Ethena titled her head as she spied Seraphina’s bare feet. Seraphina blushed “I have never worn shoes before, I tried a pair on when I was getting dressed, they were terribly uncomfortable, and I struggled to stand in them” she explained shyly. Ethena laughed and picked her dress up to reveal her feet which were also bare. “I share the same distain for shoes.” Seraphina joined in laughing with Ethena when she remembered her question from earlier. “Ethena, Achilles mentioned that you are very knowledgeable with familiars, I was wondering, do you know what my extra elemental mark is?” Ethena frowned “Truthfully, I hadn’t noticed it.” She moved towards Seraphina and leaned down to look at her marking. “I have never seen one like it before, actually, I can’t recall ever learning of anyone with anything other than earth, wind, air or fire markings.” Seraphina’s face fell sli
Seraphina looked around at the faces watching her expectantly. She felt a bead of sweat begin to from on her brow. “You want me to shift…now? Here?” she asked. “Yes! Of course, we do!” Aurelia shouted at her, her excitement brimming over. “Whilst it would be an honour to witness your dragon, only do so if you feel comfortable to.” Ethena told her sweetly. “Thank you, mother,” said Achilles, “Seraphina is not a show pony, you can just demand tricks from her!” Achilles shouted at his siblings and father who were all jumping up and down in their seats waiting to see the dragon. “It’s okay.” Seraphina said tentatively. “I do not mind however, it made me feel quite…trapped to shift indoors. Do you mind if we go to the gardens?” Seraphina hadn’t even finished her sentence before everyone started to rise from their seats.
Seraphina realised what was happening, she looked back down at Achilles who looking at her as though she was the only woman in the world. “Seraphina, from the moment of your birth, I have loved you. I was only a boy, just 9 years old yet, I loved you so fiercely. I didn’t think it was possible to love anyone or anything more but, you proved me wrong. In the 6 months I got to spend with you, I loved you more each day. I would do anything and be anything for you. When you were taken from me, I never thought I would recover from that, a part of my heart died. Everyday for the last 18 years, I have thought about you, about what you would look like, how you would have grown. I was so so wrong. I never in my wildest dreams could’ve imagined you be to as beautiful and simply perfect as you are,” Achilles paused to take a breath.Serap
After the proposal and their love making, Achilles and Seraphina felt on top of the world. Achilles picked out Seraphina’s dress; a cream coloured silk dress, decorated with gold floral embroideries, that sat off the shoulder showing off all of her markings. She twisted her hair back into a loose chignon and fixed it into place with amber coloured pins. She opted against wearing any jewellery except for her engagement ring.During the proposal, Achilles had been so swept up in emotion, he forgot to open the ring box and give Seraphina her ring. He was silently thankful though, as this gave him to opportunity to explain her rings origin in private, more specifically so, the diamond. Seraphina had cried when she learnt that, not only had her mother given Achilles the large pear shape diamond, when Seraphina was a baby, to give to her, he had desig
Seraphina thought she may be the most beautiful woman she had ever seen. Seraphina saw all the colour drain from Achilles face. “What are we celebrating?” the stranger spoke, her voice sounded like a song. Seraphina felt a pit form in her stomach, she gulped. “It seems my invitation didn’t quite reach me?” she spoke again as no one had answered her previous question. There were scowls all around. “Who are you?” Seraphina asked softly. The stranger glared at Seraphina, the newcomer didn’t recognise her as a noble girl and her anger immediately rose. “Who am I? Who the hell are you? How dare you speak directly to me; do you know who I am? I will have you lashed 1000 times for your insolence!” the stranger screamed at Seraphina. “Hold your tongue you slut, you are speaking to your future Queen!” Aurelia roared, slamming her hands down on the table. The stranger paled for a moment befo
Achilles ran after Seraphina in his snow leopard form. “Seraphina, please stop running away from me,” Achilles asked her through their mind connection. “I’m not running, I am flying,” Seraphina responded coldly. Achilles rolled his eyes. “I felt you roll your eyes!” Seraphina snapped at him. “Seraphina, my love, my sweet flower, please just talk to me,” Achilles pleaded with her. “This is just as much of a shock to me as it is to you, we need to talk about this, please.” Achilles begged her.Seraphina could feel her heart aching for him. Achilles was starting to catch up with her, he could tell Seraphina was slowing down, he watched as she started to descend into a small wooded area. As Achilles reached where Seraphina had landed, he saw she had shifted back to he Dhampir form. Achilles
He could feel his hard member twitching up against Seraphina’s sweet flower, hitting her bud gently making her moan in delight. He let out a groan of his own as she titled her head to the side and bit into his neck, drinking from him deeply and savo
“This can’t be,” Shouted Achilles making everyone in the room flinch. “I assure you, you highness, the results are positive, I am sorry. We can conduct the test again if you wish,” the alchemist offered. “That is not necessary,” Seraphina said, she tried to hold back the tremors in her voice. “the spell was performed correctly, the results haven’t been tampered with, Achilles we will just have to accept the truth.” The Alchemist offered Seraphina a sad smile.Lady Briseis was grinning ear to ear, “Well, now that that is dealt with, we should discuss living arrangements. I will have my belongings brought to your quarters today,” She said to Achilles. A look of disgust came across Achilles’s face, “You will do no such thing! You will stay where you are and when the child
Lady Briseis stormed into the house De-Buccleuch. “You, you there, where is my father?” Lady Briseis addressed the servant with disgust. “Lord Stevano is in his study my Lady, he is awaiting your return,” the servant told her with his head down. Without another word, Lady Briseis stomped away to her fathers study.As Lady Briseis entered, her father was sat waiting expectantly, “Well, when is the wedding my daughter?” Lord Stevano asked. “There will be no wedding father,” Lady Briseis spat back, “All of this has been for nothing, the Prince is already engaged, he will accept this child as his bastard and nothing else.” Lady Briseis dropped down onto the seat opposite her father in a dramatic fashion and let out a long sigh. “No, he can’t do that, he impregnated you, he must