Intertwined: love, fire and sacrifice

23.Take me how I am

Elric

I wake up with my female in my arms, her head resting on my chest. She tilts her head up, opens her eyes slowly, and looks at me with a small but sweet smile before she yawns. 

“Good morning, love,” I say, as I stroke her beautiful face. 

“Good morning.” She replies, rubbing the sleepiness off of her eyes in an adorable way. 

“Elric, I was thinking about something... I thought you wouldn’t ever attack, be among the people who initiate a battle. What about your peace mission? Goddess diplomat job? You should be careful; she will fire you.” She utters, making me chuckle lightly. 

“There are things more important than peace, my dear.” 

She gazed at me with a puzzled look, raising a single eyebrow as she does when she is questioning or not understanding something.

“What? That was pretty much the reason of your life, like your motto… what could be more important?” she asks. 

I cup her face with both of my hands, caressing the soft skin of her cheeks with my thumbs.

“You, my Liv. My love for you.” I answer, looking intently at her eyes.  

She looks shocked at me, her mouth agape and her blue eyes wide opened, holding deep emotions. She swallows hard and finally blinks before she brings her small and a bit shaking hand to my face. She closes the distance between our lips and smiles against my mouth, then she clenches her lips in a tight line as 2 tears roll down her face; I wipe them immediately and smile at her. 

“I love you.” She mutters and says through the bond at the same time. I take her lips with mine, in a sweet and urgent kiss.

“I love you, my Liv. My life.” I utter, caressing her hair. 

I move fast and hover over her, entering her body in a single movement and surprising her as I take her mouth in a rough kiss and swallow her moans. I know she is still sore from last night, but I have to have her. 

“I want you too.” She says in a breathy voice. She probably caught my thought through our bond. 

“And I will give you everything, my female. And you’ll take it and love every second of it.” I tell her as my thrusts became harder and faster. 

~ * ~

After taking her once more, I decided to ask her the question I meant to since we completed our bond. Now was the proper time, she could phrase what she feels for me, and I’ve also told her about my feelings. 

I stood up and took her hand helping her to stand as well. She looked stunning, completely naked, and thoroughly f****d. 

“My love, I want you to choose me as your only mate, to be with me and me only.” I looked intently at her eyes, she seemed slightly surprised. “We love each other, have a great connection, besides an electric chemistry. I saw how at home you felt at Emeraldia, that is the place you belong. We will be very happy together, the 2 of us, my Life.” 

~ * ~

Liv

Well, I imagined that just as Laius did somehow, Elric would try to get/have me for him only. Those guys didn’t like to share the toy. 

Hot news: I’m NOT a toy. 

And I will do what I feel. What I feel is right for me and for them. So, they better get down their thrones and share. 

He’s right, Emeraldia was the place where I felt more like home in my whole life. That place is alive, the nature freaking sings. So yeah, it’s my place. But it’s not my only place. 

I took a step back to be able to look into his eyes. I guess he waited quite long and was pretty nervous about popping this question. Well, good that he asked instead of trying to manipulate me to stay at his Realm with him as someone else did, points for Elric for not acting like a prick.  

“We would be happy together, but even if I wouldn’t be tormented by mate withdrawal, it would always be something lacking. A freaking black hole inside of me. I can’t even imagine my life without Laius, it would be beautiful and boring. No offence. You make me happy, but I need him and the heat that he brings to my life. 

I wouldn’t either be able to be without you, without being in your arms, I would feel homeless and lost. 

It’s different but I need you both. It’s the only way for me to be happy, it’s the only way for me to be.” 

“I understand and I won’t do anything to compromise your happiness,” Elric replied, lines of frustration were forming in his too handsome face. 

“So, don’t ask me to choose, don’t make me choose. There is no choice to be made in the first place. I love you both and I won’t waive anything.”

I’m not the kind of girl who chooses, I want it all.

And more important than that, I love them all; I don’t want to be the clingy girly, but heck, I need them! And I know they love me and need me as well.

“That’s it. If you want to be with me, you need to understand that it will be like this. I can’t cut myself in half, and I won’t do it. I’m entirely yours. And I’m entirely his. Can you accept me like this? Take me how I’m?” 

~ * ~

Elric

Would I take her how she is? 

Could I accept having to share my mate, my soulmate, with another male that happens to be the Devil?

There is no doubt. I would, I will. 

It may be contradictory, but the fact that she can’t choose, that she is able to love us both fully and wholeheartedly, regardless of the bond, as I know she can, makes me love her even more. 

This strong, sweet, fiery, passionate, and loving woman. 

I won’t like to share her; it will be difficult. But I know if there is someone who can divide herself between mates and still be whole with each of them, it’s her. 

I also know that I couldn’t ask her to be only mine, knowing that it would hurt her, tear her apart, cut her in half as she said. Her happiness, seeing her beautiful smile, the light, and the fire in her eyes are too important for me to compromise them. 

I saw her expectant face, she looked anxious for my answer. But no uncertainty or fear clouded her beautiful eyes, she kept her head up and her signature secure and regal aura. My Queen. As if she knew somehow before any of us, that we wouldn’t say no to her requests, we couldn’t say no to her.  

I came closer to her and took both of her hands in mine. Looking intently into her eyes I said, “Love, I won’t make you choose. If that is the way you feel, what you need, that is what I’ll give you. However, I have a request.”

She cupped my cheeks, a question writton in her face, but instead of answering her, I kissed her. It wasn’t a soft kiss. It was a demand in itself. It was a way to claim her whole. 

“What is your request?” she asked against my lips, after her panting subsided. 

“We will need to move, if not to Emeraldia, to a neutral territory. We can’t stay in Avalon’s Realm any longer, I can’t feel like an interloper in other’s Kings domains anymore.”  

“Sure, that makes sense.” She said smiling. 

I was relieved that she didn’t choose someone else instead of me. I knew that Laius and Avalon would play dirty to have her and their plots could make me lose my Liv, especially, due to the fact that I wouldn’t like to go that low and do anything that could end up harming her.  

But she has given me her answer. 

She is mine. 

More important than that, she is mine by her own will. No tricks, no plots involved. 

I will have her, with conditions. But honestly, having to share her with Laius is a small detail, a drawback, in comparison to the immense wonder of having her. 

A question came to my mind, she hasn’t said anything about Avalon. Does she still plan to find a manner to reject him and sever their bond or she intends to leave him, despite the fact that their bond remains existing? 

If it’s her will, I would go through all the 6 Realms to find a manner to help her to dissolve this bond and liberate herself from him. 

Now that the bonds were consolidated, they are stronger, which might make it possible to disentangle them. That way it could be feasible to break only her bond with Avalon without jeopardising the other 2 bonds. 

“What about Avalon? You haven’t mentioned him. What will you do about him?” I asked.