Her brow wrinkled in a frown and her eyes fluttered open seconds before she sat bolt upright in bed. She looked around in a daze for a few seconds before her eyes landed on me relaxing against the pillows watching her. "My sisters are calling for me, I need to go." I didn't answer, just raised my brow since we'd been all through this already. "Lucien, I said I have to go!""I love it when you call my name! Now princess, is that anyway to think of your husband?""Stay out of my head, who invited you?" She put her hands over her ears as if that would keep me out, though she knew better. She's so cute I couldn't help taking her down again. But in the split second I glimpsed into her mind I saw and felt the real distress there. She wasn't just saying it to get away from me, she was genuinely worried about them and I guess I can see why. She'd been out of reach for more than twenty-four hours and I'm sure the only reason it took them this long is because they we
My eyes snapped open and it took me a few seconds to remember where I was and what I'd been doing to get myself in this predicament-again. Then I realized what it was that had awakened me to startlingly. My family! I heard my sisters outside the door and tried getting off the bed. "Stay!" I thought he was asleep the way he laid there next to me with his eyes closed. I ignored his command and tried rolling off the bed from the other side. He reached out and grabbed me, pulling me back down and covering my body with his as fear crawled up my lungs. What were they doing here? In the midst of our enemies? How did they even know where to find me? I struggled to get out of his arms but he wasn't letting go and I wasn't strong enough even at full inhuman strength to budge him. "Let me go, I have to tell them that I'm okay.""I'll tell them, you're not to leave this bed." He pointed his finger in my face and I snapped at it with my teeth."They're not going to take
I took as much time as I could before letting her get dressed and following her outside to where her family sat waiting in the garden I must've stepped foot in once or twice before today. I knew and expected that once we mated I'd be jealous of her time, that I'd have a hard time seeing her around other males of any species, but no one warned me that I'd be envious of her loved ones. It's not a good look for one of my standing. I hid it well though, from all but one. 'Need me to hold your hand dad?''Little dragon, I'll turn you into a fish!' His laughter wrapped around my heart pretty much the same way his mother's had just an hour ago."What are you two talking about now?""How did you know we were speaking to each other?" "I can't quite hear him yet, but whenever he's talking I get static in my ear. How come you can hear him and I can't?""You get to carry him, it's my only connection until he's born; jealous?""No, but I'm hot!" She tugged at the t
He's coming home; Lucien will be here any day now. And from the talk around the dinner table last night his stay this time will be much longer than the norm. I got the feeling though that there was something more than the nuptial ceremony in the works, something the others hadn't shared with me but had kept amongst each other. Not for the first time I was reminded that I was an outsider, that no matter what I do I will never truly be one of them, will never escape the low status of my birth, something I've been battling since I was old enough to understand. Not that I've been treated poorly by the royal family of all clans, nothing could be further from the truth; but I'm very aware that there are some things I'm left out of that I wouldn't have been had I been the real daughter and granddaughter of the family. Then again if I was, I wouldn't be able to have Lucien as my bedmate. I'd always hoped that a union between Lucien and I would change that but there was
I only felt worst the more I saw as I walked through the courtyard that surrounded the prince's palace. Everything sparkled and shone with newness and there was a buzz of excitement in the air that hasn't been there for a long-long time. Even the servants were more lively than usual, as if they too had something to celebrate. When I reached her wing, the place where she will reside within the prince's palace I felt sick. I should be the one they were preparing for. It should be me wearing the coveted robe of gold. I was barely able to fight back the tears when I saw the men and women hard at work making things perfect for the unknown usurper. And when the sweet scent of Lathyrus odoratus, that most delicate of flowers reached my nose, it was like a slap in the face. They bloomed all around her palace now in varying colors of pinks, purples and white. I could only stand outside and watch since it was forbidden for anyone but the crown prince to enter there uninvi
It was hard watching her part from her sisters, the way they clung to each other while saying their goodbyes was heart wrenching, but an order from the sky monarch isn't something to be taken lightly let alone ignored, which I was tempted to do for her sake. I never got the chance to teach her even the very basics about life in the sky kingdom, especially as a member of the royal family, and wife of the heir, because each time I sat her down to start, I somehow ended up fucking her. Now as the time draws near for us to leave when I think of all the rules and regulations she will have to face in the coming days I start to mourn her carefree ways. I'll just have to stick close by her side once we reach my home and guide her once we're there. She turned to me now as her sisters began to leave. They'd been here for a whole two days without incident and things had only gotten better once my family left. She'd convinced them and they could see with their own eyes tha
It was only then that I realized the fairy was in attendance. She must've changed during the crossing. "Are you tired? Hungry?" She shook her head no and stood to her feet. "Let's go for a walk, I want to see this place. I've heard stories of its beauty and grandeur but never in a million years would I have imagined being here." "Let's go!" I took her hand and the three of us walked out into the night. Though it was 'night' there was no darkness in the kingdom which stays well lit all day with just a golden hue over the sky as the hour grows late. Still, most within the confines of the royal palace were already long abed or close to it. We walked together with her in the middle and Bellaque and I flanking her on either side. "The moon is so close." There was awe in her voice as she looked at the brightness of it."Yes, after our child is born I'll take you up to the top of sky-mountain, there you can almost reach out and touch it. Or I can take you to the surface for
I can't get over this place, how bright and clean and warm, I think it's the warmth more so than anything else that has caught my attention, that and the brightness of the day. Even though night here is nothing compared to the earthly darkness that befalls each day, the difference between the light of day and night are still easily recognizable. Right now it's almost diamond bright outside, a kind of light that seems to sparkle and everything seems to shine and standout more. Like the flowers I was now gazing at, each blossom was perfect and roughly the size of my head, and the scent, my fairy heart was very pleased with all of it. Bellaque walked quietly next to me while the young servant girl Lucien had chosen out of all that had been sent to serve me walked just a little ways behind, as I stayed close to the grounds of Lucien's palace. He'd left not long ago, as soon as breakfast was over in fact to go see his grandpa who had summoned him as soon as he was alerted to