Spring's Destiny

by Deausha Kristal

  A few hours later I’m allowed to go our room. Noxx pads next to me.

  “My Queen, why does that bother you. What he did was heinous.”

  “I’m human Noxx; I’m not saying he didn’t deserve to die. But I think Luc enjoys the torture and suffering.”

  “It is Hell, after all, my Queen” Noxx runs ahead of me sniffing around the door. “It’s safe.” Nodding, I open the door and walk in making sure to slam the door behind me. Luc knows I’m not happy with him. I’m not pleased with all of this. I just want to go home. Sitting down next to the fire, it’s bizarre. It doesn’t throw any heat off; it’s cold. It’s cooling the room. It feels good against my hot, clammy skin. A male servant comes in making Noxx growl. He stops in mid-stride. Eyes as big as saucers. Noxx gets low to the ground as if he’s stalking his prey. Standing up, I grab the massive hellhound by the scruff.

  “Down big boy.” I feel him shake beneath my hand. “What do you want?” I ask this male. He takes a few steps back.

  “I’m here with wine and to see if you need anything, my Queen,” He murmurs never taking his eyes off Noxx.

  “Wine would be nice.” I say, sitting down “Play nice Noxx.” He comes over and sits next to me. “But I can play, right?” He asks, looking goofy at me. Trying not to laugh. “Just don’t hurt him.” What harm can happen right?

  “What is your name?” I ask him, watching as he fills my glass up.

  “Jax, my Queen.”

  “Are you human, Jax?”

  “I’m a fairy, my Queen. If that is going to be a problem I’m sure the King can….”

  “No, that’s fine, Jax. I’ve just never met a fairy.” Taking a sip of my wine, I watch him, move about the room picking things up.

  “You don’t have to do that.”

  “Yes, I do. Luc will be leaving tonight for two days. If I don’t keep this clean, he will kill me.” He says heading to the bathroom. I hear the water turn on.

  “My Queen, let me help you in the tub before I serve your dinner,” He says bowing low.

  “Ah, I think I can handle it myself, but thanks anyway Jax.” Standing up, I wobble a little bit. Damn it too much wine, again. Jax walks over and wraps his arm around my waist, helping me to the bathroom. Turning me, he unzips my dress if you can call it that. Inverting his eyes as it falls to the ground. Turning around I slowly step into the bath, lowering myself just as slowly. It’s hot. Once I’m covered with all the bubble bath, he’s put in it.

  “It’s OK, to look I’m covered,” I tell him with a grin.

  “Sorry my Queen, I know I was sent here to take care of you, I just didn’t want to embarrass myself.

  Holding back a laugh, I just nod to him. He leaves only to return with fresh clothes and more wine.

  “I love that wine.” Have you had it before?”

  Oh, my no, it’s only for royalty. My Queen,”

  In no time, I’m wrapped in fluffy towels waiting to get dressed. This time it’s a short tight dress, cut low in the front and back. Once I have it on, Jaz does my hair in an up-do. It truly looks cute. He finishes with my make-up. Looking in the mirror, I hardly recognize myself. Slipping on the heels, that match this dress I’m ready for dinner.

  “Is there going to be a crowd at dinner?”

  “Yes, my Queen. It’s always that way. They are all trying to get on the good side of the King. And yours as well.” He murmurs.

  I wonder what that is all about. Where is the prince going for two days? He didn’t mention it before. Stayne should be back sometime in the morning. We have to try and get out of here. I’m sure that’s going to be the tricky part.

  “My Queen, are you ready?” Jax murmurs, really looking at me.

  “Yes, let’s get this over with.”

  Walking out the door, Jax leads me through the long hall of this place. People are milling around, the closer we get to the dining hall. Keeping my head held high, I nod as we pass them. Jax slows down enough that he can talk to me softly. “It’s good that you don’t show fear, my Queen,” Looking over at him, he has a smirk on his face. “They are like vultures, for weakness.”

  “Well, that’s good to know.” He stops in front of the double doors that lead into the hall.

  “This is where I’ll take my leave; I’m just a whisper away if you need me. Just call.” He says, really looking at me, turning on his heel heading back the way we just came.

  Looking down at my dress, it fits me like a glove. I don’t honestly know how my chest stays in it. Laughing at myself, who am I kidding, I’m an A if I’m lucky nothing to see. Looking around, Luc is talking to some men in grey suits. They look like they are human to me. Taking a deep breath, I head into the lion’s den. Keeping my eyes on the back of Luc’s head, I ignore the stares and whispers. He must notice the change in the room; he stiffens up for a moment before he turns around. His eyes land on me instantly. Grinning, he heads toward me. Smiling, I bow my head to him.

  “My Queen, you look as lovely as ever.” He murmurs taking me into his arms gently kissing the side of my lips. The kiss just about takes my breath away. Shaking my head, a bit to clear my thoughts.

  “Thank you, Luc, although, I’m sure you knew exactly, what I would be wearing.” Smiling I let him wrap his arm around me, slowly leading me to the three guys I saw him talking to when I entered.

  “This is Reggie, Zane, and Toplen: gentlemen, meet the Queen of Hell, my soon to be wife,” Luc says standing tall. They all bow keeping their eyes on me. Shivering I move closer to Luc; he squeezes my waist ever so slightly.

  “Gentlemen, it’s nice to meet you,” I say smiling. Never breaking eye contact, Reggie moves closer as if he’s smelling me.

  “She smells scrumptious, Luc,” He says reaching out a hand, making like he was going to touch me, but stops short. Luc turns slightly, and his eyes are pure red. Taking a step back, he doesn’t let go of me. Stiffening a little bit, I look up at Reggie. Noxx pads over and plants himself by my feet, growling at Reggie as well. Absent-mindedly I reach down, grabbing his scruff. The other men that are with Reggie make ready.

  “Noxx, I can handle this you know,” I send to him. “My Queen, do you know they are vampires?” Nodding ever so slightly, I take a closer step to Luc.

  “Luc, you know you can’t keep her hidden. We all have a right to be with her. You are going, against…”

  “You are guests here in my house. You will remember YOUR place. If I catch you sniffing around her, I will kill you.” Luc growls.

  “You're brainwashing her, and I’m sure Michael will have something to say about it. I wonder what, do you put, in the wine? I invoke my right with her.” He says stepping up closer to me. Noxx stands up between us.

  “What’s going on Luc?” He is visibly shaking with rage now.

  “You can have your time with her tonight,” Luc growls, grabbing my arm he pulls me away from Reggie and the two other men. I let him take me over to the lounge area; people are watching as he leads me to our chaise lounge. The curtains are pulled back as he guides me in.

  Sitting down, I wait for him to say something. His hand comes up to my face; he runs his fingers down the side of my face making me shiver. I stop myself from leaning into him and push him back a little.

  “What’s going on?”

  He doesn’t talk at first; he just stares at me. “You give me a taste, and I’ll tell you” He murmurs, shrugging. Who the hell does he think he is? I need to know what’s going on. I need to get out of here.

  “Fine, but know you're, being an asshole.” I storm.

  I move so that I’m more comfortable; I tilt my head to make it easier for him to gain access. He pulls me into him, grabbing my hip, he runs his hand up the side of my body softly grazing my breast. I feel his lips gently nibble my neck, and next is his tongue. His teeth sink into my tender flesh. He wraps his arms tightly around me, pulling me even closer. It hurts at first with the pull of my blood. My arms wrap around his neck holding him. I can’t seem to ke
ep my eyes open. My heart starts beating faster, what’s going on?

  “Luc stop…”

  He slowly removes his mouth from my neck. There was something different this time. He licks my neck closing the puncture wounds, shivering I move away from him. There’s something different about him.

  “You will be spending some time with Reggie this evening, and before you say anything, I cannot stop it. I’ve been keeping you to myself, and I planned on doing just that. Somehow, they found out about you being down here. It says in the scrolls that everyone will get a chance with you. I was just trying to bypass that part.” He murmurs trying to get closer to me.

  “I don’t want to meet with him. I want to go home. This just isn’t going to work out.” I stammer, standing up, I try to leave. I watch as he nods to, two of the guards. They grab me by my arms.

  “Let me go,” I tell them. Noxx prowls over to me. Two other guards come over with crossbows pointing them at Noxx, he growls.

  “Spring, I didn’t want it to come to this, I didn’t. Those crossbows won’t kill your hellhound, but it will hurt like hell for a few hours. Either you go with my guards, or they will shoot him. It’s all on you here on out.” Luc says.

  I glance at him his eyes are glowing red. What is happening here? I look around the room everyone is staring watching what’s going on. My eyes find Reggie’s he ever so slightly nods his head no.

  “I’ll go, call them off Luc.” I whisper. I can’t take the chance of them shooting Noxx. I just can’t.

  “Know that if you do this. We are done. I will kill you the first chance I get. “

  He laughs. “I have no doubt you will try, Spring. It can be only that way,” He says standing, bowing low to me. Taking my chance, I step forward grabbing him by the shoulders and kneeing him a good one in the balls. I know it hurts because he goes down on his knees. The guards let go of me not knowing what to do. Taking the opening, I tackle Luc the rest of the way down. Straddling him, I let my fists fly. Connecting with his face, everyone moves closer, watching but not intervening. The three vamps are observing intently.

  Luc grabs me by the neck, squeezing. Taking my precious air, from my lungs. I feel my power revving up; I let it run down my arms to my hands. I grab his arms making him let go of me. Standing up, I take a few steps back, ready for him to come at me. He does, he plows into me so hard we fly across the room slamming into the far side of the wall. The wind gets knocked out of me. I’ve never seen him this way; he’s pissed because I’ve shown him up in front of everyone.

  I get backhanded making my head snap hard to the right. I feel blood starting to run down the side of my mouth. Taking the back side of my hand, I wipe the blood away. My body hurts everywhere. I hear Noxx somewhere ripping someone apart.

  “Call him off Spring, or so help me I will force this issue between us.” He growls, smashing his hard body against me. “Once I do that, everything will be over.”

  Out of the corner my eye. I see Reggie start to step forward. I look at him for a quick second, and he stops. I know when to back down. Noxx and I are outnumbered. I have to pick my battles.

  “Noxx stop,” I yell toward the hellhound. He has one of the guards on the ground. There is blood everywhere. He lets go but is still growling. I look up to Luc; he has an evil grin on his face.

  “You will let the guards take you to OUR room. You will not give them a hard time. Do you understand me?”

  Biting my tongue, “Yes, my King I do.” I murmur keeping my eyes on him the whole time. What I want to say is go do a tug and chug under some bridge, but I don’t.

  “Good,” He says letting my arms go. The guards walk up to me and grab me by the arms. My power starts to kick up a notch. They must feel it because they drop their hands quickly. Smiling, I follow them out of the hall.

  “There’s nothing to see here. Go back to what you were doing.” I hear Luc tell his guests. “She will be dealt with when we are alone.” I hear some of the guests laugh at that. Keeping my head up, I walk out of the room. My eyes find Reggie’s. He nods his head at me hiding a smirk.

  Once back into our rooms, I let my breath out. It feels like I’ve been holding it the whole time getting here. The guards leave the room without saying a word. The door opens up a few minutes later, and Jax rushes in.

  “My Queen, I have to get you ready for the vampire prince. Oh, my God, look at your face and neck. What did that animal do to you?” He murmurs, walking over to me.

  “I’m fine Jax, I honestly am.” I slowly make my way over to the bathroom where Jax helps me out of my dress. I wait until the water is ready, and then sinking down in its hot bubbly warmth. A quick look tells me what I already know that Jax is blushing.

  “I’m sorry Jax.”

  “It’s fine my Queen. You ARE beautiful. It’s just that I am not worthy of seeing you like that. My King would be furious at me.” He stammers.

  “Wait why is that Jax?” Leaning back, I let him wash my hair. “I don’t understand everything that’s going on. No one will tell me.” I whine.

  “My Queen, I will give you something to read while you wait. It did not come from me. The King will kill me if he finds out I have given it to you. But I believe you need to know,” He says. I let it drop because it feels incredible getting my hair washed, and up in a towel. Jax starts on my shoulders. Groaning, I relax a little more.

  “Is this to your liking?” He asks.

  “Yes, it feels amazing.” I murmur closing my eyes I let his hands work their magic.

  Chapter 23

  After my fantastic bath, I dress in a pair of ripped up jeans and a tank top. Jax isn’t happy, but I want to be comfortable. I’m meeting a vampire, The King of all of them. Jax thinks I should be dressed up and I just don’t care. There is a plate of food and wine brought to my room. Jax gets it ready for me. He hands me a scroll.

  “I will be in the other room, my Queen if you need anything.”

  “Thank you, Jax.” I grab my glass and take a drink. Getting comfortable in the lounge chair, I’m sitting in I break the seal. Opening it up, I see that it will take me a while.

  There will be a child born of a human and from a demon. She will grow to adulthood with her human mother, to one day pick the thrown she wants to take. She will mate with three warriors of her choosing. They will guard her, with their life. They will drink from her, as well as her drink from them. She will get their markings on her body. The powers that the girl child will have will be unprecedented.

  Chaos will ensue until she takes a thrown. Humans will die, along with many others until that time. As the powers grow so will her sexual appetite, and this could be the demon half, but we just don’t know. Although, Michael is her mate. He is not, however, her true mate. Michael knows who her father is, and this is important to know because it will shed light on her true mate.

  Taking a sip of wine, I fold the scroll up. If I believe this, it answers some of the million questions I have. But it sure doesn’t answer a lot of them. I think I need to find this Michael. We need to have a little chat. But first I need to get through meeting the Vampire King. Then I need to get the hell out of dodge. Noxx comes over and nudges my hand. I rub behind his ear.

  “It’s a lot to take in, my Queen.”

  “Ya think?”

  “We will get you out of here. I’m sure your warriors are working on it as we speak.”

  “They better be doing something. Noxx my stomach feels jittery all the time. Would you know why?”

  “You need to feed my Queen. Being down here is draining you because you are not feeding. Your wings are in stasis as well. It would do you some good to have sex as well.”

  “OK, just stop right there,” I say standing up. Noxx doesn’t say anything else to me. Jumping, there’s a knock at the door. Jax rushes in to answer it. He moves aside bowing his head. Reggie walks in with the two other vampires. He stops to look me up and down. I do the same thing he is one hot vampire. Damn, I have to get my body in check.
Walking over to my seat, I sit down. Noxx and Jax leave shutting the door behind them. Noxx gives me a look before it closes. Great, you traitor.

  “Why are you guys here?” I ask, filling up my glass again.

  “I wanted to meet the Queen,” Reggie says.

  Looking at the other two, they go and stand by the door.

  “They are nothing to worry about; they are my bodyguards.” He murmurs coming to sit next to me. I move over a little to make room for his massive frame. He grabs a glass and pours himself some wine. He looks around the rooms, which have become my prison at this moment.

  “You need to get out of here.” He says matter-of-factly.

  “Ya think? I know that. What have you been smoking the devil’s lettuce or something?”

  His deep laughter makes me jump.

  “Oh, you have spunk, Spring, I like it.” He says between his bouts of laughter.

  “You haven’t seen anything mister.”

  “I’m sure you are right. But regardless you’re going to need help getting out of here. I can help you.” He murmurs moving a little closer to me. “You look weak when is that last time….”

  “If you value your life I wouldn’t finish what you were going to say,” I growl. That sexy as hell grin appears again. Thinking about what he’s said I have to ask the million-dollar question.

  “What do you want in return?” I ask.

  “Simple I want to taste you and a chance with you is all.” He says, smiling at me.

  “Deal, when do we leave?”

  He looks a bit surprised that I agreed to it so fast.

  “Listen, I know I need to get out of here. I need to get home.”

  “We can leave tomorrow morning. Luc is leaving late tonight for some meetings with his son.”

  “Fine, I will be ready.”

  He stands up reaching his hand out to me. Looking him in the eyes, I take his hand letting him pull me up. He pulls me so that I’m pressed up against him. He’s rock hard wherever my body touches his. His smell is very appealing to me. Shaking my head, I try to take a step back, but his rock-hard arms won’t let go.