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o give her a reason to pull back. I held her all night long, keeping her close to me, wanting her to realize that nothing would harm her while I stand by her side.
Luckily, Mariana was still in bed, so she wouldn’t be subject to witnessing my wrath. “I would expect you would know better than to mess with me Dalca,” I told him, glaring down at the bouquet of flowers he held in his hands. “You know for a fact she has been promised to me, and she will be mine. In fact, she is mine. I would just love to know what send my little draga home to me in tears last night. Would you happen to know what that was about?” I waited a moment for him to speak, the fool did no such thing “No matter, she came back crying to the man who protects her. I held my little draga tight in my arms, where she belongs.” I kept referring to Ana as my beloved on purpose; I want Dalca to get the message – she is mine.
“I am not messing with you at all, Petran. I am only helping her pursue her options, one of them being myself. I enjoy her company, and last time I checked, you are the one who let the reins loose enough so that she could enjoy her time with another man.” I wanted to shoot out his knee cap for that, for being right. I should never have done that, even to prove a point. It was causing everything to take a detour. We needed to get back on track with the wedding plans, and I needed to take over the clans. Period.
I grabbed the collar of his shirt and yanked him inside my home. It’s better to do this behind closed doors then in a public setting. I threw him on the ground, against the marble in my foyer. “I want to know what you did to my beloved, Dalca. I’m not asking.”
“What I did to her?” Dalca laughed, “You’re acting as I harmed her in some way, which is absolutely atrocious.”
“I will ask you one more time before I start beating you. What did you do to my Ana?”
“I did nothing to her!” Dalca roared, “I took her out on a lovely date.”
“Ion….” I looked up to see Ana standing at the top of the stairwell in a white silk robe, she looked like a vision, like an angel come from the heavens. How did such a thing come into my life? Into this life.
“Draga, Dalca came by. I was trying to understand what made you so upset last night, so I asked Dalca. He said he did nothing, is that true?” I watched her expression as the words left my mouth, I didn’t have to be close to her to know that was nothing but a lie, to see the glassiness in her eyes reappear.
“He did nothing?” She hissed, I’d never seen her fly down the stairs so fast. I’ve seen Ana become furious. When Bianca was missing she was a woman on a mission – but this, this is something else entirely. “You said you did nothing?” She screamed at him, “You are despicable. ”
“What happened, love?” I asked her
“I didn’t do anything to you, Ana!” Stefan growled out. In lightning speed, I watched as the woman I’m about to marry move across the room and slap Dalca right across the face. I won’t lie, that move made me hard. “I told you not to call me that,” She hissed at him.
“He was trying to get me to fuck him, and when I told him no he didn’t listen, so I shoved him and tried to get off the boat. Only, he grabbed my arm and pinned me up against a wall.” That was the mark on her. “He kept touching me after I told him that.
“Dalca,” I warned, kneeling and shaking my finger at him, “You made a very, very big mistake.”
“I didn’t do anything to her; I was trashed, I didn’t even fuck her.”
“You think that will get you out of this? That you are trashed makes everything okay?” I ask him, but he doesn’t comment. He’s not as dumb as I think, but he’s pretty fucking stupid. “How’d you get away love?” I ask her, looking up to my vision in white.
“I kneed him in the balls and made a run for it.” I rose, wrapped my hand around the back of Ana’s neck and kissed her softly. “Good girl. Now run upstairs and go back to bed. It’s still early. Don’t come downstairs for a bit, understand?”
“Y-yes, I u-understand” She whispered, her voice shaking.
“Do not worry my love. I will take care of everything.”
“Y-you aren’t going to k-kill him, r-right?” I laughed at her comment. She’s a riot.
“No love. Unfortunately, I can’t kill Dalca. That would be a bit of an issue I think. I won’t lie and say he doesn’t deserve it for touching what isn’t his, though.” I pressed one last kiss to her soft lips, “Now go, love.” She nodded and went back up the stairwell. I won’t continue my chat with Dalca until she was out of earshot.
“I could do many things to you, things that you deserve, but I am not a fool. I know I must keep the peace between the clans and that means the Petran’s and the Dalca’s as well. I will warn you, Dalca. You will not look at my wife, you will not breathe in her direction, and if I so much as see you within her proximity, I will personally be the one to put a bullet between these two fucking beady eyes.” I said through gritted teeth, tapping his forehead.
“You forget one thing, Ion” Dalca growled. I looked down at him. My position was thought out; he needed to know that I would always be the one in power. I will always be above him; there is no competing with me because it is all preordained. “Mariana isn’t your wife.”
I smirked at Dalca, raising my hand to summon one of my guards, “Gene here is going to show you the errors of your ways.”
***
I met Mariana in the kitchen after I told her it was okay to come downstairs. Gene had taken care of Dalca, and I could be sure he’d never come around Mariana ever again.
Ana paused and looked at me as if knowing I would have something to say, although I didn’t, so I let her speak. “You know, you could have saved yourself all of this trouble had you just told me no to dating any of them in the first place. I did ask you what to do,” she told me.
Hmm, here we are. Our first fight. She sounded tired. I didn’t want to say anything that would admit guilt to her, though. Even if she as right in a way, it had probably been a good idea to appease the clans. I had let it get too far though. It wasn’t a mistake I was about to make again, or admit.
“You’re not going to get sympathy or an apology from me. You have never been raised to think you would be with anyone other than me, Ana. You were always bound to be mine, and I yours.” I stormed up to her, wrapping my hand around her waist and pulling her body against mine forcefully. I wanted her to remember what she had felt for me before, what I had hoped she was feeling for me now.
At first, she was clearly resistant, pushing away from me and looking anywhere but into my eyes, but our bodies had connected. That wasn’t something you just forgot. Even I could not forget it as her heat overwhelmed me.
