5
The second we were through the door into our bedchamber Draven spun me round to face him and pulled me tight into his embrace. He didn’t speak but instead just held me to him as if he needed this moment. It was as though he had needed this more than I think I would ever fully realise but it didn’t mean I couldn’t show him what it meant to me. I did this by finally letting go of my captured emotions freely as I broke down in his arms. He didn’t say anything but just held a hand to the back of my head, cradling me to him where I held on and gave him everything I had bottled up.
“I…I thought…” I tried to say through the tears, cutting the silence when he stroked a hand down my hair and said,
“Ssshh now, I know…I know Keira…because I thought it too.” And right then in that one moment we didn’t need any more words to say what we had both thought because we could feel it. We could feel the utter relief wash over us at knowing my death wasn’t coming like we both feared. It was no longer a threat for us to see playing out in our nightmares like some macabre opera.
“Why didn’t you tell me?” He had whispered into my hair before pulling back to look at me and after some time had passed. I knew what he referred to when he brought his hand down to my belly and ran the back of his knuckles down the centre. I swallowed down the emotional lump and bit my lip as I thought of how to word the reason why. When I imagined Draven finding out about me being pregnant it certainly wasn’t by the Devil himself telling him after ripping a God’s blood from my chest, that was for damn sure. Way to go on ruining that one for me Lucifer, I thought wryly.
“Because I was afraid. I knew that you believed as I did that by being pregnant was what would kill me. But now we know it has to do with the future.” And it did. Lucifer’s words had confirmed that. Our child would be the start of the Infinity war, one that the next generation would face and we would be ready for it right alongside them.
“I can’t believe it’s possible!” he said obviously getting used to the idea quickly and finally able to rejoice at the news. Then I giggled as he bent slightly so that he could lift me up by wrapping his arms around the tops of my legs and spinning me round before letting me go. I gasped just before he caught me again making me laugh.
“You won’t be able to do that when I have a big bump in the way,” I said breathlessly which made him stop dead and look down at me as if he was seeing it for himself. I bit my lip at the heated look he gave me. Wow, okay so what was that about? Did Draven like the idea of seeing me heavily pregnant…as in really, really like it?
“I…um…I look forward to seeing that,” he replied after first having to clear his throat, something I rarely heard from Draven. It wasn’t often he was stuck for words so when he was it shot a thrill straight to my core.
“Really?!” I asked him astonished. He gently pulled my bottom lip from my teeth and bent slightly so that he could be level with my eyes. Then he answered me in a deep rumble,
“Greatly.” Then he swept my legs from beneath me and swung me up in his arms so he could carry me to the bed. A place I was thankful to say we spent the rest of our wedding night in utter bliss.
I could barely believe that we no longer had all the ‘what could have happened’ bearing down on our time together. No now, it was only filled with endless possibilities of what we could do together. What we could accomplish or seeing what our child would. Just to know that we would have each night like this. In each other arms finding our own happy rhythm in day to day life, which prompted me to ask,
“Do you think you will ever get bored with normality?” At this he gave me a quizzical eyebrow raise as he was currently on his side with his head leant against his hand propped up by his elbow. We were both naked after making love and he was currently running his fingertips lazily across my collar bone as if lost in his own thoughts. He laughed once and said,
“I think I recall telling you once that you belong to a Demon/Angel King who has to control the supernatural world, I think you can kiss normality goodbye, Sweetheart.” I smiled remembering this for myself which seemed like an age ago now. It was not long after Draven and I had become a couple. I almost laughed thinking back to that time. If anyone had ever told me back then that I would still be lay in his bed years later, married to him and carrying his baby I think I would have called them crazy.
But then I thought back to everything I had been through after that point and I think I would have then called them insane. Because looking back on all the things I had done in the name of love was insanity but of the best kind. After all, that’s what love is all about. It’s about sacrifice, it’s about taking risks and having faith that somewhere in the dark depths of uncertainty then someone would take your hand and lead you to the light.
That they would lead you home to your heart.
Of course, at the time normal to me had simply been dating a man like Draven and trying to fit him into my life. But unbeknown at the time, this was never going to be the case. A being such as Draven wasn’t ever going to fit that ‘boyfriend’ role within my world as I had first hoped. So, instead it was only ever going to be about fitting myself into his world and finding my place within it, which just so happened to be right where I was now, by his side.
Although like I said, at the time I was oblivious to all this and would be until first being taken by the one King who had kicked started my journey…Lucius.
But I didn’t focus on that, no instead I simply informed him,
“I think you’re forgetting something.” Draven looked intrigued and obviously wanted to see where this game we played was going to lead so he asked,
“And that is?”
“You said King but back then I think you will recall that at the time that was something you had kept from me.” He smirked and then replied,
“Well I knew that after a while of hearing others calling me their Lord that sooner or later you would catch on…my little wife is clever like that,” he teased giving my nose a little tap.
“It was Sophia who told me!” I yelled making him feign mock surprise,
“Was it now, well I guess I gave you too much credit, I would like it back please and will take such in way of a kiss…tis a fair payment I think.” I laughed as I smacked him playfully on the arm that was on perfect show and making my mouth water at just the sight of that naked muscle.
“I think being a married man has gone to your head and made you too cocky,” I told him making him laugh again.
“Keira, I was already married to your heart, soul, body and mind the very first second I met you…you just didn’t know it.” I couldn’t help but melt into his side when he said this. Then to hide my true feelings on what this did to me so that we could continue this playful banter, I muttered into his hard pec,
“See, totally cocky.” I felt him start to shake as this time he laughed even harder, a sound I relished in and always would.
“Alright little one, let’s hear it, what brought this on?” he asked all jokes aside. I lifted my head from his chest and pushed my hair back before taking a deep breath.
“Well according to the Fates, it’s now over, the threat of the end of the world is gone.”
“Yes, and I would say thank the Gods for that but in this case, I believe my thanks are given to only one Goddess, one I am looking forward to worshipping in this ‘world of normality’ of which you speak,” he replied, and I groaned making him smirk.
“Oh, come on! Jeez what is it with you, before you met me, did you like take a ‘smooth talk the Electus’ class or something!?” I asked this time making him throw his head back and really laugh.
“Seriously my Love, if for my many lifetimes this is what you call normality then sign me up to drown in it because I can guarantee that I shall never tire of it!” I threw my hands up and moaned a dramatic,
“AH! There you go again, with the perfect answer! Can’t you just fart at least once or something, just so I know you have at least one flaw!” Okay so I was getting weird, I knew this, but he still didn’t seem to be bothered by it. No, if anything I was highly entertaining. He chuckled and said,
“So, body flatulence is what does it for you is it? Why, my little goddess you shock me! But I will make you a deal, for if you wish to show me how it’s done… on our wedding night I might add… then please do, for I am as intrigued as you to hear the sound…” he then paused and leant in closer to me to whisper for dramatic effect,
“…but tell me, should I rate it accordingly and should we do so by sound or smell?” he teased tugging my body closer and in turn I kept trying playfully to get away from him, but he simply kept pulling me back making me laugh even harder.
“Alright, alright, you win but just so you know this, right here, is normality,” I informed him after motioning between us with my hand. He raised a brow and said,
“Talking about expelling bodily gas on your wedding night? Tell me sweetheart, is this a mortal custom or one of your very own you wish to start?” I tried to not to laugh and instead said in my own cocky swagger,
“I don’t know, do you think it will catch on?” He tried to contain his smile as he quickly pulled me beneath him and said,
“With you in their bed, then I imagine there isn’t a husband out there such as I who wouldn’t do anything for his duelling vixen.” At this I bit my lip and gave him a shy blush just before he homed in on my lip and told me,
“I believe I have warned you about that lip of yours many times now, for it belongs to me and therefore is only mine to bite.” This was my only warning before he swooped down for the attack, taking my lip for himself like he threatened. I moaned in his mouth just before he took me whole and consumed my senses with a mind-blowing kiss. I raised my hands up and embedded them into his hair to anchor him to me, never wanting to let go. I knew in that moment what my soul was telling me. So, I pulled him back making him release me on a growl so that I could tell him,
“I will never get enough of you…” I said fiercely holding onto him before bringing my hands round to frame his face, then I leant up and placed my forehead to his and whispered,
“Never enough Dominic, my husband.” And if I thought Draven couldn’t have fallen anymore in love with me until this point then I was wrong, as with that one look given I knew for him that this was his breaking point. I very briefly only managed to see the tears glistening in his purple eyes before he crushed me to him and in one quick action, entered my body. It was as if in that perfect moment he needed to join our loving souls together and nothing in the world could have prevented the action.
This time no other words were needed. There were no demands or acts of dominance. There was no control or power shift between us. It was simply the two of us making love and using our bodies to communicate how we felt for each other. One hand framed my face as the other was holding my hand above, with his long, thick fingers firmly entwined in my slender ones. He looked down at me as if I was the most perfect and precious gift to him and that look alone brought tears to my eyes at the intensity of it all. Then he kissed me and we came together, tasting the sweet moans of our pleasure as we stepped over the edge of euphoria together.
The last words heard that night was after Draven placed his forehead to mine and whispered his own admission,
“Mine…At Last.”
And I was. I was his now and forevermore. Because I hadn’t just gone to Hell and back for him, but went beyond the realms of the boundaries set against us. I broke every rule and destroyed every enemy in our way just to have this single moment in time. I said fuck to the Fates and walked my own path hand in hand with hope at seeing him on the other side. The Fates hadn’t given me this, I had. I had done this and journeyed not only to the past but now with Draven’s child growing inside me, had also touched our future. I had reached out and brushed against the endless possibilities, gifting me a glimpse into my perfect world.
A life with the man I loved.
That night our bodies remained connected to each other and we finally found peace in each other’s arms, for nothing could come between us now.
And it was like Draven had said,
It was our…
At last.