Mated Enemies

I felt and sensed the word even as I called on all my powers to shield. I can’t let him know what I’m thinking, not now when there’s no escape for me. I have to think, have to find a way to get away from him, to get my sisters away from here where he can find us before he turns whatever murderous rage he may feel at my disappearance onto them.

The way he was looking at me as if trying to see into my mind and failing told me that my little trick had worked. I’d forced myself to think of a flowering meadow. It’s a meditation exercise I’ve used throughout time to calm me down when I need it most.

“I’m not here to fuck you tonight Natalia so settle down.” The way he says that word in his cultured tone does something to me, something not at all unpleasant but very dangerous.

“Why are you here then?” I was surprised at the level of calm in my own voice because it was taking everything in me not to let my limbs shake.

“I came because like I said, we don’t have a lot of time left. A little more than a day in fact. I’m here to help alleviate your fear and so that you can get use to me. After tomorrow this will no longer be an issue, but we both know that our first coupling is the most dangerous for us both.”

I played along like I was really giving serious thought to going along with something that could potentially bring about my death. But I couldn’t be too obvious either or he’d catch on, so I voiced some of my very valid fears.

“What if something goes wrong? What if you go too far…”

“Because if you’re hurt in any way, I will feel pain.” I didn’t know that, I thought that only came after a mating. My look of disbelief must’ve alerted him to my thoughts.

“It’s true! You should know by now that every mating is different. But I think when I bit you playfully last night I might’ve given you just a little bit more of me than I’d intended to.”

“You see, isn’t that what happened before, with…”

“No one knows what really happened between your ancestor and mine.”

“But she died…”

“Yes, and he spent the rest of his life locked away from the world in pain. But no one really knows what happened between those two because he’s never spoken of it. We know the end result, which is horrible, but no one knows about the lead up, what was done, what was said, that lead those two to the end they encountered.”

“Since no one knows how can you be so sure that it won’t happen to us?”

“Because, like I said. Any pain or harm that comes to you, I will feel it tenfold.” I wish he would stop playing with that mark, it’s torturously sexy and makes me want to…

I pulled my mind swiftly back from those thoughts, knowing that just one whiff of my sexual heat on the rise and he’d pounce. So I played along, nodding my head where I needed to, answering nonchalantly when a nod was not enough.

It’s a shame though, that I can’t have him. He’s about the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen and I’ve been around for thousands of years so I’ve seen all kinds. Even with all the danger I had to force myself not to get swept away by the look in his eyes and the way his lips moved when he spoke. Mesmerizing!

Lucien

She’s going to run, dammit! I felt it as soon as she had the thought but she pulled that trick with the flowering field as if I were a green wet behind the ears moron who couldn’t see through that shit. I gritted my teeth and played along, not letting on that I could see right through her.

I understood her fear and it was my own need to protect her, to make her come to me on her own without fear that was dragging this thing on more than it needed to be. The thing is, I was raised to be this way; can’t go against my nature.

Whether she’s my woman or just some stranger I happened to run across, I’ve been raised to protect all members of the immortal world as if they were my own, because they are. And none more so than she!

In the days ahead my whole world will revolve around her, I’m programmed to be that way. Not that I’d become a mindless idiot who follows her around with my tongue hanging out of my head. Or like some of my human brethren, give up my balls and let her walk all over me.

But I will in fact treat her like the most precious being in the universe and as such put her wants and needs before anything else including mine. Of course I’m not going to tell her that shit I’m not stupid. But as time goes on she’ll learn for herself.