Caught

Aston's pov

Rage boiled inside me. I had been fighting it the whole afternoon but the kiss pushed me over the edge. All I could see was red and I needed to release my fury. 
She was mine, how could he think he could have her? How could she let him? Did she not want me. I move to follow him, but I change course and I followed her instead. If I followed him I'd kill him and one missing person is already drawing suspicion yet alone two. 
"How could you?" I growl more than speak. 
"Im sorry, I didn't want to, but he is right, the king will just send someone to replace him and he seems nicer than the others" she is panicked, but I can hear the guilt in her voice. 
"Do you want him instead of me?" I ask. 
"No one could ever compare or replace you. His kiss was not the same, there was no spark, no fire to it." She says
I grab her, kissing her passionately. I suddenly feel the need to dominate her, to remind her she is mine. I throw her on the bed and pin her down. I push her dress up and force my tongue inside her. She tries to move her hips but I hold her still. I lick her sensitive spot and tease it, circling slowly around the area I know she wants me. I dive my tongue in and lick ferociously at her clit, feeling her try to writhe against me, I stop and slow again. I hear her groan in frustration. I plunge my fingers inside her and start my assault on her clit again. I can feel her desperation building but I pull back, teasing her as punishment. I circle slowly around her clit, I can feel her trembling and taste her juices. It's too much. I pull my trousers down, letting my hard dick out and push inside her. I thrust mercilessly as her screams build. I feel her tighten around me as her body finds its release. I quickly follow, spilling into her. My rage and jealousy subsides and I feel calm again. 
"I really am sorry. I don't want to hurt you" she whispers. 
"It's ok, I understand. I just get so worked up about you. I feel so possessive and jealous. When I'm not with you, you are all I can think about. I'm going crazy with worry." I say
"It's the same for me. I'm so scared you will be caught all the time and I'm not sleeping properly without you by my side." She says. 
There is a pause as we both recover and process things.
"I think we are mates" I confess. 
She gasps. "It's not possible, you are not a werewolf."
“Ezra's mate was a vampire. Your mother was not a werewolf. It must be possible" 
"We don't have marks though" she says. 
"We haven't tried to mark each other." I am suddenly overcome with the desire to try, to make her mine forever. 
"I guess that is true. Would you want that? To be bound to me through the mate bond?" She asks sounding uncertain and fiddling with her hair.
"Do you even need to ask? Of course!" I exclaim. 
She leans forward in and I tense ready to feel her mark me. She pauses short of my skin and kisses me instead "we can't, the king would see my mark and know. I can't risk him knowing about you. I can't mark you, not yet. " 
I understand but I can't help but feel a little rejected. She holds my hand and rubs small circles to reassure me. 
A knock at the door makes me jump. I get up quickly to climb out the window. I'm pretty sure I'm out of sight as the door opens. 
“Princess, the king wishes to see you” I hear a man say. I hope she had time to cover herself before her barged in, but I can’t risk checking. I climb down the wall and decide this is as good a time to check on the dragon as any. I brew the potion on the shore of the lake, i’m actually getting good at it now with this much practice. I strip and dive down and enter the prison I made, draining the water enough to force the potion into the dragons mouth. I refill the water and check everything is secure before I swim back to shore. I change into civilian clothes and walk into town. I buy some bread and meat at the market and I deliver it to the real guard I have captive. He is being a very compliant prisoner, apparently the public are not too fond of their ruler and guards are not well paid so the expensive food I’m providing along with the promise of financial compensation is enough to keep him quiet.
Having done my rounds, I return to the shore to dress in my guard disguise again.
As I return to the castle, I’m surprised that the normal entrance is closed. I turn to try the other entrance but my path is blocked by Kato.
“Hello, your highness” He says
Shit, they know. I hope they don’t know about Ava. Well at least this is my chance to kill him. I don’t even look at him before I launch into my attack. I throw fire at him, leaving a trail of scotch marks, I throw boulders of earth at him and drop shards of ice from the sky. He dodges everything like it was nothing. I try to trap him in earth to stop him moving, but he moves impossibly quickly out of the way. He comes up to me and suddenly time slows down. I see his dagger lift but I can’t move, its like i’m going too slowly. He plunges it into my stomach and the pain is drawn out, like it lasts forever. Then everything speeds up again. I’m bleeding out, I sear my wound shut, refusing to pass out from the pain and blood loss. Kato comes to me again, but I use air to jump high and avoid it then crash down onto him. I feel time slow again as I try to get up while he is already 5 ft away. I’m trying desperately to remember how my father beat him. In the stories all the fights were impulsive. That was it, no forward planning, just in the moment snap decisions make it harder for him to dodge. Unfortunately as I realise this, I feel time slow and teeth prick my neck. Agony is all I feel before I pass out completely.
I wake up in a dungeon. It is dark and smells like dried blood. I look around but I can’t make out anything in the darkness. I can feel my hands and legs are bound and I start to struggle against them.
“I wouldn’t do that” katos voice is menacing
“scared to fight me fairly?” I ask
“no, the king wants you alive unfortunately. If I fight you properly you would certainly die.” he says matter of fact
“I’d like to test that theory” I hiss
“believe me so would I, but I have my orders. I will teach you the meaning of pain so that you know what awaits if you try anything in future. Afterwards the king has something special lined up for you.”
“why not just kill me?” I ask
“You are more valuable alive. For now.”
I hear the sharpening of a knife which I know is not a good sign and I surpress a shudder.
“Now young prince, you will tell me everything. How did you get here, why did you come and where is the rest of your army?” He asks
He doesn’t know. He doesn’t know about Ava, or me rescuing the scouts. I sigh in relief despite the prospect of imminent torture. I try to think of the best cover story but my thought process is quickly interrupted by searing pain.
I hold out as long as I can to make my story seem real. What felt like days of pain, could have been mere hours with him, time was no longer clear. I confess to him that the scouts had been sent home, rescued by one of my men on a stealth operation. The scouts had informed us that a girl was taken prisoner and of the sick twisted things that go on in this kingdom. My father had sent me to gather information on the kingdom and its weak spots to attack while rescuing the girl. I explained that I had failed to locate the girl, the only Ava I had found was the princess. I’m not sure if Kato bought my lies, but he had a smugly satisfied smirk on his face that suggested he did.
He left for some time, while I dripped blood and slipped in and out of consciousness. When he returned, an old woman was with him. She approached me and began to clean my wounds and apply lotions to me. I was shocked when I realised they were healing me. I looked at Kato confused.
“Like I said, we have something special planned for you” he said