The Nevermore Chronicles: Silencing the Queen

by Stephanie McKitrick

  He laid a kiss lightly upon my hand then. My cheek's quickly became hot and I knew I was blushing. He pulled me closer to him so as to cradle me in the nook of his arm. He was protecting me against the chilled wind, which seemed to be picking up.

  I breathed in his scent again, he smelled of exotic spice's and cinnamon, I closed my eye's and inhaled a deep breath. I'd never felt so at ease in all my life. I didn't realize I had fallen asleep until a clap of thunder outside my chamber window woke me.

  I found I was laying on my bed. I sat up and looked around wondering how I'd gotten there when movement in the shadow's caused me to bolt to my feet. I summoned my magic and braced myself against an attack. Zephyr was behind me suddenly and he too took up an attack position.

  “Serra what is it?! Danger?!”

  “Movement in the shadow's. Zephyr how did I get here?Where's Dimitri?!”

  “I am here my lady.”

  Dimitri's deep, manly voice filled my head and immediately soothed me. I straightened and cautiously started looking around. He'd spoken through the bond I shared with Zephyr. But, how? I looked to Zephyr for any insight, but he was just as puzzled as I was.

  “Dimitri?” I said warily.

  “Yes, my dear?” He chuckled.

  “How did you speak to me...that way? Only Zephyr and I can speak through our bond.”

  “I could do it because along with my abilities to see emotion's I am also able to communicate telepathically or as you might know it, through your bond.”

  “What, pray tell else can you do?”

  He laughed then, a full hearty laugh then he stepped from the shadow's as the thunder clapped again.

  “Now where's the fun in that?”

  I couldn't help but smile. He looked so ruggedly handsome in his open, loose shirt and snug breeches. His muscles bulged against the fabric and I could see a glint of what I could only guess was rain lingering on his beautiful chest. He looked like a God standing before me.

  He beckoned me to join him by the fire he'd built. I very happily joined him. It was when I started to walk that I realized I had no shoes on, in fact...all my clothes were changed. I was in a simple white sleeping gown and my robe.

  “How did we get inside the castle?” I asked.

  “I carried you. Then had your servant's change your clothes whilst I went to my chamber's to change mine. I built this fire for when you woke. I was hoping we could talk some more.”

  “Well, I'd be happy too.” I said enthusiastically.

  I joined him by the fire, as we sat on the bear skin I couldn't help but go back to Barron and I, only hour's earlier on this same spot. All the feeling's of regret and sadness filled me again. I felt far too betrayed and angry. I tried to hide my face from Dimitri until I could clear my thought's but it was to no avail.

  No matter how hard I tried to push the thought's away I just kept thinking of how betrayed I felt, how imbecilic I felt...how ashamed. I was determined to enjoy Dimitri's company though. I turned to face him and smiled.

  “So how do you like the kingdom?” I asked.

  “Oh, it's very wonderful. I've been all over the village. Everyone here speaks so highly of you and so kindly as well. That's rare in a kingdom so large. It seems even your most outter villages know and love you.”

  “I do try to rule justly. It's hard, but I try my best. With Zephyr by my side I feel better when making the big decisions. He's very wise, I've sought his council on many occasions.”

  Zephyr sat behind me and rubbed his head against my arm. I hugged him lovingly. Dimitri looked on with what appeared to be admiration in his eye's.

  “So tell me about yourself my dear. Who is this beautiful, strong woman I find myself so deeply attracted to?”

  “Well...” I began, unsure of how much of my past to reveal. I spared a glance in Zephyr's direction only to be met with sharp eye's. He nodded knowingly, I turned back to Dimitri, ready to tell my story.

  “I was born different from everyone else. As I grew I developed...power's. I could hear others thought's inside my mind, I could move any object, no matter its weight or density and see people's aura. I knew when they were lying or being deceitful, I could also create magical blue bolts of lightning and flame out of thin air. People in the other kingdom's heard of my power's and how strong they were, even though I was only a child. They became frightened and threatened War if my parent's didn't dispose of me...”

  “Most human's don't understand magic beings and what they do not understand they tend to fear and try to eliminate. Pray tell what happened next my sweet, obviously your parent's did not condone such erratic ideal's?”

  “No, they most certainly did not, they refused to kill their daughter and instead braced for War. I knew there was a very real chance my family would be killed and so would many other innocent's, so I left. I fled into the mountain's, with only the knowledge my father and mother had taught me for survival in the wilderness I set out for the top of the mountain. It was said a magical creature lived there, one that could help someone like me. After a few day's on my own I fell prey to a bear trap. I thought for sure this would be my undoing and here I had almost made it to the summit of the great mountain. Suddenly, out of nowhere a large black creature approached me, I lost consciousness after that and awoke many hour's later in his cave. The creature was the Great Black Griffin, Zephyr. He nursed me back to health and there we lived happily for a few year's. On my twenty first birthday, I heard new's from one of the outer lying village's that my father had been wounded in a battle and was slowly dying. Zephyr and I decided to come back to Nevermore that night. It was also the night I decided I wasn't going to use my power's as much. People would see me as a monster, they would fear me again. Upon my homecoming my father and mother threw a great ball, I was born in the year of the Raven. So they called it the Raven's Ball. I am the true reason why we have this ball every year.”

  “Well now, a whole ball in your honor, I must say it's a grand idea! Though I do believe I'd celebrate you every day. But I have to ask, why keep up this charade about the ball being in honor of the new harvest? Why not let your people celebrate the true reason for such a grand day?”

  I contemplated whether to tell him the whole truth. Zephyr nudged my arm from behind, when I turned to him, he looked onward at Dimitri then back at me and nodded then he spoke out loud not through the bond.

  “Serra Noir is the last living heir to the kingdom of Nevermore, When we came back so she could take her rightful place upon her throne, it was as if she'd never left. People had forgotten the horrible thing's that were threatened to her as a child, they had forgotten the horrid accusation's that forced a 7 year old into the mountains to seek me out for refuge. So we agreed if they wanted to forget what had happened then we would gladly let them. We do not want a reminder of those dark times. We decided together that the ball would be in honor of the harvest instead of her returning from her forced exile. But we know the truth and we always celebrate with a trip to the garden's at exactly 10 o'clock so that we may pay tribute to the king and queen's grave's. The brave soul's who refused to sacrifice their child out of fear and hatred from those who did not understand her.”

  He rubbed his large head against mine. I was so very thankful for him.

  “Such a shame, this ball in honor of the returned princess who now sits as the most beloved queen I've ever met. With your permission my lady I should very much like to accompany you and Lord Zephyr to the garden's to pay tribute to your dear mother and father.”

  I couldn't help my huge smile as it spread across my face.

  “I'd love that very much.”

  Zephyr rose to his feet and stretched, then faked a yawn and trotted off to the window, after saying his good-night's to us he flew off to do a patrol of the kingdom before bed. I was no fool, I knew he'd left to give myself and Dimitri some alone time. I stretched out on the bearskin next to him and closed my eye's. Hoping against all hope I didn't think of Barron and the pain he'd cause
d. But of course yet again, his image penetrated my thought's.

  I opened my eye's to find Dimitri staring into the fire, a look of deep concentration on his face. I touched his muscular arm and smiled as he turned to look at me. His eye's slowly slid down my body, lingering for a moment on my breasts which of course made my nipples turn to peak's under my dress.

  I looked away, embarrassed, but he leaned over and made me look at him once more. His face was so close to mine I could scarcely think straight. Then he looked me dead in the eye's and pulled me to him gently and kissed me. His lip's were warm and comforting, unlike my lustrous kiss with Barron this kiss was full of something else. Something I couldn't quite put my finger on. It made me feel light and airy sort of like I had butterflies in my stomach.

  All I knew was I needed it to last. I thrust my finger's through his hair and pulled him closer and deeper into my mouth. Our tongues played with each other while his hand's cupped my face. He pulled back and released my mouth. I moaned my displeasure, but he only smiled down on me and trailed kisses down my neck. I pulled my knee up, letting the dress fall down my now vertical thigh almost exposing my nether region's.

  His hand quickly shot to my thigh and hoisted it up further so my butt came off the bearskin for only a moment, but it was long enough for him to pull the dress up and over my head. Now I lay there completely naked below him. He sat back on his heel's to admire my physique. His eye's were alight with need and respect for what was before him.

  He removed his shirt, then in the next second he was completely naked as well. “Magic” was the only response my bewildered look got and he was on me again. Kissing and licking my nipple's playing with the rigid peak's between his teeth. I moaned and pulled at the bearskin as his hand slid down my body and his finger slowly slipped inside me. He looked up at me quickly.

  “You're a virgin my sweet.”

  “Yes. I never took a husband, so I've never...made love with any one.”

  Barron's image came to mind, He had, had the same reaction when he found out mere hour's earlier. I started to feel ashamed again, but Dimitri started pumping his finger inside me then he added another finger and used his thumb to tease the little pink mound that sat right above where his finger's were pleasuring me so.

  He leaned up and kissed me hard, licking my lip's and sucking my bottom one. I was in sexual heaven at that moment. Then he pulled his hand away from my core. He licked his finger as he closed his eyes.

  “Mmmm, you taste as sweet as vanilla. I want to taste you.”

  I was breathless, passionate heat was flowing all through me. I grabbed his head and pushed him down. He happily started to lap at my wet core, thrusting his tongue inside me as far as it would go while looping his arms under my ass and over my leg's to pull me closer to his face. I arched my back and moaned again, even louder.

  “Oh Dimitri! Please do it again!”

  “As you wish, my sweet.”

  Again he thrust his tongue inside me over and over until I thought I would explode from the pleasure. Then I hit my climax. He lapped up my juice's like a hungry dog. When he had licked me clean he crawled back up my body again trailing kisses then he covered my mouth with his. I could taste myself on his lip's and tongue.

  I pulled him against my swollen breasts and started to grind my hip's against him. He grabbed my hair and tugged it slightly. Then he whispered to me...

  “Serra I want to make love to you, I want you to feel like the goddess you are, as I spill my seed inside you and make you mine again and again. I want to hear you call my name in pleasure and tell me you're mine and mine alone! For you, my sweet Serra I would wait a thousand life time's if only you would promise to be mine.”

  Fire shot through my vein's as he spoke. Something awakened inside me. Something ancient that had been lying dormant for such a long time. Dimitri felt right, he felt...like he was mine and I was his. He felt like my other half. I pulled back and looked him in the eye's, they were practically glowing green. I cradled his head in my hand.

  “Dimitri I don't know why, but I feel like we are...”

  “Meant to be.” He finished.

  He smiled down on me. I couldn't help but return it.

  “I want you Dimitri, I want to be with you... for Always.”

  “I want you Serra Noir...for Always.”

  “I...I've been hurt....I want to trust you Dimitri. I want to trust what I'm feeling...but...” I tried explaining, breathless.

  “I understand my darling, But you must understand something as well, I'm not him. When I say I'll wait a thousand life times....I mean it. YOU are the mate I desire. YOU, are my queen. I shall do whatever it takes.”

  I lost all control over my decision making then and for the second time that day, I let my heart take the lead.

  “Take me Dimitri. I need you, now.”

  Nothing had ever felt more right. He kissed me slowly and passionately, then he parted my leg's and eased himself inside me. I gasped for air as I felt myself stretch to accommodate his vastness.

  I relished in the feeling of him pumping inside me. He started slow, then sped up when we found a rhythm that worked. I raised my leg's and locked my ankles behind him as he ground into me harder and harder going deeper with each thrust. I moaned and bucked against him, passion and instinct took over.

  “Oh Dimitri, yes, yes it feel's so good, please don't stop!”

  “Tell me you want me Serra!”

  “Oh god's yes, I want you Dimitri! Yes!”

  “Oh, Serra tell me you're mine! Swear it!”

  “I swear, Yes! I swear!”

  “Yes love and I'm yours forever!”

  “Oh yes! Forever!”

  He ground harder and deeper. The sensation's were almost too much for me to handle. I begged and pleaded with him to somehow go deeper inside me and to pull my hair again as he licked and bit my nipples.

  He obliged my demands happily. Then right as I began my climax he thrust once more and jerked himself away to spill his seed all over my stomach and thigh's. We lay cuddled up in front of the fire, too tired to move.

  I decided to clean us both, using magic I called forth water to wash away his seed and my juice's and what bit of blood came from my now gone virginity, then I brought towel's to dry us and lastly he showed me his talent with magic by creating two beautiful sets of sleeping garment's. He held me there in front of the warmth of the fire and played with my hair until I felt sleepy enough to yawn.

  “We'd be much more comfortable in the bed don't you agree my love?”

  “Mm mm huh? Oh yes, completely.”

  He chuckled as he picked me up and carried me to the bed. After tucking me in he started for the door. Fear shot through me as I realized he was going to leave me just like Barron.

  “Dimitri, please don't...”

  He locked the door, then turned and came back to the bed and sank in next to me. He took me in his arms and snuggled me close.

  “Serra, I promise I will not do to you what he did, I felt the rush of fear when you thought I was leaving. I never want you to feel that way again. I'll never leave you my sweet. I swear it. I feel you are my mate. I could never leave you now that I've finally found you.”

  “What does that mean..I'm your mate? You've used that term a few times since we met.”

  “It is a word we use in my homeland's to describe someones soul mate. Their other half if you will.”

  “Tell me of your past Dimitri. I've told you mine, I'd love to hear yours. Please?”

  “Alright my darling, are you sure you want to know?”

  “Yes!” I said, smiling up at him.

  “As you know I have been blessed with special power's, not to much unlike your own. Well, I have them for a reason just like you have yours for a reason. Serra...I'm...well......”

  He exhaled and rubbed his face with his free hand. I propped myself up on my elbow and faced him. Once again, cradling his face in my palm.

  “Dimitri I don't know how b
ut I've started falling in love with you. I'm scared to death, I'm worried I'm not good enough, but I have to tell you how I feel. Now, no matter what it is I promise I'll understand.”

  “Your falling in love with me?”

  I looked away, suddenly aware he may not feel the same.

  “Yes, I am.”

  He pulled my face back to his.

  “I'm falling in love with you Serra. If you're sure you want to know I'll tell you.”

  “I'm sure.”

  “Serra, I'm from a long and very old bloodline in my homeland's. We're....werewolves. Me and my brother's are the last direct descendant's of the full blood Were's. I can change anytime I wish, I have increased hearing, smell, taste, strength and speed even in human form. I'm the Alpha of my pack, that's why my mother has been riding me to take a wife. I've decided to leave my pack to my brother. I want to be here with you. You're my mate, I want our love to grow and I want us to be happy together, if you would want to be with me that is.”