I ran over to the glass door and when I didn’t see a little dish or anywhere else to put my bleeding hand to, I just did the last thing I could think of. I slapped it hard to the glass and waited for something to happen. I waited with baited breath and finally just before all my hope was lost, I saw my blood being drawn into the symbols and as it sank further in the cell the glass formed a clear door, void of its capturing magic.
I pushed and walked inside quickly, too scared that Draven would be bursting through that door any minute.
“Hey big guy, it’s me…its Keira.” I said moving slightly closer.
“Oh come on, you remember me, big pain in the ass that keeps you on your toes.” I said trying to keep my distance in case he snapped awake and fancied a snack but when I got nothing, I decided I was not going to pass up on his last chance and mine.
“Ok look, we are pressed for time here so listen up big man, you are my guardian, I offered you hot chocolate that was far too hot, I fell going up the stairs being too loaded down with shopping bags and you healed my bleeding knee, you saved me from the wall of hands, when I was about to get my face bitten off…come on, you know me!” I said but still nothing, so I did the last thing I could think of, which just so happened to be the most stupid!
I took that last step out of the safe zone and raised my hand up as far as I could to touch his horned face.
“Ragnar, come back.” I said softly, as a tear escaped. Then like a thunder bolt hitting me from a clear sky, his hand yanked the chain from the floor, giving him just enough room to encircle his hand around my throat and lift me up to his face. The hold wasn’t choking but it was still scary as hell and made me scratch at his hand to let go.
“KEIRA!” Draven’s panicked voice screamed behind me but I raised my hand up to stop him.
“Draven ssshh, it’s fine, he isn’t hurting me.” I said as I knew it was like showing fear in front of a feral animal.
“FUCK KEIRA!” Draven bellowed and he must have made his move because Ragnar roared at him.
“LET HER GO!” Draven roared back making Ragnar’s chains shake.
“DRAVEN STOP…just stop for a second.” I said trying to calm it down.
“Ragnar, you know me, but you’re lost, you need to come back and protect me, I am in danger if you don’t and you would have failed in protecting me…you don’t want that do you?” I said making the beast’s side of him whine like being wounded. His other chain snapped making me flinch and his other hand came to hold me more gently around the waist.
“That’s it, that’s better now isn’t it…I feel safer but Ragnar I need you to lose the horns and scary shit so that I know it’s really you…can you do that?” I said softly making his face come towards me and give me a sniff with an unseen nose.
“KEIRA, PLEASE…Oh, by the Gods, don’t do this, don’t take her from me!” Draven was losing it behind me and I said the only thing I could in hopes for him to calm. It was like trying to tame two beasts not one!
“Ok, last try big guy, let’s see if you have heard this one…Why couldn't the skeleton go to the Christmas party?” I said make sure he got where I was going with this and that the memory of that car journey helped in bringing him back.
“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me Keira!” Draven said harshly and I just knew that if Ragnar didn’t kill me then after this stunt Draven would!
“Quiet! You will ruin my joke! Come on you big oaf, any guesses….no, Well of course the answer is because he had no body to go with.” I said and I waited for it to sink in and couldn’t believe it when my body started to shake as a result of the laughter coming from the beast holding me. It took a few minutes of constant rumbling but little by little his size decreased and then the horns retracted from his face. I concentrated in my mind on blocking out the Demon within him and soon I was faced with a very confused looking Viking holding me round the waist.
“Keira?” He said in his usual deep baritone voice and I cried out his name before throwing my arms as far round as I could get them.
“Oh Ragnar! I am so happy you’re back!” I said crying into his chest.
“My Lord...is she unwell?” He spoke over my head and I laughed, combined with a little hiccup. I felt Draven come up behind me and gently extract me from him.
“She is more than well now you are back, my old friend.” He said softly, placing his hand on his shoulder.
“I fear I am too confused to understand where I am or why…did something happen?” He asked and Draven quickly regained his authority, turned to me and with cold and very pissed off eyes that frightened me, he spoke,
“Leave us!” He snapped making me flinch. In my own anger at being treated like this for saving a life, I childishly let out a frustrated “Arrrh!” I flung my arms up in the air and stormed out of the open door slamming it shut behind me with a force I didn’t know I had. The frame work actually cracked!
“You used me?” Pip’s little voice said and upon hearing it my anger evaporated.
“Oh Pip, I am so sorry, I had no other choice…I…” I said feeling terrible involving her but knowing I had no choice. Draven wouldn’t have let me go to the toilets on my own and Pip was the only one I knew wouldn’t have asked lots of questions.
“Save it, Toots!” She snapped out and then turned on her heel and stormed off leaving me feeling like the biggest shit in this supernatural world.
“You just can’t help pissing people off can you?” Draven’s voice was like ice and I shivered before turning round to look at him. Oh yeah, he was furious alright!
“I guess not, no, but you know what, I don’t regret one single second of it, whether I pissed off Pip or not, I just don’t care because I saved a friend’s life and if you think that makes me a bad person then I guess I ain’t the girl you thought I was!” I said and then I turned on my heel and stormed off following in Pip’s footsteps. I heard a mighty growl behind me and then I was roughly grabbed and spun around to face one furious Draven.
“Let me go!” I screamed trying to get free of his unyielding hold.
“NEVER!” He bellowed in my face, making me pull back.
“You act like a selfish, spoilt, insolent child! How dare you do that to me!” Oh shit, now this was mad and in my crazy mind I decided screaming back at him was going to help.
“How dare I?! How dare I what exactly?! Save someone’s life! You are one crazy asshole…do you know that! You call me selfish, like saving someone’s life by putting my own on the line warrants the word!”
“Ah finally she gets it! Yes, you are indeed selfish! Tell me Keira, did you not stop for one single second in time to think? To use that beautiful head of yours to fully understand what you were doing!?” I tried to move but he decided to put a full stop on that idea and grabbed my wrists in a brutal hold. He held them high above my head and leaned down getting right into my face.
“So you’re mad, I get that.” I said losing some of my steam.
“Oh I am not mad, Keira…” He came inches from touching me and his eyes burned into me as he said,
“I am seething!”
“Well get over it!” I shouted back, feeling my rage boiling back up.
“Get over it? You want me to get over the fact that you keep coming so close to death you practically beg for it! Is that it, is that the only way you think to leave me because I will tell you this now Keira, if anything happens to you, then they will have me at the gates of Heaven with a GOD DAMN army from Hell at my back! I will drag you back to this earth’s plane and lock you away if needs be, but you will remember one thing, you are MINE! In this life or the next, you always will be!” Jesus he was really losing the plot!
“Have you finished?” I asked feeling myself shaking after his threats of the ultimate possession.
“Oh sweetheart, I am not even fully started!” He warned and that was when my limit snapped. I took a deep breath and raised my knee with all my might, hitting him in a place that no matter how Godly you are
that will hurt any man. His hands released me and he staggered back a bit in utter shock but I was impressed to see his hands didn’t automatically go to the royal baby makers!
“Now it’s my turn. I chose you Draven, not because you’re some bloody rich ass king that is used to pulling rank and getting his orders obeyed! I am NOT a subject or the crown jewels and this is the life I choose to live, not because you tell me to or not! MY LIFE IS MY OWN! And if I choose to use it for good and in what I believe in, then it is because I was made this way. So this is the moment Draven, you rather live with it or live without it, because I am telling you now, if a little girl was ever crossing the road and some idiot that drives too fast was going to hit her, then I would, without one single doubt in my selfish brain, do everything in my power to save her life, even if it meant taking my own!” I was shaking and also lit up like an electrical current was being passed through me.
Draven looked stunned and his eyes scanned my body resting on my fists that were curled tight. But this wasn’t what made them even the tiniest bit threatening to Draven, no but what did, was the flickering blue flames that were flowing round them like liquid fire.
“Oh shit!” I said and then looked back to Draven in panic.
“Do something!” I said as I started to wave them around like trying to put out real flames. I couldn’t believe how it didn’t hurt, hell it wasn’t even hot…it was a mad sensation looking at something every single memory of seeing flames screamed a warning of burning heat but to actually feel the cold was the biggest mind trip!
Then in an unbelievable act from Draven, he took one large step towards me and grabbed my face to pull me for a devastating kiss. This kiss was one made of pure and raw carnage, one meant to deliver a message and one of utter ownership, and by the end of the this kiss, I realised it wasn’t just him stamping his mark but it was me also.
I felt the negative energy seep out of me and be replaced by one of dark desire. Soon we were like two uncontrollable forces fighting for dominance, duelling for a fight long forgotten but leaving a slipstream of fresh abandoned power behind us. I felt our tense, tight bodies clash together as our hard lust tried to get to grips with the new situation. I felt like I turned into some wild beast trying to claw my way to his body…I needed skin, I needed to feel his body on mine, with no barriers allowed between us.
“Draven I need…” I said over his lips with my hands knotted tightly in his hair, keeping my drug so close.
“Keira, so help me my girl if you pull another stunt like that then…”
“Oh shut up and just don’t stop kissing me!” I said tightening my grip, making him growl before giving me what I wanted.
“Oh God, Draven please…please give me what I want…what I need.” I begged and he growled again.
“Keira, I will but you have to promise me things.” He said pulling my hands from his hair and letting my body slide down from the height he had pinned me at.
“Anything…Draven please…don’t torture me.” I was shamelessly begging now having upped it a notch. And when I saw Draven’s grin he knew exactly what his new leverage was in playing this game, its name…desperation…my desperation!
“You want me to take you don’t you? Tell me, speak the words to me!” He commanded and then both his hands ran from my neck, palms flat down to cup my breasts and a sharp inhale told him of my combustible desire.
“Yes…yes…please, I want you…Draven please take me.” I said in utter unrestrained hunger. I felt his smile at my neck and damn him but he knew the scales had flipped, putting him back in the powerful driving seat!
“And I will Keira…oh I really will but first you must comply with what I tell you…can you do that?” He said seductively and when I didn’t answer, one hand slipped down to cup my sex.
“Oh God! Yes, yes I can…pleeease.” I said hearing my own mind beg as well as the words that it produced to ensure Draven fulfilled his promise.
“There’s my good girl back. You’re doing good Keira, now first tell me…to whom do you belong?” He asked in my ear and just as I was about to defy him and tell him I don’t want to play this cruel game, his hand bunched up handful after handful of my skirt until soon he was at my naked core. He touched me once and I shouted,
“YOURS…I AM YOURS!” He actually chuckled, the bastard.
“Yes… YES YOU ARE!” He added on a shout himself and then his fingers stroked through the most sensitive part of my nerves and it felt like he communicated with a deeper part of me.
“Draven.” I said his name like I was searching for a lighthouse in the storm, one he himself was creating.
“I know, love and you are doing well…we are nearly there.” One more stroke and I moaned at his control…his beautiful and completely irrational control.
“So if you are mine, which we have clearly established you are…then of course this body is also mine…nod your head if you can’t speak Keira.” He ordered and I complied before receiving another stroke.
“Ohhh…ahh” I moaned but I was so close now, I just needed a little more pressure…just a little bit more, one more stroke…just one.
“Pleeease Draven, give me more…I need…”
“I know what you need Keira, I will always know…so just one more question and this time sweetheart, the last right answer you give me, will get you your reward…and Keira…” He bent his knees slightly to get to my ear before whispering my salvation,
“I will make it a good one!” I almost came apart at those words alone and I think I would have done if not for this crazy man’s control over me. My moan was my only telling noise to say I understood.
“Good, you please me greatly. Now for my last question Keira, are you ready?” He cruelly held his palm flat against me and the heat he was passing through my entire sex was ready to burst into blissful deliverance.
“Say the words my love, let me hear you, loud and clear now.”
“I AM READY!” I shouted in anger, frustration and a fierce need that was consuming me.
“You are mine, your body is mine, your soul is mine and your life is…?”
“YOURS!” I shouted and then Draven said over my face,
“You’re GOD DAMN RIGHT IT IS! And if you ever, ever put it in danger again the punishment will be far worse than this unbearable need I control! I will tie you to my bed and do this to you for hours, for days and I will only let you find release when I say so, do you understand me!?” He shouted out losing his cool for the last time.
“YES!” I screamed at him making him give me an evil grin.
“I see you finally understand the way of things. This is how it is Keira and how it will only ever be. You have done well and I am proud of you.” His hand moved slowly and I moaned out as the excruciating build up it created.
“Now open your eyes Keira and COME for me!” He said placing his forehead to mine and his wish became my command! His fingers flexed and applied that delicious pressure I needed to take me hurtling over the edge in to an abyss of mind consuming ecstasy.
“AHHHH…AHH…Ahhhh….hhhh” I screamed as I convulsed under his hand that was still mercilessly taking me higher and higher until I came for the second time. This time he swallowed my screams of rapture with his lips locked to mine and the beautiful wave of euphoria washed over my body, leaving a jellified version of myself in the arms of the one man I loved.
“And I belong to you in the very same way, Keira.” He said as he picked my limp body up in his arms and carried me off leaving the plain stone doorway a very memorable place indeed.
“Where are we going?” I asked, really hoping he didn’t expect me to be able to dance.
“To a place where I can take what I have wanted to do since finally getting you back to me.” His hoarse hard voice told me he was holding on by a single thread of tension wire, one easily broken by this God of a man.
“And that is?” I asked already knowing the answer but needing to hear it with the same amount of tension built.
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“A virginity that was always going to be mine to take.”
Chapter 57
Virginal Desires
Draven hardly spoke as he transported us both through first the tunnels of the Temple and then to the roof of his vast home. He was a man on a mission, that much was clear and as for me, I couldn’t wait for him to get there and fulfill it. I even groaned out loud every time we passed a couch, table and then cruelly a bed, just needing any surface for him to throw me down on and take what was clearly always his for the taking.
I had to smile when I found us eventually on the roof top where this all started, our first terrifying kiss that would then set the scene for our heated relationship. See, I had come to the conclusion that no matter how much we argued, no matter how we took the strange world we both had thrust on each other, we still had the one thing that would always keep us tighter together than if we had been fused…
Love.
An, undeniable, unbreakable, untouchable love that was set so deep within our minds, within our bodies that we could never dig it out, even if we wanted to. The realisation that this went so far beyond the normal wasn’t surprising really, given which two forces had put us together, but the fear of it ever been ripped away was one so terrifying, I clung onto him tighter as the tears formed at the thought. I didn’t let Draven know but as he held me tighter to him I knew he had heard.
“Don’t be frightened, Keira.” He said and that was the only warning I received before he erupted into his demon form and his wings ruffled once, outstretched back as if getting ready and then we took off to the winter sky to Draven’s secret place.
“How am I not cold?” I asked feeling like I was sat by a fire all cosy, snug and warm.
“Did you really think I would ever let you get cold?” He said looking down at me.
“Don’t look away, eyes front!” I said urgently making him finally laugh since our argument.
“Keira, there is nothing up here, what do you expect I am going to hit?” He mocked.
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