Chapter 141

Valerose

Embrose we sitting in the living room of the suite we are practically living in. We have been here almost a month now. For what was supposed to be a quick trip to investigate the prophecy child and either kill her or make her mine. I should have been home by now. It was supposed to be easy. That is what I thought. Nothing about this trip and the prophecy child has been easy. Like right now I need to pay attention to my witches but my mind keeps wandering towards Lexi. What is she doing? Who is she with? Is she alright? Hurt? I could have sworn I felt her earlier. Like the time I felt her heat. But this time I felt anger and pain.

Then it changed I felt fear and rage. The rage was soon replaced with concern and worry. Her emotions were all over the place. I wanted to go to her and comfort her. To help her. I have never cared about anyone’s feelings before. Only mine. And the only feeling I do care about is Lexi. Everyone else can go fuck themselves. My feelings towards Lexi have only increased since I met her in person. I am finding it harder and harder to stay away from her. I want to track her down. Hold her in my arms. Kiss those lips her other mates get to kiss every night. All of these new developments are confusing to me. I’m sure it is confusing Lexi.

One of my witches speaks up pulling my thoughts from Lexi. For now. She is never far from my mind. “ My king. I have been able to confirm that the Vampire Goddess is rising. I haven’t heard why she is. Why now? I have contacted every coven and vampire I know. The feelings are all the same. Add in the power they can feel from the prophecy child. They are confused and scared. The entire supernatural community can feel it. Something is going to happen. What is anyone’s guess.” she said.

I was pissed. She didn’t know much more than I did. I through my glass against the wall. I jump from my seat, race over to grab the witch's neck, then throw her into the wall. “ I know she is coming out of her seclusion from when the Goddess herself talked to me the other night. I even know what she wants. I needed new information from you. Can you give me that?” I yelled in her face. The stupid witch cowers from me. Nice to see I haven’t lost my touch. The only one that doesn’t fear me is Lexi. I don’t want her to fear me. I can’t even imagine putting my hands on her in anger. The only time I want my hands on her is in pleasure.

Fuck. There I go again, thinking about Lexi. “ My king. There isn’t much to know at this point until the Goddess informs us.” the witch said. Before I can say a word one of my doors is opened by one of my warriors and in stumbles one of my low-level vampires. So now I never bother to learn his name. One look at the guy and I can see he is in bad shape. “ What the hell happened?” I yelled. “ My king, we were watching the prophecy like we were told.” the guy said. That does not explain why he looks like he has been shredded and his skin smells like it is burning.

“ She had very few guards and her mates. Rolo said she wasn’t as powerful as people said. Her powers were a myth.” he grunted. I do not like where this is going. Please Goddess tell me these morons did not attack Lexi against my orders. Judging by the claw marks on his chest they did. “ Did you idiots attack Lexi?” Embrose asked. “ Rolo said it would be easy. We had more people than her. He lured her and her mates out to the forest behind some stores in Gwinn.” The guy shook his head. Embrose just laughs. “ Since you are the only one standing here I would say she kicked all your ass.” Embrose chuckled. I want to laugh with him and smile with pride at what Lexi was able to do.

The guy shakes his head. “ We had twenty guys. She had six. Rolo led the attack. We fought hard. She and her team fought harder. They were well-trained. They took several of us down in minutes. He clawed one of her mates hoping to weaken her because we were losing, badly. It didn’t. She went into a rage and glowed deep red. The next thing I knew Rolo was gone. Evaporated. Nothing but dust. I’m the only one left. The rest are dead or nothing but dust.” That explains everything I felt coming from Lexi. I sent the crew out hours ago. His wounds look fresh and should have healed by now at least a little.

“ Why did Lexi not kill you? And why are you not healed?” I growled. “ Lexi instructed her warriors to take me prisoner. She did this to me. She and her wolf did something that made it where I can’t heal. She told me she wanted me to have a slow painful death since we attacked her and her people. But she also wanted me to pass along a message to you.” he said. I don’t want to ask this but I have to. “ What is the message?” I asked. “ Attack her again She doesn’t care what any Goddess says she will kill you. All of the supernatural world is under her protection. Attack any of them she will make sure to torture you until you are begging for death. Then she will kill you slowly over the years if she has to.”

They attack Lexi and she thinks it was done on my orders. He is a dead man. “ You attacked the prophecy child without my orders. My mate and your future queen. You injure one of her mates. And to make matters worse she thinks I ordered it.” I yelled. “ I’m sorry my king. I was only following orders from Rolo. He thought if we could kill the child we would be rewarded. I didn’t know she was your mate. Forgive me.” he begged. Is this moron fucking kidding me? My mate thinks I sent people to attack her. Wait. My mate? I just admitted that Lexi is my mate. In a room full of people. I thought I was confused but I think I was afraid to admit the truth. That my Goddess woke up to give me Lexi.

And now because of idiot warriors that don’t know how to follow directions she is out to kill me. I need to fix that. But first I have to deal with this moron. He suddenly starts screaming and falls to the floor. His shirt falls open revealing bleeding claw marks covering his chest. The inside of the claw marks are glowing like embers of a fire and I can see smoke. “ What the fuck is happening?” I yelled. One witch steps up “ Powerful magic my king. His message has been delivered. Now he is dying. He is burning from the inside out.” “ Should we do something?” Embrose asked.

“ No. Let him suffer for what he did. Let him suffer like Lexi wanted.” I said. None of us moved while we watched him burn. The entire process took ten painful minutes. He was in agony. I enjoyed every second of his misery. He should have never listened to Rolo. He should have never put his hands on her. Now that he is gone I need to focus on what to do about Lexi. I have to make this right. I was given a mate. Something Vampires haven’t been given in hundreds of years. I’m not losing the first one to be given. I will have her even if I have to share.