~Christian’s Point of View~ I’d never put much thought into “pampering” a female, it was certainly not something I’d never seen my fathers do. My mother was lucky if they actually helped butcher the meat they brought home for dinner. In our younger years she did nearly everything on her own. I remember it well. She hadn’t wanted help. But as she had more babies she finally let others in. Royals were supposed to have servants, though she’d never call them that. I knew Daphne would be the same. It was clear she was used to doing it all on her own. I both loved and felt pity for my mother at the same time and I wasn’t at all sure if that’s how my brothers saw her. In some aspects she chose this life but not in others. Not all the males she bred with were like our fathers. Well, for starters they weren’t kings even if the babies they had would be princes or princesses. They weren’t stuck up: they were much more hands on and involved with raising their offspring like they should be. Shift
~Daphne’s Point of View~ I knew damn well when I saw this bed what would happen, I didn’t have the will power to stop it. So now that I’m watching Prince Christian between my legs and I’m on the brink of losing my ever loving mind, I know with absolute certainty I want him. I need more, my body is saying it's been way too damn long and it's not waiting another minute. Christian does this like he’s an absolute professional with his tongue, and I try with all I have to keep my mind from going there. Questioning how many women he’s done this to. He’s told me he wants me and only me. I want to believe it. Right now I choose to. “Ohhh,” I moaned, my hips working in concert with him. He seemed to be obsessed with my ass, he had been holding it since he’d been down there. But then again he spent so long on my boobs I was beginning to think he was trying to milk me. Is using your mouth intensely a shifter thing? Does he have an abnormally thick and long tongue? Obsessed with licking? “Y
~Daphne’s Point of View~ “Hmm,” I mumbled, as I leaned into the warmth surrounding my face. Big thick arms tightened around me and I felt more sated and content than I could have ever imagined. Something in my memory tingled, reminding me I was supposed to have a date today with the zebra named Hakim. Shit, I hope he isn’t back at my tent waiting on me. “What time is it,” I groaned, feeling like I could sleep for two days. We’d made use of three condoms and I was sore in places I didn’t remember I had. Blissfully sore. I hadn’t even known I would like getting it from behind as much as I did but he literally was an animal with it. Rough and yet a tender touch with his hands. God I couldn’t get enough. It made me sad to think about going back, it was nice here. Even if when I had to pee I had to move back through the “portal” and pee in the river’s cove. Christian was incredibly amused by how grossed out I was at the whole debacle. “It’s still early morning back home,” he said, th
~Vance’s Point of View~ “I don’t know about this. Maybe she left all that behind for a reason,” I whined, hopping down from my bed and snatching the basketball away from Christian. I tossed it into the little hoop on my wall and grinned as it went in. A little gift our friends Jack and Finch got me for after they moved permanently to the human realm. “She’s right there brother. She’s totally open to it, to all three of us. We just can’t risk fucking it up, it has to be better than good. I think Liam is going to kill it with his date so yours can’t suck. Nothing will show her more how much we're willing to go above and beyond than this. The hard part is already done. Thank the Goddess we've got connections,” he said, nodding at Puck who was standing in the doorway. Jeez, no pressure or anything. While Puck was kind of a weirdo, an outcast, he had a way with ladies. He was definitely a fairy that wouldn’t be settling down, not when he could have his pick of so many eligible females
~Daphne’s Point of View~ I paced in front of my teepee, feeling completely useless and hating it. This was how I’d feel when Greta would fuck up and there was nothing I could do. Didn’t have enough to post her bail when she was picked up for soliciting, then again a few months later for shoplifting. Didn’t have a way to keep her ass in rehab when it was clear she wouldn’t get the help she needed time after time. They wouldn’t let me see Liam, and said he wouldn’t want me to see him like that. It was probably true but I felt like I couldn’t feel satisfied he was okay without seeing for myself. Christian had given him blood to heal faster but this was hardly some superficial scrape. The noise he made, how his dragon cried out in pain … I feel like it's going to haunt me. I barely knew this guy yet I felt like I did in a way. His father only used him for his gains, just like Greta always did to me. The only difference was I felt like Greta did love me, she just loved the drugs more. Ap
~Daphne’s Point of View~ “You okay hun,” I heard, as I blinked rapidly and tried to focus. Jesus did I faint? What was I…? “Oh god, the baby! Did I drop her,” I shouted, shooting upright. I took in the smiling face of the Omega, the babies’ mom. We were in my tent, she was sitting next to me on the bed. No one else was here. I immediately heard laughing children outside but not too close. “Ohh no, Jack caught her but please! Georgia is the ultimate daredevil, absolutely no fear in that child. If she’d have hit the ground she'd have turned it into a roll and hopped up with a smile. I’d kill to have a tenth of her flexibility. Jack wants to start her on gymnastics,” she said, laughing. I sighed and suddenly felt extremely tired. Lonely on another level, when loneliness had always been my friend. “I’m Grace by the way, I don’t think we got that far,” she said, offering her hand. I shook it. “Daphne Patterson, though I guess they don’t use two names here,” I said, making a face.
~Liam’s Point of View~ “The entire fucking island probably thinks I’m a pathetic charity case. So easy to attack,” I seethed, throwing a cup that I’d just finished drinking from. “That’s not fair and you know it. Apollo is a fucking warrior, the way he trains is insane,” Vance said, blowing me off. I knew that to be true, the male was insufferable. He had no friends and no one could stand him so he worked out all day, everyday. Obsessed with his body. He was the master overlord in the training fields to the poor trainees who thought somehow learning from him was the best thing ever. I needed to get up, get the hell out of this fairy hut. It smelled incredibly fucking weird in here, like what I imagined being in a witches’ house would be like. Herbs and weird concoctions. Vance’s overwhelming-at-times sage odor fit right in. Tanwen was doing all he could to heal us, though I knew it was Christian’s blood that helped more than anything. It pained me to be that dependent on someone
~Daphne’s Point of View~ ~What the hell Daphne,” Vance shouted, as he flicked the liquid off of his bare chest. I turned my eyes back to my breakfast plate and acted like I hadn’t just thrown my orange juice at him. I stabbed at my eggs and shoveled them in my mouth. After seeing Liam last night I barely slept. I was too pissed off. It was obvious that going to the shifter royals was pointless so my only option was to go to the fairies and beg. Though I had no clue how to find them, how to find one I needed that could get me the fuck out of here. The prospect of being homeless on the streets of New York suddenly sounded a hell of a lot better than being stuck here. I wasn’t about to let strangers essentially decide the rest of my life. The very least … oh and I mean the VERY damn least these men could do is try to meet me halfway. I didn’t know completely what that meant but it seems like I’m the only one making a sacrifice here. Being forced to have a child I know perfectly well I