“You’ll do fine,” Criss says.
“I’m sure you’re right.”
“Well we should let you study,” Nicolae says.
Nicolae hugs and kisses her cheek. Criss goes to say goodbye. “You can stay while I study. It won’t be exciting, but you can hang out with me.”
“Sure. I can read while you study.”
Cooper was working while Belladonna sat on the couch stretched out with her legs on Criss. Criss kept rubbing her legs and feet. The song ‘I Want You’ by The Beatles was playing in the background. Belladonna wanted to chuckle at the song. She would have sworn Cooper played it if he had that ability. Criss gets up off the couch. He gets a bottle of water and gets one for her too. He then sits up behind Belladonna. She has her hair up in a bun. Criss is kissing her neck. She is softly moaning. He puts his hand up her shirt. Caressing her breast. She can feel how hard he is getting behind her. “I want you. I want you so bad. It’s driving me mad. It’s driving me mad.”
“You’re so hard.”
“I can only imagine how wet you are.”
“Soaked.”
“I have missed you. I’ve missed this. I love you so much.”
“I love and miss you.”
Criss reaches down and sees how wet she is. He plays with her clit while he sucks on her neck. She is moaning quietly. Criss is going faster and faster so that she’ll be louder. “Let me hear you sweetie. Please. God please. I want it. I need it. Don’t deny me.”
“Can I bite you?”
“Yes.”
Criss bites her. My god this feels so good. Make me cum. Please.
Criss is moving quicker. Biting her neck harder. Playing with her right nipple. “Cum for me Bell. Please. I want to taste you. Let me feel you.” Belladonna cums and Criss licks his fingers.
Belladonna goes back to studying and Criss kisses her neck some more. He hears Cooper coming down the stairs. He kisses Belladonna’s neck one more time and then just lays there. Cooper comes up to Belladonna and kisses her. “Are you almost done?”
“Just about. I have probably another hour.”
“Alright. I need to run a couple errands. I’ll be back.”
“Have fun.”
“I should probably go too. I wanted to go by the bank and check on some things about financing.”
“Have fun with that.”
Belladonna gets off the couch and walks Criss to the door. Criss puts her up against the door. He slides off her panties and moves his fingers inside of her. He takes off his pants and boxers. He lifts her up and plunges inside of her. He is being loud. So loud. Belladonna can barely contain herself. As quickly as he started Criss stops without climaxing. He kisses Belladonna. “I want it to be special. Very special. Not against a wall. Not hard and fast. I need it to be something to remember.”
“I love you, Criss.”
“I love you, Belladonna.”
Criss leaves. Leaving Belladonna high and dry.
Belladonna gets done studying and is waiting for Cooper. Destiny is up playing.
After two hours of no Cooper Belladonna gets worried. She calls for him over the connection and feels that he is in danger. He is unconscious hence why he hasn’t called for her. Belladonna calls Talia to come watch Destiny and get Mercedes and Pete to come to the house. Belladonna, Pete, and Mercedes are hiding in the woods off to the left of the campsite. Mortar is ordering people around. Nicolae is in the center with Ava. Sam and Roger are off to the left. They are draining Cooper and Belladonna can tell they’ve taken a great deal from him. Belladonna is about to tell everyone to attack when Mortar speaks. “Belladonna I know you’re here. Come out.”
Belladonna teleports in front of Mortar. “You are so beautiful.”
“You are such a pain in my ass.”
“I can arrange that.”
“Of course, you can cause you are a pig.”
Mortar touches her face with one of his talons. “I think you would find that you loved the way I touch you.”
“Not in my lifetime.”
“Don’t say things like that.”
“Mortar, you aren’t anything I would want.”
“I am a lot you would want.”
“You obviously don’t know anything.”
Mortar goes to kiss her, and she slaps him. Mortar takes her and sits her in a chair on the side. “You will sit there while I drain your husband. Then I will perform the ceremony to make us King and Queen. Then I will mate us.”
“I will never agree to a mating.”
“This one you don’t have to agree to.”
“Over my dead body.”
“That isn’t an option.”
“Want to bet.”
Belladonna starts doing something and Mortar looks over and begins to panic. “BELLADONNA! No! No! No! You can’t do this! You can’t!”
While Mortar is distracted the coven and Nicolae come out of their hiding spots and start fighting the guards. Nicolae unties Cooper and teleports him home.
“Precious, please be okay. Please. I’ll do anything. Please. Please Please.”
Pete goes past Mortar and teleports Belladonna out of the campsite.
They get back to the house and Nicolae has gone to get blood for Cooper. Pete
has laid on the couch. Mercedes calls Cage to come over. Cage comes over and checks on Belladonna. “She tried to harm herself so that Mortar would stop what he was doing.”
“I can heal her.”
Cage lays his hands on her and light spreads out. Belladonna comes to and looks around. “What happened?”
“You passed out. We got Cooper. Then we got you. Cage healed you,” Pete says.
“Is someone getting Cooper blood?”
“Nicolae,” Mercedes says.
“I’m back. Thank goodness you’re up.”
“Everyone is, okay?”
“Yes. Other than Cooper losing a bit of blood,” Nicolae says.
Belladonna goes over to Cooper. As soon as she touches him Cooper’s eyes open. “Belladonna?” he asks in a weak voice.
“Yes, Cooper I’m here. Just save your strength.”
“No. I need you.”
“I’m right here.”
“I love you.”
“I love you.”
“I don’t feel well.”
“I know you don’t, but you are going to be okay.”
“Can I bite you?”
“Of course.”
Cooper bites Belladonna. He takes more than usual. “Thank you.”
“You don’t need to thank me. I’m your wife.”
“Cooper is receiving the blood as quickly as possible. His color isn’t improving much. Belladonna gets Cage to heal him. Cage feels him and looks at Belladonna. “Mortar gave him some sort of poison. I don’t know if I can get rid of all of it.”
“I'll try to get a hold of Criss.”
“Criss, I need your help.”
“Whatever you need.”
“We fought a bad guy that drained Cooper part of the way. Well he poisoned him and Cage can’t remove all the poison. Can you, do it? Please.”
“Of course sweetie. You know I’ll do it. I love you.”
“I love you.”
Cage is unable to remove all the poison, so they wait for Criss to show up. Ten minutes later Criss shows up. He heals Cooper. Taking his time to do so. He finally gets done and Cooper’s color is back to normal. Cage checks him over again. “He’s poison free.”
Belladonna hugs Criss. “Thank you so much.”
“You’re very welcome.”
Cooper now has all the blood back in his system. Belladonna is fine now after being healed by Cage. “How did they get you?” Mercedes asks.
“I was at the store and I was at my car putting stuff in. The next thing I know I’m at that campsite.”
“Mortar isn’t going to give up.” Belladonna says.
“No, he isn’t,” Mercedes says.
“Well, you tried to kill yourself,
” Pete says.
“You what?” Cooper says.
“Oh yes she did this self-sacrifice thing cause he was going to kill you,” Nicolae says.
Belladonna notices that Criss is unnaturally quiet.
“Everything is fine. Thankfully,” Cage says.
“Yes, it is,” Cooper says.
“Okay we should go. We have finals in the morning,” Pete says.
Pete and Mercedes hug Belladonna. Nicolae and Criss hug Belladonna. Criss stays off to the side. “I’m going to go check on Destiny,” Cooper says. Leaving Belladonna alone with Criss. “Criss what’s wrong?”
“We need to talk tonight.”
“What about?”
“Do you love me?”
“Yes Criss.”
“Unconditionally?”
“Yes Criss.”
“You scared me tonight.”
“I’m fine.”
“Precious I was so worried.”
‘You don’t call me precious.”
“I did tonight.”
“Criss, please don’t. Please don’t.”
“I am Mortar.”
Belladonna starts to cry. “No no no! Criss please baby please. You can’t be him.”
“I am. I need you to be my Queen. Now you can do it willingly or I can do it forcefully. It’s your choice.”
“Criss, I don’t know what to say.”
“Say you’ll be my Queen.”
“What is involved.”
“We marry in a dark manner. Then you are Queen of the dark. You can still be Queen of the Carolinas. There is no problem there. I will leave your family alone. No hard feelings.”
“Can I think about it?”
“Yes, you have a few days. You can only tell Cooper. He can tell no one.”
“Understood.”
“Do you still love me?”
“Yes.” She was so mad at him right now
“Are you sure?”
“I’m mad. Upset. Disappointed.”
“I can understand.”
“Can I be alone now?”
“Of course.”
“I will see you tomorrow.”
“Yeah.”
Belladonna laid in the bed with Cooper. She just got done crying and Cooper was comforting her. “It’s going to be okay. I know it will be okay. You have nothing to worry about. We’ll have our ceremony soon, so you’ll have both ceremonies done. Okay?”
“Yes. Okay.”
“We’ll do our ceremony this weekend. Saturday, okay?”
“That sounds perfect.”
“I’ll make the arrangements.”
“Thank you.”
“You’re welcome.”
“I’m tired Cooper.”
“Get some sleep.”
“I love you.”
“I love you.”
The bed is nice and comfortable. That must be why she keeps ending up on it. She looks around the cottage. She does feel Criss in it. In fact, she doesn’t feel him at all. She lays back down on the bed. She is just about back to sleep when she feels him sit down beside her. She looks up at him and sees that he has a black eye. His face is swollen, and his lip is split. It must have just happened because vampires heal right away. “Who did you fight with?”
“Cooper. I deserved for taking the blood and poisoning him.”
“Yes, you did.”
“Well, you’ll heal in no time.”
“Yes, I will.”
“I’m sorry.”
“I know you are.”
“I’m sorry for what I did.”
“I know you are.”
“I love you so much sweetie. You are my universe.”
“I know.”
“You really are upset.”
“I just don’t know what to make of anything.”
“Let me help you.”
Criss starts kissing Belladonna. It hurts his lip, but he continues on anyway. He lays her down on the bed and his hands explore her body. He kisses her neck. His hand travels down to her pants where he moves his fingers in and out of her. She moans and says his name. “I don’t want to stop this time. I want to make love to you. I need you so badly. You are so wet for me. I know today in the kitchen was a major turn on for you. I wanted to masturbate so bad but I didn’t. I hoped I would get you tonight. I’m going to get you now. I'll make sure you are ready.”
“Criss, I can’t do this.”
“Why sweetie? Because you feel that I’m the bad guy?”
“Yes.”
Criss starts kissing her. Belladonna climaxes and Criss kisses her neck. “I love you, sweetie. God I love you. I want you.”
“Criss, I can’t do that tonight.”
Criss kisses her softly on the neck, the ear and on the mouth. Belladonna pulls away. “Belladonna, please let me love you. One night let me do this. I can tell you want me to.”
“Criss, not tonight.”
“Alright but there will be a night.”
“Yes, I know.”
“You love me?”
“Yes, Criss I’ve told you this over and over.”
“I like hearing it.”
“I know you do.”
“I’ll let you go.”
“Thank you.”
Practice was with Cage after class the next day. Criss was nowhere to be
found. Cage tried calling him but didn’t get an answer. Belladonna didn’t worry about checking their connection; she could feel him slightly and he was asleep. He didn’t feel like he was in danger. Cage had her work on water. She was calling water and throwing it. She was doing it faster and faster. She was almost done with it when Criss showed up. He smiled brightly at her and acted as if nothing was wrong. He comes out to Belladonna and stops a normal distance from her. “Sorry I’m late I was sleeping.”
“I could feel it.”
“I could feel you busy working.”
“Well, we got that cleared up.”
“I couldn’t sleep last night. I wanted to be with you.”
“It didn't happen.”
“I am well aware.”
“I know that. I wanted it to.”
“I should get back to work.”
“Yeah. I’ll talk to you later.”
Belladonna finishes up working. She goes over to Cage and Criss. “Okay I’m done. I’m going to go and study for my finals. You two have a good day.”
“You too Belladonna,” Cage says.
“Have a good day,” Criss says.
Belladonna is studying for her two finals. She is on informational overload. Cooper is sitting on the couch with her while she reads over her materials. Destiny is in the swing. Belladonna is resting her head on Cooper while she reads. She is getting tired. Cooper kisses her. “You can take a break.”
“Yes, I can.”
Cooper continues kissing her and nibbles on her neck listening to her moan. He takes off her shirt and bra while she takes off his shirt. She kisses his chest and stomach while he moans. “Beloved, that feels so good. I want you so bad. “Cooper undresses Belladonna and then himself. He takes her on the floor beside the couch. Not able to wait another moment for her. It’s fast and hard. They keep biting each other. Staying connected on what the other is thinking. They keep grabbing for one another. When they’re done, they are covered in sweat. They go upstairs and take a shower. Starting all over again.
Belladonna walks out of her second final on Wednesday. Cooper is leaning up against the wall waiting for her. She is still amazed that this overly attracted man is hers. She walks over and kisses him. Cooper holds her to make the kiss last longer. He lets go to end the kiss. He smiles at her and she can’t help but feel herself fall in love with him all over again. “You are awfully happy today?”
“I am. My wife is almost done with her fall semester of college. Then she’ll be almost done with college. She’ll have her degree. Have the job she wants. Have the life she wants. We’ll live happily ever after.”
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“I thought I was.”
“Come on let’s head back to the house.”
“I thought we could go do something first.”
“Okay what did you want to go do?”
“It’s a surprise but we have to stop by the house.”
“Okay I can handle that.’
‘I figured you could.”
The bed is a mess. The bedroom is a mess. Destiny is at Mercedes’ for the night. “I didn’t think the first part of my surprise was being locked up in the bedroom.”
“Did you mind it?”
“Not in the least.”
“Okay then don’t complain.”
Belladonna laughs. “You’re right.” She is putting on a white dress with a plunging neckline.
“You look beautiful.”
“Thank you. I’m trying to.”
“You have already succeeded.”
“I’m almost done then you can tell me I do.”
“You are already there, my Queen.”
“Thank you, my King.”
“We are never going to make it.”
“You can wait till we’re done. I’ll beg my King when we’re done.”
“You don’t beg me.”
“Really? Cause you got more than turned on by the prospect.”
“I may have but you never beg me.”
“How about in a playful way?”
“Belladonna?”
“Okay I won’t.”
“Don’t.”
“Okay.”
“Don’t.”
“I’m behaving.”
“I know you, beloved.”
“I have no clue what you’re talking about.” Belladonna wears a look of fake innocence.
“Let’s go.”
They go to a place deep in the forest. There is a gazebo covered in ivy, twinkle lights, and flowers. There is a small troll looking man standing under the gazebo. He has a large walking stick. Talia is there as a witness. They stand in the center of the gazebo holding hands. Their hands are joined with a white rope.
“Belladonna Edwards and Cooper McNeal are joined in love and light. Two souls brought together as one. May their union bring them happiness, love, and fidelity. May the King and Queen rule forever. What the Gods have brought together may no man put asunder. So mote it be.” Lightning and thunder is heard in the distance. The rope falls to the ground. Cooper and Belladonna put on wedding rings and kiss. Higo the troll looking man gives a wedding certificate to Cooper. Belladonna and Cooper thank Higo and Talia. They then leave to go home to celebrate.
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