Blackheart

.V.

“Niha! Niha, wake up!” I heard someone practically screaming. I jumped out of my sleep, arms flailing, trembling, and crying.

“Can you hear me?” I asked.

As he cradles me and says that he can hear me through our mind link.

“Is this how it’s always going to be? She’s so weak it’s embarrassing.” I hear his thoughts.

“I’ll just take a mistress, and she shall bear my heirs.” My stomach drops at hearing his thoughts, but it is pushed to the back by the sudden pain in my chest, and my breath becomes shaky. My stomach erupts in this fiery pain, and I break out in a cold sweat.

“What’s happening to me?” I wheeze as Atto looks at me with an expression I can only comprehend as not good. He then looks at me after sending a quick mind link and smirks,

“You’re in heat, my love.” My eyes widen, and the pain expands. I try to move and run away, but Ivory stops me.

"You're a Lycan, our first heat comes right after marking and mating, then cycles itself like a period," she explains, "You need him to calm it down until we can regulate it ourselves." I glower at her for making me do what happened the night before without the full information. I hate what I had to do next. I throw myself into his chest, slamming my lips into his. As the kiss deepens, the pain contracts and is replaced by lust and 'love' for this man that belongs to me. I tear the shorts from his body while he tears his shirt from mine. He flips me over so that he is now in control, straddling me, teasing me, driving me mad until I beg for him to f**k me.

‘No. No’ is all he says as he continues to tease me, kissing my lips and continuing down, pausing at my mark to nibble on it, causing a long, deep moan to pass through my lips. He continues down, onto my n****e, and down my stomach until he arrives at the front door of his ‘Candy Shop’. Looking at me slyly, he licks his lips as he takes the first sweet taste of my flowing juices.

“Mm. Seems like the candy shop has too much juice,” he said teasingly whilst rubbing his nose on my c**t, “I’ll just have to drink some up before I open up the shop.” He sticks his tongue in, and I bite down on my bottom lip to stop the moan from escaping. “Take me.” That was all he needed to hear me say before going berserk, and Ash taking over.

I hated how he said that we had made up when he spoke to Ares. I have not forgiven him, nor will I ever. He was simply a necessity to me now, and as soon as he fulfilled his purpose, and I figured a way to manipulate the bond or sever it from my side, I was leaving.

“I know you’re awake, babe,” he said.

I flinched. Rising from the bed, I decided to let him hear my voice. Just this once.

“Thank you,” I said.

“Your wel-” he froze. “You spoke,” he said, almost as if he were asking rather than stating it. I nodded. I explained to him why I had done it, phrasing it in a way that made it look like building up my trust towards him, without giving away my true plan and intentions. He looked down at me, caressing my cheeks whilst his thumb outlined my lip, stopping where it had split.

“I am so sorry about this, Ororo,” he said, a single tear escaping his eye.

“Hey, why are you crying?” I asked, “I forgave you already, so stop beating yourself up about this.” I hugged him and pecked little kisses all over his face until he began laughing again. I look up at him, smiling, and I feel my heart ache. If only this were how we had started off, then maybe things could have been different.

“Well then, I have a surprise for you,” he said. I look at him, curious as to what the surprise is. “Let’s go have a shower,” he said, pulling me off the bed. As I step into the shower, the warm water rolls down my back, and my mind travels back to the night before. Without realizing it, my hand moves from my waist and up to the crook of my neck. I touch my mark and smile. Not a happy smile, but rather a seldom distant smile that will never reach my eyes. I was so deep in thought that I had forgotten Atto was there.

“Beautiful,” he whispered into my ear, jolting me from my thoughts. He laughs at my reaction, and I pout, climbing out of the shower. He climbs out as well. He picks me up and sets me down at the foot of the bed. I look at him pull on a pair of jeans and a vest, throwing his shirt over his shoulder.

“When did you finish showering?” I asked, crossing my hands over my chest.

“Whilst you were caught up in your thoughts, my lady,” he replies, taking my hand and placing a kiss on it. I look at him, curious to know what he has planned. “Come meet me in my office when you’re done,” he said as he pecked a kiss on my forehead and walked out of the room. I nodded as I watched him leave. Dropping my towel, I turned around to see clothes already neatly laid out on the bed. A navy blue short-sleeved dress, black lace panties, and a black lace-trimmed bra to match; a pair of galaxy-themed socks and navy-blue high-top Converse sneakers. I smile and begin dressing as he had gotten my style almost perfectly. I leave the room, closing the door behind me, making my way down to the second floor to Atto’s office. Thankfully, no one was there to notice, disturb, or stop me. As I rounded the corner to Atto’s office, a trail of ice traveled down my spine as I caught Zaria’s scent. I opened the door to his office and was met with twelve pairs of eyes, plus Atto. Zaria walks over to Atto, placing her hands on his shoulder, slowly moving them down his chest.

“Babe, what is she doing here?” she asked in that sickly high-pitched voice.

I growled, pointing at her. I roared, “Get your hands off my mate!”

Everyone in the room was shocked to hear me speak without moving my mouth — or rather, my ability to project my thoughts so it sounds like someone speaking. Atto smiles, but no one else sees it. Rebecca moves to me quickly, slapping me across my face, yelling, “How dare you b***h! My sister is about to become your luna!” I laugh hysterically, placing my hands over my eyes.

“You haven’t told them, Xavier?” I ‘speak’.

Rebecca goes red as I continue to smile, “Show some respect for your alpha and luna, you worthless trash!” she wails. Atto shoves Zaria’s hand away and stretches his hand out to me.

“Baby, come here next to me,” he said.

Zaria’s face drops as she watches the interaction between Atto and me.

“But babe, I’m already here,” Zaria whined. I laughed, taking his hand as he guided me around the table, pushing past Zaria. I plopped down on his lap.

“Oh, honey! You didn’t have to hide your mark,” he said, pulling my hair from my neck, revealing the mark.

“W-what?” Rebecca and Zaria stuttered out. The room seemed to have frozen; no one moved, no one spoke, or even dared to breathe.

“Yes.” Atto said to the elders present, ignoring Zaria and Rebecca, “This. Is your luna. And Zaria, you or any of your minions try to put your hands on her again, I’ll kill you myself.” I laughed through our mind link.

“So, this was your surprise,” I say through our link. Zaria storms out of the office, her sister following close behind.

“Midnight, Calypso, you two will be in charge of my mate’s personal security,” Atto says, and two people stand up from the couch. Midnight, I recognize, with his midnight black hair, blue eyes, and chocolate brown skin. The girl, however, I did not recognize, tho she looked exactly like Midnight, the only difference being that she had fuller lips than he did.

“Come on, let’s go shopping!” she said, pulling from behind the table and away from my mate. I looked at her curiously, wondering if she was Midnight’s twin, when she suddenly turned to me, a smile still on her face.

“Yes, I am Midnight’s twin sister,” she said, answering my question.