15. Claiming What’s Mine

Zaikai

That was the longest 24 hours of my life, for a vampire who has lived centuries, hours went by in a blink. Not this time I felt every single painful second. My mind was consumed with what they were up to, I’d explicitly told him he was not allowed to fuck her, drink from her, kiss, anything that he normally got up to with women, at which point he accused me of being no fun and what kind of reward was this for all the times he saved my ass. I told him as prince it was his duty to do that. He just scoffed and informed me next time I might not be so lucky.

Xael was my closest friend and as such knew how to press my buttons. I knew he wouldn’t hurt Zelda I wasn’t worried about that. I was worried because for the first time in my life I was on the backfoot. I’d met Zelda as I’d purchased her, it sets the precedent for our relationship, I was her master, she did what I asked or wanted because she had too or at least felt like she couldn’t refuse me.

It had only been a few weeks I w