Proving Their Bond To Be Real 1

Tashina kept her blazing green eyes steady on Xavier and without a second thought, she drove the dagger straight into his heart.

When she opened her eyes, she saw the dagger right above his chest and his heavy breaths filled the dense air.

She thought she had killed him,

But she didn't.

She thought she could,

But she couldn't.

Not when her heart beat for him, not when his blue glazing eyes managed to carry so much love and care for her.

Feeling angry and disappointed at her weakness for him, she yelled in frustration and threw the dagger across the room.

"I trained them" the whisper was so subtle that Xavier leaned forward in case he missed it.

"What?" he implored silently, not wanting to aggravate her further.

"Those men at the mountain" she whispered as a sole tear fell from her eye and the beauty of the fire emitting from the fireplace was trapped inside that single drop.

"They were my men. I trained them. I taught them how to wield a sword, I taught them how to fight, I showed them the easiest way to kill an enemy and they used those skills to try to kill me" she gazed at him and for the first time, he saw a broken look captured on her porcelain face.

"I never intended on killing them, I was only defending myself. I didn't even know who they were until I saw one of their faces" her voice rang over the room with deep agony.

"It's not your fault" Xavier comforted and she snorted with dark sarcasm.

"They had families, they had mothers who are probably still waiting for them to come back home. What do I tell them when I return? What do I show them to prove that I am the perfect ruler of my kingdom? When I can't even take your life, when just one look from your eyes, I am as weak as I have never been!" she mumbled in hard frustration.

"I need to get your head so I can show them that their princess is capable of ruling her kingdom by herself but...it's...I just can't... she sank into the bed as tears of self-deprecation fell from her eyes.

"Why is this happening to me? Why? I hate you!! I hate you for making me feel so weak! I hate for making feel what I am not supposed to feel for a werewolf!!" she wailed out.

Xavier was torn apart by her words. Although he understood where she is coming from but still, it pricked his entire body like it was a thousand nails running down his skin.

"Why do you want to return to your kingdom? Your stepmother tried to kill you. Why can't you just forget about-" he swallowed his words when she looked up at him with pure vengeance in her eyes.

"The woman I thought as my mother for more than a century sent men to kill me while I was on a mission she sent me herself. I never once thought that she could ever do something like that to me! I thought she loved me as her daughter just the way I did to her...

"But no, I was wrong. All the smiles, the care, the love. It was all fake! It was all a dirty mask so she could kill me and keep the kingdom to herself!!" she shuddered from pure disgust.

"Then why do you want to go back? Just stay here with me. You will get all that you ever want, you will be the Queen of so many. They will bow down to you in respect and fear. I will treat and love you the way you deserve. Just stay..." he kneeled in front of her and gently took her hand in his.

"How do you expect me to live happily in another place when I know that my people, my family, my kingdom, the place I was raised, is in the hands of a brutal woman such as her.

"If she gets what she wants and I am forever out of her life, she wouldn't hesitate to kill anyone who comes in her way to the throne. She wouldn't even think twice before she kills my younger brother, her son! My kingdom will be destroyed and I will be solely responsible for it" Tashina voiced out and Xavier couldn't say a word for some moments.

"I need to return to where I came from" she didn't realize she was begging him until her statement came out like an eager plead.

"No, I won't let you go anywhere, you are going to stay here with me!!" Xavier growled and his veins were about to pop out of his skin.

Tashina abruptly removed his hands from hers and she stood up as a furious look took over her delicate features.

"Who the hell do you think you are to tell what to do?" she used her index finger to poke his chest with a daring look adorning her face.

"You will not be going anywhere," Xavier stood up and towered over her with a challenging look on his face.

"You have no right over me, I do what I deem fit" she hissed.

"You're mine!" Xavier roared as he grabbed roughly her by her shoulders.

"You belong to me, only me. You saw what happened when you left the tower despite I told you not to. You won't be going anywhere. That is the Alpha's orders and guess what, honey, my orders are final" he smirked darkly.

"Who do you think you are? huh?" Tashina bristled with anger and she pushed him away from her.

"Who are you? Just because you nursed me back to health and saved my life twice, you think you have the right to boss me around? Listen up, Alpha. I'm Tashina, a vampiress of my own. Nobody, I repeat, nobody dares command me to obey their orders because honey, I make my rules" With a smug look, she finished off and succeeded in making Xavier's anger rise till zenith.

"Why can't you see it?! Why can't you see that we were made for each other? Why don't you see that our hearts beat together? Why don't you realize that you belong to me and only me?!" Xavier ranted out in frustration.

"Because you and I can never be together. I'm a vampire and you're a werewolf. We are two parallel lines that should never meet each other" She clasped her lips tight as her own words brought an inexplicable pain over her body.

'But you can hear me in your mind' He spoke through the mind link.

"So? How does that matter? That doesn't give a valid reason for you and me to be together. You have a full Pack under your command and they need you just as much as my people need me. Find somebody else who is your other half because I'm sorry. I'm not her," the last words came out with a defeated tone.

"You want proof that you're mine? You want proof that you are my mate? Fine, I'll show you!!" He went across the room and picked the dagger that Tashina threw from the floor.

Xavier walked towards Tashina and grabbed her wrist.

"What are you doing?" feeling confused, she tried to yank her hands away from him but his grip was as strong as steel.

"I'm sorry," he said before he used the dagger to cut her wrist open and the trickles of blood stained the carpet with its messy shade of red.