Alastair had me trying dresses for the remainder of the day. All of the gowns were beautiful but I settled on a full length silk dress with lace sleeves, the back of my dress was cut out until the top of my butt, it was lined with lace as well. The heels were gold strappy ones. Alastair had given me a hair piece of white gold, it had 5 little rubies at the top. He said that it use to be his mothers and she would have wanted me to have it the first night I was being introduced to our people as their Queen. That isn't what made me nervous though. What made me nervous was Alastair had to take his soul back and mark me to complete the ceremony turning me into one of them. The pain is what I fear most of all.
In the last few days I have been here I have seen the good, loving, caring side of my mate and I have seen flashes of his dark, sadistic side. I do fear once I am one of his kind he will change into a hard man. I can't go back to living my life in fear like I did with Frank. I won't do it.
"Love, are you alright?" he asked coming up behind me. He placed a kiss to my neck before turning me around facing him.
"Yes." I said, it was a lie but I also didn’t want to risk making him angry with my thoughts. I heard him take a deep breath. He placed his hands on my hips giving them a little squeeze.
"Your lying to me. I can see it in your eyes." he said with his eyes narrowing in on me. "Please don’t lie to me and I promise never to lie to you. Deal?"
"Deal." I said, I looked at him seeing he was standing there waiting for me to explain my fowl mood. "I am scared.. Scared you will turn on me once you have yours soul and I am one of you." I didn’t look at him. I could feel the anger running through his body. He took both hands lifting my face up so I was looking into his eyes.
"I would never hurt you, I am not using you just to get what I want. Even when I have my soul I wont have all of it. You will keep half of it with yours so we know were each other are at all times, we will feel what the other is feeling. Your my mate, I will never leave you and you will never leave me." he said before leaning in to kiss me.
We heard a firm knock to the door before two women entered with supplies in hand.
"Oh my King we are sorry, we came to do our Mistresses hair and make up before the gathering." the lady said looking to her friend.
"It's fine." he said giving me a kiss. "Don't put to much on her and leave her hair down." Than he was gone. I turned looking at the ladies with a smile.
"Thank you for coming." I said.
"Your more than welcome Mistress. We are honored to serve you." the first lady said. She started walking quickly towards me with her hand out "I am Lilly, this is Gabby." Before she had the chance to get close Shuck jumped in front of me ready to defend. I placed my hand on his back calming him before he moved to lay back down. The ladies visibly shaken moved slowly to set their things up. At first they worked in silence looking at each other every so often. Finally Gabby broke the awkward silence.
"We are very relieved he has finally found you Mistress." she said with a smile still working on my hair. "He has been in a much better temper since you arrived home." She let out a gasp as Lilly smacked her.
"Please forgive her my Mistress." Lilly said looking afraid.
"There is nothing to forgive, I do not mind." I said. They both visibly relaxed.
Another 2 hours passed before they were finished with my hair, make up and helping me with my dress. Gabby took the hair piece Alastair gave me and placed it nicely on the left side of my hair.
"You look Beautiful Angel." Alastair said startling all of us. I turned to see him wearing a black tux, his hair was slicked back.
"You look handsome my mate." I said with a smile. He puffed his chest out and gave me a radiant smile.
"Are you ready?" he asked holding his hand out to me. I walked over taking his hand as we walked out of the room down the hall into the ballroom. There was so many people there, so many eyes landing on me. Than everyone erupted into a loud applause an cheer. Alastair could feel my heart beat getting faster. He took my hand tucking it into his arm leading me to our table. We spent the rest of the evening eating, drinking and talking with everyone who approached our table.
"My Queen." a very young man said bowing, next to him was a beautiful man and than the other was stunning but there was something dark in his eyes. They all stood from their bow looking at me intensely. "I am Victor the lord of the Vampires, this is Rowen the lord of the Dark Elves and finally this is Evan the lord of the Dark Faye. We are pleased to meet you. We wanted to thank you for restoring our faith." They walked away just as quickly as they appeared.
"What does he mean restoring their faith?" I leaned over asking Alastair.
"They have been without their mates for almost as long as myself, we all were at the breaking point ready to give up. Until you. Finding you made them all find their hope again." He said leaning in to place a kiss on my lips.
"Do their mates hold their souls too?" I asked brushing my fingers over the back of his hand.
"Yes my sweet Angel, and if they do not find their mates before they pass, my lords will parish soon after." he said hanging his head low.
"Than we need to do everything we can to help them my love." I said with a determined look on my face. He looked at me with surprise.
"What did you just call me?" he asked. Before I was able to answer a loud crash came throw the ball room. We all stood looking around, than before I could blink I was being thrown across the room. Everything hurt, I wanted to scream but I couldn't.
"I've got you my Queen, Please keep your eyes open." Victor said as he picked me up racing me out of the ballroom. Into mine and Alastair's room. He closed the door with a kick, rushing to the bed laying me down. He put his wrist in front of my face making my drink a very thick irony liquid.
"Where is Stuck? Where is Alastair?" I demanded pushing him away. I wiped my hand across my face finding there was blood. "What did you just feed me?"
"My Queen, I will explain later for now I need to go help the King. Please stay here." he said before running out of the room. I went the door leaning out slightly and whistled. Shuck came sprinting around the corner towards me.
"Let's go help your daddy." I said with smile. He jumped up and down with an excited bark. I grabbed one of the axes hanging on the wall next to our door. We ran down the hallway making our way into the ballroom, there were bodies flying in every direction, I placed my hand on Shuck.
"Find Daddy for me my sweet boy." I said before he started guiding and killing everything on our path to my mates side. We cleared the crowd when we saw he was on his knees beaten with a very large man standing over him. Victor, Rowan and Evan where all being held back, they fought agaisnt their holds but with every move one of the men would strike. I slowly and quietly made my way behind the small leaving shuck to attack from the front. I raised the axe above me head and swung it hard enough to snap a log in half. The axe landed in the large mans Knee, he feel screaming as Shuck jumped on him ripping at his face, throat and limbs until there was no life left in him. I ran over to Alastair ripping the axe from the mans leg, I stood near my mate ready to hurt anyone who came towards us. Shuck glued himself to my side ready to defend me. The men holding our friends released them as they backed away slowly. Before the could get to far the guards who remained grabbed them dragging them to the cells below. I dropped to my knees holding Alastair's face in my hands.
"Please come back to me." I begged, placing a soft kiss to each eye. "I love you, please do not leave me."
His eyes started fluttering open. As soon as he saw me his arms snaked around me crushing my body into his. He looked me grabbing my face and pressing his lips to mine, this kiss was passion, lust, fear, love. So many feeling wrapped into one kiss.
"I love you my Beautiful Strong Mate" he said with tears falling from his eyes.
"I love you too Alastair. I thought I was about to lose you." I said crying myself. "Who was that man? Why did he want to kill you?" Clearing the tears from my eyes with the pads of his thumbs he took a deep breath.
"That was King Garret of the Werewolves." He started standing taking me with him "He has wanted My kind and the other dark realm creatures to bow down and die. I wouldn’t agree to his requests so he decided it was time to remove me from power, to remove me from my people."
" I am happy he is dead than." I said hugging my mate.
"Who killed him?" Alastair looked at his friends faces, than to his warriors.
"Our Queen weakened him, and her hound finished the job Sire." one of the said. I felt Alastair's grip tighten around me, I looked up at him with a small 'Please forgive me' smile.
"My sweet little mate saved me?" he said with a smile. "I am lucky to have such a good mate." He picked me up, turning to his men telling them to clean up the mess, and prepare the prisoners for exaction before taking my upstairs. Once we made it up, he sat me on his feet turning to close the door. But he waited for Shuck to sprint in before closing and locking it. I walked over to my loyal boy wrapping my arms around his neck giving him a ton of puppy kisses.
"Your mommy's good boy aren't you?" I said, as if to say yes he gave me a big wet kiss across the face before going to lay down by the fire. I looked up just in time to see Alastair stocking towards me with a determined look. I stood up waiting for him to reach me. He grabbed my face pressing his lips to mine, I wrapped my arms around his neck, he pulled away just enough to rip my gown off leaving me standing in nothing but my underwear and high heels. He stepped back looking at me with a greedy grin. I walked to him, grabbing his shirt and ripping the buttons open, I smiled as I kneeled unbuttoning his pants pulling them and his boxers down until he was able to kick his shoes and pants off to the side. I grabbed his hips while I placed small wet kisses to the tips of his d**k, licking I could tasty his sweet pre c*m, I wanted all of it. I wrapped my lips around him taking him as far as I could bobbing back and forth before lightly gripping his balls. I worked him back and forth, sucking in tightly flicking my tongue over his tip. I felt his body go tense as he climaxed, I took all of it and still wanted more.
"You taste good love." I said as I stood wiping my lips and smiled.
"Your mine." he growled picking me up and throwing me to the bed. He pulled me down to him as he kneeled at the end of the bed, he spread my legs open placing his lips agaisnt the most sensitive part of me, I pushed my head back and my chest up letting out a moan. He sucked my c**t into his mouth rubbing his tongue in a figure eight before slipping two fingers inside me, he started pumping back and forth quickly, I could feel my climax rushing through my body building until it exploded through my body, causing me to squeeze my legs around his head throwing my head back more.
"Alastair" I screamed. I felt him growl as he pulled away from me, climbing up my body before planting a kiss to my lips.
"You taste good to Angel." he said as he kept placing soft kisses to my cheeks and neck. "Now I am going to make you mine for all eternity."
"Yes, Please." I said with harsh breathing. Before I could catch my breath his was inside me with one smooth hard thrust. I let out a loud gasp, feeling him fill me, feeling him pulling out and pushing back in was euphoric. Nothing I have ever experienced compared to this.
"I need to mark you my love." he said. I didn’t say anything out loud I just nodded moving my head to the side so he would have better access to the spot he wanted to mark most. He placed kisses licking the his favorite area before he took a deep breath biting down, I felt fire rushing into my veins, I could feel his soul peeling itself from mine but not completely, I could feel his fire nipping at my skin, his pace quickened causing my climax to quicken, both he and I had our release together as one, me milking him for everything he had, him marking me skin to show others I was not to be touched. He released my neck looking down at me with a soft smile, his eyes full of love and awe. I smoothed his hair out of his face.
"I love you." I said.
"And I love you Angel." he replied with a kiss. He left me laying there for a moment and came back with a damp towel to clean me up before tucking me under the covers climbing inside next to me, wrapping his arms around me pulling my into his chest where I stayed letting the call of sweet slumber take hold of me.