Four?

Pov.Asteria

As I was walking back to Emily and Bloodstar, I lost sight of my mate. I was looking around for him, and by the second, I was getting more worried.

Suddenly I felt someone hug me from behind, and I froze. I couldn't move. It was like that night all over again.

I could hear Cahya screaming in the back of my head, but her words were blurred.

"Asteria!" Cahya screaming my name snapped me out.

I started struggling once I hear Cahya's desperate voice and her taking control to protect me. I sat frozen inside our head. I couldn't even see what was happening in the outside world.

Then suddenly, we were shaken awake from our memory. I shook my head a little bit to clear my sight.

"Asteria," Cahya shouted again. "It's just our mate," Cahya tried to calm me down. I snapped back out in anger. I looked down and stepped into his foot with my heels, hard.

I turned around and kneed him into his balls, then continued to slap him, slashing his cheek with my nails.

"Don't ever, ever do that again," I screamed with tears sliding down my cheeks.

He was breathing in and out, holding his balls and check as blood dripped down.

"Asteria, he doesn't know!" Cahya snapped.

I blinked rapidly, focusing on Cahya's words. My brain seemed to be processing my actions and what had just happened. 'He doesn't know.' What was he trying to do then?

I looked down at him once as he dropped to his knees in pain.

Oh, my Gods, what did I do?

"Are you okay?" I asked in a panic. I dropped to my knees as well, checking his check, but it was healing already.

"Yeah," he struggled out.

"I'm sorry, it was an instinct," I said.

"It's okay. I would want you ready for anything," Erebus explained. "Even if I would like for you to let me protect you," he murmured, and if I wasn't that close, I don't think I would have heard him.

I got up and cleaned my jeans from the dirt. "Okay, so you are fine," I clarified.

I didn't wait for an answer but turned around and kept walking, now using my senses 100 percent ready for any surprise attacks.

I reached where the girls were already peacefully sleeping. Suddenly darts were flying from everywhere, but I could only catch some before they crossed my skin, making me drop to the floor paralyzed.

With my eyes wide open. "Shit," I muttered before losing consciousness trembling in fear.

"Cahya," I screamed as I looked around our head.

"Here," she muttered.

Her hands were shining black, and her body seemed to be disappearing and appearing, back and forth.

"Are you okay?" I asked worriedly.

"Yes, just trying to expel the venom out of our body," she struggled out painfully.

I walked towards her and grabbed her face, snapping her back to reality.

"Hey, it's okay," I whispered, connecting our foreheads.

She nodded and hugged me. I sat with her as she kept her arms wrapped around me. I wrapped my legs around her waist, and she repeated the same actions. I sat my chin on top of her shoulder and closed my eyes, her company bringing me comfort.

"Why does this always happen to us?" I whispered.

"I don't know," she whispered, bringing our bodies closer until there wasn't any space left between us.

"What about the fact that you are inside my head?" I asked.

"We four are destined to be together," she answered.

"What do you mean?" I pressured, bringing my head out of her neck to look at her straight in the eyes.

She was avoiding my gaze, looking anywhere but me.

"Cahya," I snapped and shook her shoulders.

I snapped her face to look at me, but her eyes were still avoiding me. "Please," I begged.

She snapped her eyes to look at me.

"By four, I mean you, Erebus, the person dormant inside of him and me," I was surprised at her words.

"By four," I swallow hard. "By four, you mean me and you, you and Erebus, and him and I?"

She slowly nodded, "But I thought, it was Erebus and me, and Erebus and you," I snapped.

"No, I'm sorry, you belong to me as well, just as you belong to him," she explained.

"But, aren't we like the same person?" I asked.

"Ironically, it's like self-love," she explained, bringing our faces closer together.

She stared at my lips while I stared at hers.

In a second, she had me pinned under her body. She brought her lips closer to mine but stopped.

"I've loved you all our existence, but I'll wait until you are ready for our other mate, Erebus and me," she explained.

I stared at her lips and closed our small gap. I slowly moved our lips but passionately. Even if we will only love each other when needed, I melted into the kiss.

There were no words. Cahya grabbed my lower back and pulled my hips closer to hers.

I instantly wrapped my legs around her waist and willingly gave in to our kiss. I forgot that 'our' body was somewhere out there unconscious.

I moaned as she snapped our hips together harshly. I looked down at her dress, connected to a corset that made her waist seem impossibly small, just like mine. I sneaked my hands behind her back and snapped the corset off.

She gasped at my sudden actions, hell even I was. I threw the corset at the other side of the room our head had created.

I got up with her legs now wrapped around me, and I walked us toward the bed. And I laid her under me as if she was the most delicate flower. I started kissing down between her breasts as she unwrapped her legs.

I could hear her low and soft moans as she bit her hand. I looked down and looked at her in the eyes, asking for permission to rip her dress, and she slowly nodded.

I finished disregarding her dress, and reached out for her right knee, wrapped it around my waist. I connected our lips as she slowly removed my shirt.