Now the evil was nipping at our heels once again. The last time I hadn’t been here to protect what’s mine. Others had dictated to me then, because of my youth.
Now I know what I am facing, understood the danger to her, because she was my choice. But what they didn’t understand, even the ones who kept the legend, was that there hadn’t been a choice.
She’d belonged to me and me to her since before her birth, almost from the moment she was formed in her mother’s womb, she had called out to me, and I had answered. They may doubt, but I knew the truth. There was no one else for me.
I’ve shielded her from afar all these years, keeping her hidden until I was stronger and she was almost ready. Had I come to her any time within the last fifteen years I would’ve been putting her in danger.
Though it had been hard to not be there, especially on those nights when the young Jasmine cried herself to sleep, or when her sorrow pierced me like an arrow through the heart.
Instead I’d comforted her in her dreams. There she was safe, and as long as I kept my shields up, they couldn’t find her.
But now they knew where she was, which was to be expected. I knew it was a risk, but I couldn’t wait any longer. I wanted her to get to know me in the weeks before I took her to my bed.
I didn’t want to just show up in her life and fuck her until I bred her on our first date. It might’ve been the safest way to do things, but I couldn’t do that to my Jasmine.
A part of me had been hoping that she would recognize me before the joining. It was a given that the moment I breeched her body with mine, her eyes will be opened.
But I had selfishly wanted her to remember those early days together, our beginning, before things went dark for us.
I wanted at least one moment, when we could bridge that gap that had been opened up between us; from the day she was taken from me, until now.
Her voice brought me back to the here and now. “That night, the night I was taken, what happened do you know?”
She cried when we spoke of that terrible night, so I did not dwell on it for too long.
She had once escaped from it for fifteen years. I didn’t want her going away in her head again, not even to protect herself from this.
“Would you like me to erase the memory for you?”
“You can do that?” She gave me a look of wonder tinged with fear.
“I can, but you have no need to fear me, I will never do that to you, unless of course I deem it absolutely necessary.”
“You deem it? What if I don’t agree?”
“It doesn’t work that way; as I’ve just explained to you. The man is very much in charge in this relationship so you’d have to put your feminist views aside. It will be up to me to decide what’s best, though I can promise to always be fair.”
I saw some of her old spark at that bold statement, but a quick kiss to her lips soon calmed her down.
Since you have your memory back, all you need do is remember our days together, and you will see who really has the upper hand here.” I smiled to ease the tension that was now so heavy in the room.
We’d been alone in bed for a very long time now, and with the worst of it behind us, our bodies were reminding us of who we are.
She was getting restless, her body’s heat burning like the warmth of the sun. I eased her off of my chest as I remembered where we were, in her dreams.
“My dad...” Her voice was worried and fearful.
“I’ll talk to him, but first we must take care of you. Are you sure you’re okay, you understand everything that I’ve told you?”
“Of course I don’t understand everything you’ve told me, it’s going to take some time to let it all sink in. So, are you saying that I’m a witch after all?”
“No lyubov what I’m saying is that you have certain abilities that your peers do not.
But you were born with them, they’re not something you conjured in a dark room over a boiling cauldron. I don’t want you sticking any labels on yourself.
It’s going to take time for you to get the hang of it, but I’ll be here to guide you every step of the way.”
“But what does it all mean really, am I going to change, be a different person? Will we always be together...?”
I traced her lips with my fingertips and her words fell away as she looked at me with fever bright eyes.
When my thumb traced her plump bottom lip and dipped inside, her back arched off the bed and she bit my fingertip.
So sensual and yet untried, I wondered what she would be like once I’d taught her the pleasures of the flesh. Her natural instinct was already pretty potent and my head was full of visions of me covering her.
“Do it.” she lifted her body up to mine, her arms going around my neck.
“You saw that?” She nodded her head and placed her lips over mine.
She was already seeing inside me, it’s only a matter of time now; the next few days were going to be rough, as her body goes through the changes.
It’s not like we become immortal or subhuman, or any such thing. All that will happen, other than the psychic powers, is the temperature in our bodies will be elevated.
Our hearts will always yearn for one another and the moment I take her, neither of us will ever be able to be intimate with anyone else.
One of the reasons I’d had to leave her so often in the last few weeks was because I’ve had to tie up some loose ends for my government.
And though I haven’t touched another woman since bringing her home, there was always the chance that it might be asked of me, and there was no way I would betray her.
Now with my last job for my government behind me, there was nothing holding me back. Though I had no intention on taking her like this, on a night when there was so much sorrow in her heart.
But I could help ease the ache that was going to be a part of her life until I complete our bond.
“Not here, if you want me to touch you, you must awaken in my bed.” I started to slip out of her dream, as she followed me with her eyes.
Chapter 20
Back in my room it was now totally dark outside. We’d been talking for hours, though it seemed like mere minutes had passed.
I stood at the side of the bed, looking down at her, waiting for her to obey me and open her eyes.
They finally flew open on mine, clear and bright, and full of lust. Shit, she’s in heat; this was going to be trouble. “Angel.”
“Stand and let me disrobe you love.” She climbed from the bed and almost tore the clothes from her body before I held her hands still.
“No, let me.” With our eyes holding each other’s, I unbuttoned the shirt she wore, slowly opening each button, dragging out the moment that I will see her body again.
My cock, which had been in some state of tumescence for the past few hours because of her nearness, was now fully erect and aching.
I ignored it as I worked on her clothes. Kissing her skin as it was revealed bit by bit, only made me burn hotter.
When she was fully bare, I ran my hands over her from her breasts, which stood firm and proud, down to the patch of hair between her slender thighs.
She was dripping wet, and her scent when it reached me, was almost too much for me to withstand.
It took all my control not to take her right then and there. And her antics weren’t helping any, the way she moved her body like a candle flame in the wind. I doubt she was even aware that she was doing this.
I laid her back across the bed. “Now you, take your clothes off.” She spread her legs against the sheets and her pink jewel beckoned.
I dared not, but when she reached her arms out to me with such hunger I thought it okay to shed at least my shirt. No harm in that.
I pulled my shirt off over my head. In that moment I sensed the other presence approaching the house and threw up blocks to prevent her coming any closer.
Jasmine seemed to feel it too because her eyes flew to the windows before she turned venomous eye
s my way.
I was braced and ready when she flew at me, arms flailing, eyes burning with fire. I took the blows to my chest as I tried to hug her close to stop her turmoil.
“I never touched her Jasmine, I promise you.” Though the fires of jealousy doesn’t burn as bright in her as they do in me according to our way, it still burned deep, and I could well imagine what she was going through.
Each time I’d seen one of those clowns at the school sniffing around her I’d wanted to kill them with my bare hands.
“But there were others, you said so, for your country.” Now the pummeling intensified and she hit at me as her breath hitched and she started to cry.
“Jasmine, I never betrayed you. I know you’re too innocent to understand, but trust me I never once gave any of them what was meant for only you.” I kept my voice low and even, trying to calm her.
“Always I held that part of me back for you. I did the job, as harsh at it may sound. Sometimes I had to fuck them to get what I needed out of them, it was no more than that for me. I can’t tell you what any of them looked like physically, or remember their scent.”
She struggled against me and I felt like a bastard. I had never given much thought to the things I’d been called upon to do.
I saw it only as a means to an end, part of the deal I struck I guess you can say. None of it had meant anything to me, nothing did except finding my way back to her.
“Each time I’ve visited you in your dreams I took a part of you away with me always. I would remember your scent for days. I carry a picture of you in my head everywhere I go. So you see, there is no reason for you to feel this way.”
The words didn’t do much good, which was no real surprise. I wouldn’t have been as understanding if the shoe had been on the other foot either. So I guess I’m going to have to give her time to get use to the idea.
She had finally tired herself out and was winding down. I felt the barely restrained strength in her as I held her against me, synchronizing our breathing to bring hers back to normal.
I doubt that she realized that she was no longer the same. That in the last few hours alone she had grown in strength, both physically and mentally.
I’m afraid my innocent girl was no more. Now I held in my arms the beginnings of what she was meant to be; I can’t wait to explore.
“Is that where you went, those days that you missed school, were you with her?” Her voice was accusatory and just this side of pissed.
“No not with her, not the way you mean. I’ve just been trying to safeguard you. I knew that I was taking a risk coming to you now, before your eighteenth birthday.
Nothing about our union has gone as it should. Had our lives not been interrupted when they had been, we would’ve learned the truth of who you are by now no doubt.
Then there wouldn’t have been any conflict as to who was my true mate and all this would’ve been avoided.
I would’ve been allowed to date you in the way that is proper and you would’ve grown to know your husband before he was just foisted on you.
That’s why I brought you here now, before your birthday, to give us time to get to know each other, or better yet, to give you time; I’ve always known you.”
“Wait a minute, you brought me here?”
“Yes, I compelled you in a dream, then I set things in motion for you to follow. Sorry, but there was no other way.” I kissed her hair and caressed her cheek to soften the blow of what I’d done.
When looked at in this light, it seems rather calculating. But it was the only option available to me at the time.
I looked towards the darkened window where I knew that Mina hadn’t left, but was lurking somewhere nearby.
She must be desperate to risk coming this close. In the past few weeks her, or someone close to her, have been playing around the edges of town.
It was she in the dark cloud the other day, but she knew not to get too close.
Today she had gone out of bounds, which can only mean that she was unraveling, or was seeking to force my hand, which made no sense.
Jasmine brought me back to the present with her body pressed close to mine. Poor thing, her own body was betraying her. She wanted to be mad at me, but her body wanted to fuck.
For someone who had no experience, it could either be lots of fun, or very frustrating. I will try to even things up for her.
I started with a kiss. I had been dying to taste her again, now with no more barriers standing in our way I was free to kiss her to my heart’s content.
Her lips opened greedily beneath the force of mine, our tongues tangled together as we both tried to devour the other.
Even her kiss was different. Before I had kissed the lips of an innocent, now she kissed with the fiery passion that was going to be such a big part of her life from now on.
“Shh, you’ll hurt yourself.” I calmed her when her kisses grew too wild and she scraped her lips across my teeth.
The moans she made were full of pain and want. “Please Thorn, it aches.” She rubbed her thighs together and pleaded with me with her eyes.
“Okay love lay still and I will help you.” I put her back in bed and came down beside her.
My cock hurt as I fought to ignore it and its needs. Concentrating only on giving her relief.
My hands trembled slightly as I tried to go slow and not rush her. Her body was like a furnace as I licked the skin of her neck.
I bit into her flesh, leaving my mark and she hissed. I was fast coming to believe that this night was not going to end until I fucked her.
I kissed my way down to that place between her tits, teasing her until she writhed against the sheets. “I love your body, so perfect. Do you know why it’s so perfect lyubov moya?”
She shook her head as I trailed my fingers down her chest and back. Catching her eyes with mine.
I circled her nipple with one fingertip until her breathing sped up and her nipple stood erect, the pink bud reddening beneath my hand.
“Because it’s mine.” Lowering my head I took her sweet flesh into my mouth and sucked.
Her hands came up to hold me closer as I suckled her like a starving lamb. I traded one breast for the next as I ran my hand down between her thighs.
She opened like a flower to the sun and let my fingers caress her cunt lips slowly, gently. “This is where I’ll take you. Do you understand about sex love?” a question that should’ve been asked before now I think.
“I think so, they taught us in school.” She writhed against me, trying to get me to touch her harder, deeper. She had no interest in conversation, a quick peek into her mind showed that she had only one thing on her mind.
It’s as though the return of her memory unleashed her strengths. It was going to take some doing to train her in the way that she would need to be, which I’ve been long prepared for.
I knew she’d never even been kissed by anyone else before, I’d made sure of that. No one else was ever going to touch her in this life but me.
I couldn’t have borne it if they had, and so I’d planted certain thoughts in her head over time, that kept those things far removed from her mind.
It’s like I’d told her, what I’d done in the name of my country had been nothing more than a job. I’d never formed an attachment to any of my marks, never even came close.
Had she sought to bond with someone else it would’ve proved dangerous for her, and the boy would most likely be dead.
I concentrated on giving her pleasure now, while trying to hold part of myself back, so that I didn’t go too far.
Making my way down her body I licked and bit her hip, before spreading her legs open so that I could look at her flower.
“Beautiful.” I looked from her perfect cunt to her face and back. The trimmed mat of hair that covered her pussy was silk soft beneath my palm, as I combed through it with my fingers.
I fingered her, easing first one, then two fingers inside her, and working them around, until I felt her maidenhead.<
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She moved sensually beneath my caresses as I thumbed her clit, all sense of shyness gone.
When her essence flooded into my palm I lowered my head to taste her sweet pussy that was now teasing me with its scent.
One long lick with my tongue followed by my tongue boring into her and licking deep. She cried and moaned as I tongue fucked her into orgasm.
I was hoping this would be enough, but I was proven wrong. She cried out as her body heated up more and her fingers dug into my scalp.
When she begged me in that beautiful voice, now gone hoarse, to fuck her I thought I would go mad.
I ate at her flesh, bringing the relief she needed once more without taking her with my cock.
My training battled with my need as I fought not to climb up her body and drive into her.
Her pleas weren’t much help as it was against my nature as her mate to deny her anything.
I had to do something when she started to lose control, her lust overpowering her. I sought to overwhelm her; it was the only way to get out of moving too fast.
I used my tongue, teeth and fingers to bring her to the brink of madness, teasing her maidenhead with my tongue while pressing down on her clit with the thumb of one hand, and using the fingers of the other to tease her nether portal.
At the right moment I exerted enough pressure to do what I wanted. She screamed and flooded my mouth and fingers again, but that seemed only to have wet her appetite.
I felt the growl before I heard it and saw the look in her eyes when she glowered towards the window where the presence was still being held at bay.
I hate Mina and her family with a burning hatred that was rivaled in emotion, only by my love for Jasmine.
If I could’ve destroyed her long ago I would’ve, because as long as she drew breath, she was a threat to my Jasmine, until I took her.
I could either try to keep Jasmine safe for the next few weeks, or take her soon, within the next few days and end the threat once and for all.
She was in the right time, only weeks before her birthday, in fact she had been ready for the last couple of weeks, that’s the other reason why I had disappeared those first few days.
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