of his accident but on further reflection, she decided to choose the former, he'd prefer that.Ezekiel trudged into his apartment, burdened with a load of emotions. Drugs, really?"Stan found me, he sent me threat notes and has been stalking us."Was that true? He sighed, lowering himself unto a fur-covered couch. He didn't even know what to believe. What was her deal? Was it just the aftermath of the rape incident? It scared him that she would go as far as drugging him, how much damage did the incident cause her?If Stan was secretly stalking them then she wasn't safe. The police needed to be alerted and they needed to move away from town for some time
"Are you mad at me?"Isabel said nothing instead she focused on stabbing the potatoes on her plate."Have I ever refused you anything?"She blinked, thinking of an answer to his question though she didn't plan to reply, she discovered he always did what she asked and did more except for a few nos here and there but... He was always there."No," she answered curtly, guilt nagging at her. "Then you must know I have a very good reason for refusing you this one thing. Trust me, Isabel, please."She stared at her meal, fighting with her emotions. She thought of the drugged wine."Ezekiel," she began, looking up. Her eyes widened in horror seeing him bring down his glass from his lips."What?" He questioned, cleaning his mouth with a serviette.She opened her mouth and shut it. "I drugged your wine," she croaked out."What?" His eyes bulged out and he looked into his glass, "what are you talking about?"She kept silent, staring at him with wide eyes. He stared at her, his eye size matching
She was awfully alert the next day, constantly looking back and sideways, being suspicious of every male she came across, staying in open places where there were a lot of people. She didn't realize she was so on edge and tensed up until Ezekiel came to her at the cafe and she almost stabbed him with a fork.He dodged, his eyes wide. "Watsup!? Do you want to kill me!?"She sighed, her tense shoulders falling. The fork landed with a clattering sound on the table."I am sorry. I was... I thought it was someone else," she said apologetically.He raised a brow, sitting next to her, "is someone stalking you?""Don't worry about it," she sighed again and relaxed back in her seat. His presence was immensely comforting. She didn't know whether to be pleased or irritated, he was her boyfriend now."You could really have stabbed me if I didn't have quick reflexes. You wanted to harm the person. Why? What's going on?" He inquired.She kept silent. Why was she keeping it a secret?"Isabel..."She
"You're my girlfriend now," he murmured into her hair, "so you can't cheat on me ever again, you hear? You can't go kissing another man or letting another man touch you because you feel like getting down with someone. You are mine now and I'll tell you, I am very possessive and I get easily jealous."She blinked. What did she just do?"You forgot the second part," she mumbled, not sure of what she was feeling."No, it isn't enough to make me sleep with you."She groaned, surprisingly not feeling annoyed. "Why?" She whined."It only makes me want to protect you more, keep you clean and pure. I'll be your god and I'll keep you away from any filth," he replied.She fought the smile that crawled its way up her cheek. He pulled away a little and looked at her with so much tenderness, she felt she could melt from it."Do you still feel like getting down with me?" He asked, smiling.She shook her head."Good," he grinned, "I'll call your father now and tell him you're safe with me. I'll call