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Chapter Fifty-Three
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2025-03-08 00:03:21"Why are you looking at me like that, my flower?" Erik asks from the end of the bed. I don't say anything. I watch as he puts something he had in his hand in between his teeth. It glints in the moonlight trickling in from the window.
It's the bracelet. He must've grabbed it from the box that still sat on top of the dresser.
I stay still as he crawls onto the bed, knocking away his wall he had worked so hard to build. God damn he's so good looking. The way his arm muscles moved as he approached me. The curtain of white hair hanging from his head. There was just no way this man was attracted to me.
"I ask again," he mutters as he closes the distance between us, staring into my eyes and leaving only a couple inches of space in between our faces. "Do you want me to put this on y
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In short, I've never been in this situation. I've never had to read what's coming next or know what I should be doing right now."I've never even kissed anyone." I whisper, looking up at him through my lashes. "You're the first man to show interest in me like this.""That can't be true. Look at you." He sighs. He scoops me up then from my sitting position and lays me down, hovering over me for a moment. "You truly look like a goddess." He mutters, leaning down and kissing my shoulder. "Mann is dumb." I gasp as I feel his hand running down my stomach. My hips arch as he draws circles around my belly button with one finger."You aren't lying. Look how sensitive you are." I look at him, begging for mercy almost. He laughs a little. "I'm not deflowering you tonight, don't worry.
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My chest is heaving up and down, one arm is laying across my forehead, Erik has pulled my nightgown back down to cover my area up, and my knees are bent and touching."Do you feel better?" He asks, playing with a strand of my hair. I nod, my eyes flicking over the ceiling of the bed frame.That was probably a bad idea.But oh my god, I couldn't help myself. And I can't lie, I've never been able to make myself come like that, and never that fast. I can feel my face heating up from embarrassment. I was so pent up from spending the day with him. There was so much damn tension between us, it was driving me insane."Can I ask you somet
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"I just feel like you didn't need to hit her.""She wasn't going to come willingly.""You never tried to find out, did you?""She wears the sign of engagement with an Alva, Larkin. You see her ankle."A scoff. "She probably doesn't even know what that means. I just left her a couple days ago. That pretty boy couldn't have worked that fast.""They are fated.""Yeah, well, she came here for me."I groan loudly, wincing at the pain in my head and neck."Delilah." I hear shuffling and feel big warm hands on my elbow. "Go get her some water.""Yes sir." I hear a woman's voice reply bitterly."Larkin?" I question as my eyes finally pry themselves open and my surroundings start to come into focus."Hey, you okay? She hit you pretty hard." I wince and close my eyes again, sitting up from the bed I had been laying on to rub my head. Why was I always waking up in strange places?"Where am I? What's going on?" I look at him, blinking away the sleep and focusing on his blue eyes I was so familiar
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"I was with Erik, kissing." I pause, and look at Larkin, who is glaring at me, but not like he's mad at me. I can tell where the irritation is pointed towards. "It came up that it was my first time... kissing." He growls again and looks away. "And I happened to ask how many partners he'd had. I didn't know that he was the one who kept the species going." I look down, fiddling with my fingers. "I don't really know why I ran. It just... hurts. I guess. To know everyone I had come across so far could have slept with him. Meanwhile, he was my first kiss." I roll my eyes at myself and clench my fists. This was a different world, with different rules. I shouldn't be so uptight.But I can't help it.I was raised around Mann, as they called them, and Mann liked to at least pretend to be loyal.
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Larkin is leaning against a tree outside, staring at the ground, I'm assuming listening to us bicker inside."You ready?" He asks, smiling softly at me. I nod and follow after him. At least he didn't make me walk in front. And at least he hadn't slept with the whole town."What are you showing me?" I ask as he guides me into the trees. He makes a humming noise but doesn't answer."How have you and your fated been getting along well? Besides the obvious." He asks instead, walking ahead of me and holding tree branches out of my way. I think for a moment."I don't think he's who you want to talk about." I play with the ends of my hair. He laughs, deep and rich sounding. I got that
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Larkin laughed at my question of how his siblings annoyed him. "How many siblings do you have?" He asks me, looking down into my eyes. I blush, looking away. His gaze was so intense, even when it was perfectly friendly. It made me nervous."I'm an only child.""Then you will never understand how annoying ten little brothers and sisters can be. They'd always steal my clothes from the drying line and hide them in the woods. When I was fishing, they'd come running up, screaming and jumping in the pond to scare away the fish. I can remember many mornings I'd get woken up by four or five of them jumping on my chest and demanding I get up to entertain them.""You love them though." I poke him in the side, teasing him.&nbs
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How could a man this large treat me so delicately? Even as Larkin towered over me, totally covering my body with his own, he didn't lay on me. He didn't grind his hips into me, and his hands didn't grab at my thighs.He gently sampled the taste of my lips, so, so, softly."You taste like dewdrops." He whispers, and then backs away, returning to his spot beside me. I lay there for a second, staring at the sky, collecting myself."Why did you do that?" I finally sat up, moving my hair so it provided me with a security curtain between myself and his carefully watching eyes. Guilt was already flooding my body. I had been with Erik so recently, and now I was kissing another man. Who was I to preach about loyalty?"Becaus
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Larkin nods. "Now my people do not want to mingle with Mann. We tend to live for a very long time, longer than even Alva, and we have third and fourth generation people left from when Mann originally turned on our goddess.""Wait, you know about that?" He nods again."We all have different history books. The Alva's is a bit more... polished. Cuts out the dirty truths. But we know how Sanju was betrayed by the Mann she loved, and how she brought them here as her slaves. How she forced them to breed so she could work their children to the grave as penance for what was done to her people. We have both hurt each other, and we see no good coming from returning to their world. It seems too risky. After all we've done to each other, there is no way there can be peace."I stayed sil
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"Can you believe her?” I huff as soon as Reni is out of earshot, turning to look at Erik. “I’m not entirely sure what just happened.” Erik says, looking at me carefully, like he was trying not to piss me off more. Smart man. “Your favorite and most trusted guard wants me to make my dragons into slaves, like she does to everyone else around here.” I say, gesturing around at nothing in particular. “I see.” Erik nods a little, looking up to where the dragons are now flying in a circle above me. They had come over when the tension had started between me and Reni. I almost wondered if they would’ve done anything had she returned my attack. “She was insulting me, implying I couldn’t handle my dragons properly, and just being a plain bitch.” I finish, crossing my arms angrily at the memory.“Perhaps you misunderstood what she was trying to get at…” he says, and I narrow my eyes at him. I take back what I said before. He wasn’t a smart man, he was a very dumb one. “Seriously? You’re goin
