“My beautiful soul…at last.” Vincent whispered breaking into Draven’s outrage.
“Vince? What’s wrong?” Draven asked now replacing his anger with concern for his brother. Abruptly Vincent stood up and was at the door in seconds.
“Vincent, speak to me!” Draven said after making it to him in time to slam the door closed, not letting him leave before he gave him answers. I didn’t know Vincent very well but even I knew that this was not the man I had met earlier. All his muscles were tense and his black motorcycle t-shirt was tight to his body, as if he was ready to spring into action at any second. His face had become hard and his eyes were glowing with an unusual darkness. It was as though the Angel in him had been locked away for a short time and what he had seen in the vision had brought out the demon.
“I found her.” Vincent said determinedly and Draven jolted in astonishment.
“You’re sure she is the one…the one from your dreams?” He asked and Vincent nodded.
Then replied firmly with every emotion he had behind the next four words…
“She’s my Chosen One.”
Chapter 26
Raw Beauty
“I need time Dom…just give me time.” This was the last thing Vincent said before he left the room.
“Fuck!” Draven swore and banged his fist into the stone, making me jump. Then I don’t know what possessed me but I flew off the couch and stormed right up to him and snapped,
“Don’t do that! You could bloody well hurt yourself, you big Moose!” I took his hand in mine and brushed off the debris from his knuckles.
“Uh…did I just hear that right, did you just call me a…Moose?” I smirked and looked up at him saying,
“Maybe.” To which he burst out laughing. He then picked me up and kissed me as though this was what he needed most before dealing with the aftermath of what had just occurred.
“Are you alright?” He asked me, still holding me close with my feet dangling above the ground.
“Yeah. It was just intense.” I said giving him a half smile, trying to show him that I was okay. His brother on the other hand, I wasn’t so sure about. Draven’s head turned back to the door as if his thoughts ran parallel with mine.
“I think you need to tell me everything there is to know about Ari.” I nodded thinking this was a good idea. We sat back down and I told him everything I knew and loved about Ari, including the things that drove me nuts, as sisters often did. I also told him how we both seemed to start dreaming about them both around the same time and at this Draven raised an eyebrow.
“Not together! Geez, I would need therapy! Witnessing that one dream of her and Vincent together was enough, thank you very much.”
“I am sure it was. But I have to wonder if she shared any of your own dreams, when thinking of me.” I thought about it and blushed, which he took for another reason. It wasn’t so much the idea of what she would have seen but it was how did I tell him that it wasn’t really me I saw him with in my dreams…it was her.
“What aren’t you telling me?” He asked obviously picking up the regret on my face.
“I think there is something you should know.”
“From the look of things, I agree.” He said and I knew it was now or never.
“When I started to dream of you, it was never with us…” I motioned between us with my hand,
“…together.”
“What do you mean?”
“Okay, I am just going to say it and hope you don’t hate me.” At this he laughed and said,
“I could never hate you.” I didn’t know if I believed this or not but I was about to find out.
“The first time I saw you it wasn’t with me, it was with her.”
“I’m sorry but I’m not following…who did you see me with if it wasn’t with you?” I really wished there was an easier way to put this so I didn’t sound quite so crazy but considering the whole thing was crazy then what options did I have.
“My other self.”
“Excuse me?” Okay so now he looked completely baffled. This is the point it all came spewing out,
“Whenever I saw you, I would be watching through glass. Like a two-way mirror or something. I would be stuck there, like she was and neither of us could break through. I couldn’t hear anything and neither could she but she would seem desperate to get to me and at first I always thought it was to escape…uh…”
“Ah…I see. You thought she was trying to escape from me.” He said finishing off what I hated saying.
“Yes. But I didn’t know you then. And what I saw of you confused me.”
“How so?” He asked frowning.
“It scared me but it also excited me in a way I have never known. You have to remember I was different then. I hadn’t experienced...umm, well, you know…what we experienced in the bathroom.” At this he chuckled and said,
“Katie, that wasn’t our first time.” I knew what he was saying and it hurt that I didn’t remember our actual first time together.
“Yes but to me it was. So before that I didn’t know what it could be like…what it was like being with you. I didn’t know at the time if you were using mind control on her…”
“Mind control?” I ignored his question and carried on,
“I didn’t know she was there by freewill and not because you weren’t her Demon captor…”
“Demon captor...? By the Gods, woman!” Again I didn’t give him chance to say more,
“And I didn’t know that when you made love to her and then bit into her neck you weren’t just keeping her there to feed from.”
“Ah, I think I am beginning to understand where this is going.” He said, so I continued,
“So naturally because of this, I assumed she was trying to get me to help save her but now I know what she really wanted…”
“She wanted to be free of you.” He finished sympathetically and I lowered my head in shame.
“I was her captor and I didn’t even know it. It must have been the only way for my subconscious to communicate with me, playing it out in my head like one of us was locked in a prison. I just stupidly always assumed it was her that was the prisoner but all this time, it was me.”
“Hey, come on now, you are not to be blamed in any of this. Listen…listen to me.” Draven repeated himself, raising my chin up so I had no choice but to look at him.
“Someone took you from me. They hid you away and so that I could no longer feel you in my world, they played with your mind. They took away your memories and made you believe you were someone else so they could control you.” I had no choice but to believe in him, but it was still so difficult and for one very important reason.
“But…” I tried to explain but he continued,
“I don’t know why yet but I promise you this, they will pay for the time they stole from us, and after they do, I will do everything in my power to get those memories back, if it’s the last thing I do.”
“But you don’t understand.” I said getting up from the seat as my emotions were bubbling too close to the surface.
“I understand enough Katie, to know that those who wronged us must suffer.” He said firmly.
“No and I get that, I really do but what I mean is you don’t understand what you’re asking of me…”
“What I am asking of you?” Once again he didn’t see it and I can’t say that I really blamed him, not considering he knew who I was and wanted that lost part of me back...no, I couldn’t blame him for that.
“What you’re asking me to give up!” I said throwing my arms up and this was when it finally clicked.
“You mean who I am asking you to give up.” His soft words made me close my eyes against the pain I had been running from ever since people started telling me I wasn’t me. If I was utterly alone in this world then I would have gladly thrown that life aside for this one that Draven offered me now, but the fact of the matter was…I wasn’t alone.
“Ari is my sister. My twin sister. And if what you are telling me,
if what you are all telling me is true, then by my admitting it is like admitting that my love for Ari was never real. That our past together didn’t happen. That she’s not my sister.” Draven released a big sigh in defeat. Now he understood my reluctance in accepting who I really was.
“Come here.” He held out his two fingers and motioned for me to go to him. I felt the tingles zing in my belly at the sight as no matter what this man did, he did it looking sexy as Hell…no pun intended!
I went over to him and as soon as I was within reach he gripped me by the waist and shifted me in front of him. I didn’t need to look down much, even though he was sitting down because there was a big difference in my five foot three and his six foot four. Either way, he still manoeuvred me so that I was straddling his lap with my knees either side of his thighs.
“At some point we will figure this out but for now, let’s just concentrate on getting your sister back here safely…after all, if the looks of my brother are anything to go by, then pretty soon I am sure I will be calling her sister as well.” On hearing this, my eyes got wide and the thought of us all being here together was one I couldn’t wait to make a reality.
“Will he be alright?” I asked, concerned about the way he had run out of here and to be honest, he didn’t look too much like a man ready to settle down.
“It’s complicated.” Draven said looking thoughtful, no doubt going back and trying to gauge his brother’s reaction to the news as if it was a good thing or a bad thing, just as I was doing now.
“How so?”
“Well for one thing, other than her connection with you, we don’t know much about her.” Okay so I had to give him that because if it turned out she wasn’t my sister after all and she had simply had the same done to her as had been done to me…then I didn’t know her either.
“Did you know much about me before we got together?” I couldn’t stop myself from asking, however his answered stunned me.
“I knew everything.”
“What?! How is that possible?” I asked frowning at him in disbelief.
“Well, alright, I will rephrase that for you. I knew everything about you that a crazed, obsessed stalker could find out about a person.” I laughed and shook my head at the thought of anyone being obsessed by someone like me, especially because the person saying these things was Dominic Draven, sexiest man alive.
“So I didn’t have a chance then uh?” I asked teasing him.
“Nope, not one.” He said teasing back.
“So tell me, what particular powers of yours seemed to work on me then?” This time I found myself easily getting into this teasing game and his bad boy grin told me he knew it too.
“Let me show you.” His voice quickly turned very seductive and he hadn’t even done anything yet and I could already see a glimpse of what I was up against.
“For example, if I do this…” He started running a hand very gently up my spine and the sensations tingled all the way up to the base of my neck. I tried not to shudder against him, not wanting to lose the game we were playing but when you were playing against a pro, then what chance did I have?
“Then I can hear your lovely heart beating faster…and if I do this…” Quickly he pulled my hair so my head went back and my neck arched, baring my throat to him. I sucked in a surprised breath and instantly felt myself getting wet from being on the receiving end of his dominance.
“Then this little pulsating vein here starts to beg me to kiss it…” He kissed it softly and then he continued to speak against my skin,
“To suck it…” Then he sucked on the same spot and I moaned, arching further into him. I could feel his length pressing into me and I felt suddenly empowered knowing that he wanted me too.
“…and to bite it!” He growled and then took a mouthful of my flesh and held it with his teeth. The fear of pain and the anticipation of wanting that pain was sending me into a senseless fog with needing him inside me. He never bit me but I felt his knowing smile against my neck and around his teeth that still held me firmly in their grip. When he released me I moaned again only in disappointment making him chuckle.
“I do love how you react to me, little dove…like this…” Then he grasped my breast through my top and found my nipple with ease. He applied enough pressure to make me cry out and arch my back this time, forcing myself further into his hand.
“Ahhh!” I shouted a little louder as he wanted yet more of a reaction when he pinched harder.
“Oh how I have missed playing with you, touching certain parts of your beautiful body and getting you to obey without even knowing it. Like playing the finest instrument and making the sweetest sounds known to man.” As he said this he quickly tore my bra cup away on one side and bit at my nipple until this time I was screaming out and rolling my hips against his erection like a woman possessed.
“And now I think it’s time for the sound of you screaming my name as your body’s core quakes around my cock.” He said this after releasing my abused breast long enough to spin me around so my forehead was to the seat and he mounted me from behind. After ripping down my jeans and unbuckling his trouser pants, he thrust up hard into me and I cried out at the sting of pain that quickly forged itself into pleasure.
Now in this position it felt like I was truly owned. In fact, it felt like I was his submissive slave, there solely to give him the pleasure he felt he deserved. The idea warped my already turbulent mind, sending it into a spiral of desire and because of it I found myself screaming his name, coming after only a few deep thrusts.
One of his hands ran flat down my spine, whilst he reached round underneath me so that he could find what he was looking for.
“No! Ahh, too sensitive!” I told him as he started to drum his fingertip against my clit and as I tried to shift from him he pinched it hard, making me scream.
“Stay still for me, or I will do that again.” He said sternly, which again only added to the carnal aspect of it all. I did as I was told but as a result continue to moan against it.
“That’s my good girl, see how much fun having me play with you can be…now release another one for me, so I may feel you shuddering around me once more.” He said bending over me and dominating me with his intimidating size. It wasn’t surprising after only a minute more I was doing as he commanded, coming around him and once more screaming his name. If I thought the first time was intense then this was something else again. He was forcing my orgasms from me, one after another and all the while ploughing into me with such force, I felt if he hadn’t been holding me, I would have shot to the other side of the room!
He was endless and brutal and I loved every tortuous second of it!
“Please, oh god Draven please…I can’t have another…I…” I heard my pleas and he growled in my ear the same time he yanked me hard back against him. I whimpered back when the tip of his cock reached its limit inside of me.
“I am addicted to you…do you hear me…fucking addicted!” He snarled the words again in my ear and the thrill I got was like no other.
“My need for you borders on insanity, that is what you do to me. I want to drown in your touch and take my last dying breath smelling your hair. I want to feel you coming around me every single day for the rest of our lives and I want to hold your body in my arms as you shudder through the euphoria…” He never stopped moving as he spoke, gently in and out, continuingly rocking into me from behind and I was quickly getting lost in not only what his body was doing to me but also his words.
“And do you know what I demand in return, little one?” He hummed the question in my ear and for a moment everything stopped. His movement, my breathing, our hearts and time all stood still, until he yanked my head to one side, and growled by my ear,
“To own you forever!” Then he bit into me and sucked deep at my essence, feeding the very need he spoke of. I came one last time relishing in the feel of him doing the same. He ripped his lips from my bloody neck and thundered up at the ceiling as he held me rooted to his b
ody behind. I felt as though my body had fallen apart under the immensity of it all but then stitched back together again just as quick. I felt broken and reborn all at the same time and it was only the feel of him holding me tight that kept me in one piece.
“You leave me and I am a man without a soul, you come back to me and I want to imprint my soul to yours so that you can never leave me again. So never again…never will I let you go again.” I took in his words through a haze of ecstasy and knew I wouldn’t last long before giving into the fight of exhaustion.
I could feel myself falling backwards or sideways or simply moving without being in control. Either way I didn’t have the energy left to care because all that mattered was him and me and the raw beauty we shared.
So when I felt him lay me down, there was only one thing left to tell him…
“I love you Draven.”
Chapter 27
Time for Running Scared
Waking up and finding Draven beside me was more like a perfect beginning rather than the perfect end that I never wanted it to be. But inevitably when meeting the man you fall in love with, one you know beyond all shadow of doubt is your soulmate, destined to be yours forever, well then you have fear looking over your shoulder laughing at you. Because no matter how much you try, you can’t help but be terrified that someone or something is going to come and take it from you! And even though I had not yet experienced this and hoped I never would, it still felt as if I had…many times before.
Was this to be the price for being with a man like Draven? Was I always to watch my back or was that hurt going to come from somewhere closer to home? I hated that I had to ask myself these things and even more so wondering now if Draven himself hadn’t at some point been the one that had kick started a series of events that had led to this point? Because for some reason now I couldn’t help but think back to when he told me he had lied to her and what type of lie would break someone’s heart or hurt them to their core?
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