Chapter 48 ∣ Stop Running
-Maverick
The sound of glasses and plates shattering, brought my vision back to lock onto Eris, the sheer force of power from her wings was something I hadn't expected. Debris from kitchen items broke around my feet, pieces flying in all directions when my back collided with the wall, knocking into shelves and cupboards.
I growled lowly, lifting myself from the indent my body had created, not sure whether to be angry or enthralled at how strong she was. Her demonic side was truly awe-worthy, entrancing me with those electric blue eyes, the faint hint of electricity radiating off her skin. Speaking of which, the stripper outfit was a nice added touch, those thighs of hers tensing when she thought I would make another attempt to attack her.
Stretching my neck from side to side, I smirked, my trench coat creating a shadow around my form. "Alright love, show me how you feel as I'm not listening anymore." I could feel the dried blood on my lower face and lips, my fangs elongating when the spark between us only begged me to stop this.
The only problem...I wasn't thinking rationally. I didn't want to listen. I just wanted to feel my fangs buried deep in her throat, the smell of her blood coursing through her veins only tantalized my senses, driving me mad. The beat of her heart continued to race, knowing this was the first time she was seeing the real me, the me that had attempted to kill my father when I was just a child, the me that was exiled, banished from not just my coven, but the entirety of the vampire world...the me that was being torn up inside at wanting to end the life of my beloved, but at the same time, wanting to make her completely mine.
Reasoning was fading in and out, battling for control over my anger, the anger I never had a problem giving into in the past, pushing me forward to become stronger.
Let's see how strong you truly are.
"With pleasure," Eris' tail flicked side to side in anger, her wings angling back as she dashed unexpectedly down the hallway to meet me head-on. Her vivid eyes pleaded with me, but not backing down. The once scared, broken, and powerless succubus I had watched with curiosity as she twirled around on that silver pole in the Dv8 Strip Club, no longer hesitated, delving further into her demonic nature.
When her body sailed at mine, my stance changed, waiting to catch her and throw her off balance. The thing was, I'd never seen her so melded with this darker side, pulling her wings back like a parachute when she was about to punch me. She brought both of her palms quickly up and struck the center of my chest with not much force, but the sudden electricity that passed through her palms and into my chest cavity propelled me backward.
Half the wall of the kitchen broke like it was paper, my body knocked past the backyard that guarded the house, soaring into the trees of the forest's edge. Vulnerable on my back, I rolled up onto my feet, crouching down, my right palm resting against the dewy grass, my left arm resting against my knee. It was still, calm, the very light breeze just rustled the leaves enough for me to know, I wasn't supposed to be here.
The contact with Eris' palms had thrown me farther than she should have been able to. I could see I was half a mile from the house I had torn apart, the last action of Eris, making the home look like it had gone through a war and barely survived. My eyes securely watched the outline of her body, moving through the opening she had created and storming toward me.
Remarkably, her display of force and power was damn sexy. Standing up to me, was not something to be taken lightly. Even the bravest of hunters couldn't mask their fear, but here she was, my little vixen walking right into the lion's den, ready to exert her dominance and claim her position. She skated across the ground, the blades of grass lingering beneath her dark boots, her wings beating the air gently.
"Well now little vixen," I spoke, and my words brought something to the surface of her eyes, something of doubt and regret. "Why did you let Keegan fuck you?"
Not hurt, but anger rose in her eyes, narrowing them at me as I gazed up at her furious look. "I was about to be thrown into another endless torment of being taken against my will...it took you a MONTH to come for me, and in that month, I went through a lot of self-pity and the mere thought of knowing I'd never see you again broke me."
I lifted up from the ground, watching her carefully as she continued, "When you have been lied to for as long as I have...every last bit of fight left me when I thought I'd never see your face again, to hear you speak my name would have been a blessing I prayed for every night."
"You didn't believe in me, or trust I would come for you," I returned. The anger flared and Eris hissed, her feet touching the ground as she made another move to attack me. I was ready this time, watching as her hand was about to contact my chest again. Once again, I was fooled.
Her arm pulled back and I felt something snake around my ankle, dragging me to the ground and throwing me into the forest clearing.
Your fucking tail...
Eris walked toward me, her eyes sparkling with the same electricity that could be visibly seen for just a moment coming from her skin.
"You're such an ass-hat," Eris glowered at me, "No one can go to Hell unless they DIE. If I were to think for a moment that you would rather end your life then move on from me, then I crazy. I was broken. Done. Finished! If that's letting Keegan fuck me, then yes, I let him."
Her heart skipped a beat. She was still hiding something. Not lying, but not telling me the complete truth.
What are you not telling me?
Quicker than her eyes could follow my movements, I was on my feet, dashing past her, wrapping my left hand around her upper arm, throwing her at one of the nearby trees. The air was knocked from her lungs, her head whipping back and then forward, her eyes appearing to be in a slight daze as she tried to gain control.
I stood still, glancing down at the hand that had touched her skin, feeling the warmth traveling into my body.
Their scent filled my senses. Hunters...ones I knew all too well, the ones who have been hunting me all my life.
I need to wrap this up.
My eyes pulled away from my hand, noticing Eris pushing away from the tree and flying with full speed straight at me. This time, I didn't allow her palms to touch me, I leaned away from her strike and took both of her wrists into each of my hands, using her momentum to flip her over my head and lay her out of the grass.
She let go, her wings receding as though they were never apart of her. She coughed, the force alone wasn't enough to cause this much pain, but I noticed that she had landed on a rather large rock. Blood came trailing out of the corners of her mouth, her eyes widening. She struggled in my grip, coughing again as she attempted to get away from me.
I smelled the fear, the fear that hadn't once surfaced until now. Her tail coiled around her right thigh, reflecting her fright and submitting to me.
She cried softly, pained as she begged, "Maverick..."
What the hell am I doing?
The anger released from every fiber of my body, shaking my head as her tears escaped her vibrant eyes, her body had given up the fight. My hands relieved the pressure on her wrists, kneeling beside Eris and sitting her up. The jagged edge of the rock had embedded itself into the lower part of her right lung.
"I'm sorry Eris, I'm so sorry," I whispered, my hand gripping the rock and removing it from her body. She gasped; the object being freed caused more blood to flow from the open wound. Before I could do anything to help her, I saw the wound begin to close on its own, not a single new scar was left...
Eris' hand found my forearm, my eyes being brought to her as she whispered, "My vampire...there you are."
She had her complete soul...she could heal properly save for the foreign object that had been lodged in her lung. Eris' eyes once again pleaded with me, but not for her life, for me to listen and I did.
"Keegan was planning to kill me if I didn't bare him an heir," her touch overwhelmed me, the feeling of something crawling up my spin and trying to enter into my mind had me uneasy, "If I couldn't escape...I was planning to kill myself before he could get the chance."
Her words caused my heart to miss a beat, my eyes gazing deeply into hers at the thought of her taking her own life. It pained me more than anything, to permanently lose her...was something I don't think I could live through. I couldn't push past that and survive.
Her voice choked for a second, "A life without you, isn't a life worth living."
My blood didn't try to push away and attack this unknown force, a hazy cloud taking up residence in my mind, breathing in deeply as I let it consume me.
"Now that I know what you truly mean to me, and everything I can do...especially to you," she lightly smiled and then smirked at her own words, realizing, it was her own innate ability seducing me, relaxing and easing any lingering anger or hate that had built up. "I don't want to lose this...I don't want to lose you...I don't want to lose us..."
"Eris," I breathed out her name, her body shuddering when I did. My once black rose eyes reverted, my fangs returning to normal and revealing in her soothing touch.
She was going to kill herself.
Here I was blaming her for betraying me, when she had simply surrendered to life itself, wanting nothing more to do with her very existence. My heart ached, that cloud slowly dissipating and leaving me thinking clearly.
Closer...Rainier and Zak are drawing closer.
Growling filled the still silence that had settled between Eris and me, my senses dulled by the focus to track the hunters' movements, that I hadn't noticed the wolves that had crept to the edge of the clearing.
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