"A Royal? Our Coven? None of this makes any sense. He has stopped aging because of my birth so he is 18?” I asked my parents.
"No honey, remember we said later in life! So you are not supposed to find him until in our years you were 21. So his age is 21 in our years, and in human years he is 201. That is about the extent of what we can tell you for now more will come tomorrow. But I think you can feel someone is searching for you!" he said with a smile.
My mouth has dropped open at the age of this man in human years. But just looking at him and the rippling feeling I get in my body when he is near I think I can overlook the 201 yrs. of age, I think! What am I thinking! When he is close I cannot think straight.
“Oh My God! I need space to think.” as I run away from my parents.
We have many trails on our property and I run for them as soon as the feeling got too intense. My father yelled after me telling me to "STOP" but I need to think so I keep running. As I sit in me and my friends hiding place I can hear my family and feel Detective O’Connor looking for me but this time the feeling is not butterflies it is panic. I can feel he is afraid for me. I can hear him also in my mind.
"Julia, Where are you? I need to know you are ok! As eternal mates we have to stay close." I must be going crazy I cannot be hearing him! What is going on?
"Julia you are hearing me let me know what you need and I will give it to you." He said again in my head.
"I just need time to work out in my head what I have been told. When I am close to you I cannot think straight. If you could go back to the house and take my parents and give me a couple of hours I will be back at the house." I asked him
"Julia I am a protector I cannot leave you out here but I will stay close by if that is ok?" he asked
"Fine whatever makes you more comfortable." I said tired of no one listening.
"I am sorry Julia it is my duty." he stated
"Whatever!" I said and I closed my eyes.
I found myself asleep below me and I instantly knew I was dreaming again. I took my time floated about the woods. I came across some creatures in the woods a few rabbits, wolves and foxes on my journey they looked up at me and I swear I heard them talking they said "She is in the second stage of the change and she is one of the great ones the high priestess." and they bowed to me also. What is up with the bowing first Detective O'Connor, and now the animals? I move on to the edge of the woods, I can see Detective O'Connor at the opening of the path like a guard but the closer I look he is asleep against the tree. He is a very sexy man too look at! But what kind of protector sleeps on the job some Detective he is!
"So that is what you think of me is it! I am sexy enough to look at but not that good of a guard, ah!" he said as he came up alongside of me. I am so embarrassed that he heard me. Again I can feel the heat turning my cheeks red.
"That was a private thought! But yes you are sexy to look at and you are a sleep on the job!" I decided to say confidently to make it seem like I did not care that he heard.
Even though I really did care! Detective O'Connor laughed a deep, rough laugh from deep in his gut.
"I am asleep to find you and make sure you do not wonder off to far. If you wander too far you can be asleep for days. Do you have any questions about what you have experienced so far in this dream?" He said after he got control of himself.
"Yes why does it seem like things are bowing to me and why can I hear animals talking?" I asked.
He looked at me deep in my eyes and that feeling started to build in my stomach again. "Stop making me feel like that if you can help it. I want you to answer me like you said you would not distract me."
He turned his head and answered "Your father told you I am a royal protector in our coven correct?"
"Yes" I answered
"Ok only a Royal Protector can be an eternal mate with a High Priestess of the coven." he said.
"High Priestess! Coven! Am I a witch? That would mean my mother and father is some high powered warlock and high priestess of our Coven as you call it right?" I asked astonished
"Yes that is correct." he answered.
"Why has this been hidden from me? I was told my whole life that there are no such things as witches and warlocks they are fiction and now everyone wants me to start believing that they are really real and animals can talk and there are Warlock’s, Witches, High Priestess, and a Royal Protector who mind you is my eternal mate. And let me remind you I have never even really had a boyfriend and now I have a mate." I said matter of factly.
He looked at me again, he said "You were born for me you are my eternal mate, and yes you are now expected to believe in all the fairy tells that you have learned throughout your life. The rest will be explained throughout your week of Change. That is all I can tell you now. I promise I will tell you more as your journey progresses."
"AHHHHH! This is so aggravating. I feel so confused, lost, and like everything is changing. Along with whom I am, was or whatever! Thank you for the little bit of information, that you have given me." I told him.
He took my chin in his hand and made me face him. Detective O'Connor was so close I thought for sure he was going to kiss me, and Oh god how I wanted to feel his lips on mine. Then I remembered I have never been kissed so I turned out of his grasp.
"Do not forget I can hear what you are thinking! I will not kiss you now and believe me I want too it is killing me to hold back but I will not do so until the time is right. So that also means NO one else is to kiss you, YOU ARE MINE! Now let’s get back before your mother and father start to worry." He said.
Embarrassment shown in my face, I forgot he could hear my thoughts. I smirked off to my left hoping that he could not see. But it excited me that he felt the same way about kissing me. I got very warm all over thinking of how he made it clear I was his and no one else will touch what is his.
"One last question we are not evil witches right?" I asked
"Now you should know that answer yourself!" he said as he descended down to his resting spot. He is right my mother and father does not have a mean bone in there body. I exhaled I am good!!!!
As I walked down the path of the woods I met Detective O'Connor at the opening of it. "Better?" he asked
"Much, thank you!" I said with a smile. He held his hand out for me to take to walk back to the house.
"Where are you going to stay now that you have taken the job with my father?" I asked
"I will stay at my apartment still in the city until something becomes available around town here." He smiled as he spoke.
"Ouch! Stop that!" I yelped he shot me with a jolt of electricity.
It felt like when you would run your feet with socks on across the carpet and you shock someone. Detective O'Connor became very playful on our walk back to the house it was nice to not see him not so serious. I noticed Rose and the two Heathers watching us as we came up on the house. I cleared my throat, and his demeanor changed back to serious Detective mode. He looked at my friends “Lady’s!” then he looked back at me.
“Miss. Wholeheart I will go find your father and let him know that you are safely back home." he said
"Yes please go find him and tell him I am home Ok and I am sorry! Thank you again, I really mean that." I said as I smiled at him.
Detective O'Connor was around the house quickly then I heard in my head "I Miss You already!" I shot back "Me too!” I giggled like a little school girl. Rose looked at me and said "Julia! I have never seen you like that with a guy ever."
"What are you talking about he walked me back to the house from the path down by the woods. My father sent him because he was concerned." I told her.
"You know that is not what I am talking about. Heather's you seen them playing on the way back didn't you?” she asked the two Heather’s.
“Yes, and you tried to tell us nothing was going on between you too!" they both said like they were twins.
“What are you hiding from me? You tell me everything, Why not this?” Rose asked me. I rolled my eyes and yelled back to them.
"Whatever, and I am not hiding anything." as I went to find my mother.
Jacqueline Wholeheart the social butterfly I found her with my father, Detective O'Connor and the town Mayor. I walked up behind them and as I did I seen the Detective shutter as he knew I had approached from behind. My mother had noticed and looked over her shoulder.
"Well speaking of her here is our daughter Julia! Julia you remember the Mayor?" she said
"Yes mom I have lived here my whole life how would I not know who the Mayor is!" Then it started to click the whole town except for the children all looked the same from when I was little like they have not aged at all. My mouth dropped at this new found revelation.
The Mayor bent to my ear and whispered "Congratulations on the change and finding your eternal mate!" he winked and walked away. I looked at my mother.
"Things are beginning to come together from the little that I know. I am going to start to say my goodbyes and head to bed I have a long week ahead of me." she nodded her head and kissed me on my forehead.
My father and Detective O'Connor said they would see me to the house. I grabbed my father’s hand and started my goodbyes. When I came up on Ryan Matthews, the one and only person I ever dated for like two weeks. He is tall dark and handsome, dark tanned skinned from working with his father at their construction company, crystal blue eyes, juicy pink lips, muscles that are not too much but just enough. I don’t know why I never fell for him. I was happy to see him but also confused because since I told him I had no feelings for him he has ignored me every time he has seen me.
"Oh hello Ryan I did not know you were here. When did you get here?" I asked
"About an hour ago. I have been looking for you but was unable to find you." He said as he looked at my father and Detective O'Connor and nodded.
"I am sorry I took a walk to clear my head, what’s up? It has been a while since we talked!" I told him,
"Yeah, Uhmmm! May I have a few minutes of your time?" Ryan asked
"Yes, Dad can I have a few minutes alone with Ryan?" I asked
"Yes we will meet you over by the back door." My dad said. I nodded; I could feel that Detective O'Connor did not like this one bit; I could not even look at him to ask his approval I did not need it!
Ryan looked at me "You look different! Are you ok?"
"Yes I am fine, so what did you need to talk about?" I asked him.
But thought if you only knew I am not fine! "Julia, I have been accepted to Kentucky University. I am leaving right after Graduation, and I wanted to ask you….. To come with me? Would you?" he asked almost confident that I would say yes. I know I have the look of total shock on my face.
"Ryan, I cannot Oh Wow I can’t go with you! Where is this coming from? You have not even talked to me since we broke up. Why would you want me to come with you? We only dated for two weeks you have never said anything to me about wanting to be together!" I said.
Ryan looked at the ground as if he was embarrassed. Ryan said "I think I fell in love with you the first week we started dating. I just could never tell you I thought it was too soon. Then you told me that you did not have feelings for me I was devastated I could not look at you or even talk to you. I have never stopped loving you; I just want you to be a part of my life if not as my girlfriend then as a friend. But I never got to do one thing that I wanted to do and regret every day!"
“What is that?” I asked.
Ryan reached for me grabbed me tightly and kissed me square on the lips, hard yet soft because of his plump lips, and it felt very, very nice.
"Ryan!" I screeched as I pulled away not because I wanted to but because this overwhelming feeling of angry formed inside me but it was not my anger.
Within seconds I could see Ryan flying backwards and Detective O'Connor escorting him to his vehicle. I looked around everyone was staring at me, Rose and the two Heathers mouths were dropped open.
“Way to go Ryan.” Rose yelled.
My father grabbed me and took me into the house glancing at Rose with a look of discuss. I could not believe the events that have happened today.
Detective O'Connor comes flying in the front door pissed off!
"I told you no other man’s lips are to be on yours, YOU ARE MINE! You lied to me, you have had a boyfriend! I could feel you enjoying his lips on yours. What is he to you?" he demanded
"First of all I never lied to you I told you I never really had a boyfriend not that I have never. We only dated for two weeks never kissed, hugged or even held hands. So to me that does not classify him as a boyfriend. Second of all he grabbed me unexpectedly and kissed me, not the other way around. I did not even know what was happening! Now for the feeling that I enjoyed it yes I did I have never been kissed and I liked the feeling, sorry!" I yelled at him.
He runs his hands through his thick brown hair. "I am sorry that I assumed that you let him kiss you. All I feel is anger and rage right now. I am not used to these feelings." He said
"I know what you are feeling I can feel it too! No Worries I am new to this eternal mate thing I am going to screw up just bear with me." I told him.
“I am new at this too! I have never had such intense feelings before. We will learn together.” he said with a smile.
He brushed his fingers along my face and across my lips then bent down to my ear and whispered "In good time I will be able to remove the feeling of his lips from yours and you will only want mine there from that moment on." I shivered from his words I want them there now!
"Oh, um, um I need to get to bed. Will I see you soon?" I asked him.
Detective O'Connor turned and looked at me and said "You will see me in your dreams!" I smiled and eagerly started up the stairs to go to bed, then I felt a tug on my hand and back I stumbled into Detective O’Connor’s arms.
His look has so intense; his eyes are heavy lidded with want I think. I know this feeling of butterflies in my stomach was my own this time. I went to say something when he looked at me and said “Screw it!” His lips were on mine in a split second, soft, yet firm, then his tongue invaded my mouth but not in a bad way I just went with it. OH MY GOD! He released me with a growl and smiled and started out the door.
"Sweet dreams Julia!" he yelled over his shoulder. I hand on my head I was so dizzy and was still trying to catch my breath from our kiss. Once stable I whispered back “Goodbye Detective!”
Yep, he took the feeling of Ryan's lips off of mine, now I want his lips back on mine, and other places on my body, I can taste him on my lips the feelings I am having all over is amazing. I am so hot for him right now. I head back up to my bedroom touching my lips where he kissed me. I got my pj’s from my top drawer and got ready for bed. I pulled the covers over me and laid my head on my pillow and I could feel him getting further away from me, I miss that feeling of him being near to me.
"I miss you, already! Please dream of me!" I sent to him in my mind.
“I have always dreamed of you!" He sent back.
