“He is at home just sitting in his Wolf form, waiting for your return, as are the pack brothers’. Den won’t let anyone near him. I had to get in his heart.”
My Den, I can’t do this to him. He fought with Parrise when I begged him not to, but I can’t have him distraught, thinking I have left him. I told him I would be there for him, always, no matter what. I didn’t think it would be under these circumstances, nevertheless I have to go to him.
I gently get off the bed and kiss Angus on the forehead.
“I’ll be back soon.” I tell him.
I lean up from Angus and walk to stand with her.
“Ok, can you take me to Den and the brothers’?”
“Yes, I will hold them in place they won’t be able to touch or talk to you.”
“Thank you Dallah, will you come back to sit with Angus?”
“I was going to sweetie.”
I take her hand and shut my eyes feeling breeze on my face and the fresh air in my lungs.
I can just work out that Den is running toward me in Wolf form with only the moonlight as my guide. Just as he gets to me he shifts, lifting me to him in a tight embrace; I wrap my legs around him and hug him back. I have been so saddened with everything that has gone on, I need to feel Den there with me like he always is.
“Why Den? Why did you all do it?”
I look at him, the moonlight reflecting of his handsome face.
“I’m sorry, we’re all sorry for what happened to him. When Parris ripped you away from us like that, we were scared; we wanted you with us, safe”
“I begged you all to stop Den. I told you they wanted to see I was alright?”
“We couldn’t know if it was you speaking or him making you say things to hold us back. I swear it to you; we wouldn’t have attacked them if he hadn’t taken you in that way. I love you Zara, We all love you, don’t leave me babe, I need you so bad. Forgive me?”
The stress plays on his handsome face, I believe every word he says, I can feel the truth in them. However, I won’t stay here while Angus lays in bed recovering from death!
I wipe my tears away with my fingers.
“I believe you, but I’m going back, I need to be with Angus. You need to understand I have to be with him. I will never leave you Den, but I have to do this. I just wanted to show you that I’m fine, I don’t want you to worry.”
He nods his head once, firmly placing his lips on mine and squeezing me tightly.
“I will be back when Angus has recovered, not before. Can you trust me?”
“Always babe.” He tells me, with clouded eyes.
I slide down him, and walk over to the porch where the other brother’s stand. Dallah must have frozen them just as they saw me; they are all on their feet. I walk just feet away from them as tears burn my cheeks. There beautiful faces looking troubled, good God, seeing them like this makes me want to comfort them. They stand in a sort of line, frozen looking like super models. Dom is on the far left, with his hands cradling the back of his head, Julian has his arms crossed; Sallack is in the middle biting his thumbnail. Ruk has a hand in his pocket and the other hand fisting his hair, then Mickey on the right, his hand wrapped around the back of his neck.
“Den explained what happened. I wanted you to know I will be with Angus and Parrise up until Angus is better. I’m sorry if this hurts you, I truly am, but you hurt me by hurting Angus. Every single one of you promised not let anyone hurt me, and you go and hurt me by trying to take my friend’s life from me. I love you all so much it physically hurts to look at you like this. I need to stop hurting, please stop hurting me!”
I feel like I can’t stand on my own legs because my emotions are so raw. I walk to my left to Dom and kiss his cheek, as I do in order to Julian, Ruk and Mickey, but Sallack, I hold his stunning face in my hands, shutting my eyes, I lay my lips on his tenderly with a kiss. Savoring the closeness we both want and need.
“I love you Sallack, so much. I will be back soon,” I whisper to his ear, as I lay my cheek on his. Den has been standing closely behind me so I turn to him and kiss his cheek, then turning back to the frozen brothers’.
“I’m sorry I had Dallah freeze you, I can’t handle your words now, I’ll be back soon. Trust that I am ok.” I shut my eyes and whisper,
“Dallah.”
Chapter 21
Dallah and I sit in silence for a few moments before I say to her,
“Dallah my head and heart feel like they’re going to explode, Can you tell me what happened to Angus, we saw him die. He was dead!”
“I’m not sure, I have never heard of such a gift. I can feel your love for him Zara, when you look at him I see it in your eyes. It has to have been your heart calling to his, your words at his body begging him to come back. I think you’re connected to Angus. You won’t leave him. Even now you’re staring at him while I’m talking!” She jokes.
I look back at her with a weak smile.
“I’m sorry, I think you’re right I do feel a connection to him in a way, I can feel his need for me and I don’t want to leave him. I need to know he will be alright, my heart is aching seeing him this way.”
“Your emotions as a Charmer are not the same as a human Zara, yours are much more powerful. This is why you feel this way to him. When he awakes, and he will, you need to make sure he tells no one. If anyone finds out you’re a Charmer, with powers to bring back a life that has been lost, the beating of a heart. Ah Goddess … I need you safe, the brothers’, Parrise and now Angus, we need you safe!” She whispers to me passionately as her tears threaten to spill. I stand and take her in my arms hugging her tightly, just as she needs.
“I promise I’ll do my best to stay safe, but you have to for me also. I know there something going on with you Dallah; I can feel you hiding it pushing it down. Let me help you?”
“Parrise is coming, I need to go check on the pack brothers’. I will be back tomorrow. Don’t hesitate to call if you need me.”
Before I can answer, she has gone. I want her so badly to trust in me. Whatever the problem is, I want her to share with me so I can help her in some way, anyway. I can’t push her any more then I have, I want to ease the pain she has in her heart. Why won’t she let me in?
Parrise walks in looking at me to Angus.
“Little one, his heart is beating stronger from yesterday.” He looks to me studying my face.
“What’s wrong love?” He says as he walks to stand in front of me.
He said he wouldn’t read me anymore, so I must have a look really stressed or confused. I wish I could explain everything to him, but I can’t.
I sit on the chair with him, telling him of visiting the pack brothers’, and of their regret for how things ended.
“Do you believe they are sorry for losing you or nearly killing Angus?”
They did kill him. The thought makes me sick.
“I believe they are truly sorry for everything that happened.”
“Ok.”
“Ok? I don’t understand?”
“If you believe they are sorry for what happened then I will believe it, I may not forget but I will forgive.”
“Then they will respect you for it. You’re a very good man, I won’t listen to anything different.” I hug him hightly.
“I have you to thank for it, I had forgot what it was to love. I love you little one.”
“I love you Parrise.”
“Tell me of your life before all of this?”
“Ok, well what do you want to know?”
“Family, friends?”
“Well that’s easy. Den was my only family and only friend. We were bought up together by adoptive parents in England Suffolk, they were ok I guess. Friends, well I never had any girlfriends because they only used me to get to Den.”
“I’m sorry little one.”
“There is no need, Den has been everything I have ever needed in my life, and now I have you all, I just feel like I can be really happy. Do you know what I me
an?”
“I’m starting to love.” He sighs and holds me tighter.
Parrise stays with me, as we sit in Parrise’s bedroom watching over Angus. He tells me of their travels and battles, until the sunrises. Parrise retreats to rest after giving up asking me to sleep with him in his room. I want to stay close to Angus and I don’t want Parrise to think I will be with him in a romantic way. I won’t give up on Sallack. However, getting to know Parrise so well is hard on my heart, as I watch him speak to me of things he has told no other, I can’t stop myself falling even further in love with him. Nevertheless, I will not act on it, as much as It pains me to not just give in and kiss his cool plump lips.
Parrise tells me that he and Angus were good friends and Warriors when they were turned after a battle in Scotland over 900 years ago. His sire, meaning the one to have changed him, Demitri, is an extremely well respected and powerful Vampire. He is known to all Vampires around the world for being savage and merciless.
I asked if he liked his sire; the look in Parrise’s eyes frightened me a little. He told me that Demitri is a spiteful evil predator, whom I shall never meet. Thank God! They are my feelings on the matter. If he produces fear in Parrise, then I most definitely never want to bump into him, EVER. He tells me of the wrong he did in his life, while under the care of Demitri. He made Parrise and Angus do unspeakable things. I was shocked that Parrise told me, but I know why he did, because he wanted it to come from him, no one else. When I told him, his past means nothing to me, who he is as from now is what I care for; he looked on at me full of love and gratitude. From that moment, as I gave him belief in himself, I knew the powers I hold as a Charmer. I will love Parrise up until the day I die.
I asked Parrise where Lucien is, as I was a little worried knowing he was in the same house, not that I will tell Parrise that. He said plainly,
“Gone and won’t be back, love.”
I get one of the new towels I asked Parrise to get for the bedroom and wash angus’s face, gently over his cheek bones and down his neck. His deep brown shoulder length hair sitting perfectly on the pillow. I finish up and take a shower, dressing in my nightclothes that Dallah kindly brought to me. Slipping under the sheets with Angus, I place my arm over his now healed body and gently squeezing him.
“Goodnight Angus.”
I’m so tired I don’t care if it’s day or night any more. Closing my eyes, I think of the pack brothers’, Den, Dallah Parrise and my connection with Angus and the thought of bad men that would come for me if they knew who I really was. Well they can fuck off!
Waking after a long needed sleep, I smile to myself, feeling the coolness from Angus’s arms around me as I'm filled with joy.
“Angus you’re ok. Oh thank God!”
I scream, jumping all over him whilst he is laughing aloud at my excitement.
“Ah my sweet little Zara. I know what you did for me, I love you Zara for all my life and after I will love you.”
I stop and listen to his kind words as my heart swells with bliss. I can’t believe He’s back to his normal self like nothing happened.
“Oh Angus. I love you too, I really do, I’m so sorry for what happened to you.”
He pulls me down onto his body so that I am lying on him with my head rested on his shoulder.
“I knew you were special, my sweet. Being a Charmer makes so much sense now.”
I lift my head quickly, shock painted on my face, mouth open.
“Don’t worry Zara I will never be disloyal to you. You bought me back with your heart. We are connected, I can feel you heart as part of mine, why would you do such a thing for a monster?”
“I know you wouldn’t Angus, I would never think of you as disloyal, and monster? Stop saying that. I know you have done bad things in your past, but that’s your past. The Angus I see has a huge heart, full of compassion and tenderness. I see you Angus as a Warrior and a stunning man, Who I love and would lay my life down for. You must believe me.” I plead with him. I don’t want him to think himself a monster. He is NOT a monster.
“My sweet, your words bring a man to his knees.” He puts his hands to my face and carry’s on, “I could hear your words calling to me, pulling me back, the feel of your heart connecting to mine. You cleaning me, sleeping with me hand in hand. I will be by your side forever little Charmer.”
My single tear hits his cheek as he wipes under my eye with his thump.
“I want you as mine Zara!…it's ok I know your heart is taken by another man, but in case you ever fancy a roll in the sheet’s I’m your man. Ok?” He waggles his eyebrows at me with a big grin on his face. Good God he’s stunning.
“Ok Angus, I’ll keep it in mind…” I say jokingly, “…What do you know of Charmers?”
I run my hands through his silky hair and roll onto my side, with him still holding me.
“No more then you. I thought of you as a fairytale, as do most of us. You’re defiantly more than I would have expected. I’ll tell you this; you will have every monster around wanting you as his if anyone is to find out about you, that’s where I come in.” He says with a mischievous wink.
“I’m so glad your back Angus.”
We lock eyes, as I feel my body tingles with warmth, as if I have the sun’s rays beaming on my skin, I have the most inexplicable need for Angus to drink from me! Angus’s eyes have turned a brilliant red color and his fangs have elongated. He looks unbelievably handsome.
“Angus?”
“Sweet, I think I need to taste you, if you don’t want me to I won’t. Don’t be scared Zara.” He says breathing heavily as if trying to fight off his need to bite me.
Nevertheless, I am not scared, not at all, I feel like I need him to do this, it must have to be to do with our connection. Pulling my hair back to the side, I offer him my neck.
“I think we need to Angus.”
He leans in and places a gentle kiss on my skin; I feel his heart beat rapidly along with mine. I feel his fangs penetrating the soft flesh my neck, but it’s not pain as I expected to feel, this is pure heaven. My eyes shut by their own accord, as the most mind-blowing orgasm hits me hard, while I moan along with Angus’s own moans of overwhelming pleasure. Angus removes his fangs from my neck, licking the incisions.
“That was unbelievable!” He says with a wide grin.
“Incredible, you could have warned me?” I say in a daze.
“Ah sweet when a Vampire of my age and power feeds from a woman, we can make the woman feel like they are having an orgasm, or we can just feed not caring how they might feel. We have the satisfaction of the blood, but what we had was unheard of. Never in my life have I had such an incredible feeling like that, and never will I again…. I healed you, stop doing that!”
He playfully smacks my hand away from my neck, as I keep touching where he bit me, then looking at my fingers, wondering why there is no blood. He rests his head back on the pillow, still smiling. I can feel how happy he is.
“How did you heal me?”
“Our saliva closes and heals the incisions that our fangs make.”
Wait! I can feel his happiness, really feel it. The connection!
“Angus, Can you feel that! Do you feel me as I do you? That must have been why I wanted you to bite me, and why you wanted to bite me, to complete our connection.”
His head springs back up to mine, only an inch from me.
“Yes, I can, amazing? You’re really happy!” He says a little shocked, as if he didn’t quite believe up until now.
He goes to kiss my lips, but I pull away from him, he isn’t upset, he starts to laugh aloud.
“Sorry, just wanted to push my luck. All I have wanted to do since meeting you that night, is to have you in my bed wrapped in my arms. I can feel the love you have for Sallack, he is a lucky man. He best treat you right Zara!”
“I do love him Angus, with everything I am. He will treat me right, I know he will. He’s a good man; I hope you will become friends one day?”
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bsp; “Let’s not get to excited, Sweet!” He says jokingly.
I feel that I have him as a best friend and it’s a wonderful feeling.
“Hey, we’re family now, Zara, I’ll be your sexy brother in-law.”
He grabs my shoulders, twisting me onto the bed. I don’t think I will ever get used to the speed of a Vampire. I lay under him while he jokingly humps me. I laugh so hard at the faces he’s pulling, that I think I’m going to pee myself.
“Angus, I see your feeling better!” Parrise stands at the foot of the bed, raising a single eyebrow, making me laugh even harder.
“Oh yes, I feel fantastic!” Angus looks back at me with a wink. I push him off, while still laughing at him. Standing, I take Parrise’s hand that he offers to help me up. I move to sit in the chair, leaving Angus on the bed, whilst Parrise paces up and down the bedroom. Parrise and I fill Angus in on what occurred from the moment he was attacked, also the regret the brothers feel for how things went that night.
“Ok. where’s this Dallah? I’d like to meet her.”
“She is living with Den and I.”
“We will meet you there, can you get Dallah to take you back?”
“I don’t understand?”
“I want to see the Wolves and meet Dallah. We will run.”
He looks at Parrise, who nods his head to the unspoken question.
“Angus, I don’t think that’s a good idea. They are sorry, I promise you. I can’t have you go there and fight. There is too much to lose!” Angus gets up and walks to me slowly, taking my chin in his hand, as I feel his love for me and need to protect, but he is not angry, he is happy!
“No fighting, just talking. Trust me Zara,” He says gently.
“I’m sorry, I over reacted. I will meet you there.”
“What the hell is going on with you two?” Parrise asks, sounding pissed off. I walk over to him and take his hand in mine.
“Nothing. I’ll see you soon. Can you give me 10 minutes to tell the brothers’ you will be coming?”
“Yes little one. Tell me, do you still hold me in your heart?” He asks with a slight plea to his tone, worry coating his stunning eyes.
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