Lover Sacrificed - Chapter 56

Nalla licked Blax wounds closed feeling deliciously sated.

- Thank you for your vein.

- You’re welcome beautiful.

He hesitated for a minute.

- Are you ok Nalla?

Nope. She still hadn’t received a text from her mahmen or anyone else and she was seriously starting to freak out. But she plastered a huge smile on her face.

- I’m great Blax.

- Don’t lie to me Nalla. We’re friends. At least, I’d like to think so. You can be honest with me, you can vent and not have to keep it all in.

- Oh I know. And yes, we’re friends but I just can’t let myself voice the things going on in my head, because then I might cry and trust me, friends or no friends, you don’t want to deal with a pregnant, hormonal, crying me.

He gently caressed her face

- That’s what you think. If you’d only let me try…

His lips were inching closer and Nalla closed her eyes.

What if she let herself try? Just once…

- Nalla!

She jerked away from him feeling guilty. She could hear Darius’ voice in her head like fucking alarm bells ringing.

A loud pounding at the door followed by her name made her breathing more difficult. It couldn’t be.

- Darius?

She rushed over to open the door and widened her eyes at the sight before her. Darius, dressed in his ceremonial robes, looking amazing.

- D… Darius?

- My love.

He touched her face and held it in amazement as words came out in a rush.

- The mating ceremony was canceled. I no longer have to mate her because the Scribe Virgin somehow knew that she had tried to trick me, us, the brotherhood and my father and it turns out, the antidote was her all along so all I had to do was drain her to be cured, which I did and now I no longer have the virus. I’m cured and we can be together and get mated…

She wasn’t getting a word of his rambling.

Antidote? Cured?

All she understood was that he was not getting mated!

She smiled up at him and he stilled, just like that. Oh she could cry! Was crying actually , if the drip-drip-drip on her face was anything to go by. She had missed him so much, more than she had realized. He made her whole. Complete, just by being here.

She crushed her lips to his, needing to taste him, needing him close. Skin-to-skin would never be close enough.

His tongue delved into her mouth as his thumbs kept on caressing her jaw. They were breathing heavily through their noses and Nalla knew the exact moment in which he realized she was pregnant.

He tensed from head to toe and slowly pulled back from their kiss just as he started trembling.

In fear? Anger? Happiness? She wasn’t sure. But he was quick to make it clear. Even his voice was shaky when he spoke to her in a curt tone.

Oh yeah, he was definitely angry and doing his very best to control himself.

- You’re pregnant.

Not a question. She didn’t dare speak so she just nodded. Which was difficult because her head was still firm in his grasp.

- It’s mine.

Again, not a question. A fact.

But she nodded again.

Darius briefly closed his eyes.

- Why the fuck didn’t you tell me.

She opened her mouth to tell him it wouldn’t have changed a thing. He would only have suffered more, but someone behind her cleared his throat.

- I suggest you dial that tone down a notch. Don’t speak to her that way.

Darius looked up and actually growled. Instant animal mode.

She though she heard the word mine in there somewhere but the growling was so intense she couldn’t be sure.

Darius looked back down at her and she saw all the love and possessiveness he felt for her, but she also saw hurt and betrayal.

- Who. The. Fuck. Is. He.