Secrets in the Shadows

Chapter Twenty Three

Don't look at me like that!, Maev thought as she looked into his cold eyes.

She had waited for him, prayed for him and now he was standing there staring at her with such coldness that he was freezing her heart.

Maev pulled her hands away from his, cleared her throat, and then looked at him.

" Anyways you are here .. so I'll go back to my room …but first I will take a look at your wounds", Maev said as she started to lift his t-shirt.

" I didn't ask you to do that!", Kramer said pushing her hands away as he walked away from her.

" Can you stop acting like a brute!", Maev shouted at him. She was fed up with his attitude and the fact that he didn't care that she had waited up for him and had been worried sick about him.

Maev walked up behind him and grabbed his arm. Kramer turned and glanced at her over his shoulder. He muttered something under his breath and then removed his T-shirt. Maev saw the wound on his back, she looked at it closely, she noticed it wasn't a deep cut and as she ran a hand over it she heard him groaned.

Maev noticed that he was pressing his hand on his left hip.

" May I?", she asked looking at him pointing towards his hip. Kramer slowly unbuckled his belt and removed his pants. He stood there in his brief looking at her. Maev's face flushed, she gulped and bit on her bottom lip.

She kept her concentration on his wounds and approached him. She knelt next to him looking closer at the wound on his hip. It wasn't bleeding but it was turning a bluish-purple color.

" I need you to lie down and to remain calm ", Maev said and for once Kramer listened to her without putting up a fight.

Kramer laid down on the bed and Maev knelt close to the bed, one hand she held the necklace around her neck and the other she put it above the wound on Kramer's back, and then she moved her hand across his body to his left hip over a dozen times chanting some magic words.

Kramer swallowed the pain as her hands moved over his body. He felt his whole body was hot and felt a burning sensation in all his joints. He wanted to tell her to stop but when he turned to look at her she was lost in her magic and Kramer closed his eyes and rested his head on a pillow.

I have no choice but to trust her, he said to himself.

Whilst she was in her trance, Maev had some visions, she saw a few men standing around Kramer with a whip in their hands but Kramer couldn't see them. The magic used on him which had inflicted his wounds was one she had been told about by Mother Fae. "The darkest of sorcery by the rebels from the different kingdoms", Mother Fae's words echoed in her head.

They kill to get power by offering their victims to the devil himself and in return, they become more powerful.

Maev saw herself standing next to a woman and they were looking over Kramer and when that woman turned to look at her she saw herself but with a scar across her face.

Maev let out a small shout and then she passed out.

" Maev!", Kramer said anxiously as he hurried off the bed. He picked her lifeless body up on the bed. Maev looked pale and she was sweating, her whole body was cold. Kramer didn't know what to do as he felt she was still in a trance and he couldn't interfere with that, he gently caressed her face hoping that soon she will wake up. Suddenly her whole body felt cold, she wasn’t breathing and Kramer’s heart skipped a beat.

“ Maev, Maev, wake up”, he anxiously said gently touching her face. As if she could hear him she let out a deep breath and she slowly opened her eyes.

" Water", she whispered and she mumbled some other things but her words were not easy to understand and she closed her eyes again.

Kramer looked around the room, he didn't have any water left in his jug and he hurried to the door when it opened and a maid walked in with his dinner and a jug of water.

" Oh thank you Matilda", Kramer said as the maid put his dinner on the table and grabbed the empty jug.

The maid took a glance at Maev on the bed and then walked away closing the door quickly.

Kramer pour some water from the jug into a glass and put it close to Maev's lips. She slowly sipped some of the water and then smiled faintly at him.

Maev slowly sat up and soon her whole face was back to normal. She felt her nightdress was soaked and she wanted to remove it.

She slowly stood up and Kramer helped her.

" Where are you going?", Kramer asked her.

" To my room", she said softly her throat still a bit dry.

Kramer turned and walked away from her putting the glass on the bedside table.

Maev looked at his back,

" Your wounds have been healed", she said and she saw him looking at his hip and then looking at his back in the mirror.

" Thank you", He said not looking at her.

It was hard for him to say those two words to Maev but he was grateful for what she did for him.

" You don't have to thank me .. that's my gift.. to heal", she answered.

" Maev .. what happened.. why did you lose consciousness ?", Kramer asked.

Maev could still remember everything but she felt too tired to talk.

" We will speak in the morning... you need to rest as well", Maev said.

She walked to the door, paused, and looked at him before she walked away and closed the door behind her.

Kramer sat up in his bed, he couldn't sleep, he wanted to know what happened to Maev earlier. He wondered if he was caring more than he should. He got out of bed and walked towards the door, he slowly opened it and walked out towards Maev's bedroom. He hesitated before opening the door, holding the door handle tightly he pushed open the door and walked in closing it slowly behind him. He glanced around the room and noticed Maev lying down in the middle of her bed. He locked the door and walked towards her bed. He slowly sat down on the bed next to her and she stirred in her sleep. With her face now turned towards him, he noticed that she looked disturbed as if she was dreaming. Her face scrunched and tears started to roll down her cheeks.

" Maev, Maev", Kramer softly said her name and gently stroked her hair.

" Mother!", Maev shouted and sat up in bed. Her forehead beaded with sweat.

She turned and was startled to find Kramer next to her. She slowly reached out and touched his face thinking that he was just an illusion but when she realized that he wasn’t just a mirage, she quickly pulled her hand back and stared at him with a blank face as she wondered what was he doing here. Kramer gently grabbed her arm and pulled her closer towards him. Kramer hugged her and she slowly circled her arms around him, resting her head on his shoulder. Maev looked up at him and then she moved backward, she was getting a bit too comfortable in the arms of her enemy.

" What are you doing here?”, she asked as she narrowed her eyes and looked at him.

" I wanted to check up on you. Go to sleep ... I'll stay here with you", Kramer said and Maev looked at him with wide eyes.

" You stay.. here with me", she stuttered.

Kramer didn't reply he pulled her towards him and hugged her. Maev automatically smiled as she rested her face against his bare chest.

She looked up at him and she noticed his eyes were closed.

" Why are you looking at me? I said get some sleep", Kramer said and Maev bit her lips and smiled.

Then she wondered if he had locked the door, she didn't want someone to walk in here and find them together like that .. in bed.

She slowly got off the bed and walked to the door, she turned the key and noticed he had locked the door. As she turned to go back to bed, Kramer was standing behind her.

" Gosh doesn't creep up like that on me!", Maev said putting a hand to her chest.

Kramer didn't answer he just stood there and stared at her. Maev felt her legs were shaking as he kept staring at her.

Kramer walked towards her and she moved backward. He grabbed her with one arm around her waist and pulled her closer.

Their faces were almost touching and they looked at each other, she looked at his lips, she wanted to kiss him as she looked up at him.

" We should get some sleep", he whispered against her lips.

Maev felt that he was teasing her as he softly brushed his lips over hers, the light touch of his lips had her nerves going crazy and she felt her whole body trembling. She gasped softly as she felt his breath against her face and his lips brushing softly against the hollow of her neck. She felt her heart was racing and she couldn't wait any longer for him to decide if he wanted to kiss her or not, Maev put a hand behind his head and pressed her lips against his. She heard him groan softly as he kissed her back passionately with such an intensity that it made her dizzy. He walked backward and pressed her against the wall and ran a hand up her dress and when his hand grabbed her bottom she gasped. He picked her up and turn her around and he leaned against the wall. Maev wrapped her legs around him not breaking away from the kiss. He kissed her under her neck as she grabbed his hair and tilted back her head moaning softly. She had already aroused him to the point that he longed to be inside her but he felt his body was still weak.

"I want you so much Maev.. but a lot happened tonight. We need to rest", he whispered as he softly caressed her hair. She nodded yes, and then smiled looking at him as they leaned their foreheads together.

" I'm staying with you tonight", he said as he walked towards the bed holding Maev's tightly.

He slowly put her down on the bed and then made his way to the other side of the bed.

He got under the covers and pulled her closer. Maev laid her head on his chest and closed her eyes. Kramer slowly caressed her hair and soon he drifted off to sleep.