Chapter Ten
Chapter
Ten
JETT
The sun was up, and Aziz was still in bed behind me. His arm wrapped around my waist. I couldn’t help smiling as I thought about last night. He’d taken me to bed after my father left.
I didn’t really understand what exactly happened, but it’s like I could feel Aziz within my very soul. My dad said he was my other half, and that’s exactly what it feels like.
After the first time, we’d gotten up, me in his shirt and nothing else, him in just his pants.
Aziz ordered something for me to eat, and we went in my living room to wait.
While we waited, he feasted on me in another way entirely.
By the time the food got to the house, I was spent and unable to move from my spot on the couch.
I’d eaten dinner curled next to him. Aziz would take a couple of bites here and there but mostly held onto me while I enjoyed the succulent dinner he’d gotten delivered from the pizza parlor in town.
They had some of the best pasta ever. Plus, their breadsticks were to die for.
The best part is when it showed, it was still hot, not lukewarm.
Aziz explained this is because he was the owner of the place, though he had someone who managed the place for him.
It was mostly an investment that he said paid well.
Last night, I also learned he really could live for eternity and never have to work because of how much he had saved over the past two thousand years. I found it incredible how he’d been able to convert money over time to match that of each time period.
Sighing, I glance at the clock to see that it is time for me to get ready. I needed to get up, but I felt comfortable in Aziz’s arms and wanted to stay where I was and never move.
Unfortunately, I was expected at the library and needed to get there before I was late.
We didn’t have story time today, though there was a group of kids coming to work on different projects for school, and I said I’d help them with it.
I start to pull away from Aziz only to have him tighten his arms around me, keeping me from leaving the bed.
“Where you going?” he grumbles. The sound of his voice sends a shiver down my spine. And not in a bad way, considering I felt it between my thighs.
Oh, sweet mercy.
“I need to get up and get ready for work,” I tell him.
Aziz presses a kiss to my bare shoulder. “You shouldn’t go to the library. It’s not safe for you.”
“I have to go. I have responsibilities to attend to.” I couldn’t let the kids down, plus I really did enjoy being at the library.
“I don’t want you around that witch,” Aziz grunts, squeezing me to him.
“You’re going to have to get over that.” I didn’t want to fight with Aziz, not after such an amazing night last night, but I needed to do this. I needed to live my life still and not worry about any threats.
Aziz shifts us so I’m on my back and he’s over me. His body fit perfectly between my legs, his cock thick and hard could be felt, but he wasn’t pressing inside me like he had before.
I meet his gaze to find him staring intently at me, a glimmer of annoyance filling his eyes.
“You need to think about the threat of you being there. That witch could do something to you at any time.”
“If she was going to do anything to me, wouldn’t she have already?”
I’ve worked at the library for a while, and she’s not done anything to me, as it were.
Sliding my hands up his arms until I reach his shoulders, I curl my fingers around his neck. “Please, Aziz, I don’t want to have anyone dictate my life. If something were to happen, you’d know. You’d feel me as I feel you.”
Aziz’s brows crease and he looks confused for the briefest moment before he shakes his head. “I feel you, little one, but I don’t want anything to happen to you. It’s a chance I refuse to take.”
“I’m going to the library, Aziz,” I tell him.
“If you need to, put someone on me. Follow me yourself, but I won’t be stopped.
My life won’t stop because we’re now bonded together and are mates.
You won’t tell me what to do. I don’t care if you’re thousands of years older than me.
I’m an adult and won’t be treated like a child. ”
Anger blazes in Aziz’s eyes, and he growls, baring his fangs. Oh boy. Seeing those fangs sends another shiver down my spine, and I’d love nothing more than to have him use them again. He’d bitten me several times through the night. Not all in my neck either.
“I promise you I will let you know if the smallest inkling of trouble comes my way.” I try to calm him.
“You do this and something happens, I will go on a rampage, and no one will be safe from my mercy. I’ll burn the world down if you are harmed in any way.”
Whoa. His words are scary yet arousing all the same time.
“I love you,” I blurt out without meaning to.
It’s not that I didn’t, I knew I was in love with him.
I felt myself falling for him quickly. It’s as if I knew the moment I saw him fighting those other vampires, I was meant to be his, and he was meant to be mine.
It didn’t matter it was only days ago. I knew what I felt, and I knew what I wanted. What my heart wanted, needed.
Aziz was that person for me. Now that I was bonded to him, I felt that deeper than I thought possible.
All the anger in his expression disappears, leaving that soft look that I’m learning quickly is meant solely for me.
“You play dirty, Agápi.” Aziz sighs and shakes his head before lifting a hand to cup my cheek. “You are my heart, little one.”
My heart skips a beat at him calling me his heart.
“You go to work, and I’ll make sure to have someone come keep watch.”
I give him a smile and reach up enough to brush my lips across his. “Thank you.”
“You can thank me in another way besides words.” Aziz growls, shifts his hips, and slides the tip of his cock inside me.
I could definitely thank him this way.
Looking at the time on my watch, I grimace. I’m only a few minutes late getting to the library.
Aziz made sure our morning activities were just as good as the night before.
Afterward, we shared a shower. He waited for me to get ready.
I picked a pair of black skinny jeans that were dressy enough I could get away with them at the library.
I paired a green cami top with little flower petals with a brown bat wing cardigan.
My shoes were flats that I could easily kick off if I wanted to.
Once I was ready, we left, Aziz holding my hand as we walked to the car.
I was a little freaked at seeing Aziz in the sunlight, but it was nice.
He helped me into his car like a gentleman and drove me to the cafe first to get a coffee, then straight to the library.
He didn’t say anything else about putting someone on me, and I didn’t ask.
I figured I’d spot whoever he’d send in.
“You’re late,” Amelie snaps the moment I get to the check-out counter.
“I’m only a few minutes past the time I’m scheduled for today,” I tell her, trying not to let the fact I know she’s a witch freak me out. It did indeed freak me out. “I was running late this morning.”
“If you can’t be here on time, then I have no use for you here.”
I blink, taking in the sharpness of her tone. “Amelie, it was a total of eight minutes.”
“It doesn’t matter. This library needs those who are reliable and don’t cohabitate with vampires,” she spits out venomously. “You can leave, Ms. Boyer. You’re no longer needed here.” Turning her back to me, she walks away, leaving me standing there feeling dumbfounded.
Not knowing what to do now, I make my way back outside the library and into the bright, cool day.
A part of me wants to find Aziz at Dyrk, but I didn’t want to bother him with my problems. So instead, I make my way down the sidewalk heading for Arely’s shop.
I hadn’t seen her since the other day, and I wanted to fill my best friend in on what’s been happening.
I knew once I told Arely everything, she would be beside herself with glee. Visions of my best friend skipping around, dancing, laughing, telling me I told you so’s fill my head. One thing about Arely to know, she’s never wrong.
Still, the fact that I’d been dismissed for gods only knows what keeps bothering me. I was only a few minutes late today, and she spat about seeing me with Aziz. Like that’s a horrible thing.
It’s not.
And honestly, it wasn’t any of her business.
What’s bothering me about the whole scenario is that she’d known he was a vampire to begin with. Though after last night with my dad having both of us drink from the goblet he had with him, is he still only just a vampire?
My dad had left before I could ask him any further questions about it. I blindly trusted him and drank what was inside. Same as Aziz had. He seemed somewhat different this morning. He felt warmer. His skin hadn’t been cool. Nor had he been as pale as he had the night before.
Maybe Arely can answer me on this as well.
Making it to her shop, a chill courses down my spine. Same as it had when I felt someone was watching me. I reach for the door of the shop and quickly step inside, only to come to a halt at the sight before me. Arely’s shop was a disaster, and there was blood everywhere.
“Arely,” I call out. She doesn’t answer me. I start to step back out and make a run for it when a dark-haired woman who looks to be my age steps from the back.
“Your friend is a little busy right now.” The woman sneers, looking at me with evil eyes. “Let’s just say she’s busy feeding her powers to the rest of us.”
It didn’t take a rocket scientist to know what she was. Evil swirled around her.
I grip the handle of the door and am ready to run. I don’t get the chance, though. Between one second and the next, a bright orb shoots from the woman’s hand and hits me square in the stomach.
“You won’t be going anywhere, daughter of Apollo.” The woman laughs venomously as I fall to my knees.
My vision blurs as I fall forward. My last coherent thought is that I hope Aziz feels my panic and comes for me.