Chapter 49

A noise at her window made them both look up and around.
“Paris?” they both asked at the same time.
“I didn’t know you have company,” Paris said.
“Aren't you supposed to protect the hunters with Wynn?” Ann questioned.
“You clearly did not see the strength Wynn possesses. That guy is something else. I just came to talk to you. Will go back soon enough,” Paris said.
“I gave you an order,” Michael said.
“Yeah,..” Paris wanted to tell Michael off, but Ann interrupted him.
“Michael, give us a moment,” Ann ordered, forcing Michael to give them a moment alone.
“Wish you will stop doing that,” Michael hissed before leaving her room through the window.
“I am sorry,” Paris said, reaching out to take Ann’s hand but she step away from him.
“I needed to know if my feelings for Soraya have changed now that I know you,” Paris tried to explain.
“By fucking her?” Ann spat in a loud whisper.
“I see it is clear that there is no going back, but in my defense; why are you allowed to date someone else but I am not allowed to explore what was?” Paris defended.
“I was going to choose you,” Ann confessed, tears building up in her eyes.
“You can still choose me,” Paris said and sped a step closer, cooping her face. “Just drink from me and you will see that you are all I want.” Paris forced her into a kiss and stopped when he felt she was not kissing him back.
“Please,” Paris pleaded and bit open his palm.
“Stop. You chose for me when you slept with Soraya,” Ann said, wiping her tears.
Paris stood there, the blood dripping from his palm, looking at her with pleading eyes.
“Please leave,” Ann said with a blunt tone.
Micheal heard everything and his heart broke when he heard that Ann would choose Paris. He sped off to the compound.
“Michael, or should I say King? I am so confused. Some say, King, some say, Micheal,” Soraya said when Michael entered the compound.
“Michael is fine,” Michael said.
“Have you seen Paris?” she asked.
Filled with anger and heartbroken Michael wanted to get back at Paris and Soraya standing in front of him, an evil thought came to mind.
“Why do you care? It is not like you remember your time with him,” Michael questioned.
“But I can see it in his memories, and what we had was beautiful,” Soraya said with a smile on her face.
“I don’t think he feels the same,” Micheal chuckled.
“Of course he does,” Soraya said, anger in her voice.
“See for yourself,” Michael said and bit open his wrist.
Soraya hesitantly put her mouth to Micheal’s palm and closed her eyes.
Michael smiled when he saw tears escape from under her closed eyelids, knowing she heard what he had heard.
Soraya stopped drinking, a little blood on her lips.
Michael rubbed away the blood with his thumb and gave his wrist a lick to seal up the wound.
“You taste different from the vampires without a heart,” Soraya said.
“I hope in a good way,” Michael questioned, wanting to take her to bed, or any woman for that matter, now that he knew that Ann will never become his queen.
“In a good way,” Soraya smiled.
“Do you want me to take you back to Merc?” Michael questioned.
“No,” Soraya said, looking up at him with sad eyes.
“Do you want me to take the pain away?” Michael questioned.
Soraya looked into his eyes and knew exactly what he meant by taking the pain away. “Yes.”
Without giving it a second thought, he swept her up in his arms and took her to his bedroom, leaving everyone around shocked at his actions.
Shysie smiled. ‘Totally didn’t see things go this way. What did Ann do to push Michael away?’ she wondered and sped off.
Shysie was halfway on her way to Ann when she came across Paris in the kid's play park, sitting on a frozen swing.
She looked at his wrist, which was still bleeding.
“What is going on?” Shysie said and took his hand and gave his wrist a lick to seal his wound.
“Nothing. Everything.” Paris said and sped off back to the caged hunters, leaving Shysie happy about the developments.
‘Soon he will be mine again,’ she thought with a smile.
***
Paris arrived back at the cage.
“How are things going here?” Paris questioned on arrival.
“Good. I think we can lift the cage while they are still sleeping and get out of here,” Wynn suggested.
“Ok, great,” Paris said and walked to one side of the cage.
“What is with the long face? Did the talk not go the way you wanted?” Wynn questioned, lifting the cage and tipping it over without letting it crash so as to not wake Eljo and Eero up.
“How the hell did you do that?” Paris questioned.
“Do what?” Wynn asked.
“Your strength,” Paris said.
“Oh that,” Wynn regretted showing his strength to Paris. “Try to keep it to yourself.
“Sure, but what was that? How do you do that?” Paris questioned as they sped off a few kilometers before walking again.
“The same way I am doing this,” Wynn said and part shifted his hands into claws, followed by making his snow owl wings appear.
“You are a multi-shifter,” Paris choked in shock.
“I guess, but so far I have not been able to shift into any one animal completely,” Wynn said.
“You drink only from me and Michael from now on. I don’t want anyone to know,” Wynn said.
“I can drink from you?” Paris questioned.
“Yes,” Wynn said and held out his palm to Paris to give it a try.
“I believe you,” Paris said and pushed Wynn’s arm away from him.
“Does Deacon know?” Paris wondered.
“No, and I want to keep it that way,” Wynn said.
“You know what this means?” Paris questioned.
“I do, but I am not interested in being the supernatural king and it will cause war again. I am not supposed to exist, and what do you think?” Wynn stopped himself when it occurred to him that he had sperm at the higher council.
“What?” Paris questioned.
“I have sperm at the higher council and Queen Amirah knows what I am,” Wynn said and sped off towards the council.
Paris followed him, knowing it won't be good if Queen Amirah gets her hands on a multi-shifters sperm especially now that there is no Snow owl King or anyone to follow in his footsteps that can produce a pure-blood sow owl royal, unless Prince Andre stored sperm before he became a hybrid.

Ann was looking out of her window after Paris left and wondered where Michael went. Ann took her coat and decided to go to the compound, as she really needed Michael’s arms.
Ann got to the compound and immediately knew something was up when all the supernaturals acted differently toward her. Before they had respect for her and won't dare make a romantic kind of hints toward her because they knew she belonged to the Vampire king.
“What are you smiling about?” Ann asked Shysie, that was leaning against the kitchen counter.
“Micheal is in his room,” Shysie said.
One of the prehistoric sped over and blocked Ann’s way. “It is against rules to enter the area where the man and one of his women are busy making love.”
“What are you talking about?” Ann chuckled.
“The king is with another right now and you will have to wait your turn,” he said.
“What?” Ann questioned and pushed past him. The prehistoric won't dare force her to stay behind.
Ann could hear the sound of lovemaking behind the door as she rested her hand on the doorknob.
“I guess you are not his only one anymore,” Shyse snorted.
Ann looked over at Shysie, unable to believe what was going on.
‘He just told me loved me,’ Ann thought, refusing to believe that it was Michael in the room.
Ann took a deep breath and opened the door.
Michael was hoping that it was Paris walking in on them. He saw the pain in Ann’s eyes when his eyes met hers. He paused for a moment, his manhood inside of Soraya under him, moaning in pleasure for him not to stop.
‘I guess I should have expected him to take another woman, or a few for that matter,’ Ann thought. ‘Don’t cry, not here,’ she thought and left, ignoring the smirk on Shysie’s face.
***
Wynn arrived at the higher council before Paris did, since Paris could not travel during the day.
Wynn made his way over to the science lab and breathed a sigh of relief when he found it destroyed.
‘Back so soon?’ Queen Amirah mind linked to him when she got word that he entered the castle.
‘Stay out of my head,’ Wynn said, and blocked his mind from him. Wynn sped to Toronto, Canada where he left Paris and waited out the day so that they can travel together.
“Here, you must be starving,” Wynn offered his palm.
Paris sank his teeth into Wynn’s palm and drank his fill.
After drinking, Paris looked strangely at Wynn.
“What? Saw something you shouldn’t have?” Wynn chuckled.
“I know now why they called you Wicked,” Paris choked in shock.
“That bad?” Wynn chuckled, having no memory of his past life.
“See for yourself,” Paris said, offering his palm back.
“I will pass,” Wynn said, thinking it was best not to discover himself. Wynn walked over to the kitchen, looking for something to eat.
Wynn cooked up a storm, grateful for the fact that the kitchen was always stacked with food due to Michael and Deacon traveling up and down for council business.
“You must be glad to be able to eat food again?” Paris asked, watching Wynn eat.
“Never giving my animal side up again. I always wanted to kill my wolf's side but didn’t realize how fond I was of daylight and food,” Wynn said and took another bite of his food.
“Do you regret becoming a vampire?” Wynn asked after eating, making small talk.
“Not for the sunshine and food part, no. Sometimes I wonder how it would have been to have children. I regretted it for a moment when I saw Ann’s thought on the subject, but now that I know there will never be a possibility for us to be together, I don’t regret it anymore,” Paris said.
“What happened?” Wynn asked.
“I slept with Soraya,” Paris reminded him.
“Well, at least you still have her,” Wynn said and stood up. “Ready to go?”
“Yeah,” Paris said, and they sped off.
They arrived back in Alaska and Wynn decided to go check up on Ami first.
Ann opened the door. “You shouldn't be here. My dad and Eero are inside.”
“Good, so they got home ok then. Are they ok?” Wynn questioned.
“They just got here. Busy getting cleaned up,” Ann said, standing in her doorway.
“How is Ami?” Wynn questioned.
“She seems to be fine. She has not seen Eero yet.”
“Ok. Well, tell her I stopped by and that she should contact me if she needs to talk,” Wynn said, and sped off before Ann could get out another word.
***
Paris got to the compound and found Soraya in Michael’s arms. Michael looked over at him with a daring look on his face.
“What are you doing?” Paris questioned.
Soraya jerked her head around at Paris and got up from Michael’s lap. “What does it look like?”
“I was not talking about you,” Paris said and shot a questioned look at Michael.
“We are having fun,” Michael chuckled.
“I never want to talk to you again!” Soraya shouted.
“That is going to be difficult since we both stay under the same roof,” Paris said, scratching his head, wondering what he did wrong.
“What have you done?” Paris questioned Michael.
“I had her drink from me and she heard how you really felt and where your heart was really at,” Michael said.
“Nothing she didn’t already know,” Paris spat. “But why are you comforting her? What about Ann?”
“Ann knows what I am and my customs,” Michael chuckled even though he was sad, but he wasn’t going to show his weak side to anyone, especially not Paris.
“Ann will never be ok with you dating or seeing anyone else,” Paris choked.
“She watched them fuck and seemed just fine with it,” Shysie said.
Paris shot a look at Shysie and then back at Michael before speeding off, knowing that Ann will not be ok with it. ‘How can she?’ Paris thought.
Ann was just about to turn away from her door after Wynn left when there was a knock again.
“Forgot something?” Ann asked as she opened the door. “Paris?”
“Please tell me you are not ok with Michael having other women? He is allowed to have Soraya, but I am not allowed to make one stupid mistake?” Paris questioned.
“My father and Eero are here. You should leave,” Ann said and slammed the door shut.
Paris sped up to her bedroom window and by the time Ann got to her room, she heard Ami telling Paris to leave because Eljo and Eero were home.
“You are not welcome in my home again,” Ann said, forcing Paris out of her room.
Just as Ann shut the window, Eero knocked on the door. “Ami?”
Ann opened the door. “I will give you two some space. Take all the time you need,” Ann said, and winked at Ami.