By moonlight's shadow

Chapter 31

Raphael raised his brows at her and found that she was not looking at him at all and was lost in thought in a world elsewhere. Her hair was starting to change colour and was almost red with slight tinge of white at the end of her strands. Her eyes were back to green from the purple they had changed into.

Raphael tucked in a stray strand of her behind her back and Snow’s eyes snapped towards him. They were still sitting in the lover’s embrace but their minds were too much far away from doing anything remotely romantic.

“I am worried about you Snow. I always am, I told you so but this time you need to be worried to. Tell me something, what did exactly happen at the cabin of the sorceress that you were so agitated that you lost control and went to drain her dry? I mean, you are the one who has been always in control, I am not saying that you are control-freak but you have a compulsion and I find it cute. So, yes, where were we?” said Raphael and Snow laughed out loud.

“I know I am a control-freak Raphael King, and you might be the only vampire who finds a dominant, bossy arrogant control-freak teenager cute. You have such a weird taste in women. Does she know that?” asked Snow, as she raised one brow at her Headmaster.

“Who knows what?” asked Raphael, feigning innocence.

“Does Rebecca know that you like women, I mean girls who are not even half your age?” asked Snow, her eyes turning purple once again as her fangs descended and she licked her lips smiling at Raphael.

Raphael King, the Crown Prince of Vampires, felt that his resolve was slipping for the second time in his life in a matter of a few hours. He could feel his trousers tightening every moment as Snow squirmed in his lap. And his fangs came out seeing hers as well.

“I like bossy women, and I like definitely the ones who know what to take and how to take it when they want it. Witches have never been the ones who were my taste anyway, and moreover Snow, we are prohibited from consorting or having any kind of relationships with witches. And I am for one, a stickler for rules,” said Raphael as he kissed Snow hard and deep, licking her fangs and sucking on her lip making her moan in his mouth. That sound reverberated throughout his body and Raphael was not entirely sure how long could he stop the animal inside him from taking Snow on the table and claiming his as hers.

Snow pulled away from him and looked in his eyes and smiled.

Then she slid down his lap and sat up back on the table. Raphael did not stop her although he wanted to but he knew that she was doing the right thing.

“How did my thoughts inside a forest, close to the Land of Fae come on a parchment and land on your desk Headmaster King?” asked Snow as she gradually unbuttoned the jacket she was wearing and parted it to show her toned abdomen and the red cropped top that she had worn when she had gone down to the Great Hall in order to accept the challenge of Sebastian Patrick.

“What are you doing Snow?” asked Raphael as his eyes darkened with desire.

“Oh!! Me, I am doing nothing…it is just that I found that people who have the answers to my questions have been hiding and keeping it off from me for so long that I thought might be you would be able to help me on that count. I am just stripping bare, showing you what awaits you on the night of Hunt and on the eve of my sixteenth birthday. You cannot touch, but there is no harm in looking, is there? For every correct and detailed answer I am going to strip away a single piece of clothing!!! Sounds good???” asked Snow, as he eyes flashed bright purple.

“You are not only a tease Ms. White but you are infinitely manipulative as well, it seems…you have inherited all the traits of your Grandmother…she is also a women who never takes no for an answer,” said Raphael as his eyes were fixated on the swell of her breasts and the cleavage which was so masterfully hidden and shown at the same time.

“So, Headmaster King, how did this happen? I mean, my thoughts on paper on your table, the next afternoon?” asked Snow, as she looked at Raphael who gulped down visibly. Then he took a deep breath and sighed.

“You don’t need to strip bare in order to get answers from me Snow. Button up your jacket,” said Raphael as he looked back at her unwavering gaze and then continued,” the day I know I would take you to my bed and make you, claim you as mine, for an eternity, trust me, I would take my sweet time in exploring everything you have underneath those clothes and you would be screaming and begging for pleasure and release but you won’t have it. I plan to enjoy my time as a punishment of the teasing that you have been doing to me and testing my control and patience.”

Snow shivered slightly hearing the way that Raphael spoke about making her his for an eternity and then buttoned up her jacket. Raphael smiled on seeing the effect that his words had on her.

Then he spoke,” You are not just a Nosferatu Snow. And that is the truth.”

Snow looked at him with shock on her face. Rebecca had told her the same thing and she had gone to her throat but this time she could not even react when she was hearing from the mouth of the man she trusted most in her life.

“What do you mean by that?” asked Snow, as Raphael could feel the pain that was emanating from her in waves.

“There were severe complications with your parents conceiving their child Snow. You do understand that only after a century has passed a couple can conceive and that too within a span of two years. Your parents could not, which is the reason why they took the help of magic. I don’t know the details but it seems that the magic used by them to conceive you did have a lasting effect which is now running in your veins. That is the reason why you can connect with nature so easily which others cannot. The trees, the leaves and the animals hear you and understand you even when you are not speaking to them, that is because the magic that lies inside your blood is primal and basic, the most powerful of its kind. It makes you much powerful than all of us Snow. That is what I have trying to understand and that is what I have been trying to ask you to control and wield it for it is only going to give you an edge which others will not have over you,” said Raphael as Snow looked at him with increasing horror.

“What are you saying? I don’t understand? Is this the reason that my mother had to pay the price with her life? Is this the reason that my parents are dead?” asked Snow, with her voice breaking and a lone drop of tear slid down her cheek.

“No Snow. Your parents are not dead because of you. But they were definitely killed because of the Council Politics, of that I am sure now. You were the apple of their eye and I know that because your father was my childhood friend and your mother was my classmate. They loved you even more than you can imagine Snow and never blame yourself for their deaths,” said Raphael and his voice was strong with conviction.

“When can I meet these people who are responsible for the death of my parents?” asked Snow, her voice was calm, cool and composed and her eyes had turned black and her hair was changing to black as well. Raphael controlled his eyes from widening at the sight of the Dark Goddess sitting on his table asking about the murderers of her parents. It was a carefully constructed lie and there had been a lot of background work laid to make these lies true but this meant that Snow would take the path which her Grandmother wanted to take.

“You would come to know that in time Snow. I myself will give you the details which you would require but for that you need to be ready and winning the challenge thrown at you by Mr. Patrick. This is only the beginning of the challenges you are going to face in your lifetime. That is the reason I am asking you to take advantage of the presence of Rebecca while she is here. You need to learn everything you can about the magic that you have and train harder than before,” said Raphael and he could see a grim determination in the eyes of his soul mate.

“That is the least of my worries at the moment Headmaster King. I know very well that I am going to kick his ass in the challenge that is going to happen in a fortnight but do you think it is proper to enhance something which is not my very basic part of psyche?” asked Snow, with a hesitation in her eyes.

“Why do you think that it is not the basic part of your psyche Snow? It is something you were born with, it is something which runs in your blood. Is it because you think that vampires cannot have magic which is the reason that you are wary of accepting it as a part of yourself?” asked Raphael but he knew that in her subconscious Snow had already accepted her magic which was the reason that her eyes and her hair had changed colour once again. She had the magic of a Siren in her veins and he knew that for he knew whose magic had been bought for the purpose of her life and her existence.

Snow nodded at Raphael expressing her doubts over the power of magic in her blood or within herself.

“You are too young to doubt your capabilities Ms. White. As far as I know you should not be scared when you have been shown the path to something. You know Snow, you are unique and I have always believed that not because of your powers but because of the person you are and your soul. You have a heart of gold and you have the capability of becoming greater than you already are. Not as a warrior but as a person. This exercise is not to enhance your powers only but also to improve your knowledge of self and your identity. There are several people who do not even know or understand the meaning or purpose of their existence but you Snow White are not going to be so. You are a Princess, and you have to learn how to be a Princess so that you can rule like the Queen that you have the quality of becoming,” said Raphael as Snow finally smiled.

Her hair had changed back to red and her eyes back to green.

“What do you say then? I should go back to Rebecca and then start my training for the next three days and then meet you in the training Hall at five in the morning?” asked Snow as she descended from the table.

“I suppose that is the best schedule that can be made for you at the moment,” said Raphael as Snow pecked on his lips and then unlocked the door to leave his office.