Chapter: 44.*****"You can't leave me with him." Tide disagreed."Why not?" Both Alexander and Easton demanded with a direct glare at the Merman."Look at him!" He pointed towards Easton who stared at him like he would poke him from the inside out."Please, behave, East.""I didn't do anything!" The other grumbled with a grimace."Why did you bring me inside with you? I can sleep in the water." Tide pointed to the pool."That's a pool, Tide... Our Kind, we use that to swim and relax since you have legs now, East, give him a room will ya!""I'm still a Merman, these are nothing!" Tide argued while pointing to the legs. "It's only so I can blend in with you, didn't you notice I shrunk down in size too.""You mean height?" Easton asked."What?""You know with the tail you were pretty long so when you had your legs it was as long as the tail but when Alexander pulled you out of the water you decreased in height and stopped at his length." Easton lectured, feeling proud of himself. Alexan
Chapter: 45.******"Sir," The man turned from his computer to meet the caller at his door. "May I?" He asked, still very aware of the frown sitting on the man's face. Matthew's frown deepened as he looked for the second time but again he didn't bother to reply. He had requested that he bring the information quicker and he is only returning three hours later. He had called Easton but after the fourth time, he realized that he was avoiding his calls and so he had to stop calling. Whatever games he played with Alexander he was sure to find out sooner or later.Jacob stepped fully into the living room where the man was sitting. His eyes didn't miss the empty bottles of whiskey and bourbon, littered about the glass table but he knew better to hold his tongue... Matthew isn't always sane when he is drunk which would explain why he ignored his calls so the man got closer and without a word offered him the tablet he held towards him and Matthew took it and immediately began to scroll throug
Chapter: 46.*****Standing in the colorful room, his eyes scanned the mystical treasures he's kept for so long, he was even starting to doubt all he knew, all he was made to believe until now. The second his eyes landed on that video, he felt it, that burning sensation as it rippled through his veins, causing his blood to pump faster and his heart termored.When he was six he had thought his great grandmother mad when she would often tell these tales of Merfolks, dragons, fairies, elves, whispering ghosts, who lived in a beautiful city under the sea and how they were real… she said the whispering ghosts often lure men and women under the sea…. trap then suck their souls, they would sink ships and flood trespassing islands. As a child, he enjoyed these tales whenever they visited, she liked him best among his other siblings, it could also be to the fact that even as a child only he bothered to listen to her fairytales while the rest just laughed at the ninety-eight-years old woman an
Chapter: 47.*****There is also this sudden calmness he gets whenever he is around these wonderful women. Michael would say… “You’ve got the Grans complex!” A part of him always calms whenever he is around the older woman, and that part of him often believes in the fairy tales she often fed his mind. He didn't mind and never judged her. Rather he listened attentively and enjoyed the stories mostly because they often left these senses within him with a feeling he hasn’t been able to explain until now. He could have sworn on one of their visits to the ocean he had seen a mermaid but that could only be his imagination, having fed his consciousness with tales for so many years his mind is bound to create these scenes every once in a while.Pulling those dusty old bags he waved dust off his view and coughed a few times but once all four bags were out in the open his grandmother slowly sat up in bed and helped him untie the bags which were sealed by some form of magic. It was mesmerizing t
Chapter: 48.*******"It's stuck!" He cried as he watched the burn mark heal."Not, stuck, little Matthew, it chooses you and It won't leave your protection until another who is to bear it arrives, she needs to return to the safety of her home, my love, we have waited for years for the one who will take her home to come but none has come and now it's your time, little Matthew, you must promise me to protect these treasures, they must never be sold or traded for money and keep them away from all… you never know who is out to get them.""I promise." She smiled. "But you haven't told me how you and great-gran knew about these things… how you got them." He needed to understand that, it confuses him. He's heard stories but now that he could associate these stories and places with actual treasures, it made it a lot more real, more convincing."I will show you what my mother showed me the day she passed these treasures down to me." She sat up fully on the bed and picked up the stone, then pl
Chapter: 49.******He took them and settled them beside the bed and whilst he did so he heard her begin to speak to him again. "Know this, little Matthew, just as the descendant of Bell the daughter of Atana walks the earth today, so does the descendant of Downy, the one who betrayed his mother.""But, grandma..." he called and when he looked up to her bed she was lying peacefully in it with her eyes wide open but her breath was no more, he still had too many questions to ask, too many he would still wish to know but for now he needed to bring these bags home safely. He was convinced now, without a doubt, that it wasn't just a fairy tale they told him. He informed the nurses of her passing and thus returned home with his treasures to store them away for safety. And since that day his pendant had only heated his skin once which was when she had wrapped it around his neck and today once he saw that merman cosplayer in Alexander's hands. Now, standing in the presence of all these myst
Chapter: 50.****Easton made to leave but stopped and shot one more glance Alexander's way. "Anything you would like me to deliver to your obsessive lover?""Urgh...I hate you..." Alexander cried. "And he is not my lover.""Yeah about that you might want to save that and say it directly to his face when next you see him.""What does that mean?" He challenged."Hmmm... let's see..." Easton mumbled tapping a finger to his lips. "The last time I checked, I vividly remembered a certain someone so smitten that they couldn't escape from a simple lip assault.""You are a horrible person!" Alexander yelled, tossing more pillows at the now hysteric man."And yet you blush!" "I don't blush!""Ah...but you are, look at your face in the mirror.""Have a terrible day at work, East," Alexander called to the departing man."And you too, Xander, I hope the merman swallows you whole by the time I return." The last word from him as he shut the door and Alexander could hear his footsteps descending th
Chapter: 51.*****Tide knew nothing he said would ease the man's mind, he had to use another strategy and this time he would not stop until Alexander couldn't think his own thoughts anymore. Without thinking Alexander wrapped his arms around the merman, pulling him even closer, their bodies entwined into each other. He moaned again, feeling that snake-like tongue digging into the back of his throat, spreading fire and need in its wake. His legs trembled and his heart throbbed painfully in his chest. Tide deepened the kiss and Alexander groaned deeper, his muffled voice filled the room and his arousal rose, it made Tide lose his composure and before he could control himself he had shifted, and fallen into the bed pulling Alexander down with him.Their lips separated and Alexander stared down at him, with misty eyes he panted breathlessly. "Why do you stop?"Tide looked down to his tail where Alexander laid unknowingly and Alexander followed his gaze to find he was resting not only on