"You said you wanted to go back home and I can't take you back there because I still need you as my wife. How can I take you back home on the first night of your marriage." He sounded disappointed."Take me with you. Am willing to go with you?"I hurried to say."Have you accepted me as your husband or not? I can guess you have just agreed to go with me because you can't go home all alone in this darkness." He said smiling."Exactly" was all I replied."Well. Come hold me tight and we go." He chuckled softly as he stretched his arms."Hold you?" I looked confused."Yes, you heard me right. Hold me and we go. Remember I have no car with me anymore. I have destroyed it when you refused to go with me but thank God the lion made you scream my name." He teased. I had no choice but to wrap my arms around him before we left.Like that, we were already somewhere in a place that looked like a desert, it was very hot like fires of hell."Where are we?" I asked when he landed." This is our land.
Without realizing, my lips had curved for a smile. I then remembered that I shouldn't be smiling no matter what happens. This man is already on my bad side so I should be acting as an enemy to him.Checking on my tattoo, it was there. " Am so sorry my dear friend. I regret refusing your proposal the other night but how was I going to say yes when you only visited me in my dreams? It's all my fault, and sometimes I think that maybe am cursed. Bron left me at the altar without saying any word to me and for that matter I had to marry this stranger who is more like an animal. Can you please tell me what's wrong with me. I know you can hear me and please if you can take me back home." I talked to my tattoo but my friend Bat ignored me." Are you angry with me? Don't ignore me like this at least say something. Abuse me if you want to but don't just keep quiet." Still there was no response from him.Coming back to my room, Anu was already asleep on the bed. Maybe he was pretending to be asl
"What are you trying to tell me. Go straight to the point."he said pinning my hands to the wall. "This is what I meant." I whispered. "What?" "I don't want you to touch me nor do anything to me before I give in wholeheartedly."I whispered again. " It's okay if that will make you happy."he said confusing me. "Are you a good person or you are just pretending?" I asked myself confused. How could he just agree with me over something like this so easily? Does he have other plans?" I asked myself before he said "but on one condition"."What condition?"I asked curiously. "I have to mark you first, to make you mine and after that you can torture me the way you want."he said looking me in the eyes still pinning my hands on the wall. I tried to push him back but couldn't. "W.what do you mean by that?" I couldn't compose a sentence because of what I have just heard."I will have to bite you with my fangs anywhere on your body and suck a little of your blood."he said."What? Do you think I can a
"Anu please am so sorry. I have heard that you are in this condition because of me and I don't want to cause you any pain but am really mad at you, you never told me about this. You didn't tell me that you sometimes change to a lion. Am your wife and am supposed to know everything about you, my husband."I cried and didn't realize that I was getting closer to him and I wasn't scared anymore. Maybe I was spellbound or compelled to. He came back to his human form when I touched him."Why did you tie me up?" He asked and his words got me emotional and tears ran down my cheeks."I.. I.. I just wanted us to play..." "Shuuuhhh! Don't lie please. I know everything, wife. This is not the first time am tied up here with these chains and don't blame yourself for anything, am the one at fault here and not you. Don't mind my mom's words and don't take it to heart please."he cried as well."Why did you change? And what does it mean?" I asked in a soft voice."It's nothing serious, don't worry." He
"Were you cheating me in your dreams? Who was he?"he joked. "No. I mean nothing."I panicked as I recalled his threats to me."Don't worry about him please. Take a deep breath and relax. I will handle everything, okay?" I nodded and laid down again but this time I didn't sleep, I just pretended to be asleep not to make Anu worried."Why have I dreamed about mother in a strange way? Does this mean she can help me out of this? But how, she is an ordinary human and these people here are the living monsters. How will she save me from them? While thinking about all this, I remembered I had to check if mother has sent me a feedback on Anu's phone. Looking around for it, I saw it next to him on the couch below his arm. "Oh God! How will I get it from there without waking him up? Help me Lord."I breathed. Just like that the phone slided down and fell on the floor. With fear for what has just happened, I walked two steps backwards wondering if his phone has heard what I just said. How would i
I then remembered mother's words to not let him come close to me and then got out of the bed and sat at the end of it. I was still sleepy and scared too. I couldn't sleep on the couch alone. I just left everything in the hands of the Almighty and slept.Morning came with blue and pinky skies. It was a beautiful morning, mother had promised to meet me but I didn't know how. I just waited for the miracle but couldn't see any sign of her coming. Slowly by slowly I started to lose hope when the sun set before she could reach me. "Why is she taking so long? Anyway how do I expect her to find me when she doesn't know where I am, am so stupid." I walked up and down waiting for her. I asked one of Anu's guards to shift my seat and bring it near the window because I wanted to see whoever entered the gate since I wasn't allowed to leave the house without Anu's permission. Soon darkness covered the place and I couldn't be able to see clearly. After sometime the guards closed the gate, I couldn't
"It's a long story my dear but I only ask you not to fear me. I won't hurt you in any way please." She went to her knees and I had no choice but to reach for her and comfort her.If I could sleep with a stranger who turned into a lion in the same room why not for my mother who raised me for years and never hurt me in any way. "Am not scared of you mother but am really disappointed with you, why did you hide such an important part of you?" I cried.Wait! Who was comforting the other? We were both in tears."I will tell you everything but for now we have no time to waste. I have just come to break the spell that I had cast on to your powers." She said."Powers! My Powers?" I asked with my eyes widened.**Mother**"Yes, your powers. You are not an ordinary girl my child. You are a daughter to both a witch and demon. You have strong powers. In fact they're extraordinary ones but I had kept them under control with a spell because I wanted you to live a normal life like others. I knew you
After a while I heard some footsteps coming close to our bed, it was Anu's mother. "What is she doing here at this hour? What does she want?" I asked myself. Since she wasn't able to read my mind anymore, she came closer to me and put her hand on my head, I wondered why but it seemed she wasn't able to read it, perhaps that's why she bent over, removed my bedcovers and bit me on the shoulder. I felt pain for a little while till when she placed her hand on the wound to collect my blood before she made it heal right away and like that the scar was no more.I tried to slowly open my eyes in a wise manner and see for myself what was going on. She later closed her eyes, whispered some strange words and a colourless glass came swinging from nowhere and appeared before her. Grabbing it she put the drops of my blood in it and drank it.Wait! What was she doing with my blood? What was her intentions? Was that the first time she has done this to me or things always happened as I was asleep?Sh