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The Power in a Name
When I had asked where he was taking me the last place I had expected it to be was to his bedchamber, as these actions weren’t exactly coming from the Demon side of Draven that was supposed to dislike me and blame me for what he called Draven’s weakness. But then again, what had his actions against me been so far? Yes, he had demanded his army to bring me to him and the girls thrown out of Hell but other than that, he hadn’t purposely scared me. Or forced me to kneel at his feet, as I had been expecting. Which begged the question…
Why?
A question I found myself burning to ask more and more since he brought me to this space…this very empty space. It turned out that his home in Hell had been an endless amount of space filled with absolutely nothing. But then again, what was I expecting, hunted beasts as mounted trophies on the walls or portraits of him in his demon form? And as for furniture, I doubted that there was an antiques dealer with a shop down here in Hell somewhere. Although, I was sure there was at least an owner of a shop or two, as there must have been at least one evil man selling old furniture in the world.
No, it had just been bare stone walls with the occasional red banner here and there to break up the pale tones. That was until we approached a pair of black doors that looked to be the exact replica of the ones that led into Afterlife. I was so shocked I had nearly shouted this fact out, but one look at his tense gaze and I decided against it. No, instead I remained silent as the doors opened on their own and I watched in awe as I now stepped into this new space.
This new personal space.
“It’s like Persia?” I said, unable to help myself as he walked further into the room that was like a gothic version of his bedchamber back in time. Everything was where it was, the bed (although very different), the sunken seating area, even the windows that now showed a very different view than what I remembered. It was all where it had been back then.
“Another foolish mistake that went unpunished,” he commented putting me down and taking a step back making me gulp at the sound of that word coming from such a Being. One that looked as if he could have crushed me with little thought.
“What you call a foolish mistake was a choice made to save you,” I corrected him, unable to help myself but making him snarl at me, one he only stopped when he saw me taking a fearful step back.
“You are the only choice we make!” he snapped and I frowned, not understanding what he meant by it. But I jumped when the doors slammed shut at the sight of his anger.
“And what of my choices, do you honestly believe I don’t get to have any?” I asked making him frown at me and cross his arms before telling me,
“The last choice you made brought you to me and it is foolish to believe I will allow you make another that will take you away again, not now I have you.” I sucked in a deep breath and thought about what he was saying.
“But I don’t understand, you…you hated me, all you wanted was to have him back, to control and to…”
“To have my control yes… to have that back is all I have fought for since you entered our life. For I have been forced to watch and wait for far too long as you endangered your life and for what, one foolish endeavour after another. Now that time is at an end, as is yours,” he said walking towards me and now making me fearful once again that I had this all wrong. Had he wanted me down here to kill me once and for all? To get me out of the way so he could be free as a demon, forever.
“Please! Please don’t…don’t do this!” I shouted putting space between us and in doing so, nearly stumbling down the steps, forcing him to react by reaching out and grabbing me to him before I could fall.
“I will have you!” This was my only warning before he pulled me up to him, so that he could claim my lips in our first kiss as his demon. I would have thought it would have been different, but the second I opened up to him, it was my Draven I was kissing and no other.
I cried out in blissful knowledge of this and threw my arms around him, clinging to him to get closer. And he responded to it like a man starved of ever feeling this way. He picked me up and carried me towards the bed, doing so without breaking the connection. I broke away first to see what was happening around us when he growled at me, not liking that I turned away from him. I knew this the second his arm grew tighter around my waist. I swallowed hard when I saw that even though we may have been in a room I could call familiar, there was nothing familiar about that bed.
To begin with it looked more like something his father would own as the main theme to its structure was chains.
Lots and lots of chains.
He watched my panic rise and he seemed to feed from it as the hint of a grin reached the corner of one side of his dark grey lips. The whole bed was more like a cage as it was surrounded by thin pillars of black rock, with lengths of black chains in between. This meant that no one could escape if it hadn’t been for the gap on one side. A gap big enough for him to step up to before he lowered me down, placing me inside.
Then he followed me down and I couldn’t help my reaction as I scooted backwards across to the other side. This managed to put some distance between us as the bed was triple the normal size of ours back home. But my action caused him to grin as if this was a game and seeing my back was now against the stone bars was what he wanted to see. Then I watched as he raised up his hand and the gap that had once been there was now closing up as the same pillars grew like the others. This was now caging me in for good.
“I don’t understand?” I said again.
“This was the last choice I allowed you to make, the choice I knew you would make,” he said, and I shook my head in confusion.
“I knew when he found out what you kept from him he would give in to his rage. It made me strong enough to take control and enough for him to allow me to be summoned,” he confessed and as if being an outsider looking in, I could see it all start playing out for myself. Draven being taken over in that cell down in his prison. Fighting with himself as I slept on the floor just within his reach. I saw his eyes change into the demon I saw now. And with that one ounce of strength gained, he beat back Draven’s control just long enough to reach out to touch the back of my neck. After that there had been no stopping him from becoming free of Draven’s control and unlocking his cell, to then carry me from that place.
This was when it struck me. Draven hadn’t lied to me. He hadn’t just left me to keep me safe at all. He hadn’t had a choice because his demon had taken it away from him.
Draven had kept his promise.
“It was you…you made him leave?” I said with both shock and anger lacing my words.
“I made him return,” he corrected.
“And me?” I asked knowing he knew what I meant.
“You, I could not take with me,” he told me making me clench my fists as I asked,
“Why?”
“Because the power of the portal summoned could only carry one of free will and I knew…”
“You knew I would be foolish enough to eventually come myself…that’s what you meant about allowing me one choice left.” He confirmed this with a nod before coming closer, now making me hold a shaky hand out to him.
“Wait, I thought it was him you wanted to control,” I told him now getting up on unsteady legs and standing on the bed just to try and move quicker. I held on to the bars, surprised to find them warm to touch. He too rose up on the bed as he stalked towards me and just as I opened my mouth to speak again, he was on me!
“It was only ever one Being I wanted under my control…You!” he said as he raised my arms up above my head looking down at me and keeping my gaze captured with the intensity of his own. I barely even felt the chains he was wrapping around my wrists until suddenly he pulled on them and my body stretched out in front of him, like a prize ready for him to claim.
He looked down at me with a heated gaze, making the fire in his eyes burn brighter. Now my arms were captured, he took his time admiring my body, as he raised a hand to touch me. At first, I flinched from his touch making his features turn hard, but then he saw that my fear wasn’t him touching me, it was with his razor claws cutting my skin.
This was when he must have realised that it was possible for him to hurt me and this was something he didn’t want to do. I sucked in a surprised breath as I saw his gauntleted hand started to retract, seeping back into his pores like black liquid being absorbed into his skin. This left a strong male hand underneath with black fingernails and pale grey skin. I felt his other hand at my waist that still remained the same, so the threat of his talons was helping him in keeping me still. Something he was pleased about.
Then he went back to touching my skin, starting with holding the column of my neck.
“We like to feel your pulse beneath our touch, it brings us comfort to feel your life beating under our hold on you,” he told me, as if now speaking for Draven and answering that long asked internal question as to why Draven in both the past and the present always held my neck.
After this his hand travelled further down and his eyes widened as I sucked in a breath at the feel of his hand skimming the nipple that was just peeking out of the top of my corset.
“You like my touch, little one?” He purred the question as it came out as rumbling in his chest. I found myself only able to nod and bite my lip from moaning aloud. Then I looked down to see the rest of his armour below has started to melt away, revealing beneath a very large and hard erection resting against the lower part of his abs.
“Then let’s see how you like the touch of my cock!” he shouted on a growl suddenly lifting me up by taking hold of my behind in a firm grip. I cried out in shock as he wrapped my legs around his now bare ass. I tried to pull my arms down but they were locked there. Then he leant closer to my face and finished his sentence,
“My Wardum àm Kad nga Shi…My slave who ties my life…you are mine now,” he said before he kissed me and the second he did, I no longer fought my chains. It was as if I was lost the second his tongue fought mine, tasting me and devouring everything I had to give. I felt his hand reach down between my legs and he grasped his cock in his hand and used it to rub against my soaked clit.
I don’t know how long he kissed me for, but I was nearly begging him to take me by the time he was finished with me. It was like sweet torture as he continued to rub his length against me at a maddening pace without making the contact I really wanted.
Lucifer had said about taming the beast, but it felt as if it was the other way around, for he was trying to tame me.
“Please…please.” The only thing my pleas did was please him as a cruel smile appeared on his lips. I felt my underwear tear and with a hand holding my face secure, to make me look at him and only him, he watched my eyes as he surged up inside me. I cried out as the feel of him stretching me at his greater size making me realise now why he had spent the time in driving me to a frenzy…he wanted me ready to take him.
And take him I did.
He threw his head back and roared up at the rocky ceiling above making debris rain down with the power of it. He hammered into me, making me cling on to the chains just to hold on to something with the force of it all. But still, I wanted more. I didn’t want to be chained to the bed, I wanted to be chained to him. So, I nipped at him with my fangs, to get his attention,
“Free me.”
“Never!” he snarled back at me as he thrust in harder, done so as a warning.
“Then chain me to you, for I want to touch you,” I told him surprising him still. I wondered what he thought of this but then I felt him reach up above my hands and yank the length of chain free. I felt it go slack as he gathered it up in his hand before turning us to face the bed. Then before he could lower me down I tightened my hips around him and raised myself up on his shoulders, using the horns there so that I was high enough to reach his ear.
“I want to claim you this time,” I whispered making him growl the second he heard what I was asking of him. Then with a hand held to his face I started kissing him all over, making his resolve turn to dust. He didn’t say anything more but this time when he lowered us to the bed he did so by falling to his knees before lying back on the bed, to let me sit on top of him. This new position made his size nearly too hard to take but I wanted it…wanted it all.
So, I took it.
I started to ride him, slowly at first and as I did, he grabbed my hands in front of me, wrapped the length of chain around them before wrapping the rest of its length around his fist. Just the sight of such ownership had me working myself harder and faster over him as I felt myself chasing my first orgasm. One that I knew when it hit, would be explosive.
“Yes, yes, yes!” I shouted as it started to rise and then, just as I was about to feel it erupt, I felt him yank hard on my chains so that my arms flew up above me. He held me immobile like this so that he could rip my corset down, freeing my breasts and baring my body to him. Then he took hold of one of my breasts with his mouth, bit down hard on my nipple and I screamed as my orgasm ripped through me,
“AAAHHHH YYEESSS!”
“Again!” he demanded of me, now taking over my movements as my body started to tire. He still had his hand above me, keeping my arms captured over my head by the chain he held in his fist. I was stretched out upright for him as he went back to feasting on my breast like a man obsessed. He hammered his hips up and, keeping a hand on my waist to steady me, I felt the slight pain of his hold that managed to morph into pleasure, and this was enough to have me hurtling once more up the next level of pleasure, only to find another screaming release.
“AAAHHH!”
“I want more,” he demanded, but as my limbs relaxed around him he must have seen my weakness for he lowered my arms and gently, without removing himself, turned me around so that he was above me.
“I will give you more my Shi, but I do so taking care of what I own,” he told me gently as he lowered my head back as if he was scared I would break. Then he unwrapped the chain from my hands and released them to wherever they would fall. The last orgasm had been so powerful, I felt as if I could barely move, but that was fine as the beast above me now wanted to take back control.
“Now I claim you!” he warned before claim me, he did. He lifted my legs up, so that my knees were to my chest and then he started to lose himself in the motion. This time building up his own release with every hard stroke of my core against his hard length. I knew he was near as he suddenly lifted me up so that I was in his lap with my legs locked at the base of his back.
His speed started to increase and his demonic voice made his next demand of me,
“We come as one, as I claim you, we come together chained together for eternity,” he said this, and in the end, it wasn’t meant metaphorically. As the second later I felt the length of chain wrap around my body as it tied me to his own. It was as though it had a life of its own as I even felt it wrap over my shoulders and around my breasts before tightening so that I was locked to him. I cried out at the sensation of being tied up all over my body and it sent my mind into sexual overload.
I could feel it once again build until soon his fangs lengthened and I knew what was about to happen. But he didn’t want to take his hand from me, so instead, he commanded the chain to wrap dangerously around my neck. I gulped back the fear before I felt it slipping high enough under my chin to force my neck to one side and in doing so forcing me to submit to him. Then, not waiting another minute, he sank his teeth into me, and started drinking me down as if I was Heaven’s forbidden nectar. I came screaming just as I felt the last of my energy being drained away, but yet he took more.
It was as though he couldn’t stop.
I felt his body tense as he felt my release rippling along his cock sending him over so that he tore his bloody lips from my neck and he did so roaring out to his world, with enough force to crack the rocks around us.
We had come as one but the only difference being, that when he came, he did so screaming my name…
My real name,
“KEIRA!”
And he did this in panic as my body began to fall and my mind began to fade into the darkness. Feeling as though…well as though,
He had killed me.
I don’t know what happened after that as I must have blacked out for a moment from the intensity of it all.
I opened my eyes to find myself staring into the eyes of the man I loved and at first, I couldn’t understand how. I was lay down with his naked body now half over me. The body belonging to the man I fell in love with.
“Draven?” I called his name in confusion and I felt my hair being pushed back from my face before soft lips found my cheek. I don’t know why but it all just felt like a dream, only when I opened my eyes I saw that we were still in the same bed.
“We’re still in Hell!” I shouted bolting upright and making him grab my shoulders.
“Ssshh, calm down. Come on, lay back…you need your strength,” he said in a soothing voice coaxing me to do as he asked.
“I don’t understand…what…?”
“You’re weak, my demon took too much from you and when he realised what he had done, he relinquished his control back to me,” Draven told me in that gentle tone as if he was sorry any of it had happened. I could barely believe it, I had done it.
“I did it?” I questioned, needing to make sure. Draven looked at me asking me silently what I meant.
“I tamed your demon, I…”
“You made him realise his love for you was more powerful than his need to claim you. You made him realise what I had been trying to do since we met you,” Draven explained as he gently stroked down my neck as if getting lost in the half naked sight of me.
“He was angry at you,” I stated.
“Yes, and he had been for so long, but now thanks to you, for the first time in years, he is calm and acceptant…you might have just saved me centuries of headaches, love,” he added making me chuckle.
“Well, you have plenty of time to thank me,” I teased. But then he turned serious and said,
“He knew you would find a way.” I frowned in question, so he said,
“He was counting on you coming to try and save me. He had it planned to make you suffer the wait he had to suffer. To see you kneeling by his feet and submitting to him for all to see but in the end, the second he saw you, he became lost to your power over us, lost to the love you made him feel… As I knew he would,” Draven told me, adding this last part spoken with his hand behind my head, pulling me closer to him. I smiled, kissing him after he said this, framing his face with my hands as I held him to me.
“You came back to me. You came back…you kept your promise and you never left me,” I said as tears started to fall down my cheeks and he cupped my face,
Telling me the only words I needed to hear…
“I will always find a way back to you.”