Three Plus One

Hunnie









"Our bond Hunnie...our mate bond. Mine and yours...not Bahms."



Kris looks up at me teary eyed. The hairs on my arms began rising.



"What mate bond with you?... Kris I don't-"



"I'm your mate too Hunnie. I am connected to Bahm, making you mine as well." Speechless.





Was he playing a trick on me just to go back? There’s no way I too have a second mate.



"Kris what are you talk...ing...about-"





"Hunnie." He stands up fully, cupping my face.





"You think Bahm would let another man touch you and even kiss you? Let alone even taste you the way I did? Have you not thought about it...come on, you should know Bahm by now."



Sudden goosebumps and tingles wash over my body, going into denial. It was almost all making sense, but how can Kris be my mate? I have two?

All the time Bahm made Kris watch over me, even sleeping in the same bed as me, and yes, tasting me... was because he too was my mate all along? Can one even have two mates!



"I-I...I thought...because you both were so...close."





"No Hunnie. I am Bahm, and he is me. I bear his heart in my chest, combining us as one. We can see, feel, hear and even taste the same things the other one does...We share thoughts and feelings...I am your mate too Hunnie." A tear falls from one of his eyes and he lowers his head to capture my lips.



The sudden urge to open my mouth up to him was very overwhelming and just when I do tasting the saltiness around his mouth, he pauses and looks behind him. No one or nothing there as I peeked as well.





He turns back and faces me, his arms embracing me into a hug. "Hunnie...if you reject Bahm, you reject me too." He whispers and I start to bawl under him. I didn't have any plans of rejecting anyone, I only wanted to get away. Live a life of not rejecting anyone anymore. Now learning Kris is my mate too, it makes things so much harder.



"I...I wasn't going to Kris." I sob and he quickly breaks his hug, grabbing me softly by my shoulders. "So then please come back to us Hunnie. We need you... and Bahm is scared you will reject him for Anna."





"WHAT!" I shriek unexpectedly. "Why is he feeling so insecure now!” Fire beginning to boil into my heart hearing Kris take to his side. "He should have thought about that when he decided to toss me around and make me cry almost every day since I’ve gotten here!"





"It's because of Azalea." Kris whispers, pulling me closer to him. I shrug him off of me and shake my head, demanding to know more about the situation.





"Is she still there?" I asked in a whisper as well. He sighs before lowering his head and answers me . "Yes...yes she's still-"





"THEN I WILL NOT RETURN!" I raise my voice the tiniest bit and a loud, growling, roar booms from behind him.





I jump, grabbing onto Kris's arm in horror. My eyes trail behind him and I now see Bahm fully behind the gates of the castle. Pacing back and fourth, breathing heavily with eyes low and evil as the devil.







"Hunnie you are upsetting him."





"Why is everything about him? Kris you must know this life isn't normal! Having two women mates are not normal! I don't want to share...I don't want to see him with another woman!....I don't want to be second!" I cry, feeling like I am going to be dragged back off to their castle defeated without a say again.





"HUNNIE YOU ARE MY MATE AND WILL COME BACK WITH ME...TODAY!" Bahm yells off in the distance.





I only cry some more in Kris's arm, grabbing onto his sleeves. He felt very protective over me, I couldn't just leave him, but Bahm hasn't seemed to change and it frightened me all the more. He still thinks he has this control over me because we are mates, and as much as I know nothing about the mating life, I am sure this isn't how it goes.





"No Kris. I can't go back...he terrifies me." I mumble, slowly trying to take steps away from Kris. His facial expression saddens, his arms come down off of my shoulders and he turns around to head back to Bahm.





"Hunnie please come talk to me!" I see Bahm clasping his hands together with a different and urgent expression on his face. I will not fall into his sudden change of tone.





I shake my head no, seeing Anna in my peripheral view sliding the front doors open.





"Bahm...you haven't changed, and I will not return back. Please leave me be...you've hurt me to the point I don’t even want to see you anymore.” My voice croaked, taking steps towards the door from the bridge. My back facing Anna and Bahm growls loudly, beginning to pace back and fourth again.





"You are my MATE Hunnie! And so is she!" I ignore his words.





"Please don't hurt anyone, but I can not go back to you Bahm. You are scaring-"





"I'LL DO WHATEVER I WANT" He roars and I run full force into the castle doors, fearing he was going to do something dangerous to me. My slippers coming off in the making.





I now knew no one would be safe if I didn't return to him. I couldn't carry anymore deaths in my heart. Azalea or the beings in this realm doesn’t deserve to be harmed by Bahm. Immediately under panic with all the hands on me brushing my hairs away, and asking if I was ok, I casted a demon protection barrier around the whole castle. Angry that there isn’t any progress! Any demons that now step onto this premise, will die slowly!





It was the only way I could keep these innocent vampires safe from my monstrous, and immortal mate. He wasn't going to stop until he had me, but as long as Azalea was in the picture I'd never go back and I will pray he doesn’t harm her because of me!



I was rushed to Anna's room after completing my spell. My energy draining from my body almost instantly with how big I had to cover their grounds.



"My love, what is it?" Anna walks me over to her bed with a few maidens to my side, patting my head with a towel and with a look of concern.



I laid down on her bed, explaining when I use very large dark spells and have to keep them up, my energy drains drastically. She says this used to happen to Bahm when she first met him too and he tried showing off his incredible abilities with dark magic.







Memories of holding up the barrier in the woods where I rejected Bahm, came to surface. My heart breaking into more pieces than before. How could Bahm treat me this way and think I would stick around for it all? In the nine months he’s been in my life, I never thought I’d see this side of him. I never thought one day I would actually have to make a decision based on my life...and not my coven.







Anna comes to my side right after her maidens leave the room. She cuddles behind me, spooning her cool body against mine and massaging my shoulders. Her touches ease me, my body relaxing.





"Will that spell you casted around the castle grounds work?" Anna whispers into my ear.







"It should. If a demon steps inside, they also won't be able to use their magic. It’s...a...old...dark...magic...spell..." My eyes closed and I drifted off to sleep.