Of course, I couldn’t care what he said now it all just managed to turn me on more. He brought his captured hand to his soft lips while kissing my fingers, which were fiercely gripping him, making me throb with so much need for him. I attempted to ease and lower my grip down his forearm. I needed to be good, I thought, maybe then he would give me relief. His eyes flashed as he probably guessed his effect on me. He brought himself up on his elbow and opened his mouth around his wrist.
The blood, my new found treasure… dripped down his arm.
“Say it!” He growled. “Say you will always be mine.”
I wanted to tear his arm away as he bit and stared at me. I was so impatient when his mouth drew away, and I saw the blood on his lips. I thought about kissing him then.
“You and I,” I whispered. Instead of kissing him, I harshly grabbed the front of his neck to keep him away from me and brought his wrist to my lips. Upon tasting him again, my eyes rolled back in my head as I lost control and forgot about everything but having him complacent underneath me while I ravaged him. It was such a rush hearing his grunts and feeling him underneath me.
I became lost to my surroundings, I only knew that I wanted him more than all else. So much desire for him, it was overtaking me. Nothing existed but our needs for one another. I didn’t know for how long I had been drinking him when I felt what he was about to do. “We’re going to try this again Emma and this time you’re going to be a good girl, you won’t scare so easily, right?” I tried to ignore him, but when I felt him pulling free of me I quickly answered, “Yes, yes I’ll do whatever you ask... whatever you want… just don’t stop… giving me your blood please.”
“For everything that’s sacred Emma you can’t say things like that to me.” Desperately now, his hands traveled up my inner thighs spreading me wider, readying me to take him. I threw my head back as I moaned. I could feel him throbbing against my black lace panties and the friction was delicious torture. My moans were growing in volume. I barely understood when he said, “Show me you recognize what I am to you, I want to hear you come for me Emma… over and over again.”
I silently cursed as I moaned yes because nothing he said made sense while making all the sense I needed. It didn’t matter anymore… I didn’t care I was not running him off. I was so far gone and he seemed so familiar, so necessary that every fiber of my body responded to him- to his breaths, his voice… his hard, hot body. It was driving me over the edge… as I felt myself building. I opened my mouth to scream my release when he suddenly stiffened, turning me over he covered me with his body while bringing his hand over my mouth.
He was breathing hard, and shaking himself trying to clear his head… almost unable to speak he looked me up and down when he said, “SHH… baby, calm down Emmaley,” and his words almost sounded like a prayer; almost as if I wouldn’t obey I would soon be witnessing the end.
“They are all coming, rushing towards their deaths thinking they can take you from me. I’ll obliterate them for taking this from us, all these centuries… tortured… wasted.”
He was livid and unsteady. His body barely held in all the fury that was visible as it once again took on an appearance of beast rather than man. I don’t think I ever really saw the man tonight, so I turned my head feeling ashamed, scared, and vulnerable all at once. I realized he was grasping for control when he ran his blood covered wrist on his pants and then his shaky hand through his hair.
I was back to staring at him feeling a mixture of dread, panic, and most of all unfulfilled lust.
I was watching the blood on his pants as he tried but barely managed to reign in his emotions and regain control. He was still hard when he abruptly said, “…Promise me you’ll stay here. You’ll wait for me… here.”
I shook my head no… he couldn’t leave now because I wanted his blood... him… I didn’t care about anything else. He forcibly grabbed my arms as he pushed himself back on his heels and kneeled between my parted thighs bringing me forth. He brought me up to a sitting position while I quickly tried to shut my legs closed.
He looked me over hungrily, but otherwise did nothing else but say, “You’ve had enough blood; maybe even too much, but you need to stay here. No matter what you hear Emma, or I swear I’ll kill every… one… of them. Do you understand?”
Terrified from his words, I just nodded my head and said, “Please, don’t hurt them, I’ll stay.”
He looked unbelieving at first. Then looking deep into my eyes, he spoke in a language I didn’t understand. While he spoke, it echoed around me. He lifted his hand and reached for my neck. I drew back, but felt solid metal connect over my skin and wrap itself around me like a collar.
He continued to stare at the plate and said, “They are tracking you somehow. I was caught up in finding you myself… you’re fast and you traveled farther than I thought possible, so when I found you I wasn’t thinking of checking how they could track you. All I thought about was you beneath me, and I inside you.”
He kissed the corner of my lips so gently before he continued to warn me.
“There was a moment when I panicked because I thought you escaped me. Don’t try to escape me again because if you do I promise you… you won’t like the consequences. I won’t be as understanding with you Emmaley, remember… I won’t let you forsake your promise to me. Hell with the gods, and their selfish reasons.”
You were understanding before? My mind questioned.
“Don’t lie to me and don’t pretend to make promises you won’t keep.” He turned his head, cocked it to one side, and listened. I listened too and heard the team’s movements, as well, when I realized I could hear them from what seemed to be quite a distance away.
“I have to go, but stay here, or you won’t leave me any choice,” he raised his hand to my choker and said, “Emma, I will not hesitate to kill anyone who tries to take you away from me!”
“I understand,” I assured him. What was I supposed to say he looked terrifyingly murderous at the moment?
“They landed a helicopter a few miles down,” he explained, “and are making their way towards us. I’ll create a barrier that will keep them from us, and I want you here when I return, or you already know what I’m capable of.”
He removed his hand from my collar, lowered his head, and appeared to be inspecting it when he bit down at the juncture of my collar bone and neck while my scream pierced the night. My scream sounded foreign to me somehow inhuman as it penetrated my ears. The birds above us scattered going wild while he greedily drank from me, and I realized he purposely allowed for me to be heard. I felt his greed, his possession of me and the knowledge, like a vision, of his desire to have every one of them know I was his.
No longer feeling pain, I moaned and grabbed his nape bringing him closer to me when I felt his own collar cold against my hand. I held on to it liking the feel of having my beast collared.
I smiled at the thought, maybe if I held him like this he wouldn’t leave me. He sucked and licked me until I fell back on the wet dirt and saw him reluctantly draw away from me, lick the blood from his lips, and look warily down at me.
A moment passed before he grabbed my dress, lowered it from my waist, and raised it above my bustier taking a step back- inspecting me with desire still burning in his eyes before he turned and was gone. I stayed staring at the swaying tree branches hanging above me, cocooning me as the gloomy night surrounded me, and a gentle breeze kissed my skin. My nipples hardened already missing his touch as my eyes closed. I need to know who he is.
I heard the frantic steps of the search team and opened my eyes thinking they must of heard my scream… they’re rushing, being loud, and clumsy. God they’re no match for him. As my eyes grew heavy, I tried to fight the need to close them, my hand twitched as I tried to move, but nothing else in me responded as I lost the struggle.
I thought to myself, I need to get up… I need to help Darius and his team. I need to show them I’m strong, I no longer need their protection; I can no
w take care of myself.
This was my last thought before the illusion of serenity enveloped me, and the wind blew its soothing farewell kiss upon my scorched skin.
Chapter 14: Fear me, Need me, but Don’t Ever Leave Me
Slowly becoming aware, I awakened to screams all around me. My lids feel too heavy to open, and my head is swaying as I limply bounce over someone’s shoulder. I feel everything changing around me so quickly. The sounds I hear change too quickly. Even with my heightened hearing the screams sound so far away. I moan in pain and need.
Instinctively, I know it is Darius who carries me. With this knowledge, I realize this is the reason everything is moving so fast. This can’t be good, it can’t be good… drop me now… please. Everyone will die! You can’t die… noooo.
My arms sway, so I try to hit him and get his attention… tried so hard, but nothing. Nothing!
I know you can hear me, Darius, please… everyone will die! Put me down!
I need to get him to hate me, to drop me, and not want anything to do with me because when the beast found me, and he would, I have to be alone. Maybe we can end each other, the beast and I.
Darius… God what you must think of me... please hate me it’s what I deserve, best that you leave and never look back. What have I done!
My heart feels like it has been through a shredder. In fact, in my heart I feel defeated because I know the condition he found me in would cause us both so much heartache. He would never forgive me for it.
Kimmy you were right, Darius always found me.
He was running because my body kept jerking with his pace. I knew him to be extremely fast. We must have covered so much ground when the screams sounded so distant, even with my heightened hearing. I am amazed he was able to get us away from the beast.
I try to tell him to stop and set me on the ground while he has the chance, but my lips won’t move. I am still fighting an inward battle with myself trying to make some type of movement. He has to understand he must set me free, or they will all die. It sounds like hell on earth, and I knew if I opened my eyes it would look like a page from the book of Revelation’s.
Struggling for some response from my motionless body, I realize so many of the things he tried to tell me made so much sense now. Would I have believed this was what he was protecting me against? Did he know it was useless because as soon as I regained control over myself he would have to fight me too? I craved the beast as I worried about those facing him, but the hardest, most important truth I would have to face was I still loved Darius, and it hurt like hell knowing he would never forgive me for this.
The beast would be my punishment.
I needed to stop thinking, or my heart would burst.
Wanting to block all thoughts from entering my mind, I concentrate on the noises around me to gather where we are, or where we’re headed while I try to ignore the screams, but soon I can’t keep one name from entering my mind, Kimmy. Please don’t be one of them- out there, please be safe. I think of her and more pain overwhelms me.
Soon, I hear the waterfalls he took me to months before. I understand his plan is to trap us in the caves while the whole world falls apart around us. I can’t let him. For everyone out there fighting for me, but most of all- I need the beast as much as he needs me. My lover won’t stop until he has me again.
Suddenly, there’s a loud blast and we’re thrown. Darius loses his grip on me, and I hit the ground so hard that I feel my skull and teeth rattle. I try to call out to him, but I’m too weak. I don’t know if I’m still in one piece, or if the blood I smell is me bleeding all over the sodden ground. Am I lying in my own blood? I wonder feeling like destiny, the bitch, always wins in the end. I fear I may not live for very long because my breaths are very shallow… limited, and I can’t hear anything. I try to call out to him; it rings out in my mind Darius… Darius.
Chapter 15: Will you Wait for me Outside the Gates of Heaven?
I awaken to pain. I feel so much pain, it consumes me. I can’t run away from it. The truth is I think it’s become my long lost friend- it’s all I can think about. I don’t even grasp where I am until my reflexes kick in, and I gasp for air. I feel myself being submerged in water. A few moments pass before I painfully feel the burn- like there is no air left in my lungs.
My eyes burst open. I see what looks like a great expanse of rock wall- the cave.
My back is cradled against his chest. I grab at the hand that holds me and struggle against Darius. He releases me, so I make my way up to the surface for air. He’s brought me here again, but I’m afraid this time I’m not getting out.
I take a great gulp of air when I break the surface and look frantically around at my surroundings. I feel panicked seeing no way out of this cave. I feel him touch my skin- grabbing me by my waist and drawing me to him just before I see him. He comes up, but doesn’t gasp for air like I did. I’m breathless all over again because I can’t believe there was a moment I permitted another’s touch. My arms and legs wrap around him as we’re both bobbing in the water staring at one another- silent just watching each other.
I never thought I would see this emotion… hate, and this time there’s no doubt in my mind it’s directed at me, his eyes tell me he both hates and blames me. I don’t try to apologize, after all, I wanted him to feel those emotions towards me, but what I don’t understand is how, or why he’s still here. How we are here together.
He clears his eyes, appearing emotionless… blank- still holding me, swimming for the both of us as I hold on to him. It is completely pitch black, but I see him. We’re in a part of the cave I’ve never seen before. I try to use all the senses I own, even the ones I may not know of. I know… I’ve always known we are more than what we appear to be. Before, I just did something I’ve become very good at- hide the truth. And I don’t ask, how we made it this far after feeling myself being blown to bits… how it is that my body is working feeling less and less pain.
“Why have you brought me here? I will leave again.” I tell him.
His fingers dig into my skin, “You don’t get to ask questions, or demands- you think I don’t know what you are doing?”
“What am I doing Darius?”
“Do not fucking say my name with those deceitful lips, and stop playing your fucking games with me- have you played me all along, Princess, or is it Queen now?”
He wasn’t going to distract me with jabs, “Here’s a question, if you hate me so much why didn’t you leave me out there to die?”
“Because if there is any killing, it will be directly by me, but not before I satisfy us both. Tell me who are you wet for now? He can’t influence you in here. It’s my body rubbing up against yours now. Is it me you want, or have you become so good at lying you don’t even recognize the truth when it’s right smack in front of you?” He harasses me with his words, his hands, and a dark expression on his face- frightening me, his hands tighten on me.
“Let me go, I’ll find my own way out of here.” I tried to get away undoing my legs and arms while trying to push away from him.
His fingers quickly wrap around my fragile neck while his arm holds my waist painfully against him- tightly... squeezing. I sigh from the pain. He brings my face forward as he whispers in my ear, “You said you dealt with Eros- to leave it alone… why did you lie to me? Were you playing me all this time, aiding him so that he may find you? Take you from me?”
I started hyperventilating… but suddenly the air becomes too thin, and I can’t take enough of it into my lungs.
I am suddenly blind to everything. I manage to use my elbows striking him on his neck while bringing my legs up. I kick off his chest diving backwards into the water and start swimming away from him.
A few moments after, I feel my ankle being grabbed, jerked back hard while my arms try to grasp something, other than water, current, and bubbles- anything… please, I think as I open my mouth on a scream underwater. As the precious air leaves in bubbles surrounding my face, I think- how
stupid could I be?
He is pulling me to him, his hands wrapping around my waist as he turns me towards him. I struggle for air as I push him- more out of survival than wanting to get away this time, but he holds me down in the darkness of the water as my body convulses for air.
I shake my head no… he’s finishing me… really is killing me when suddenly he enters my weakened mind.
I hear him in my head, Show me what you never showed me before, what you kept hidden from the both of us. He demands.
Let me see the two of you together, Eva. I want to see how you betrayed us! How you gave him everything when you give me nothing.
I shake my head no one last time, releasing the last bit of air, and losing all grasp of myself.
This is when I saw what I had worked so hard to suppress. The agony I tried so hard to protect him against.
Chapter 16: Who’s Your Master
I was held up against a jagged stone wall somewhere in his castle. Held captive in a dark, vast, and empty room; close to his bedroom where I had been dragged from, and not in a dungeon where I expected to be kept. I’d convinced myself it had gone on for only a couple of hours, tricked my mind, when the reality was so much worse.
There are iron cuffs at my wrists connected to six feet of chain that thread through a rotating ring hooked on a metal bar high over my head on the wall. My voice was hoarse, and my throat was raw because every time I regained consciousness I started screaming, cursing him… cursing myself.
I made promises too. I promised I’d give him a slow and painful death, that I would make him beg me for the mercy he had denied me. I even lied and promised to love him.
I would say anything to be released from this nightmare. The worst of it was there would be no one saving me. I was my only hope.
I was soaking wet, wearing a black lace nightgown. The gown was designed with a low cut v at the front and the back. It also had high front slits on each of my legs which he had made very good use of. I missed the dress I wore when I last saw Darius- it covered more of me. This left very little to the imagination. I was so cold, so cold… I felt it deep in my bones.
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