The Lost Warrior Princess

Understanding the Bond

After a couple minutes the shower turns on and I decide to climb into the bed. I start thinking over what he said before he entered the bathroom. I don’t want things to change, We may have only known each other for a couple of days but I feel like I have known him my entire life. But I just can’t seem to get the worry out of my head that once Anya works out why I have a cloaking spell on me that he will leave and I will be left broken.

I lay in the bed while he is in the bathroom thinking about the spell that on me, the issue with Riley and Nicolas, the mission and how I haven’t been to the northern mountains pack since I was a child.

Yeah, never would have guessed that I came from the northern mountains pack territory. The Alpha’s son and I grew up together, I would run through the forest inside the boarder with him while he ran in his wolf. My family lived in a little house just outside the main pack town, the man I called father would grow and sell crops to the pack in exchange for protection. The woman I called mother would help in the pack house to cook. I loved going with her, I enjoyed being around all the younger kids. The older kids that were old enough to shift would let us ride around on their backs. I had never felt more free in those days before being taken. Gareth, the Alpha’s some was my closes friend, he and Leo the son of the Bete were always there with me to keep me safe. They were a few years older than me but they didn’t see to care that I was human and or that I was younger. I remember the look on their faces the day the recruiters came for me. The pain and sadness on their faces was heartbreaking. I still miss them but I have had to keep that information to myself, I didnt want to risk something happening to either of them because of me. I as a scared little twelve year old, I wanted to protect my friends. But unfortunately, I haven’t been back since the warrior recruiters came and took all the human children that had turned twelve that month.

I start wondering if things had changed much or not, if the pack was still the same. I hope they recognise me, It would be nice to be able to visit my family. Well, the people I thought were my family. I started wondering if Gareth and Leo had taken over the pack yet, would they still treat me the say after being away for so long, would they let me go and see my family?

I hear the shower turn off and my thoughts are interrupter by Nicolas coming out in nothing but grey track pants. I sit up on my elbows to get a better look, his black hair is still slightly damp and messy. My eyes slowly move down his body taking in his muscular arms and torso, all the way down to his toes and then back up. I’m so distracted by his body I don’t notice that he is watching me with a smirk. I feel my face warm up and know my face has gone bright red with embarrassment.

“You don’t have to be embarrassed.” He said still smirking. Oh my god, seriously what is wrong with me. I can’t believe I was staring at him like that. Like some stupid love sick school girl.

“Um... are you seriously not going to wear a shirt?” I ask still with a bright red face while I try not to look in his direction. He lets out a quiet chuckle.

“I always sleep like this when I actually sleep that is.” He says, I could tell by his tone that he has a smile plastered on his face.

“Well um...” my brain isn’t working to form words at the moment with the image of his shirtless body still in my head, come on get it together girl, do look stupid. You’re his mate for goodness sake.

“ I’m going to get some sleep.” Is all I can get out. I quickly lay back down and pull the blankets up so that my head is almost covered. I lay there under the blankets muttering to myself about how I am such a weirdo. Seriously, I see him half naked and all of a sudden my brain goes ‘well, you’re on your own girl’ like what? I probably looked like a total pervert just drooling over him. I groan to myself internally and just sink even lower under the blankets with my eyes closed. After a while I hear him moving around the room getting something out of his bag.

“Goodnight Luna, sleep well” I hear him say as I slowly drift off to a restless sleep.

I wake feeling movement on the bed, I slowly reach over and grab my knife before I move as fast as I can and press my knife to the persons neck.

“Luna, it’s me” I hear a familiar voice say softly as I feel a gentle hand over my own.

“N...Nicolas?” I stammer out his name upon realising that it was him that caused the bed to move not an intruder.

I look down and see the knife in my hand that I have pressed to his throat. Oh my god, I almost slit his throat. I quickly pull my knife away from his neck and drop it on the bed. I can’t believe that I attacked the prince, the future king of the vampire kingdom and my mate. I almost cut his throat without even thinking, I can’t even get any words out. I realise Nicolas is still holding onto my hand and is rubbing the back of it in soothing motions.

I look down at our hands and realise mine are shaking, we sit there for what seems like hours while I watch him soothing me. After a while my hands stop shaking. I move my gaze to meet his as he watches me and my internal reprimand. As I look into his stunning green eyes realise that I had straddled him to pin him down in the moment of attacking him. I try to move off of him but he puts his free hand on my waist and stops me from being able to move off of him.

“Um....N..Nicolas? W...what are you doing?” I ask while staring into his eyes. They are even darker then they were earlier when he had walked in on me getting dressed after my shower, Now his eyes are almost black.

“I didn’t mean to scare you” he replies. “Are you alright?”

“I...I’m fine.” I tell him, “I’m sorry I attacked you.” I feel ridiculous, I’m meant to be keeping him safe and here I am almost slitting his throat.

“Don’t be.” He says, I notice his hands have moved to the tops of my thighs. He slowly rubs his thumbs on the tops of my thighs and slowly sits up so that we are face to face. He takes in a deep breath as he moves his head into my neck, he was deeply against my skin and appeared to be smelling me. “You smell amazing”

“Wh..what?” I ask with wide eyes, I can feel his breath against my neck. It’s so intoxicating having him this close. I feel his lips graze my neck and I feel my breath catch in my throat as I feel his lips kiss my neck. I hear a little groan rumble through his chest as he pulls away from my neck. Before I can even register what is happening his lips are on mine and he is kissing me, it’s a tender but passionate kiss. I slowly move my hands to wrap around the back of his neck and my fingers snake up into his hair as one of his hands moves to the back of my head and his fingers tangle into my hair and the other moves to my back as he pulls me in closer to deepen our kiss.

I feel his tongue moving agains my lips as we kiss asking for entry into my mouth, I deny him entry into my mouth only for him to pull my hair enough to make me gasp, allowing him to move his tongue into my mouth and explore every inch of my mouth. Things start to get more heated as his hands start to explore my body, he moves his hand that was on my back to my ass and pulls me even closer to him. I let out a moan as I feel his grip on me gets tighter, I start kissing him with more ferociousness and passion as my grip on him increases as well. He lets out a growl and spins us so that he is on top of me in between my legs. He breaks the kiss and we are both breathing heavily gasping for air. Our eyes are locked on each other and his eyes are pitch black. I put my hand on his cheek as I stare into his eyes.

“your eyes, they change colour. They are black now, earlier they were a bright emerald green. Why does that happen?” I ask while still looking up into his eyes.

“My eyes change based on my emotions or if I have fed recently on fresh blood.” He replies still laying over the top of my body.

“What emotion makes your eyes black?” I ask, even with his eyes being black they are still breath taking.

“They are black because I’m aroused.” He replies bluntly.

“What?”

He placed his hand on my cheek stroked my face with his thumb gently.

“My eyes are black because you arouse me my little mate.” He says again.

“Oh, um.” I’m not sure what to say, its not like I feel comfortable to be like ‘oh thanks, I know I’m a sexy piece of ass’ that would just be over the top. He smiles at me as I feel my face get even more flushed. “ so, um, what does this mate bond thing do? Is it like a super charged attraction? Is that why I feel a pull towards you?” I say trying to change the subject. I was so not ready to have that kind of conversation. I was never interested in guys let alone ever wanting to kiss any.

“The mate bond isn’t just an attraction, it’s a bond between two souls that were made for each other, there is a pull of sorts but humans normally don’t feel it. I knew you were my mate the first moment I saw you but it seemed that you weren’t feeling the same thing so I thought I would just keep some distance and get to know you at a humans pace instead of the speed supernaturals usually complete the mating. I hadn’t wanted to tell you until we had gotten to know each other at least a little better but things didn’t really work out that way. If what Anya says is correct and you are some kind of supernatural it means that once the spell is lifted you will feel the mate bond and know I’m your mate. Because it’s becoming more and more difficult to resist completing the mating process with you, you’re just so tantalisingly beautiful.” He says in response running a finger over my scared neck causing me to shiver. “Sorry it’s a lot to take in with everything that is going on already.”

“It is a lot but I guess it would make sense though, I can’t deny that I feel some kind of pull towards you and you make me feel emotions I haven’t ever felt before.” I say looking up at him with a blush to my cheeks.

“And I with you, I feel more alive when you’re around. The more I’m around you the more the pull draws me to you and I don’t want to stop being close to you.....” he says looking at me with mixed emotions.

“Well.... um... can I ask you something?” I ask him. He looks at me with surprise now and starts to smile at me.

“Anything,” He says with a smile.

“Well... um, I’m just curious. . . How old are you? You said you were over a hundred years old but didn’t actually say exactly.” I ask a little embarrassed that I didn’t ask that question sooner.

“I guess you will find out eventually so, I’m a hundred and thirty years old, give or take. I don’t really keep track, there are only so many birthdays I can deal with. My mother likes to throw parties every year but I find them quite boring.” He says pulling me into a hug. I wrap my arms around him as well, he felt so safe to be with. Like all my life I had been in the dark unable to see or feel anything until I felt his touch. I never believed in true love until I met Nicolas, he has shown me so much care in such a short time.

“It’s late, we should get some sleep.” Says as he pulls away and lays on the bed next to me pulling me into his chest.

“Um hold on, you can’t just tell me you’re a hundred and thirty give or take and then expect me not to have even more questions. Like seriously I’m not even eighteen yet and your like a hundred and ten years give or take older. Like wow, talk about dating an older man. Like is there expectations you have of what you want me to do? Do you expect that I’m just going to throw myself into the throws of passion and lust and give you the best s****l high of your life? Because I’m so not going to be rushing into any of that.” I was rambling, I know I am but this needed to be put on the table straight up. I was not ready to ditch my clothes and do the horizontal tango. No sir.

With a calm expression on his face Nicolas says in reply

“I would never force you to do anything like that if you didn’t feel comfortable. I am happy to be close to you in what ever way you like, and seeing as you are not of age in human laws, you are most certainly not legal in Vampire laws either. Unless you are one hundred percent and it is with your mate, but . . . I don’t think you would be even remotely close to being ready for what I would really like to do to your beautiful little body.” He said with a mischievous smirk playing on his lips as a wave of blood rushes to my face from embarrassment. Wow, he is being really understanding. I thought he would have been upset that he would end up with blue balls from my denying him a release. But he just kept looking at me with such care and love in his eyes. Wait, does he love me already? Surely not, it’s too soon for that. I’m broken from my thoughts by him clearing him putting a finger under my chin to make me look into his eyes again.

“Now, my beautiful little mate it is time to sleep.” He moves so that his face in laying close to my hair and I hear him take in a deep breath of my scent. He rests his arm gently around me and I feel the tingles running up my back as we fit perfectly together. I smile and say my goodnight to him and sign feeling safe in his arms as I close my eyes and drift back off to sleep. I’m not sure how long before sleep takes me again but before I finally fall into a deep sleep I hear Nicolas say “I will always protect you my Luna, Always.”