Whisper in the Dark

Chapter 15

Adult Content 18+

Alexa sinks back into the water. Not sure what she is to do. She freezes in her spot in the water, too afraid to move and decides to wait it out. Clearly her flight or fight response is not that great. She does not hear anything moving around her, suddenly she feels a hand on her shoulder, giving her such a fright, she launches froward. Before she could scream a hand covers her mouth to only make a muffled scream.

"Shhh, it is just me." She immediately relaxes in Ritro's arms. Thanking the stars, it is only him.

She turns around in his arms to look at him. "What are you doing here?" She quickly asks him.

"I can ask you the same. It is dangerous for such a young girl to be swimming naked at this time of night." Suddenly Alexa realizes she is naked in his arms.

She tries to swim away from him to get to her clothes, but he grabs her wrists and pulls her flush to him in the water. She can feel his hardness pressing against her thighs, he is big, and she can’t remember if he felt this big to her the previous time as well. She did not have any time to think or look but she can feel his beast pressing hard against her legs begging for attention.

"Listen, I did not want to leave things the way they were between us. I really like you, I really do. I am just concerned that I cannot give you what you deserve. Which is definitely not me. I am not a good man and I cannot promise you that I ever will be." Alexa squints her eyes at Ritro's confession. Is he being sincere? Her heart melts at his confession.

"What do you mean it is definitely not you?" Alexa can see the inner battle in his eyes.

"You are beautiful and you are clearly not of my species. I don't think that you belong with me." Ritro says these words while looking down between them.

“I know I am not of your species, but should that matter in the least bit? Can’t I make my own decisions about who I want to be with?” Alexa looks at him questionably.

“I guess you can. Even if the man is 30 years older than you?” He looks her in the eyes.

She feels like she is about to melt in this man’s arms and it is already so hard to concentrate on a conversation when they are both naked against each other in the water.

“Even then. I will not be told who and what I can do.” She says with utmost determination.

“You are still young. You should fall madly in love, have fun and still find yourself.” He says with a sincere look in his eyes.

“I am having fun and I have enough time for everything else still in my life.” He just nods and looks down between them at her breasts pressing against his chest.

“Damn, you are so beautiful!” She can see the illuminous glow of his tattoos starting to show as he looks at her, immediately her own arousal is sparked by his reaction to her.

She looks him in the eyes and takes her bottom lip into her mouth biting on it gently. He wants to tear that lip from her mouth and brings his face closer to hers until their foreheads rest against each other, gently kissing her until she lets her lip go and opens her mouth for him to gain access. His nose touches hers and they share a tense and heated look before Ritro closes his eyes and kiss her softly while his hands start to roam her body.

“You smell and taste so good,” he says into her mouth.

He moves to her neck and peppers her neck with sweet little kisses to her ears.

Suddenly the two hear a noise in the water and quickly move to the side of the river and run to their clothes.

~~

“WHO IS HE?!” She screams at Ronan.

“I do not know. My queen, you said you are going to monitor them yourself. Should I continue my duties and guard the girls?” His sarcastic tone does not please her in the least bit.

She calms down a bit. “No, I will take care of it.” She has let her guard down, now there is a man seducing Alexa. This can’t be happening. She needed them to stay pure. At least she could manage to avoid any s****l contact for now. She will need to watch them more closely otherwise her plans will be completely foiled if one of them lose their virginity. She won’t have it. If they do not fit into her plans, she might as well get rid of them now and avoid the disappointment.

“What would you like me to do my queen?” For a moment she has forgotten that Ronan is still standing in the room. She walks over to him and stares him in the eyes.

“Your job,” she says and turns around and walks away.

~~

He has been watching the girls attentively as his father has requested. So far, they have only been going about their business as usual. He keeps a close eye on Soraya. She has not said anything to anyone about what happened to her. He feels the remorse creep into his heart about what he did to her. This only to protect Marina. He ruined this girl for his own selfish reasons. He keeps on telling himself that it was for love but was it really or was it because he scared of his father. Maybe it is a bit of both.

He lurks in the water just off the embankment, as to not to be seen. He feels obligated to protect her after what he has put her through. He sees her coming from the tavern to come and fetch water. Her eyes look so sad. He feels even worse looking at her sadden expression.

She looks around before approaching the water. She is afraid of going to close to the water. This is his fault. She is riddled with fear because of him. She comes closer to the water and quickly scoops up the water before jumping back and walking back to the tavern. What has he done? He rests his head in his hands before quickly swimming off to return to his father. He can’t bear to watch her like this. Who says that he has impregnated her already? What if he didn’t, will his father then force him again to take her by force? He did not want to think about this right now.

~~

Soraya walks into the tavern and she cannot escape the eerie feeling that someone is watching her. She decides to ignore it and walks to the back to start cleaning the kitchen. She hates this job. The cooks are on purpose and will throw things deliberately on her clean floor for her to wash again. She does not understand why they have such hatred towards her. What did she do to deserve this kind of treatment from them?

She starts to wash the floor again for the fifth time today. Alexa walks in and grabs a sponge to start washing the dishes. Her mood has been too cheery today. Soraya stops with what she is busy with and looks around to see if someone is looking at them before she starts speaking.

“What is with the sudden mood change? Why are you so happy all of a sudden?” She whispers to her sister.

Alexa grins and looks at her sister.

“You look like you are in love. Wait . . . no don’t tell me you are in love with Ritro? Why? You just went and complicated everything for no reason. We are already in this shitty situation and then you have to go and fall in love as well. Please just tell me you haven’t slept with him?”

“Actually we did,” Alexa says shyly to her sister.

“I can’t believe you!”

The old grumpy woman peers into the kitchen and both girls pretend to be working. She glares at them for a while before going back out to the front.

“I can’t believe you!” Soraya is thoroughly annoyed by her sister’s stupidity.

“You are not one to judge after what you did. We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you.” Anger radiates from Alexa.

“I told you I am sorry; how long do you want to punish me for that? Do you not think that I beat myself up for it enough? I said I am sorry. How was I supposed to know that he would . . . he would,” Soraya tries to keep the tears back. She feels extremely guilty over what happened already and the only family she has left is not willing to forgive her.

“I will never forgive you for what you did. All of this is your fault and I do not need your permission to do anything. Your opinion is of no value to me. So leave me alone!”

Soraya is now crying over her sister’s harsh words. Their parents made them promise that they would take care of each other, but clearly that will not be the case. She is on her own. Alexa blames her for everything that has happened and there is nothing she says that would change her sister’s mind. Maybe everything that has happened to her is her curse to bear for what she did.

Soraya is now sobbing full on. She needs to compose herself. These people, if she can even call them that, does not care how rude they are to them, and she cannot handle being picked on as well. She quickly dries her face with her clothes and continues washing the dishes.

“You know, crying over something does not make it go away. It is what you do about it that changes things,” the voice says behind her.

“Excuse me?” She says not sure who is talking to her and quickly turns around to see the grumpy old woman staring at her.

“Oh, I am sorry. I am almost done here. I won’t take too long,” she quickly adds to avoid getting into trouble.

“You heard what I said. If you don’t like the situation, change it? You look like a smart enough girl. I am sure you will figure it out.” Soraya stood there stunned at the woman’s kindness. She just blinks not sure at how to respond.

“Now get back to work, there is still a lot to do before the day is over. Is the laundry done?”

“Uhm . . .”

“Stop stuttering and speak up girl!”

“Yes ma’am, I did it earlier today. It should be dry, I will quickly go and collect it.”

Soraya quickly exits the kitchen by the back door, still stunned at what happened just now. Did she hear her correctly? Did the old lady really show her compassion? She is baffled. Maybe it was just a weak moment, it was weird to see compassion from someone like that, that has only been working them to the bone. She quickly collects the washing and folds it neatly into the basket before heading in.

~~

“We need to go get them as soon as possible,” the old woman says to him. She has been impatient about this since she learnt about the girls being on Rusha.

“Not now. They are not ready yet. They are safe where they are for now. We will monitor them until the time is right. If we take them now a manhunt will be launched for them and we are not ready for it,” he says in a stern voice. They cannot afford to make a mistake. They need to be calculated and they need to be thoroughly prepared for the repercussions as soon as they take the girls. They won’t have a lot of time to train them before queen Vaneska will come for them. He will be prepared for her. He has not trained for 16 years for this for nothing.