The Sacred bride episode 26

The Sacred Bride
Written by Bunmi B. Gabriel
Segment 26
~ Eric ~
I rolled my eyes at the stupid news on TV, Austin’s s€×capade, that was the least of my problems. Leila left, disappeared and I knew it was to avoid me; she probably went back home but her family lied that she wasn’t around. My heart was as heavy as an elephant; a pregnant one. I had three days left out of Kristal’s threat and honestly, I don’t care anymore, I just want Leila back. Seven days was enough to think about what I really wanted and what I wanted was her and just her alone.
‘Eric,’ I can still hear her voice whispering in my ears; her annoying yet loveable laugh and see her beautiful smile in my eyes. ‘Eric,’ hmm, that’s odd, I can hear her voice clearly. ‘Eric!’ That came with a hærd knock on my head. I jumped to my feet and turned around, she was there with a toothy smile.
‘Leila,’ I swallowed. ‘You are back?’
‘I’m still there,’ she said sarcastically accompanied with an eye roll. I pouted and walked to her, ready to hug her. She didn’t push me off, she hugged me back warmly, buried her face into my arm.
‘I’m so sorry Leila, I’m really sorry,’ I sobbed. ‘I respect women a lot, I will never do such a thing to disrespect and hurt you, I promise….’
‘It’s okay,’ she whispered.
‘No, I hurt you so bad and broke your trust in me….’
‘We aren’t really dating, it shouldn’t matter.’ I pulled away from the hug and held her shoulders gently. She looked away, refusing to look into my eyes.
‘We aren’t really dating yet I have been faithful to you. We aren’t really dating yet I never look at any other woman….okay, I looked at other women but I let the thoughts remained in my head. Fake relationsh¡p or not, you are still my girlfriend and to think I was going to sleep with a married woman, I will never…’
‘Did you have anything to do with her?’ She asked softly, finally lifting her head to see my eyes. ‘Have you slept with her before?’ I nodded. ‘How many times?’
‘More than eight times but that was three years ago, a year before she got married.’
‘And that time was the first after those years?’ I nodded positively again. ‘Are you lying to me?’
‘I will never lie when I need your forgiveness.’
‘Do you feel any….’
‘No!’ I cut in sharply with a little bit of distraughtness. ‘It was just for fun, I swear.’
‘She knew it was for fun?’
‘She initiated the intimacy.’
‘Do you find dating older women pleasing?’
‘God, no Leila. I have only dated three older women unexclusively and it ended there, I swear.’
‘What happened to them?’
‘One died, the second one is Trina and the last is married now with two grandchildren.’ I confessed shamefully, the last one was really old.
‘Alright, one more question?’ I nodded nervously. ‘Are you in love with me?’ She asked carefully, the words rolled off her tongue in such a way I felt it could literally break.
‘Yes, is it wrong to love you?’
She chuckled and held my hands which were still on her shoulders. ‘You can’t love me Eric, I’m not what you think I am.’
‘Why? Because you think you will cheat on me? I know you are terrible at commitment, very terrible but we can work it out. You can love me and we will figure it out, even if you cheat I will understand and keep waiting…..’
‘Eric….’
‘No, let me talk,’ I know I sounded desperate, very desperate but I am the kind of guy who can tolerate anything in a relationsh¡p, as long as I get what I want at the end. I understand her, I understand loving is hærd for her but I can teach her, I will manage until she learns to love me back. ‘I will wait until you can fully love me back.’
‘You are such a wonderful guy Eric, very. I still wonder what I did for the universe to bless me with such an understanding and patient guy, a good man. I have messed around a lot and I never expected a man like you to come my way, I was expecting karma to slap me with one that would make me cry all the time but I was blessed with you….’
‘Hey,’ I said cupping her cheeks. ‘Please don’t cry.’
‘You don’t get it Eric, you are too good for me, too good for my horrible past….’
‘You say it like I’m some kind of saint,’ I cut in with a smile. ‘I have my own past, my own mistake and errors so don’t paint me white when I have s₱0ts.’
‘No, you treat me so nice, like a real girlfriend. As a contracted one, we were only to be just business partners but you treated me so nice, with so much love. How could I not fall in love with you, I love you so much Eric, with my wh0le heart but I fear we can’t be together.’
‘Why?’ I whimpered.
‘I….I….I….’ She stepped away from me and rubbed her hand nervously as she sobbed.
‘Do you have any medical condition? From abortion maybe?’
‘I might have messed around a lot but the one thing I never did in my life was abortion, I never even got pregnant once because I never get laid without protection.’
‘Okay, I’m sorry. What is it then? I can handle it.’
‘My family has a tradition, a very fetish one.’
‘Come,’ I said giving her my hand.
‘I rather remain standing,’
‘Okay, I’m listening.’
‘In other to remain in power somehow, my ancestors made a blood covenant with a god…..’ She left her words hanging, she was contemplating if to continue.
‘Go on,’ I urged her.
‘In every new genealogy, two children will be born to the family of the main heir. One who can be a girl or boy will be born as a protector, one with amazing abilities to protect the one that will be born as a…..to remain a V-rgin until the day she breathes her last. That was the price of the covenant. It has been like that since, even now. Bloom is the one born to die a V-rgin, to remain a v-rgo intacta until she dies before this year ends or next. That is why she is precious to the wh0le family….’
I laughed and shook my head. ‘And I’m guessing you are the protector,’ I said ironically.
‘You don’t believe me,’ she cried. ‘I’m telling the truth.’
‘I don’t think making up such to p…..p….p….p….’ I stammered as her entire eyes turned pitch black like that night. She grinned, she had fangs! Bloody fangs and claws! Dark matters or is it energy flowed out of her body, like some creepy boogeywoman.
‘I am the only recorded protector which ability comes from darkness, pure darkness. My powers are shadows, demons….it’s hærd to explain but this is what I am Eric, half darkness, half human and half p-nther.’
I felt dizzy, very very dizzy. ‘I must be trapped in my dream again, I have to wake up….’
‘Eric, it’s the truth,’ she cried. ‘This is me. If you want to love me, you have to love all of this along with me.’
‘I need a glass of water, Leila this is the worse way to reject me….’
‘I knew you wouldn’t understand, thank you anyways.’ She disappeared in a poof while my jaw hung low.
What the f-ck!
Leila
I rubbed my swollen eyes after brushing my teeth, it was dawn already. I cried myself to sleep, I was hoping he would understand but he didn’t, not at all. I hate this pain, this feeling of rejection. ‘Now you know how those men feel when you dump and reject them,’ I turned to the door sharply.
‘Dark!’ I squealed and ran to him.
‘I only have five minutes before I’m detected, your pain is hurting me so I had to come.’
‘I’ve missed you,’ I said hugging him. ‘How are you?’
‘Better, close to finding my body. How have you been? Fine, no.’ He answered with a smirk, I rolled my eyes.
‘Do you really have to m….’ He burst into laughter, flowing back to laugh at me very well. I huffed, he’s rude.
‘I have been waiting for this day to come, for me to watch you cry over a guy, I just had to come and witness it myself. You look like crap, your face look like swollen bread….’
‘Shut up.’
‘Ha! A man shattered your heart, hilarious.’ He added more exaggeration by rolling on the floor and laughing profusely. One more minute left and he was still laughing, he came to mock me.
‘Dark, please don’t laugh again,’ I couldn’t help but sob.
‘No matter what comes my way, I can handle it because I’m Leila Wellington,’ he mimicked and laughed again. ‘You were running your 3metre mouth that day, now what’s up?’
‘You have thirty seconds,’ I scowled.
‘Give him time girl,’ he laughed. ‘You don’t expect him to just accept you like that without thinking it through. Anyways, if he does dump you, commit suicide.’ He rushed and disappeared.
‘Idiot! Fool!’ I yelled. ‘Moron,’ I whimpered. I sat on the bathroom and cried again, I moved to the shower and continued there. After bathing, I came out with my towel around my body, I looked like a witch having a bad hair day and punched face. My doorbell chose to ring that moment, I sighed and went to answer it with my towel still on. I opened the door, a big bouquet of black roses greeted me first before Eric stuck his head out with a smile.
‘Hi, good morning.’
‘Good morning?’ I greeted nervously, dragging my towel down sheepishly.
‘Can I come in?’
‘Sure?’ I opened the door w¡der and let him pass before I shut the door. I smiled at him shyly, him coming means I’m accepted, right? ‘Drop the flowers on the table please,’
‘Okey dokey,’ he said buoyantly and dropped the bouquet on the table and smiled at me as his eyes went down my body.
‘Ahem,’ I cleared my throat nervously. ‘So,’ I said and rubbed my right arm with a little fear; a man is making me scared. ‘You are here? Does it mean..’ He nodded positively with his dimpled smile. ‘Really?! I squealed.
‘Might be hærd to digest but I will get use to it, I love you too much to let go.’ I cupped my mouth and shrieked into it, this is so exciting. He spread his hands apart for a hug, I dashed into his arms which startled him a bit.
‘Thank you so much Eric, thank you.’
‘Don’t use your powers in my presence, that’s the only condition I have.’ I looked up at him while his arms stayed wrapped around me.
‘Only?’
‘Well, there’s more.’
‘Name them,’
‘Don’t think about cheating on me, remain faithful, okay?’ I nodded excitedly. ‘Two, please give me permission to take this towel off,’ he pleaded. ‘I want you so badly.’
‘Permission granted,’ I smiled, my stomach was already filled with excitement and anticipation for what he will do to me. He moved his hand down to my wa-ist and k-ssed me with a little bit desperation, I wrapped my hands around his neck and accepted the k-ss more than delightedly.
~ Narrative ~
He slipped his hand between her th-gh and car-ssed her skin slowly, invoking a lustful purr from her. The motion got more dangerous as his fingers went deeper, higher to the part that was aching to be touched. Leila mo-ned lowly, it wasn’t like she hadn’t been touched before, his was just perfect for her. Her body reacted more than it ever did for any man and she was happy about that. She mo-ned out when his thumb m-ssaged her cl*t, the best day to be only tying a towel. Colors flashed in her eyes and not in a good way, she was being watched. Her eyes w¡dened in horror, she pushed him off and made sure he sit on the couch.
‘Did I do anything wrong?’ He asked with concern.
‘Ur, no, not at all.’ She said nervously, they were some things she didn’t want him to know just yet.
‘Then why did you stop? You change your mind?’
‘Eric, are you wearing the necklace I gave you?’
‘I never take it off,’
‘Did you take it off the day I saw you with Trina?’
‘Why are you bringing that up?’
‘Yes or no?’
‘Trina took it off but I left it in my pocket…..’
‘That will explain why he was able to manipulate you a little,’ she turned and ran to her room, leaving him in confusion. Immediately she was in her room, three shadows jumped at her. She was quick to move out of the way and wh¡pped it against the door. ‘Leave me alone,’ she growled at the remaining two. They snarled back and crawled closer to her. Eric’s presence made them disappear to wherever they came from.
‘Leila, are you alright?’
‘Yeah, I’m fine.’
‘You left me hanging, it’s okay if you change your mind, I won’t force you.’
She looked at him and smirked. ‘They vamoosed when you came, wow.’
‘What?’
‘Nothing Eric,’ she sat on the bed still smiling. ‘Do you know anyone named Meghan Blues?’
‘Hmm, I don’t think so,’ he said to her disappointment. ‘Anything?’
‘Nothing important, just as….Eric!’ She wasn’t expecting the speed he used in caging her on the bed, she still wanted to think about what happened. He wasted no time he removing the towel and ogling at her new exposed skin. ‘Eric, just calm down first and let me think.’
‘You are so beautiful,’ he said with complete adoration at her body. No need to talk sense into him, he was gone.
∞∞∞ Velasquez ∞∞∞
I grunted as a bright blue light blinded my vision, I couldn’t see again. No no no! Nothing was going well again! ‘After so many centuries, things are falling apart!’
‘Master, maybe you should calm down…..’
‘Calm down!!! Everything I have gained is being torn apart!!!! Meghan is destroying me!!!!’
‘Her anger is yet to be mollified, I advise you try to settle with her.’ My assistant suggested.
‘The last time I went to try and settle, she burnt my hand!!!’
‘Then we should kill her, end her life before she ends ours.’
‘You are a fool,’ I scowled and slapped her. ‘You should know that until I can revive my energy with the girl’s blood in fourteen days, I have no powers. I should try taking Leila’s to energize myself but Meghan is smart, blocked me through and through.’
‘And she cleverly turned Argider’s attention to the chosen girl, dared to tamper with the destiny you made for her.’
‘She did not tamper with the destiny I made for her,’ I sighed. ‘She erased the destiny I made and gave her her original one. She is Argider’s bride, from the very moment she was born but I did not see that because if I’d seen it, I would have killed her a long time ago. Meghan blinded my sight, or rather, I was too relax to see it.’
‘What do we do now master? You need her pure blood to regain your strength.’
‘If I cannot use Leila, then I use her parents to separate them before she is permanently bonded to him. In case I fail, I already have plan B ready, one not even Meghan can stop.’
To be continued.
In case you will say you don’t understand, Argider is Alisdair and no, I won’t explain how. Velasquez is the claret guy, comma comma, full stop.