Read Awakened (A Fairy Tales Novel) Online
Authors: Melanie Walker
"So many reasons really."
"Like?"
"Like..." she paused and let out a sigh before banging her forehead on the steering wheel. Why did men have to be so damn annoying? Why was it that when they wanted you like you knew they did, they had to make you gravel? "To talk I guess...with you..."
He dropped his hand from the door and stepped between it and the inside squatting before her. "Talk about what?" His voice was back to that devilish charming manner that had her needy most of the time.
"Something you said once." She spoke soft, her voice low but still loud enough for him to hear it loud and clear.
"And what did I say?"
"Something about me figuring out where we could fit, where I belong..."
"Aaah." He said and stood.
"I guess I figured it out."
And like a ghost in the wind Bri started the car and ripped her tires racing from the parking lot.
*
"Jesus Christ that woman pisses me off to no God damned end!" Fangs roared as he walked back inside the bar and to his table where he threw a hundred dollar bill down and grabbed his jacket.
"What are you talking about?" Knight asked from the inside of the booth.
"Princess fucking Briar! Still fucking asleep that one! God dammit I can’t stand demons!" With that he said nothing else and stormed out of the bar and raced back to the place it all began.
*
Bri slammed her door when she got inside of her house. Ready to spit nails at going to confess her undying love. Only to find Vampire Charming with a plethora of sex on his lap.
"You have a lot of nerve coming to me and then storming off." Fangs voice made Bri jump about ten feet when he spoke from behind her. His anger had its own heartbeat and it was like whiskey to a drunk the way it fired her up.
"
I
have a lot of nerve?" She asked her own voice seething as she turned to face him. "I’m not the one who asked for me to figure it out, to find you when I realized..." the words fell off because she could not say them to a man who less than three months ago plead his undying love before sauntering off in the twilight to find the next warm body.
"And what… you think any of that changed?" He sliced his hand through the air as he yelled.
"Well seeing Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle double D's on your lap made it abundantly clear."
"When will you learn that I need to eat? I have told you this a thousand times!" He roared.
"Well color me shocked Fangs. I didn’t get the memo in the Dark that Vampires now survive on a strict Tequila shots diet!" She roared back.
"If I color you anything Bri it’s stupid!"
Then he growled at her, actually fucking growled at her.
"I hate you!" She snapped.
"I hate you back!"
She lifted her hand as if she would smack him and stopped, stepping back.
"Want to hit me? Think it will make what you saw tonight any different. Go ahead and hit me then."
She did the most amazing bitch slap that a girl could ask for.
"Feel better?" He asked rubbing his face where the force of the hit left a perfect pink handprint across his cheek.
She felt the tears stinging her eyes but turned away from him. "It’s not just tonight Fangs. It’s every night from the minute you walked out that door." She cried and pointed to her front door. "I hear the stories of the need to feed as you call it."
"So what you keep tabs on me now?" She couldn’t see so much as hear that he spoke through gritted teeth.
She spun, tears streaming be damned. "You think that just because you left that I stopped loving you? That the claim you placed on me made it impossible doesn’t even factor because I would have died a little without it. The way you care so little about hurting the one you claim to love astonishes me because I would have never done that to you!"
"You honestly think that I have been out gallivanting in freedom, free to fuck as I wish?"
"I know you have!"
"You know nothing!"
They were silent when Fangs spoke. "I haven’t been with anyone Bri, not since the moment we met."
"What?" He couldn’t possibly mean…like ever?
"So bloody faithful to you that I damn near broke my own hand." He shook his head and Bri couldn’t help the flood of arousal at how graphic Fangs seemed to always be. "Damn near killed myself avoiding feeding the first few weeks while waiting for you to come to me. When you didn’t..." He looked away. "I had no choice but to find another and even then it was simply feeding and nothing else."
"Then why be so cold to me tonight when I did come to you?" She placed her hand on his shoulder when he jerked free of her touch.
"Why would I be so foolish to trust you?"
"Because I came to you."
"Something you have done time and time again, to leave soon after."
She thought again of Belle and Beast. "You don’t get it Fangs. I witnessed a miracle tonight. I realized that I was blessed with the same miracle and squandered it."
He drew his brows together in question.
"Belle came back to us tonight."
The look of shock was not a surprise. "What?...How?"
She told him the story, told him about the promise that Beast made to Belle. "He asked her if she truly believed she could ever love anyone more than him and she knew immediately that she never could and struck the deal."
Fangs sat on the couch and bowed his head in his hands, his fingers digging into his hair. "The question was never about love Bri. There was never a loss of love between us."
The ‘it was you running scared’ that went unsaid.
"I also didn’t have my life in my possession Fangs. How could I offer you forever when I belonged to another?"
"You never belonged to him Bri." His black velvet eyes were smoldering when he looked at her. "The minute I kissed you, you became mine. I would have died to make you see that."
"I know." She moaned, knowing that those words had been her reason to go it alone, but they too were her reason to get him back.
"I don’t know how to let you back in."
She fell to her knees before him grabbing his hands. "Please Fangs." She cried and forced him to look at her.
"But I don’t know how to keep you out..." He whispered and pulled his hands free from hers and cupped her neck pulling her to his mouth.
*
His kiss was brutal, they way he nipped at her lips and sucked her bottom lip, his fingers knotting in her hair as he tried to get her closer still. She ate at his lips in the same desperate manner not only wanting him but needing him to take her, own her.
She dug her fingers into the lapel on his jacket and fell back to the floor taking him with her. As his body fell over hers she could feel his need in her blood, but also the massive erection as he pressed against her.
"I’ve tried to walk away from you... tried to make you walk away... but you never listen." He spoke his lips falling to hers, peppering them with kisses in between words.
"You’re all that I want Fangs."
He gripped the hem of her shirt and pulled it up over her stomach, growling when her flesh was revealed before licking her from navel to neck. Scooping her denim covered ass in his hands he lifted her against him as his hips rocked forward, mimicking his intentions.
He had successfully pulled her shirt free, and she had freed him of his as well before he gently cupped the underside of her breast and brushed a thumb across the hardened nipple and smiling as Bri cried out in pure need.
"I drive myself crazy most nights thinking about you, how it sounds exactly like that when I touch you just the right way." He slipped his finger over the top of her bra and let the pads of his fingers tantalize her into a molten flame.
"I thought of you too, every night seeing your black eyes stare me down like prey before you would take me." She hissed when he shredded the center clasp to her bra and bared her flesh to his hungry gaze. "Thinking of how a simple touch from me and I had you wound like a ravenous beast."
He used both hands and cupped her breasts, his thumbs tugging and scraping along her pebbled nipples before taking them one by one into his mouth. Bri couldn’t breathe with the way he attacked her with such passion and need. The emotions were taking a back seat for the first time in weeks because it was all too much. She had missed his mouth and his hands and the way that he could make her forget the world with a simple kiss.
He sucked on her flesh while grinding against her, forcing her to cry out for more. "I couldn’t sleep some days when the pressure in my balls damn near exploded at remembering how tight and hot you are." He groaned as he slipped his hands beneath the waste of her jeans forgoing her button entirely. Finding her hot and wet and just how he needed her he let out an erotic growl and slipped a finger inside unable to help himself. "It was killing me Bri."
Bri was on the verge of release the instant his mouth met hers, but when his fingers found her center and attacked with a single minded assault she broke apart, writhing beneath him as he worked a second digit in. "Jesus I can feel you coming." He moaned and brought his mouth back to hers.
As her body exploded from the inside out, his tongue dancing with hers to every thrust his fingers made, she reached out for the link they shared in the claim hoping to feel him against all of her senses. Had she not opened herself up to him in that instant she would have never felt the anger and pain that he was giving off.
His anger was for her and he let her have it in the only way he could. She hated herself in that instant more than ever before, knowing the doubt she had planted in their relationship, the pain she had caused him... it was ten times worse than he had ever let on, but it was his anger that seared her, made her come harder. His anger was all that drove him now, anger and need and Bri was the only outlet.
"Tell me Fangs..." She cried as she came down from a euphoric high and drifted on fingers of pure madness. Perhaps it was that she lived by anger and vengeance but whatever the reason his fury made her even hotter, made him more desirable if it that was even possible.