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“Don’t make me chase you. Kitten, I don’t mind catching you and forcing you to listen to me. I could keep you in a never-ending time loop,”
“Is that why they aren’t moving?” Katarina looked skeptical.
“Right now, you and I are in our own bubble of time. I’ve slowed down time so slowly for them that what we are existing in our own little time frame,” I explained, seeing her mouth form a little ‘o’ as she began to grasp what I was saying.
“So that’s your power?” Her eyes were still wide.
“Among other things,” I shrugged. “Let's focus on you, if you can’t control your fear then we need to figure something else out.”
She turned away from me to walk towards the window. She was wearing those painted on pants with a large sweater over them keeping her gorgeous backside from me. Her hair was braided back, reminding me of the way Vivienne used to wear it. My heart started beating faster, my wolf urged us to go to her, and every instinct in my body wanted Katarina.
I didn’t even realize I had started walking until I was right behind her. The need to hold her, comfort her, bring her peace was tearing me apart. I stood behind her so our bodies flushed together, a contented sigh escaped her lips as she leaned back into me.
“You're stronger than this fear, Kitten,” I said, with all the confidence I had in her. “You’ve shown us that even without magic, you beat us at our own game and you bow down to no one. Caston is no different. Protect yourself and show him he is nothing more than a shit husband who can’t do anything to hurt you now.”
“Caston was always good at playing mind games with me. He’s fueled the idea that I am worthless and it's so hard to overcome.” Her body shuddered.
I ran my nose along her neck breathing her in. “An insecure man always makes sure you are beneath him, because he knows that he would be nothing without you. Caston is riding on the Belladonna name. He is a pathetic excuse of a man without you.”
My arm wrapped around her waist, while I snaked an arm between her breasts up to her neck, pushing it to one side while I kissed down her neck to the junctions where Lucien had left his mark. I nuzzled it, making her arch into me rubbing her backside against my aching cock.
“Aeon,” she whispered.
My name on her lips was a plea that was hard to ignore. I kissed her neck, imagining all the ways I could make her mine. With the goddesses blessing, my need for her and her sinful body pressed against mine, my canines lengthened.
My body tingled with power as several images flashed before me. Vivienne with a baby, Zev holding a baby, destruction everywhere, Lucien on the floor covered in blood. The visions were coming at me so fast I couldn’t decipher what was happening in most of them, but the few I saw were Katarina on the floor with lifeless eyes, our home destroyed and the one that hurt the most was us holding her lifeless body. We were mourning her loss.
“Aeon!” The scream wretched me from my visions.
The breath I took in felt like I hadn’t been breathing the entire time. My vision was blurry. When I rubbed my eyes, my face was wet. I was crying.
“Aeon.” A set of hands cupped my face.
I swallowed roughly, feeling the lump and tenderness in my throat while my mind replayed the array of images.
“Aeon.” The voice caused me to look up and I realized I was on my knees. Blinking a few times, Katarina’s face came into focus with Zev and Lucien right behind her.
“Are you ok?” Lucien asked hesitantly.
“I’m fine.” My voice was gruff, my emotions were still raw. I pulled Katarina’s hands off my face, getting up too quickly, losing my balance. Katarina and Lucien caught me, while Zev scooted closer like he was expecting me to just fall over.
“I’m fine,” I snapped, feeling overwhelmed. The remaining images of my visions were making me want to hurt something, lose control.
My visions weren’t always definitive, but right now all I could think about was seeing Katarina in between all of us as we mourned for her. She was going to die, there was a pretty big chance of that. I was always the first to say that we should take my visions with caution, but seeing a version of the future where we lost her just destroyed me.
“Aeon, what’s going on?” Lucien sounded worried.
“Leave me!” I roared, changing into my wolf quickly. My emotions were heightened, the anger was consuming me while I looked at Katarina. I growled, baring my teeth, so they would get the hint to leave me alone.
“What happened? Dammit, Lu, let me go.”
“Leave him, Katarina. The burden of seeing the future is not something to be taken lightly. Aeon has the future on his shoulders and sometimes that burden feels like it might kill you.”
Zev's explanation was exactly what was happening. The weight of her death was on my shoulders and I didn’t know if I could live with myself after what I had just seen. As much as I craved her, needed her, felt empty without her, mating with Katarina felt like a cruel joke. If I lost my mate, her death would be far worse than living with this curse for the last two hundred years.
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