Chapter 16
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I sat on the sectional in the sitting room and got comfortable. Luke takes a seat on the other side of the sectional so he was facing me with only the coffee table as a shield. Zach comes in carrying a tray full of an array of alcoholic drinks and shots. Placing it on the coffee table he nods at me and leaves the room.
"Okay first..." Luke starts but stops when I reach for a shot sitting on the tray and quickly drink it. I motion for him to go on. He nods then grabs his own shot and downs it. "Okay first, What I did, even though it was to protect you, was against very strict laws put in place after the war. I can't take it back but do know that I am very sorry."
I look at him confused because I thought I'd already made it pretty clear that we were okay and I wasn't mad. "Thank you...." i reply unsure what I'm supposed to say.
" And I wouldn't blame you if you wanted to see me punished." I giggle thinking it was maybe some sort of dirty joke, like 'I need a spanking.' But based on the look he gave me I could tell he was serious.
"What are you talking about?" I snap a little bit.
"You can choose not to be married to me. If that's what you choose. Then I will be punished accordingly." Luke scoots around so he's a little bit closer to me but still 4 or 5 feet away.
"Anaya said I couldn't choose or it might kill me. Was she lying? " I ask. Luke looks up at me slightly with his piercing green eyes.
"She wasn't lying but it's a bit more ... magical than that." Luke smiles and then points at the mark on my chest. "Until that heals if you decide you do not want to be married to me you can say it and judgement will be passed."
My head was racing with a million little questions. Like what if you were just mad and said it out of anger? or what if I was physically unable to say the words like if I was gagged or unconscious? Then I realize that Luke is smiling wide as my facial expressions have clearly amused him.
"What?" I spout back.
"You're adorable when you're thinking. I can pretty much read your mind." Luke smirks moving closer to me.
"Oh ya? then what am I thinking?" I snear with an unserious tone.
"You're thinking that there are so many ways that could go wrong. All the different possible outcomes but, not the one thing that I think most people would ask."
"And what question is that?" I lean a little closer with a smug look. He was getting more and more handsome as I looked at him. Our kiss earlier had been interupted and I was dying to kiss him again. The kiss had felt like I had never actually been kissed before.
"What the punishment is." Luke slides a little closer until he was basically right beside me. Close enough to smell him. He always smelled amazing. I realize that everytime I smelt him or was near him I felt more and more drawn to him. It almost felt intoxicating.
"Okay, what's the punishment?" I ask with the small amount of flirting skills I have.
"Death." Luke smirks and leans in to kiss me. I freeze as I finally register what he just said to me. I push him backwards and snap.
"What the f**k Luke. You're telling me that if I decide that I don't want to be married to you then you will be killed." I can't believe he thought that was something he could drop and still be flirting.
"I mean, yeah. This hasn't happened before so Zeus decreed that if you were to fight the marriage, I would die as a means to end it. I won't be like executed, more just like cease to exist." And with that statement he makes a hand movement that seems to mimic a bomb while mouthing 'poof'. I couldn't understand how he could be so nonchalant about that.
"How are making jokes about this? You would die!" I almost yell at him, which seems to snap him out of the jovial mood he was in.
"If that's what you wanted, I would rather no longer exist instead of you being stuck with me." Luke said reaching over to grab my hand. "You're my soulbound."
What did he say? Soulbound? Josie said Alec was her soulmate not soulbound. Is that something different?
"Like soulmate? I thought I couldn't be one because I'm human." I ask.
"A soulbound is different. More powerful. It's reserved for very specific gods and it is ten times as intense. It feels like being on cloud 9. It's amazing how you can't feel it." Luke says grabbing both my hands in his and smelling my hand before placing a kiss on it.
"Why didn't you tell me before? The other girls knew right away and I felt broken. Like there was no reason for me to be here anyways. And then you told me to leave. Like what the hell? Why the back and forth?" I think I was just spouting any questions rattling in my head.
"That brings us to the second thing." Luke takes a deep breath clearly being more scared about this part than the prospect of death. " Set has made the claim that you are his soulbound as well."
"Absolutely not. There's no way I would ever be his soulbound." I laugh at the idiocy of it all.
"I know that but we are going to have to prove that I am your soulbound and not him." Luke looks up at me and then cups my chin, while looking into my eyes.
"How are we going to do that?"
"They would like to do a series of tests."
"Like what, like medical tests?" I ask.
"No, more like calling the dog to you and seeing who it goes to." He says with a sense of condescension at the whole thing.
"Oh, well that should be fine then." I say with an air of nonchalance as I can tell you I would never pick Set. My wrist still hurts sometimes from where he grabbed me at that last dinner.
"You amaze me. Your calmness shows how strong you actually are." Luke says while leaning in for a light kiss. I kiss him back moved by his words. However small they seemed, they meant alot to me. I had never felt strong. I always felt like I let everyone walk all over me because of how calm I reacted to things. More pushover than leader.
"Is that all you needed to tell me?
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