Chapter 137: Are You Ready?
~AMBROSE’S POV~
After spending time picking out new furniture and having it brought in from inside the city, it would be here by dinner.
Sitting alone in my room on the new velvet love seat I ordered. The events of today replayed in my mind.
The dress now making an appearance in the memory.
She looked unreal. Divine. Like something out of a Hollywood movie. She looked beautiful in that red dress.
I wonder what brought her to the room dressed like that?
Her power. The fact my mate was a fucking goddess.
Legitimately, though.
It made me think about what Onyx said about protecting her. About being connected to her. The dream she had and what Artemasia said about it.
History was repeating itself.
So, was what we saw bound to happen again?
But in the dream, she loved someone else. She cried and mourned someone else. Onyx wasn’t her mate.
So, did that mean it would be different this time?
I had so many questions swirling around in my head.
I miss her, when is our mate coming back? Onyx whined in the back of my mind.
I don’t know, but she needed space. And I had stuff to handle. I’ll request her presence for dinner.
How long until it’s dinner?
Good question.
I checked my watch, and it was well past dinner time.
Where has she been all day?
"Beta Damon, where is Odette, have you seen her?" I asked in the a private channel.
"Yes, she is with Raven and Emalea in the staff kitchen last I heard." Damon answered back.
She’s been with Raven?
Well, that can’t be good. What the hell? Those two are trouble independently, together, I can’t even imagine what they can accomplish together.
"I heard back from Esme; she is ready for extraction. Sooner rather than later. She says it’s urgent. I’ve set it up, she’ll be here in two days." Beta Damon added.
"When were you going to tell me? What could be so urgent." I asked sternly, slightly annoyed.
"I don’t know, Alpha, but the contact said it with more urgency than I would have liked. And I did just now, I only recently heard back from the contact, literally just a few minutes ago." Always on top of things.
"Have her room set up for her. Fresh sheets, make sure they’re emerald green."
"On it, Alpha. I’ll send word for Odette to join you?" Damon asked.
"Yes, and also, have dinner sent to the room. Her and I have a lot of things to talk about." I answered him and then closed the chat.
Esmerelda would finally be returning after so long undercover.
I wonder how she’ll take it. The vampire princess being my mate.
A goddess, she’s not just the vampire princess, she’s the daughter of our goddess for fucks sake. That’s a much better title than the daughter of our enemy.
He was right, actually introducing her as that along with who her family is, might make it less of a blow up. Their Luna isn’t just the daughter of the enemy, but the daughter of our goddess, which carries much more weight.
They should feel grateful to be blessed by the moon goddess herself with such a perfect and powerful and just Luna Queen.
Yes, they should, and those who don’t see her as a blessing, but as a threat...
I’ll fucking rip their faces off and devour the wolf.
Good boy.
Don’t be condescending. I remember you once killed the MoonChild. I wonder how you’ll make that up to our goddess, killing her one and only daughter.
Fuck me, he wasn’t kidding. How would I make amends to the goddess?
Just then a knocking on the door pulled my attention from my thoughts.
The smell of fresh strawberries filled the room before she even entered. Strawberries with a crisp minty ice scent added to it, stronger now.
Was the mint smell the goddess waking in her? It’s so strong now, mixing perfectly with the strawberry. It calmed my nervous and soothed my wolf.
I was craving her closeness.
She didn’t wait for me to answer she just walked in and as expected, I got a snippy remark.
"I didn’t want to interrupt you this time, so figured I’d at least alert you to my presence so if you have another bitch in the room, you at least have a chance to hide her."
Ouch... She stabbed me right where it hurts.
She spoke coldly with an extremely flat tone. Her face void of all emotions. Her expression said hollow and empty, but her heartbeat said otherwise. It was racing, and the bond was stronger now, I could feel the simmering anger welling in her.
"You know damn well that was a set up. She just expected you to run away and cry, she didn’t expect you to nearly kill her. Which that’s what really need to talk about." I held a calm but authoritative tone when I spoke to her.
"No, we’ll address what the fuck I saw before we go into anything else. What was she doing in here to begin with?" She snapped back, nearly biting my head off.
"Trying to set me up to look bad with you, and clearly it worked." I growled back. "She came in my room announced and started off with lying about you, so I wanted to see how long she’d keep it up and how imaginative she could be. I should have kicked her out immediately. But I was intrigued to see what lies she manufactured. That’s where I fucked up, but I promise nothing happened. I’ve never touched her, and I never planned too, even before I met you. And now after meeting you. She’s doesn’t hold a candle to your shine."
I spoke honestly; I wasn’t even trying to butter her up.
No one held a candle to her anything.
Her eyes narrowed, questioning me. Reading my face, my posture, my vibe, she wasn’t basing her truth radar on my words, but how I acted as I said them.
She is so damn clever and intuitive.
I fucking love it.
"I can bring Damon in here to prove it. If you don’t believe me." I offered.
"You idiot, I know you didn’t do anything with her."
I couldn’t believe it, how?
"It didn’t smell like sex." She answered like she was reading my mind.
"But this is my room too. So she wasn’t just in your room, Ambrose, she was in Mine. She was punished not just for touching you but being in my room. I’m an only child and a princess and the favorite, so naturally, I skipped the day they taught sharing at school."
I laughed. Even in intense times like this, she still drops a good pun in.
"I will kill her the next time she enters this room, even if I just smell her in here." She paused, this was more than a threat, it was a promise, and her words were hanging heavy in the air.
"You’re turn. Spill it. All of it."
She sighed and walked to the bed taking a seat and patted on it next to her.
I got up and walked over to the bed. Sitting down. She scooted over and crossed her legs. And the little fox jumped up and curled up in her lap.
That’s when I noticed she changed clothes.
And she was wearing some school shirt?
What was she doing?
Later. I’ll ask about that later.
"I just recently found this out, so bear with me. I’m still adjusting." She started.
"I’ll start with this, Phera here is an 8 tailed fox spirit, she’s the ancient guardian of that mountain, and she’s a guardian for me, assigned as a guide to help me adjust to my new truth." She mumbled off at the last part. Her hands were fidgeting with the foxes fur.
She was struggling, I could tell she was nervous.
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath and when she opened them again, she confessed what I already knew.
"I’m the MoonChild. The daughter of the moon goddess Artemis. I’m a goddess in flesh." She just blurted out.
Wincing at her own confession. The fox nuzzled further into her lap.
"I haven’t known long. I’m just unlocking secrets, myself. Learning new things about myself, my powers." She started stuttering, her lip was quivering, like she was trying to hold back a cry.
But I was being patient, letting her say everything she needed too.
"I’m sorry I haven’t told you; I was supposed to keep it a secret while I figured things out. But I messed up and let my feelings get ahead of me." She confessed.
"I knew you were a goddess the minute I saw your fire burn this time. It was different, it was beautiful, but more powerful. It radiated unbelievable strength and commanded authority, it was intense. Onyx, he recognized you immediately. Like whatever was hiding or holding that piece of you locked up had shattered." I confessed.
"You knew?" She looked stumped.
"Yes, but I wasn’t going to jump you about it, I knew you’d tell me before anyone else." I smirked at her.
"You son of a bitch." She leaned over and socked me in the shoulder.
I rubbed my arm and went "Ow, that hurt, you have the strength of a goddess now, be merciful!" I teased, acting hurt and broken.
"Oh stop, you, big fake." She went to jump on me, the fox jumped from her lap, but I was faster, grabbing her wrists, forcing her backwards. I pinned her against the bed.
Her breath hitched, I heard her heart beat spike, and I smelt her arousal instantly.
"I am going to devour you, my little princess."