Chapter 7 Tour #3
He nods and trails his fingertips down my bare arms and down to the bottom of my light purple dress.
“You’re so beautiful.” I flush again, and he slowly slides my dress up while brushing his fingers against the bare skin of my thighs, curvy waist, breasts and then up and over my head.
I take my arms and cover myself, I have never been this exposed to anyone.
My curly hair falls around me. Aylin lets out a low growl that makes my stomach flip.
He looks at me standing there in nothing but my light pink lace panties.
His expression changes to anger as he walks around me, I follow his eyes to all the scars across my skin.
“They're ugly, I know, I’m sorry I am not the beautiful flawless mate you wanted,” I say and Aylin’s eyes come back to mine and he leans forward and starts kissing me all over again, “You are everything I have ever wanted and the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. I want you to see what I do.”
He runs his hands through my hair and continues to speak.
“You have the most beautiful brown and white long curly hair, your eyes are large, and are a beautiful icy shade of blue, they have an ethereal quality that radiates mystery and power, your lips are full, plump and so soft and the lightest shade of pink, and your body is curvy.
You carry yourself with such confidence even after everything you have been through. These marks are from your past and once you shift you can ask Capella if you want them gone, she can heal them, but I think you are beautiful no matter what you decide. They make you, you,
and I don’t need you to change anything for me”.
He faces me and wipes the tears from my cheeks.
“My beautiful girl,” he kisses me softly, as I return the kiss, we hear Zeta from down the hall calling everyone to dinner.
I look upon him, “Can we continue this later, I wouldn’t want to upset her.”
My nerves can’t take much more touch right now.
Aylin nods and tells me to get dressed. I nod and look around but remember my bag was in my room and not in here.
I look up to him and go to grab my dress, but Aylin points to the closet and walks with me inside.
This closet was bigger than the room I had in the castel.
It was full of not only his clothes but women’s clothing.
“These are all for you,” he says as he motions to the clothes.
“What? Are you serious? I have never owned this many pieces of clothing,” I say, and I start looking for something to put on.
All these clothes are beautiful and my size, the fabrics are all so different from silky to soft and fuzzy.
I end up picking a fitted pair of black pants with a form fitting white blouse that has watercolor snowflakes.
I grab some black boots, which were also my size, and strap my kunai to my thigh.
I see my reflection in a closet mirror and I finally feel like myself in these clothes.
The dresses Zeta had been leaving for me over the last few days, though pretty, were not me.
I smile and walk out of the closet just to find Aylin leaning against the sink watching me.
“You look beautiful,” he says, “hey, what is that for?”
He asks and points to my kunai. “I have taught myself how to use this one weapon, and I have it on me all the time, besides when I’m sleeping or bathing. Is that okay?”
He nods at me while smiling and I walk past him and find that there are hair ties, brushes, earrings and tiaras lined on the wall.
I look at him and grab a brush and start fastening my hair so a tiara would sit nicely in it.
I look in the mirror and can’t believe how beautiful I look.
Ok, I’m ready for what the day will bring.
Aylin looks at me and grabs a tiara and places it on my head.
It’s the color silver and the gems look like the moon and stars.
“This is the tiara that was left with you as an infant.” Aylin tells me, “It suits you perfectly,” I take a deep breath and grab Aylin's hand and walk out of the room.
When we reach the middle of the stairs my heart drops. Zion is standing there with a knife to Zeta’s neck yelling at her, “where is she? I know she is here, I can smell her.” Aylin pushes me behind him and growls loudly at the prince. “She is mine. Who the hell are you?”
Zion turned to face us, “She is my sister, and my parents didn’t tell me how important she was, I found journals, and I want her back. She will face punishment for being an abomination!” He yells at Aylin.
“I would like to see you try to get her from me,” Aylin huffs back at him.
I decide that I am not going to let anyone get hurt or die because of me so I lean over and grab the kunai from my leg and throw it at Zion.
I hit him in the shoulder, making him drop the blade as Zeta ran beside us.
Aylin turns and looks at me shocked. “How dare you come here. You threw me out like garbage in the snow. You’re lucky I didn’t die out there! I am not going anywhere with you, Aylin is my mate, and I will never leave him,
” I am the one growling now and all the hair on my arms stands up and my skin begins to glow a light purple.
Zion’s face pales, “what the hell are you? I will be back Celest, you belong to our parents, and you will return!”
He yells at me. He grunts as he pulls the kunai out of his shoulder and tosses it to the ground, then runs for the door.
No one tries to stop him. I look at Aylin and he is staring at me with his mouth hanging open.
“What is it?” I ask.
“You're hair Celest, it’s all white and glowing.”
A voice I now know is Capella asks me if she can come forward, and I agree.
“Hello Aylin, I am Capella, I am blocking Celest’s ability to hear us right now and I can’t do it for very long but, I need you to help Celest, she will undergo a change within the next few days. She is the Queen of the Cosmos, not just the Princess everyone thinks she is.
Once she shifts she will always have a slight glow to her skin and hair; her beauty will only increase. I can also feel that her first heat cycle is coming, I don’t know if she is aware how different it will be for her. As you know she has a horrible past,
and the future relies on her confidence and strength. Please protect her and love her unconditionally.”
“Thank you for honoring me with your presence Capella. This is important information. It is a pleasure to meet you.”
He says as he bows slightly, “You said Queen of the Cosmos? That’s not what our text says, she is powerful and the peace bringer, but Queen? There is obviously more to her than I have been taught.”
“Hera could not tell anyone, not even you about what is to come. She will be our savior, and she will need you, her mate, by her side no matter what.”
Capella nods and then reseeds back into my mind.
“I don’t think I will ever get used to that,” I think to myself as I brace my forehead.
“Celest, Capella came forward and mind linked with me and we aren’t mated yet. She is very powerful, I can’t wait to see what she looks like.” Aylin looks at me with so much pride and love that I smile so big that my cheeks hurt.
“Hey Aylin, why did you let him go? We could have captured him and stopped the spread of information. I don’t think killing him would be right, but he and my parents are very bad people, and we could have used him possibly for leverage, or maybe even helped him to see the truth,
” I ask him while I go and get my kunai from the ground.
“In a world like this, we are striving for peace, we try not to capture or kill anyone if possible. The truth of the matter, Celest, is that once you shift for the first time as an adult, every being will know of your presence, your aura is already very present.” Aylin answers.
“I’m scared,” I whisper.
Aylin cups my cheek and says, “don’t be our people are going to love you no matter what.”
“They already do,” Zeta says as she comes over to me and embraces me. “Thank you for saving my life.” She bows to me with tears still running down her face and then walks away.