Read Awakened (A Fairy Tales Novel) Online
Authors: Melanie Walker
He handed Fangs the glass but he shook his head no and stepped back from Ezek. "It will shatter if I take it, set it down please and tell me what happened." His voice was shaking in rage.
As a Vampire it wasn’t necessary to breathe unless hunting or seeking emotions. In general it was a pain in the ass because the heightened senses of a Vampire meant you got a good whiff of anything by simply talking, small breaths were inevitable for the norm. But he found himself taking in deep gulps of air and pushing the oxygen to his lungs as he tried to calm down but his eyes stayed on Ezek waiting for answers.
"Her wounds are extensive. Absolutely she has a concussion, her right hip and left shoulder are both out of socket, and she needs stitches above the right eye and below the left. Her lip probably will be fine but a stitch or two wouldn’t hurt. I have a Dr. who specializes in the…
extraordinary
with her now. He can do nothing but stitch, address the pain and reset her hip and shoulders. The healing however is why I called you."
Fangs hung on every word but the more Ezek went on the harder it was to hear due to the rushing of all the blood he had on the way in riveting through his body. Death would be too simple a punishment for Fil. Fangs had an endless supply of torture in store for him that would span fucking centuries. "Why can’t you heal her? You have to be stronger than I am in demon department."
Ezek laughed darkly and shook his head. "Not even close Vampire. Besides the fucker thought of everything." He all but mumbled and Fangs didn’t think he was meant to hear it. "He bit her, marking her so that no demon would heal her or help her shy of me and my guards or Ash though we are limited in what we can do. It is a warning that demons use to impact their point. By biting her he leaves his brand on her and she is helpless and in pain with no choice but to heal naturally. I can not intervene no matter how desperately I want to."
Fangs could hear the aggravation and the sorrow in the Arch’s voice and judging by his emotions he would do just about anything to free his daughter from the torment she was in. Fangs knew a little about demon laws and didn’t argue the fact that they were seriously fucked up. But he understood the claiming. It was territory plain and simple. In Fil's eyes Briar was his and his to torture and no one was allowed to interfere, well demons anyway. He had no ties to the demon world. He was an undead human plain and simple and fuck the demons he was playing on his terms.
"Where is she I'll feed her now." There was no pause no hesitation what so ever. Claiming went both ways and if Briar fed off him she would be directly tied to him according to Vampire rights. This came down to bare bones and he didn’t give a damn if she wanted him or not. After tonight she would be his.
All his...
Mine.
*
Briar
slept like the dead and though she knew she was in pain it was nothing more than a miracle that she was with her father. She remembered feeling his summons but remembered nothing beyond that. She felt warm and her fingers were tingling and then that shudder raced through her body and a thirst unlike any she had ever known consumed her.
In greedy pulls she gulped the rich warm port that dissolved like sugar in her mouth pulling it down her throat letting it soothe her, sustain her. The overwhelming pain that was Fangs began to swim in her mind. She ached for him but fought day and night to free herself of his memory. Images swarmed her mind, of her beneath him and she saw herself in a way that she never imagined. She was magnificent, breathtaking as she closed her eyes while he thrust inside of her.
It slowly dawned on her that the thoughts weren’t her own but she was desperate to be in that place again, with him the place where she needed his touch as much as her next breath, desperate for... him?
She surged forward as the delicious warmth was taken from her mouth and her body burned. No longer was she surrounded in the blanket of her and Fangs but instead she felt a burning that fused her entire body and rocked her back on the couch. Her body arched in pain that she thought would never end. Minutes felt like hours as she was prisoner in the cell of pain until slowly so slowly the pain receded, backed off until it was nothing more than a dull pulse in her veins.
She opened her eyes and Fangs was sitting beside her, his wrist to his mouth as blood trickled from his arm, her father’s voice behind him asking if she was awake. She sat up expecting the roar of pain in her arm and hip to plow her down but none came. "What did you do?" She asked astonished to see the bruises on her arms were slightly yellow as if they had been inflicted days ago. "How long was I asleep for?" She asked fearing that they lost valuable time searching the knife because of her nap from hell.
"Six hours.” Fangs said and stood to let her father come closer. His face was composed and every detail showing him to be the lethal killer he was… his eyes however were shrouded in sadness and loss. Loss for her, for them. Feeding her had opened a gate of some sort to his feelings and thoughts. Fangs longed for her.
"Do you remember anything Briar?" He asked his voice ever soothing but she didn’t track it. Her eyes were a blaze on Fangs because she was still stuck in the erotic memory and desperate to sleep again in hopes of more wet dreams about Fangs. But as the memories drifted through her mind, fading to a haze she realized they were not her memories but his, and that the blood on his arm connected to the wound and the fact that he had healed her. She was certain of it and as he stared her down his eyes just as focused on her she knew he was game and totally prepared to share more.
"You fed me?" She asked her voice like gravel as she coughed to clear it.
"Yes he did. Fil bit you so I couldn’t intervene Bri...I’m so sorry baby." Her father’s voice, and the pain in it, pulled her from the intense moment she and Fangs were having.
"Dad, Fil is an asshole and he can claim all he wants but he will
never
own me." She said her voice stern. She would never break again, she had sworn it to her father the day she met him and every day since it was her mantra. The harder he hit the deeper her fight went.
"I'll kill him." Fangs whispered and the low growl that came from deep in his chest was only the icing on this cake of pure undiluted hatred.
She let her eyes drift back to Fangs whose back was turned from her. "Dad can I have a moment with Fangs alone please?" She didn’t let her eyes waver. This conversation was happening and she wanted answers. The longer she sat in his presence she swore she could feel his rage, his lust she could feel ... him and she wanted answers.
Her father left after pulling her close and telling her repeatedly how much he loved her and yeah of course she loved him but that would have to wait because if the look Fangs was giving her was any indication to what he felt then she was pretty damn sure he loved her still.
*
Fangs knew the instant that Briar fed from him, the first swallow and his immortal soul drifted to her like blood through a vein. He tried to hold back his emotions but to feed the one you love is a powerful aphrodisiac, and to say he loved Briar was an under- statement. The connection he severed between them that night was back and alive and in Hi-Def. There was nothing he could hide from her at this point and the distance he so desperately wanted to maintain would be nothing if not a miracle if he pulled it off.
She rose from the couch, a slight twinge of pain as she rested her weight on her healthy hip. He couldn’t heal her completely because she was a different species but his blood was powerful and he was a
Sire
Vampire and by this time tomorrow she wouldn’t have a hair out of place.
As she walked towards him he could hear the blood rushing in her veins, the beat of her heart was like a classic tune, a secret song that was for him only. "Why do I feel like I woke up in an X rated movie that both you and I are the main stars?" She asked, the satin in her voice was a promise of pleasure if he would only touch her.
He took a step back.
She halted mid step.
"Fangs don’t shut me out now." She gasped as if his retreat was a knife in the back.
"It's not real, what you’re feeling." He said and cursed the crack in his voice. "A lot of the emotions are old, like smoke in mirrors. They are my memories of us, but it’s like a CD with a scratch. Distorted. By feeding you those images along with others that came to mind, the reason you caught them is because of all the emotion I have for you those were the strongest."
Bastard… lying bastard… lying pussy bastard
.
He wanted to stake himself at the pain that lanced the smile she had only seconds before.
"I see." She said and he watched as the flush spotted her cheeks. He hated making her feel this way but he needed to keep on his course. She would never trust him, never let him in and though the sexual chemistry between them was beyond explanation, beyond words, the reality was it just wasn’t enough. He had given her everything and she ran for the door.
"And now some thoughts may come to you, if I am close by and you need to filter them." He hated doing this to her but he had to be strong. He could not appear weak for even a second. They had one too many enemies to face on this journey and the last thing he needed was a song and dance for unrequited love. "You can ask me and I will help you filter."
Dick
.
"So okay then, thanks for not letting me ramble on about that." She lowered her head and unlocked the hair from behind her ear and though it was probably a natural thing for her, he hated knowing it was a defense to hide herself, her scars. It had been a move he knew well when they had been together, never knowing that the soft flesh beneath the glamour had been a thick ropelike knot of poorly healed flesh. Letting her hair fall over the red lines she looked at him again. "I'm relieved actually; it would make for an awkward couple of weeks together."
Bullshit
.
She was lying.
"Yep." Was all he said.
"Well thank you for the blood and healing me. My father would have gone crazy this time had you not been here." She rubbed at her inner thigh and he felt his fangs throb in attention. He was a mess of fury and lust.
"Of course." He said and cupped her cheek unable to avoid touching her, not like he could have stopped himself anyway. "Why don’t you shower while I go talk with Ezek and let him know what the plan is."
Fangs turned to leave when she caught his wrist. "What is the plan?"
A blast of barely contained rage shot through him because he knew damn well what the plan was. Fighting for his last shred of control he smiled. "Back to the knife Princess." He said and flashed himself from the room.