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“Well, I mean, when you left, I couldn’t help but think I had made a mistake. I mean, when you ask someone to marry them you don’t expect them to get up straight away and leave, do you? I tried to chase after you, but you were already gone from view by the time I got outside. I just… I think maybe I overstepped the mark a bit and got caught up in the excitement. I’ve had a lot of time to think and I’m starting to wonder if I should have proposed at all.”
I sighed with relief. “I’m glad you feel that way, because I’m not sure I’m ready for marriage.”
“I know, and I should have sensed that from the beginning,” Peter walked up to me and took my hands. “But it’s okay, we can put it on the back burner. It was going to take us ages to save up for a wedding anyway. I was thinking that maybe we could use whatever money we were going to do for that and take a trip somewhere. It would still be nice to start making memories that we’re going to cherish for a lifetime,” he said. It hurt me to hear the hope in his voice. I hated having to leave him like this, but I realized that perhaps this is what set me apart from Dad. He and Mom must have had a moment like this, a moment where he realized that he didn’t truly love her, but instead of confessing his true feelings and backing out, he lied and stayed with her, hoping that it would get better over time. I wasn’t going to do the same thing. I wasn’t going to make the same mistake and give him false hope.
So, I took my hands away from his and gave him a sympathetic look.
“Peter, I’m really sorry, but what I was thinking about… it’s not good news. The thing isn’t just that I don’t see us getting married now, it’s that I don’t see us getting married at all. I don’t see a future with us. I’m really sorry, but I think this is where things end for us.”
His face fell. It was clear that he hadn’t expected this at all. His mouth moved and no words came out.
“I’m really sorry,” I continued, “I just think that there’s no future for us. I don’t want to be here in ten years and regret that things haven’t fallen into place. You deserve better than that. We both do. I’m sorry.”
“I never should have proposed,” he muttered. I was secretly glad he did. If he hadn’t proposed then I would never have fled into the woods and ran across Naaro and Divad. If he hadn’t proposed then I might have spent my life in an unfulfilling relationship. There was nothing more for us to say though, so I turned my back to him and left. The door slammed after me, a sign of his anger. I returned to my lions and told them that it was done.
Divad suggested we go somewhere nice, somewhere we could be alone.
Chapter Twenty
Emilia
The portal opened on a world that was idyllic. The air was sweet and warm. The sky was bright and all the colors around us were vivid, bursting with glory. Tall trees spread across the landscape, while the grass was thick and long. The sun in the sky was like a golden ball, and the sky itself was azure blue. Nearby was the sound of gushing water. There was nothing around us.
“What is this place?” I asked.
“It’s somewhere Mom stumbled on a long time ago. Nobody else is here. There are no animals, no people… it’s just a world that we can have to ourselves,” Divad said. He stretched his arms out wide, as though he was embracing the entire world.
“It’s beautiful,” I said. Being in this world made it easier to leave the problems of Earth far behind me. That was quickly becoming another life, my old life. This was my new one, traveling through the cosmos with my lions. I spun around, taking joy in everything I could see. When I settled to look at them again, I saw they had shifted into their lion form. They bounded across the land together and I followed, laughing with glee and elation as the soft grass brushed against my legs. They ran so swiftly alongside each other that they disappeared into the distance, only to come back towards me and circle me, playfully teasing me. I was in awe of their grandeur and their majesty. Divad ran towards me and I dived to avoid him, but only in the path of Naaro. He ducked his head and slipped his body underneath me, catching me on his back again. I ran my hands through his thick mane and held on tightly as he sprinted across the field in this world that was our own, in this bliss that made my heart tremble.
We ran towards the edge of a lake. It was like the one I had first seen them in, except the water here was crystal and perfect, and the world around us glowed with an ethereal mist. Naaro lowered his head and I slipped off his back, the soles of my feet touching the ground. They shifted back into their human forms. I went to the edge of the lake and dipped my finger in. It was surprisingly warm, the perfect temperature.
“Why don’t you jump in?” Divad said with a cheeky smile. I looked up and saw that he and Naaro were stripping away their clothes and promptly dived into the water, creating a splash that flecked against my skin. Their broad muscles and sexy bodies were quickly covered in water, glistening in a pleasing manner as the sun shone upon them. Something twitched inside and I was enticed to join them.
I rose into a standing position and pinched my clothes between my fingers, nervous because this was the first time I was going to be naked in front of them. They watched and waited for me as I slipped my clothes away, peeling them off inch by inch until they formed a puddle on the ground and my flesh was exposed. I smiled nervously as Naaro swam up to me. His eyes were filled with desire and he held out his hands, offering me a path into the water.
I took it and joined him. The water slipped up my slender calf muscles and over my thighs. It caressed my hips and reached up my stomach before coming halfway up my breasts. Naaro pulled me into him. The water parted for us, allowing us to come together. I felt the heat and the hardness of his body against mine, the twitch of arousal that was so teasing and tempting. My fingers entwined with his and I gazed into his eyes.
“You are perfect,” he said. It meant the world coming from him. I may not have had a lion inside me, but he still adored me.
With his other hand he caressed my cheek, leaving a trail of droplets against my skin. He tilted his head down and we kissed. His lips were tender and firm, and they were filled with passion. I felt a gasping moan rising through my throat, while this hot tension lanced through my body. My flesh seemed to come alive in way it never had before, as though I had never experienced pleasure this intense.
And that was just from a kiss.
I nuzzled my head against his chest and placed a hand against his heart. I liked the sight of my pale fingers resting against his ebony flesh, and I loved the hard, hot beat of his heart. It sounded like a thunderstorm careened within him, and I knew it was a storm of my own making.
I caught his lips in mine again and I playfully reached under the surface of the water, feeling his arousal. His erection was hard, and it took only a few strokes before it was at its full height. I licked my lips in anticipation and began to lose myself in the heat of his embrace. His arms wrapped around me tightly, his fingers leaving a wave of fire in their wake.
“Is the Alpha going to share?” Divad asked. He lazed in the water with a playful smile on his face. We turned to face him and I laughed nervously. This was actually happening. Naaro wanted to share me, and he seemed to take pride in handing me over to Divad. Naaro guided me towards his brother and I was taken into another embrace. Divad kissed me hard, his hand slipping around the small of my back while the other ran through my hair, which was quickly becoming wet and heavy. I was attracted to him as well. I had to fight the instinct that had been hammered into me all my life; that it was wrong to be attracted to two men at the same time.
I was quickly learning that it wasn’t wrong at all. In fact, it was quite welcome.
Naaro came to stand beside me. I turned and leaned against the two men. I caressed each of them with my hands and turned my head from side to side, catching their mouths in sweet kisses. There was no desire in my mind to compare them with each other because they were both glorious in their own ways, and I found myself falling into both of them.
They were sturdy men, with thick torsos and taut muscles. Their hands were not shy, and they roamed around me, eager to feel every inch of my naked flesh. I arched my head back, my eyelids fluttering shut as the pleasure washed over me in its sweeping waves. It seemed to come at me from all directions, crackling and sizzling through every pore. I lost track of whose hands were touching me, merely surrendering to the sensations. Their hands cupped my breasts and teased my nipples, pinching and tweaking them to send jolts of pleasure coursing through me. My mouth opened and long, guttural moans escaped while ripples of pleasure ebbed and flowed.
Their hands embraced all of me. They ran up and down my neck and my stomach, along my thighs, around to my ass, and it seemed like only a matter of time before they touched that most aching, ardent part of me, the part that screamed for attention.
The water sloshed around us, with ripples spreading out as we moved. I liked the feeling of being with these hard and hot men, standing like mountains within this lake, unmoving. My hands dropped down beneath the surface of the water and my fingers curled around them. With quick flicks of my wrists, I jerked them back and forth, feeling the power and the desire contained within them, all this blood rushing to these primal parts of their bodies. While I was doing this, I was still caught between kissing both of them, enjoying both men, and I quickly realized that one man would never have been enough.
