〰 Khole 〰I lashed out at the creatures dragging me down into the water, the breath leaving me and getting replaced by water. Another breathless scream leaving me when something else grabbed at me.
The creatures were green with tentacles and large fangs. Their webbed hands attaching to me while going further and further under the water. They had spears sticking out of them, looking to have been injured but it never fazed them as I lashed out, kicking at the spears repeatedly.
Even with my Valkyrie speed and strength, I was no match for these creatures in the water. It was a helpless cause and I knew that I was not getting out of this.
I am going to die down here.
My foot finally hit the creature"s face while a flash of lightning came above me and struck the water. The electricity didn"t hurt me as the creatures fried alive underwater, their grasps letting me go as I swam up to the surface.
I watched as the spears float to the surface as large splashes came around me as if rocks were falling from above. It was frightening but I knew that the lightning and the rumble of the storm above was because of me.
I gasped for breath, the current taking me under yet again when the electricity fueled me and gave me strength. The creatures spears slicing through the water and a few hitting me, but I ignored it all.
I felt like I was growing stronger and slowly dying at the same time.
When I broke for the surface again, I heard someone yelling for me as I strained myself to hear. It was loud and piercing but I knew that it was for me since the castle was so far away already. The clouds above the castle were spewing lightning just as strong as mine.
"KHOLE!" Dylan"s voice broke through the violent current as I reached out and grasped a branch, using my strength to hoist myself up on it. The lightning ceasing for a moment.
He came for me.
I knew he would.
"DYLAN! WHERE ARE YOU?!" I scream, coughing some water and squinting my eyes against the rapid waters. I caught sight of him, shivering at the look he was giving me when he began to swim over to me.
I wasn"t paying much attention as the branch under me started to break before it snapped and sent me back into the water. There was a roar as I prevented my electricity from hitting the water, keeping myself calm even in the rapids.
My eyes strained against the water when I came from the water and gasped for more breath, hearing Dylan yell for me to answer him back. There was another branch to the side of me as I reached out and s.n.a.t.c.hed it.
As I was pulling myself onto the branch, one of the spears the creatures had stabbed into my thigh making me scream in pain. My body trembled with agony but I pushed it away and threw myself onto the branch once again.
"Khole!" Dylan yelled, onsh.o.r.e and hurrying over to the branch I was and reaching his hand out to me. "Grab my hand!" He orders as I complied and s.n.a.t.c.hed his hand.
Not a moment later, he tugged hard before we both tumbled down on the sh.o.r.e beside that river. My thigh throbbed in pain while I arched my back and clenched my eyes shut.
"Khole! Khole- s.h.i.t. I"m going to take the spear out of your leg." He told me softer now, his hands grabbing the weapon lodged into my leg. I nodded, still unable to answer him as he pulled the spear out cleanly.
I screamed, hitting my fist against the ground and clenching my eyes shut tightly. Ragged breaths left me when he ripped something and wrapped my leg up.
"I am so sorry... I"m sorry my love. I promise to never harm you again." He apologized repeatedly, tying off something on my leg before throwing his arms around me but I shoved him away harshly.
"Don"t touch me." I hiss, remembering that he left me for someone else. My leg throbbed into pain as I forced myself to sit up and scoot away from him.
"Khole... Please just let me help you." He whispers, his form shifting back into his normal form.
"I didn"t need your help," I growled even though I knew it wasn"t true, I was still hurt by what he"d said to me and what he"d gone and done.
I don"t know if I"ll even forgive him...
"Khole... Look at me." He softly says, reaching for me but I flinched once again. "Love... Please." He pleads. his voice cracking as I stared at my palms.
"I"m a weak person so that"s why you thought you had to save me. Isn"t it?" I ask him, shaking my head and wishing that I could disappear. "I didn"t even realize I was so pitiful till you told me. That was after I realized you wanted to have s.e.x with another woman." I laughed humorlessly, a tear running down my face as I allowed it to fall.
"Khole-"
"Aita told me... Told me you never truly cared and that you never had. She told me all sorts of things. How you thought people were under you and how you were only into tough girls who didn"t cry... She told me about how you two had s.e.x together... I thought that maybe this mate thing wasn"t for you but I had a feeling that you"ve never truly wanted me." I said in a heartbreaking tone, tears dripping on my hands.
The pain was so excruciating since my mind screamed no but my body ached for him to do whatever he pleased.
I hated this so much.
"It explains why you ran away from me and why you thought I was a weakling. h.e.l.l, you called me a little one." I laughed humorlessly before hiccuping from the tears. "I wasn"t sure how but I dreamed of you and your thoughts. Whether they were real or not, I could hear everything. All the disgusting and traitorous things you thought about me. Saying I didn"t deserve you and that witches were horrible creatures." I comment, thinking back to those realistic dreams that I thought were my mind playing tricks on me.
If they had been true...
It wouldn"t be surprising.
"The worst part of all this was that I still want you," I admit, finally looking up at him with a frustrated smile. "My body aches for you and my mind bends to believe the best of you. Yet I can"t bring myself to even say I"d rather return to the castle rather than diving back into this river. At least I know that the river won"t ditch me when I need you most." I tell him, wiping my dirty palm against my eyes and trying to stop crying.
He merely stared at me, unsure of what to say as I felt my leg burning and st.i.tching itself back together. We remained there for what felt like hours, just listening to the soft hiccups from my cries.
I felt him moving closer to me and wrapping his wet coat around me, not touching any of my skin. He sat beside me and watched the rapids fly past us when I dropped my hands and slipped the jacket on.
We sat there, not saying anything but knowing there was much to be said. I could feel him burning to say something since I"d taken the floor and shut him up before.
But I didn"t want to hear anything.
I just wanted to sit here and listen to the water.
〰 Dylan 〰
She sat there, pulling her bare legs against her chest and wrapping my coat around her. She was shivering and hurting, yet refused to say another word to me after her outburst.
I simply sat there, letting her do what she wanted since she"d gone through such a rough night. With Aita and that a.s.shole compelling her to do their bidding, I was surprised she didn"t have a breakdown and run away farther.
It was wrong of me to say those things about her but if she"d been having dreams about me and my thoughts... Who knows what was going through her mind.
I was so afraid yet angry about the recent events that I hadn"t even considered what me leaving would have done to her. I was... the worst.
"Khole... We should head back." I whisper to her, looking over at her tear-streaked face.
"Why? Why would I head back to a place that only tortured me and reminded me of how weak I am?" She asks, not looking at me but keeping her attention on the wild river in front of us.
My heart hurt for her, I"d never understood how Alican felt up until now. Alican had been long without a man or mate in her life and felt the pain every breathing moment in her life...
Was that how my Khole felt right now?
"I killed Aita and that man. They will never hurt you again." I promised her, wishing for her eyes to stray to mine.
"Then are you planning to kill yourself as well? You caused more pain than both of them did." She confesses, finally looking at me with antagonizing eyes when I stood up and handed the sword to her.
"If that is what you wish. I don"t want to see you in misery anymore and if I am causing it. Then take my life, Khole." I told her as she grasped her blade and slowly stood up, her eyes flashing a bright silver. A sudden spark of interest in her eyes.
I could see it in her eyes that she liked that she was given the choice. Her will had been bent and broken to others almost all her life and now that she was in control, she was finally starting to look more alive.
"You"d die for me?" She questions me, her voice growing stronger within seconds while flicking her blade to the ground and slipping the coat off her shoulders. It was only then that I was terribly wrong about my Khole.
She was strong and so wicked when it came to torturing me.
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"I"d do anything for you," I confess as she nods and walked around me, the blade cutting into the ground around me. Her striking silver eyes watching me carefully when running her fingers over my shoulder blade.
"Then tell me the truth. Did you think of me weak?" She questions, this suddenly sounds like a trap but I promised to do what she asked.
"Yes." I eyed her, seeing her narrow her blue orbs at me.
"Did you think that you were superior of me?" She stared into my eyes, her claws lengthened along with her fangs.
"Yes," I answer her back.
"Did you hate me?" Her words were prying me for answers but her eyes were stripping me out of my clothes.
"I did," I said truthfully when she tilted her blade and cut some of my shirt.
"Do you hate me?" She questions while I smirked and felt her tilting her wrist so my shirt ripped more.
"No," I answer as she nods and resumed her walk around me.
"Are you afraid to be intimate with me?" Her voice sounded seductive, reminding me she had some demon brew in her system still.
"Yes." I couldn"t stop myself from confessing my fear. I was a demon lord and she was a small faye girl who looked like she couldn"t hold a sword.
I was afraid of hurting her.
"Were you with another on the blood moon?" She asks the more she asked the more her b.r.e.a.s.t.s spilled out of the skimpy small dress. It was a blessing that she was wearing that now.
"No. I couldn"t imagine myself with anyone other than you." I admit to her as she stopped in front of me with a heated look all of a sudden.
"Good." She nods, tossing the blade into the ground but continuing her walk around me. It was like she enjoyed having full control like this. "Why are you afraid of being with me?" She questions me, her piercing blue eyes watching my darkening ones.
"When I am with my mate, I shift uncontrollably and will mark you. It will hurt you and that was the last thing I wanted. So I left when you came onto me." I tell her as she nodded and ran her hands through her long blond curls that clung to her wet skin.
"Are you attracted to me?" Her words had sent shivers within me, her l.u.s.tful gaze on me while raking her gaze over me. The action making Cade growl in a burning need that had forced us to bend to her will.
The she-devil.
"Oh, G.o.ds yes," I confess, the pathetic red dress she was wearing not covering her at all when she smiled. Knowing far too well of the current situation.
"What would you do to me? What are your fantasies?" She spoke bolder this time, her fingers messing with the dress she was wearing. Her pa.s.sion only encouraging me to continue answering her questions.
"I dream of throwing you down on the ground and taking you with all my strength. I dream of taking you like there is no tomorrow and imagine you screaming my name." I growl, my voice growing deeper while she shivered and smirked at me with a darkness that caused my chest to tighten.
"That"s very lovely and all. But I am late for a date, my dear demon." She whispers, winking at me before s.n.a.t.c.hing her blade and the coat. Turning her back to me, she started to the castle and leaving me gaping at her in shock.