Bound to Me (6 page)

He was still staring at me with his glasses on. Hiding his eyes from the rest of the world, but I knew the intensity in that stare and it felt like there was something more to us than just a physical attraction, but I quickly dismissed the thought. He leaned into me and I was now inches away from his face, breathing in his sweet breath. He leaned his forehead against mine and I took off his sunglasses. I wanted to look into his inhuman eyes, and see if there was any sort of emotion when he looked at me. I just wanted to be sure.

“I don’t know why I feel more drawn to you then my other charges Veronica, this has never happened before and I don’t think I really care.” His breathing was more erratic. I was out of breath as well. It was like I was suffocating in everything that was Liam.

“It’s okay Liam, because I am
tired of holding back; I want to finally be free.” He closed the distance to my face but never touched my lips. He placed a warm kiss to my jaw, then another on my cheek. I could feel my face heating up and a blush started to make its way up my face. This was it, the moment that would change me forever.  

“You make me feel things this dragon heart shouldn’t.” He whispered softly against the corner of my lips. I grew a pair, and decide to do it first. I chastely kissed him and I could hear his soft intake of breath.

Liam raised his hand and slowly cupped my cheek. “What do you want out of life Veronica?” Liam asks against my mouth.

He caught me off guard so I took a minute to think about the answer. “I want to be free, free like a bird. I w
anted to sore so high in the sky and not have a care in the world that if I fell I won’t get hurt. I don’t ever want to fall again Liam.” I said in a whisper and looked up into eyes. It was the only distinction that told me he was something, not human. I could get used to those eyes. Come to think of it I never had seen him with regular human eyes, not like Devon. 

That didn’t matter to me anymore, because he was my dragon, and I finally accepted the fact that I was stuck with him for now. I already knew it was too late for me to try to not fall for him. It was like I could feel everything he was feeling right then in that moment. I guess that was what he meant when he said we were bound.

Liam pressed his soft lips against mine again. Our lips started to slowly dance to their own music. He moved from my mouth down to my neck and I threw my head back with a moan. My chest was pressed up against his now. I could feel his rapid heart beating against my breast and I knew he wanted this as much as I did. It felt incredible and my body felt alive, it felt like I was on fire from the intensity that was Liam’s lips.

Liam stopped the kiss and drew back gasping as if he was desperate for air. “I don’t think we should be doing this, let alone in public.” I looked at him and we were both intoxicated with lust.

I noticed the confusion on his face. He was battling his instincts and was trying to figure out what was right from wrong. “I think you’re right, especially when you don’t know what it is you really want in life yourself.” I said and got up from the bench irritated, and walked away.

I felt a rapid, quick, hot searing pain and I knew I shouldn’t waste my efforts looking back, because I knew he wouldn’t be
there anymore. I guess I was lucky that there was no one else around to see. It was already dark.

I quickly looked around, and decided I needed to get out of the park. I didn’t notice I had wandered in so far. He decided to play the coward role and took tattoo form again, so he didn’t have to say anything. I guessed he was conflicted about the whole situation just as I was. Were those his emotions I was feeling while we were kissing? I know this much. The whole ‘Bound to him’ thing was something I would need to get used to.
 

Chapter 7

A few days passed and still no Liam. He wasn’t even a tattoo on my shoulder at the moment. It seemed to me he had left some time during one night while I was asleep. I didn’t even have any more dreams. The phone calls and threats from Ben stopped, but for some reason I knew that wasn’t the last we were going to hear from him. Some call it instinct, but I call it my gut.

I had to work a mid-shift at the restaurant so I decided I was not going to worry about Liam. If he wanted to fight his feelings for me, then who was I to care? I kissed my mom bye and went on to work.

When I got there I could see Johnny at the register working his magic and he smiled “Hey Ronnie, glad you made it in to work. Amber’s in the locker room.”

I went in the locker room and she was sitting there applying her makeup. “Hey, Amber how are you doing?” I asked with less enthusiasm.

She looked up from the compact mirror “You don’t sound happy to see me Ronnie, what is up?”

Leave it up to Amber to always know what is wrong with me, but I was happy to see her just not happy at the moment about my so called love life. “Nothing” I sigh and manage to make it sound like there was more than nothing going on.

“Spill it Ronnie, there is no way you can tell me nothing is up, and sigh when I know something is up.” She winked at me and started applying some lip-gloss

“Don’t you think your lips have enough shine Amber? Jesus.” I snatched the lip-gloss out of her hand and tossed it in the garbage can. I mean really, how many times can one person rub that shiny stuff on their lips? Doesn’t that cause some type of health problem?

“Wow aren’t we a bitch today.” She said with a hand on her hip.

“Sorry! I didn’t mean to do that; I’ll buy you another one. I just haven’t been feeling like myself lately.” I said to defend my mood, and our friendship. I’ve been a mess lately, and it’s all because of a red eye dragon that goes by the name of Liam. I could sit here till I was blue in the face and say I didn’t care how he was acting toward me, but that wouldn’t change a thing. There could never be anything between us. He was a fire breathing dragon and I was nothing more than a human, so how in the world was that going to work? Maybe after work I can go to ‘Dominion’ and speak to Devon. “I met someone, and I feel…I feel something for him. Only he doesn’t feel the same.” I say quickly looking down at my fingernails hoping to quickly move pass this conversation.

At first I was against this whole thing, but when I saw the way he looked at me at the park with such intensity in his eyes, it felt good to be wanted. I was addicted to the way he stared at me. It felt like I was some sort of beautiful goddess and he wanted to worship me. It felt…it felt good.

“Oh my! Ronnie that’s great. Well maybe not the part where he doesn’t feel the same way as you. It’s great that you’re showing interest in a guy. For a minute there, I was beginning to think you were a lezbo.” She smirked and lifted my chin up to look her in the eye “If he can’t see how beautiful and great you are, then he doesn’t deserve your affection or your time honey.”

I looked into my best friends eyes and knew that she truly cared about me, so why couldn’t I tell her the truth? It’s not like she was going to believe a word that came out of my mouth. No. There is no way I am letting anyone know what Liam really is, plus he said it was forbidden. I might as well get fitted for a strait jacket while I’m at it, if I go around telling people dragons exist. “Thank you Amber, well hopefully he will come to the same conclusion. Let’s get out there before Johnny has a stroke for us slacking on his time.”

I smiled and made my way out to the restaurant, and what I found sitting at the table towards the front shocked me to the point that I stop walking, and Amber bumped into me from behind. “What’s the matter Roni, it seemed like you saw a ghost just now?” She asks looking at me, then trying to look over my shoulder at what caught my attention.

“That’s him, by the window Amber. That’s the guy I was talking about.” I whisper so that he didn’t hear me, or even see that I was standing here. He’s wearing a black hooded sweater with the hood down. He had his shades on as well.

“Well don’t just stand there, go see what he wants. I’m sure it is not just a coincidence that he’s here Ronnie.” She said with smirk then she shoved me in his direction.

‘
We need to talk Veronica.’ I shook my head thinking that I was hearing things, and then realized that Liam was talking to me in my head again. He was now staring at me from across the restaurant, so I slowly start to make my way over to him.

He was taking my whole appearance in, checking me out from head to toe. Not caring how sexual the gesture seemed.
‘You are exquisite to look at.’ He said, and the smirk I got from him made the butterflies in my stomach do a dance.

“Stay out of my head Liam, it isn’t fair that you can read my mind, and speak to me through it as well. Especially since I
barely know what you are thinking half the time.” I say to him in return, just as I reached the front of his table.

“Touché, okay then…we need to talk.” He repeated and gestured for me to sit across from him. I sat down and I started to play with a piece of napkin, twirling it between my fingers giving away how nervous I really was.

“So …talk, or are you going to just sit there and stare at me?” I say first, annoyed now because I already knew what he was going to say. That we could never be anything more and that he’s a dragon, I’m a human… blah blah blah.

“I think that it’s time you learn self-defense, and there’s no better person to teach you than me.” He said giving me a wink, and ushering Amber over to take his order. I was taken aback by what he just said. Okay, so I guess he wasn’t going to give me a lecture on us.
 

“Why, hello there my name is”
Amber says to Liam. Liam is smiling now and I swear his smile looked exactly like it did when he was in his dragon form at the falls, except his teeth weren’t pointy.

He continued on
where she left off, “Amber, yes Veronica has told me so much about you. It’s a pleasure to finally meet you.” He gave Amber his hand to shake, but when did I ever mention her to him? I shot him glares with my eyes because I knew the only way he knew about her, was because he was in my head again. I kicked him under the table and he jumped back in his seat. “Ow! What was that for?” He asked smirking.

“Oh, I am sorry my mistake. My leg has a funny twitch sometimes.” I gave him a wink and I knew at this point he was just as annoyed as I was. Well score one for me, I pissed the dragon off.

Amber was looking at the both of us like we were the two funniest people she had ever seen in her life. “So what can I get you, um?”

“Oh pardon me. My name is Liam and I will take a glass of ice cold water, thanks.” She took that as her cue to walk away, and winked at me like she knew something more was going on, and when she had me to herself later she was going to try and pick my brain.
Great, just great.

“Is that all you wanted to talk to me about, or was there something else on your mind Liam?” All the laughter quickly left his face.

“No…Um…Well yeah, we can’t do this anymore.” He says then looks out the window with regret and sadness in his eyes.

If he was showing regret that can only mean he had some type of feelings for me right? That was a good sign, but I
couldn’t just let go right now. I was too involved and he was a part of me now, so why did this decision of his, feel final?

“By who’s rule, yours? I mean do you usually go around kissing girls and say things like ‘We are bound together’ then turn around and say it can’t happen?” I shook my head and pushed up off the table to get up and go back to work. I could not deal with this right now. Not in front of everyone at work. He grabbed my wrist stopping me in my tracks.

“It’s not that I don’t want to…It’s just…look it’s complicated right now Veronica.” Are you kidding me? Was he really giving me the ‘It’s not you, it’s me’ Mumble jumble crap? I guess there was some human in him after all.

For him to come up with such a human line he had to have learned it somewhere. I laughed out loud “Are you serious right now Liam?” I said snatching my hand out of his. He took off his shades and rubbed his face. Then he squeezed the bridge of his nose like he was tired of fighting. I looked into his red ruby dragon eyes and noticed something surreal. It was the first time I saw some type of human trait in them, his eyes were sad. “What is it you’re not telling me Liam?” I ask, paranoid now.

“Look its nothing. Are you working tomorrow?” he started to put his shades back on, which meant that this visit was over. He was done talking.

“Have you been staying over at Dominion?” I asked only wanting to know if he was close by.

 “Yes, I’ve been going over some things with Devon, personal things. Can I pick you up tomorrow so we could start your training?” He asks as he got up, and pulled up his hood.

“No, I don’t work tomorrow. How come you aren’t staying with me anymore? Isn’t that what you said you were supposed to do?” I was looking for the answers in his eyes, but I could see nothing there now since he already had his shades on and his hoodie up. It was as if he was trying to hide what he really wanted me to know

“Because it’s just easier this way.” We were silent for a few seconds

“Fine, I will see you tomorrow then.” I said, then made a beeline to the bathroom without looking back to see if he made his exit out of the restaurant. I wanted to cry, cry for the rejection I felt from him just now, and the secret he felt he couldn’t share with me. I swallowed past the heavy lump in my throat, washed my face with cold water and got my emotions in order. I should be used to this by now. People always seemed to disappoint me anyway. It was what has been happening to me since the day I was born. Why would I feel it was going to
be any different with Liam? Then again it was his job to make things better for me, not worse.