The Queen's Forbidden Love

Chapter 1

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Claudia Rose McCavit's POV:

His lips were so soft, so gentle upon mine. The kiss was like no other I had ever felt. He isn't one I would ever see myself with let alone one that I would be permitted to be with but the way he has made me feel since I first met him causes me to want to do things with him regardless of the consequences, regardless of my upbringing or my morals. A vampire, he is. One that I'm required to kill if I catch breaking the supernatural rules or killing a human for any reason. Sometimes their death is for my pleasure only. I'm one of the few protectors of the humans and any other good-natured supernaturals. It is my duty. It was what I was born to do. It's in my blood.

He's not one that I am supposed to be intimate with let alone romantic with except with him, I couldn't stop myself from carefully putting my hands around his neck and pulling on him to deepen the kiss. Letting him know I wanted more and that he had my permission to continue with what he was doing. His tongue quickly pushed its way in to dominate the kiss taking over my tongue like it was his own. I allowed him to be dominant and forceful with the kiss. Being submissive during any kind of intimacy is the one and only time I can ever allow myself to feel human.

My hands slid up the back of his neck and into his thick black hair, grabbing it tight. The roughness of my actions caused a deep growl to erupt through his throat as he pulled away from the kiss and started down the side of my neck. Something you should never do with a vampire is present your neck to them but that was all I wanted to do, was to tilt my head to the side and give him more room.

I could feel the sting of his sharp fangs as they grazed over my tender skin, causing hairline cuts. Just the act of my neck open to him is more than enough to cause his thirst to increase, forcing his fangs to form and lengthen. If I was just a mere human, this would be the most dangerous position for me to be in. He could kill me within seconds but because of who I am, he wouldn't have the strength or the power to save himself from me.

His growl deepened as his tongue slid over my neck, cleaning any blood that had spilled. I could feel his lips forming a smile as he tasted my blood. Even the sudden deep and slow breath he took told me that he was taking in my scent as he tasted me. My blood will taste like no other. The blood of a royal will always taste different from any other of their species.

I reached down and grabbed the bottom hem of his shirt and pulled it until I had it off of his body. He leaned back, showing off his very hard and very sculpted chest. There were scars on his body indicating that his human life was no walk in the park. Was this how he died? Was he turned right before death? No human from his time could survive injuries such as these. I can tell by his scent that he's very old but how old, I do not know.

My hands slid down the curves of his muscles and around his taut n*****s, teasing them gently before traveling down his rippled torso. He had just a light dusting of hair in a strip down his stomach to his v-line. His v-line I wanted more than anything to reveal completely and let my hands travel to their desired destination.

"Claudia!" I suddenly heard, snapping me out of the one memory I seemed to play over and over in my head ever since that night.

I turned and looked at Jezabella, whom I call Bella, the crystal witch I took under my wing after that night she helped protect my life after the Enchantress had stripped more than half of my supernatural essence from my body. It had nearly killed me and it would have if it wasn't for Jovian, a vampire. If it wasn't for him knocking the Enchantress off of me and for Bella placing the protection crystals around me, I wouldn't be here right now. I owe them both my life.

"Sorry," I told her as I finished setting the stones on the floor.

"It's him again, isn't it?" She asked me and I slowly nodded my head.

"It's been two months and I still can't seem to rid my mind of him and what happened that night," I told her as I reached over and lit the candles.

"Then why try?" She asked me and I looked over at her.

"You know why," I told her and she just gave me that same look she always does, the look of pity and disbelief.

"I know but that doesn't mean you can't just have some fun with him for a little while. You and him both know that it can't last because of who you both are so why not just enjoy it while you can?" She asked me as she pulled out the dried herbs and put them in the wooden bowl to grind together.

"That night never should have happened to start with. I don't have time for fun. I'm running out of time as it is." I told her as I stepped into the middle of the circle that we had created with the stones and candles and sat down.

"This is why I've resorted to using magic to find him or at least one of them for the deed," I told her as she sat in front of me on the outside of the circle.

"If this works and you find one of them, will they be your true love?" She asked me as she handed me the bowl of crushed herbs.

"No, I can't use magic to find my true love, it's against the rules," I told her.

"No witch can," I continued to inform her as she handed me my family line's sacred dagger.

"Why wouldn't they be? What is the point of this then if it won't find the man you'll fall in love with?" She asked me.

"It has never worked that way. The seed used to create the next royal witch is from specific bloodlines. Bloodlines that are found all over the world but yet, aren't as common in the world as one might seem. Most of the time, they are found easily but I haven't had the time to bother looking and now I'm running out of time." I explained to her.

"Couldn't you fall in love with one of them?" She asked, causing me to pause what I was doing and look at her.

"I could, I suppose. It has happened before. It would make it a lot easier as they are born and raised with the knowledge of the supernatural realm. I wouldn't have to try to ease my world and life into my relationship and hope that my lover doesn't freak out and leave me. Love for me and you is no different than it is for a human. Trial and error, I guess, until we find the right one." I told her with a shrug of my shoulders.

"Is that why you haven't found your true love?" She asked and I shook my head.

"No, I chose not to bother. I didn't want to find them only to have to continue to look for the bloodlines to create the next heir. I can't imagine that would go over very well with my whom I was having s****l relations with. It seemed easier to create the heir first and then find my true love but that sort of didn't happen and now the first witch is practically breathing down my neck to get the next generation born before I reach one hundred and fifty years old." I responded, almost snapping at her unintentionally at the end.

"And how old are you now?" She asked as I took a deep breath to calm my nerves.

"I only have one more year so only a couple of months to find one of the bloodlines. Once I find him, the pregnancy will be easily accomplished," I told her as I looked down at the dagger that was still in my hand.

Might be easily accomplished but that doesn't make it any easier. Having a baby with someone I don't love has never felt right to me. It's actually one of the main reasons why I have put it off for so long. I just couldn't seem to bring myself to do it without loving them. I found one of them with the right bloodlines once, a couple of decades ago but I didn't love him. He knew who I was and why we had found each other but I couldn't let myself have s*x with him. I knew if I had, the baby would be created. There was one other but I was too busy at the time to interact with him. Now, I'm feeling the pressure of not just getting it done and over with way back then.

"You don't seem ready for this," She told me and I just slowly shook my head.

"Then why? You're still considered young yet, aren't you? Couldn't you wait till you felt you were ready? Who knows, maybe one of them is the one for you. You could do it then, with him." She continued.

"Yes, I'm still considered young or should I say, in childbearing years but the first royal feels that I'm dragging my feet. She wants me to do what I was created to do and continue the royal bloodlines. She has informed me that if I don't do this willingly, she will bring one of them to me and I will be forced to lay with them that very same day. At least if I find them on my own, I can at least get to know them first that way it doesn't seem quite so awkward and uncomfortable. Make it a little pleasurable." I explained to her and she just nodded her head.

"Then I guess, we should see if this spell works." She added.

"It will, I can guarantee that," I told her as I took the dagger and ran it over the palm of my hand.

I hissed a little in pain. I set the dagger down beside me and closed my hand over the bowl of herbs. I squeezed my fingers tightly against my palm, forcing as much of my blood to run out and into the bowl. The herbs started to smoke as my blood hit them and mixed. The smell of the mixed herbs and blood was awful. Bella covered her nose with the back of her hand to try to help.

I closed my eyes and started the chant in Latin. As I started the beginning of the spell, you could hear the snapping and crackling sound of the herbs. I set the bowl down on the floor in front of me and continued with the spell. I opened my eyes and nodded to Bella. She opened the map and laid it out in front of her, just on the other side of the circle. She took her hand and sprinkled the blessed sand over the top of it.

As I approached the end of the spell, the sparks started to appear in the herbs. Just as I spoke the last word, instead of the sparks popping and fading away, they floated over the circle of stones and candles to the map. They looked like little fireflies floating in the air, spreading out and landing on certain areas of the map. I decided to use only the map of the country to limit how many were to appear. Approximately 100 little sparks settled on the map in front of Jezabella. Her eyes widened as she looked down at all of them scattered around.

"Are there really that many?" She asked me in surprise and I nodded.

"So many more if I would have included the rest of the world. Now you know why the 1st witch believes I'm dragging my feet. It's not like it's hard to have the next royal heir," I responded to her.

I raised my hand, which was still cut and slightly bleeding, closer to my mouth and lightly blew on it. As the sparkles blew over my wound, it quickly healed. I stood up, stepped over the circle, and sat next to Bella to look at the map.

"Any certain place you want to go? Or do you want to visit the few that are here in Florida?" She asked me as she pointed to the area of our city.

"I already know about those here in the city. I can't see myself learning their names let alone sleeping with them." I told her and she just laughed.

"That bad?" She asked, still with a laugh in her voice.

"You have no idea. Just because they have the bloodlines doesn't make them pleasant." I told her, causing her to laugh harder, and making me smile in humor as well.

"How about here?" She asked, pointing at the state of Pennsylvania, causing me to hesitate and my smile to fade.

"Claudia?" She asked after a few seconds of silence.

"He lives in that state," I informed her as I continued to look at the area of the state where the sparks sat and flickered, over the area he lived.

She placed her hand over mine, causing me to look over at her.

"I can see it in your eyes, you want to see him and I'm sure he would love to see you again," She told me and I shook my head.

"It won't be a good idea," I told her as I pulled my hand away from hers.

"Stop doing your duty and what is right. For once, break the rules and have some fun. At least for a day or a week and then you can find your sperm donor, have a baby, and live a lonely miserable life." She told me and I laughed.

"One week but that is it and I'm only going to be with my sperm donor," I told her and she just smiled and shook her head in disbelief.

"We'll see about that," She laughed.