Blood Marriage

Chapter Three: The Queen is doing what??

I threw a vase across my room as my attendants tried to soothe my temper. I am the beloved heir to the vampire thrown! I was so heart broken and I couldn't even fathom why. "Your grace please come and sit in the hot water. It will help you relax." Oh Cerina. My most loyal friend. I pinched the bridge of my nose and nodded. I allowed them to take me to my bathroom suite and undress me. The water burned my skin but soon it was a comforting heat. My muscles relaxed and they lit lavender candles. "You girls truly are the best. I'm so glad you came with me." They sat by me and talked to me about the prince and how many children I wanted. "I don't know. After this morning I don't even know that I want to stay married to him." "Your grace. Why not hear him out? Give him a chance to explain." "I suppose I could." After an hour in the tub, I dried off and put on a pair of fleece pajama shorts and a plain black shirt. I dried my hair then straightened it with the help of my ladies maids. I pulled my hair into loose pony tail and laid on my bed. This was not how I imagined I'd spend my wedding night. "Oh and did I mention he's claiming thirty children as his?" The girls all looked at each other and averted their eyes. "What?" "Well servants talk and....well." "Well what. Spit it out." I sat up in bed and glared at my smallest maid Bridgette. "Bridgette." I warned. "The queen recently announced that all females now belong to the prince and any children not born to him are to be killed. Though it's only females in the castle. All the females are now taking contraceptive potions or potions to hide the scent of their pregnancy. He's claiming the children so they are not killed." "But why do that? What does she gain?" "We don't know your grace. The other servants don't trust us yet." They all bowed as I waved them out. I laid there, watching the sun set when a knock on my door startled me. "Avarina. Please open up." I sighed. Now or never I guess. "Enter." Aries walked in and sat on my bed. "I want you to know that I'm investigating my mother's actions. And I"m so sorry for what you've had to endure while here so far." I rolled over onto my back and looked down at him with a sad smile. "I'm ok. My maids told me what they'd heard. I just can't believe that I've only been here two days and already this fragile truce is being threatened." "I will spread word that your maids are to be trusted. Mother wouldn't dare harm them." I nodded and let him hold my hand. "May I lay with you?" I blushed. "You are my husband." He smiled and crawled up the bed, laying down beside me. I rolled to face him and he pulled me against his massive chest. He pulled my hair bow out then fluffed my hair. "It looks different straight. I wonder what it would look like messed up form sex." We both laughed and I shrugged. I grazed my fangs against his neck, causing him to shiver and his... eh hem,  shaft to harden. He took a claw and traced my chin with it. "Are you ready? Do you want this?" I gazed into his eyes and smiled. "Yes. I want to mate with my husband. And bear him a true heir." I suddenly realized my words and bit my lower lip. "If you'r ready for children that is." He smiled and captured my lips against his. "After seeing a pup moving inside his mother's belly, I want them." He smiled and whispered, "Let's make a baby." I giggled and shoved his chest. "There is something I need to ask you though." "Yes my little bride?" "When vampires mate, they transfer their venom to their mate." He nodded. "Wolves do the same. It's like peeing on a tree to claim it as yours." I scoffed and held back my laugher. "Nice to know how serious you are." He winked and kissed me again. He sniffed my neck and I licked his. Soon kissing turned it to petting and petting turned into s*x. After the initial pain it was bliss. When I was ready and could take it, he let loose. Pounding into my core like an animal. No pun intended. As we neared our peek, we shared the last step in mating. The "Love Bite". We both held each other as our bodies seared with pain from the foreign venom coursing through our bodies. Once the pain subsided we spent the night mating and biting. He fed me his blood and I knew I'd never be able to drink form anyone else again. After we woke up the next morning I realized my sheets were covered in blood. My maids all smiled and winked at me as they cleaned and Aries was stuck to me like glue. He rubbed my belly and sniffed. "Your heat is in full swing this morning." That was all he said before we spent the day rutting like bunnies. After the last round, he laid with his head on my bell, nuzzling and kissing it. "I will pray every day that you get pregnant. I won't stop until your scent changes." "Well if I am, my scent will change in a few days." I watched as his eyes lit up and he nuzzled my belly more. "That soon?" I nodded. "Mhm. However we have nine month pregnancies instead of six months and we show after a few weeks." He became so thrilled he fell off the bed. We mated several more times through out the day so that he felt confident I took. "Anymore s*x and I'll break." He laughed and shrugged. Things remained peaceful for a few days but my scent never changed. I rubbed his shoulders and kissed him. "Maybe it just takes more time for interspecies mating." I felt his disappointment. We went to the castle doctor and got me looked at. "Ok. Blood work isn't showing anything. I'm not going to say no but I also can't say definitively that you are. Yours is the first vampire wolf breeding to knowingly take place. In the mean time, keep your stress low and just relax as much as possible just incase you are. Come back in a month and we will do another test my lady." We nodded and left with more questions than answers. Could we even conceive? I felt deflated but tried to keep my mood easy. I put my hand over my belly. *Please let me be pregnant.* I silently begged the gods. Over the next month, more rumors spread like wild fire through out the castle. Mostly malicious rumors about me and how I was barren. I swear some of these she-wolves are nothing but gossiping children. As I was walking, I suddenly felt tired. I yawned loudly and Cerina squeezed my hand. "Lets go back Ava. You've been very sleepy this week." I yawned again while letting her lead me back to my, well mine and my husbands room since he moved in. She helped me into bed and I quickly fell asleep. Aries, who also noticed my tiredness, called the doctor to check me out while I was sleeping. "Still not showing. My prince, maybe we should call a sorceress." I opened my eyes and grunted. "Go away or talk quieter." My mood had gotten more iffy as well. I thought I was just coming into heat again and ignored my body. When I woke, I found a female moving her hand across my body with her eyes closed. She placed her hand on my belly and smiled. "Congratulations." I sat up a bit, still groggy from sleep. "On what." I asked her while rubbing my eyes. She exposed my belly and pointed to the little bump that was starting to form. "Your pregnant your grace. And with a little boy." Inside I was shrieking with joy but on the outside I merely smiled and went back to sleep. I could hear them and listen for as long as I could. "I've seen pregnancies like this before. She won't show on any test but she will on an ultrasound. For some reason the blood doesn't show but her scent should be different now. If you need me, I've been allowed to stay here for the duration of her pregnancy." I could hear Aries's heart beat speed up. I knew he was worried for me, but I was fine. I rolled over and grabbed his hand. "Can you have the chef make me chicken Alfredo with ham and pineapple? Oh and bacon." He laughed and kissed my cheek. "Anything for you." He ushered the others out of our room and gave my order to a servant. He crawled in bed next to me and held my belly. "Our prayers were answered my love." I smiled and curled my back into his chest. Gods I was beginning to love this male. Maybe the queen would stop this nonsense now that I was pregnant. Or maybe she was just getting started.