Not Your Typical Billionaire

Surprise

The ball is in 3 days but I still haven’t found a dress, after the whole thing with Sharon and Luke. I have completely given up on finding a dress that I like enough to wear to the yule ball. Not to mention I kind of forgot about the ball, with everything going on lately I just want to get this over with so I can for about this year. Although I have just been studying and working on the potion, I did convince Sharon to take up yoga or mediation. If nothing else she’s scary when she gets upset with I understand why making her not frustrated or upset is a must. She loses control of everything, lucky no one got hurt so the priestesses never heard of what happen.

I did tell Ezra and El because they need to be careful when just being in a room. We’ve been staying with Ezra, because he feels it more save at him place with his added security. He was furious when I told him about Luke, probably as mad a Sharon was. The sound of door opening to his office caused me to jump up from my thoughts; I have been trying to work in his office since he never really gets to use it. He’s okay with me using it but I can tell he wants to be in here to help me workout these kinks of the spell. Sharon and I have put together our plan on how to trick him into eating it; we plan to do it after the yule ball and before the New Year.

I turned to see him walking in the room, he is holding a blanket in his arms and some fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. Oh did I forget to mention that Ezra is an awesome cook. He’s never really home to hire someone so he learned himself. He mostly cooks for when he’s on vacation at his parents’ house or just having a day off. I do help him cook every so often but he mostly likes to cook alone and surprise me with something. This man is freaking perfect, he can cook, he’s a doctor, and he doesn’t have some dark thing he did in his past coming back to haunt him. I mean come on it has to be something about him that’s not healthy or makes him a little bit more realist right?  I haven’t been able to find it,

“Hey it’s time for a break; I made cookies and brought a blanket for cuddles.” He said

“Only if we can pick up on where we left off last time.” I said turning back to my mortar and pestle.

“What about?” He asked sitting next to me on the floor placing the cookies in front of me blocking my book. “About the mating thing?” he asked I turned my head to him smiling before I nodded softly.

“We left off at step 2, I know the first step is selecting them by… proposing?” I asked as he wrapped the blanket around my body, he pulled me onto his lap wrapping his arms around my waist.

“No, to complete the first you select them by telling them. Frist step is quite easy to do, just let them know you love them and you want to spend the rest of your life with them. Now remember this step isn’t permanent, it’s only permanent if you complete the next three steps.” He said

“How many steps are there?” I asked

“It’s only 4 steps and the last three can really be done at the same time. So it’s almost like 2 steps.” He said as I grabbed a cookie, he started rubbing my thighs. “So with step 1 being communication the next step is exchanging of blood. It doesn’t have to be a bite per say but it allows the pair to be able to sense each other’s emotions and go into dreams and memories. Of course it has to be consenting; otherwise a lot of people would be unhappy with their mates breaking that trust. Also something interesting is that you can only do steps 2 and three after the age of consent. So no children are making that mistake of picking their mates before they even hit the age of 16.” He said as I started to eat the cookies; that makes complete sense because everyone has crushes and if you don’t know the difference between a crush and true love. It will create a lot of unhappy families.  

“So what is something that made you pick me? We were only five and I know for a fact your parents weren’t happy to hear that.” I said

“My mother was happy I picked you, my father has never met you so he doesn’t know anything about you.” He said as I pulled his hands off my thighs, my boyfriend has a real habit of when I’m sitting on his lap to squeeze my thighs and smack on them like their bongos. He luckily only does it when he’s deep in thought about something but he’ll do it just to annoy too. “Why I picked you? Hmmm I picked you because even though you looked like a homeless kids who had been through something traumatic. You looked so pretty, and when I got you to trust me enough to talk to me and play in the sand with me. You just had so much pride and innocence in you, were also humble and kind even though you had a rough home life.” He said before resting his hand back on my thighs.

“Okay but tell the truth… why me?” I asked he chuckled before resting his head on my shoulder, ew he just had blood before he came in here. I can smell the cooper on his breath that is one huge turn off about dating a vampire. Unless they brush their teeth right after feeding they smell like cooper.

“I picked you at the age of 5 because it was just something about you that I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my long life figuring out.” He said

“Something about me? Like what?” I asked

“Don’t know I still haven’t found it yet,” he lied I shook my head as he started to lightly pat my inner thighs. He wants to tell me but he doesn’t know how to just, I’ll give him time but I do want my answer before we continue into the process. “So anyways a lot of couples wait until marriage to continue their next 3 steps. It makes it nice and smooth after that because if you can honestly say you want to be with them forever. 90% of couples that do it like this they have cups and a blade at their ceremony. They just make a small cut in their palms before pouring it into the cups to just enough to get a taste. They swap cups and drink before continuing with the ceremony.” He said

“Can we find some other way to swap blood?” I asked he chuckled slightly before placing a kiss on my shoulder.

“We won’t do it at the wedding ceremony,” he said I pulled away from turning to face him. Why the heck not? Does he not plan on marrying me? Maybe he just wants to shack up until I die, that’s rude of him. “I can see those little wheels turning in that head of yours. With you being a witch I know you guys have special traditions that are required to be met at the wedding ceremony. We’ll do the blood exchange in private away from everyone maybe like a year before the ceremony.” He said

“It doesn’t wear off?” I asked he shook his head before pulling me closer to him. “So can we do it different from cutting ourselves?” I asked

“What did you have in mind? I can draw some of both of ours at the hospital and save it for that special night.” He said

“Okay that’s an idea now try it without the needle.” I said he started laughing before tossing his head back. “How about you draw your blood for me and I find another way.” I said

“Like what my queen?” he asked

“I don’t you can suck on my bloody tampon.” I said shrugging he started laughing again this time letting go of me so he could lay his back on the ground to continue laughing. Okay that was a little weird telling my vampire boyfriend to suck my tampon.

“I swear if I could I would marry you right now, you keep me on my toes you call out my bs. You’re funny, yet so serious all of the time, you’re such a savage yet you can be so innocent sometimes. I hope our children taken after in every way possible.” He said sitting back up he wrapped his arms around mine lacing his fingers through mine. “I want to hold you like this for all of eternity.” He said placing a kiss on my neck.

“You want to hold this train wreck forever?” I asked biting my lip before flipped me around on his lap so I was facing him. I knew that statement would start a fight, but honestly this dude is freaking perfect. I want to know what his is flaws because this is just crazy how I am such a mess. Heck even Sharon has killing her family and having to meet her destiny of helping us with the human world whatever that freaking means.  

“You are not a train wreck, you have your baggage dear but everyone has something about them. Yours was years of abuse, Elena’s is her autoimmune disease, with”—

“What’s your baggage? You seem perfect to me. I’ve been looking for a flaw in you since the party. You can’t just say there is no baggage because you said so yourself everyone has something about them.” I said pushing away from him, he groaned before running his fingers though his hair. I should probably cut his hair tonight before we go to bed; it’s getting too long for him again.

“I haven’t talked about my baggage in so long, but there is another reason I got into the medical field. I want to help people instead of hurting people”— the door to his office opened we both turned to see a man maybe 20 years older than Ezra glaring at us. His chocolate brown hair and is neatly comb back into bun with his sides shaved. His hazel eyes were piercing through the now tension in the room.

“Ezra get up this instant and come say hi to your mother.” The man said

“Father, can you give me a minute, I’m busy with”

“You’re little toy can wait okay, your mother is excited to see you.” He said before closing the as he walked out.

“You’re parents are here?!” I asked jumping off his lap.

“I guess so; I really got to change those freaking locks.” He said standing up he straighten out his shirt before holding out his hand for me. “I’m sorry I didn’t know they were coming.” He said as I took his hand I stood up securing the blanket around me, I’m glad I wrapped his around me the way I did. Otherwise Ezra’s father would have seen me in my underwear and in one of Ezra’s work shirts.

“I’m going to go hide in my room.” I said before walking past him, he grabbed my around pulling closer to him.

“No, put on pants can come down to meet them. I’m sure my siblings are here as well, I don’t want you hiding from my family. I already made up my mind that I want you.” He said

“Fine, give me a minute to make myself look nice. I still have my hair in my knots and I’m still in my underwear.” He smiled before leaning down to place a kiss on my forehead. “Can I wear heels in the house?” I asked Ezra has a rule of no high heels in the house. I think it’s because he likes to tower over me. He likes carrying me around in his arms or on his back, he’s going to make a great father to some little girl one day.

“Fine, but thing too fancy,” He said I squealed before jetting out of his office and into my room down the hall. I quickly slipped on a clean-lined and cropped for a chic look lime green jumpsuit features a matching self-tie belt with pops of metallic on the belt tip. The wide cropped legs showed off my chucky black strap shoes. I decided to leave my hair in the knots because I don’t want to take 30 minutes to style my hair. I hope this isn’t too fancy to meet them; well it was a surprise visit.

“I guess I’m meeting my boyfriend’s family today.” I said to myself, I let out a shaking sigh before walking over to the stairs. Here goes nothing I thought as I walked down the stairs; I could hear the laughter from the living room. I don’t really know much about his family, I remember his mom being kind before. What if she has changed? What about the rest of his family? I already know his father hates me, which is nothing new to me.

Just do it and the sooner they leave the better; if they hate you well screw them. I walked into the living room to see Ezra sitting in his favorite chair with both of his hands over his face. I noticed three women and two other men in the room. Oh he has a huge family, one of the women turned as her blonde curls bounced over her shoulders. The woman smiled as her hazel eyes widen before she jumped to her feet, she smiled walking up to me. I slowly back up to the wall before letting out a gasp, Ezra head shot up from his hand.

“Hello you must be the girlfriend.” She said holding out her hand, I looked down at her hand before turning to Ezra. He stood up from his seat before walking over to use, he grabbed my hand pulling me away from the woman.

“She’s shy I told you guys to not be so forward with her.” Ezra said

“Well she could be polite,” Ezra’s father said I turned to the girl smiling before grabbing her hand. I lightly shook her hand before quickly pulling away from both her and Ezra.

“Hello I’m Dre.” I said

“That’s not right, that’s a boy’s name.” a younger version of Ezra turned to face us, now I understand why Ezra was confused the second time we met.

“It’s short for Aundreya, I’m guessing you’re his younger brother.” I said the rest of his family turned to face use before smiling at me.

“This is my oldest sister, Marie.” Ezra said point to the woman next to us, he motion towards another young woman with brown hair and green eyes just like Ezra. “This is my twin sister Evie,” he pointed to the younger boy. “This is my younger brother, Marcus” He said before motioning to who I am guessing are his brothers. “These are my parents, Jackson and Carolina Valentine.” Ezra finished

“Wow you have a big family.” I said as we walked over to the rest of the family. “Hello everyone,” I said his mother walked up to me pulling me into a hug, she rubbed my back before kissing my on my cheek.

“It’s so good to see you again Princess,” She said before pulling away from me. “I’m sorry I mean Aundreya, my look how much you have grown.” She said

“I still have those books you gave me.” I said

“That’s fine; please catch me up on what has been going on in your life.” She said pulling me over to sit next to her on the couch. “How is your sister?” She asked

“I thought you guys were here to see me?” Ezra asked before sitting in his favorite chair.

“Go make lunch or give them a tour I want to catch up with Aundreya.” Carolina said waving them off; oh she hasn’t changed at all.

“Since she’ll be going home soon we should let her have her way.” Jackson said

“Well you all will be leaving too I have work in the morning.” Ezra said

“No we’re staying in here.” Jackson said crossing his arms over his chest staring over at Evie. “Evelyn did you not tell him we were coming to spend Christmas here with him?” He asked she shrugged before rubbing the back of her head. So they think they’re staying here and Ezra hasn’t told them anything about me. I let out a long sigh before standing up, I looked over at Ezra biting my lip slightly. I don’t want to get in the middle of this I’ve never really been comfortable with families. Even at the thought of having kids with Ezra makes me question if it’s possible or if I’ll be a good mother.   

“I should go home and check on El, I don’t want to impose on your family time.” I said before walking over to the door. I know I’m forgetting my stuff here but I know when I see Ezra tomorrow at the hospital he’ll give it to me.

“Don’t be silly we would love to have dinner with you.” Evie said walking up to grabbing my hand.

“No it’s fine, you guys haven’t seen him in forever I don’t want to be in the way of that.” I said before pulling away from her I quickly left out the front door. I used my magic to lock the door and hold it shut until I had returned home.  I sighed remembering Ezra drove me here, plus you could see the paparazzi trying to get over the privacy fence to take pictures. I waved my hands over my head teleporting myself home. I sighed before sitting on the bed; I was really hoping to stay with him until the yule ball. “Oh my Goddess I forgot Lysander!”

I gasp jumping up to my feet, I’m such a terrible mother! I can’t believe I forgot my baby there with all of those strangers. He’s going to be so mad me and try to hurt them, he just got used to Ezra being around me so much. I closed my eyes picturing Lysander in his favorite spot in the forest behind Ezra’s house; I waved my hands over my head hoping to teleport him to me. I’ve never teleported someone else to me, I felt something wet touch my cheek. I looked to see a soaking wet Ly licking my cheek. “I’m so sorry I forgot you baby, I just scared and ran.” I said as he continues to lick my cheek.