The Two Kings (Afterlife Saga) (28 page)

We spent the morning together on the same couch, kissing, laughing, touching each other everywhere but keeping from doing
the naughty.
He watched me eat all wide eyed and cat like. I never understood why he found this so fascinating. It made me feel a bit like a
huge
science project. He would bombard me with questions
ranging
on
anything
from my childhood
,
to my favourite artists.
Then it got more serious.

“And past boyfriends?” I gulped my tea. He had never wanted to know about this before.

“Why do you ask?” I was hoping he would reconsider.
...
Of course I’d be wrong.

“I am curious
.
”

“About what, who I dated?” He just nodded and then added

“Among other things
.
” I loved the way he spoke, so fluid and precise but sometimes it would be like cracking
the De Vinci code.
I cleared my throat to indicate I was ready for the fire line of questions but the naughty grin on his face
already
told me what he was going to ask.

“How old were you when you lost your virginity?” It was so matter of fact that I laughed
,
making him frown. Well it was his turn to be laughed at! If it had been me I would have asked in a round about way, saying “you know…the thing” or words like “popped cherry” but there was none of that and Draven never minced his words. He was always straight to the point and sex was
clearly
no excep
tion.

“I was seventeen
,
” I said waiting for his reaction. He raised his eyebrows and it was clear he had not expected as much.

“What! Did you think I would have only lost it when I was twenty one
?
” I had to laugh.

“No, don’t forget Keira I have lived a
long time and throughout history human girls have been a lot younger than that, when they were taken
.
”

“Taken?”

“Given
.
” He corrected himself and the
n
shrugged his shoulders, a gesture you hardly saw from Draven.

“Poor girls
!
” My heart went out to them, young and frightened.

“It was expected Keira, they knew nothing of choice, not like today
.
” He looked uncomfortable knowing this part of my past but he continued to ask.

“Who was the boy
?
” This was Draven’s way of degrading my former love partner.

“His name was John
ny Carlson and he was my first b
oyfriend
.
”

“Did he
...
force
himself upon
you?”
He had his hands balled into fists that he was trying to keep out of sight.

“NO, of course not, if anything it was my idea
.
” Now this shocked him!

“Why?”

“And why not? T
eenage girls get strong sexual urges just as boys do. Plus it was kind of fuelled by alcohol
.
” This made him relax slightly.

“Can I ask
,
why are you asking these questions if you don’t want to hear the answers?”
I asked getting up from the couch to stand over him.
 

“Because I want to know everything, even if I can
’t
change the past
.
” He looked stern at the thought of not having that power.

“And what would you have changed exactly?” I smiled at the thou
ght of meeting Draven years ago, being so young and terrified, to the point it excited me.

“I would have been your first
.
” Mmm
...
well I could have seen that going better than my first time.

“And don’t you think that would have been a bit weird considering the age difference.” This made him roll his eyes at me.

“Keira, of course I would have waited for you to have come to age. I don’t find anything attractive about an undeveloped body. I
like developed women
.” He
quickly stood in front of me as
he said this and
began to run
his fingers over my curvy chest and then up to my neck. I looked up at him
feeling even smaller with bare feet.

“And do you like your women little
?
” I said smi
ling, thinking about Aurora who
had legs longer than my entir
e body! Ok a bit of exaggeration
there but you g
et my drift…she was bloody tall.

“Yes
, most definitely.” He purred before carrying on
.

“
S
ome of the most expense and exquisite gifts on the planet come in small packages
.
” This was sweet but come on, you never saw little models on the runway!

“Like what
?
” I challenged.

“Diamonds
,
for one
.
”
Ok
,
so he had me there. I shook my head at him.

“I can hardly be compared to Diamonds!”

“I agree
,
there is nothi
ng on this planet I can compare you to
, there is nothing as beautiful or breathtaking
,
but I would have very much liked to have given you the Hope Diamond, but alas it is no longer in m
y poss
ession
.
” I could
n’t
speak, it was a
combination
of things. Being
that he thought me as being
that
beautiful or that he once owned the Hope Diamond!

“That is the one Marie Antoinette
and Louis XVI owned
…
yes
?
O
nly then it was called the French blue
.
” A proud smiled crossed his lips before laying them on mine.

“Clever girl, you are right and know your history well. Which makes me wonder if your interest in the past is not due to more…supernatural reasons
.
” He liked the idea
,
I could tell.

“You mean for you
?
” I poked him in the ribs and he responded by tickling me back but when I tried to squirm away he grabbed m
y waist and flung me to the bed, pin
n
ing
me down to make me giggle with what his other hand was doing. We were both laughing and didn’t hear when Sophia entered, or at least
,
I didn’t.

“Well that’s a funny noise you’re creating from Keira.” Sophia of course was refereeing to my snorting like an excited pig.

“Thank you for knocking
,
Sophia
!
” Draven said dryly.

“I did but you just couldn’t hear it over the….noise
.
” Again she meant my snorting. Draven lifted me up and we both walked over to the couch opposite Sophia. As always she was perfection. Her silky mass of curls was twisted up lo
o
se allowing some to escape. She wore a beautiful halter neck fitted blue top with white trousers that had a high waist band but flared out onto open toe sandals. She looked fit for a high end ocean liner. I
,
on the
other
hand
,
looked like I had been clubbed ove
r the head and dragged back to my
cave. My hair was wild and wavy and
I was still in a rob
e.

“Did you both only just get up?” She asked with a
n evil grin
,
that she made to look
cute.

“
No,
Keira
and I
shared a bath and I am tryi
ng to get her to s
t
ay in that rob
e all day but considering you’re here, I k
now that won’t last much longer.
” He said full of humour.
But of course I went bright red.

“You
’
r
e
right about that,
‘
cause I am not going shopping with
her wearing that!” Oh no
,
she had been
serious last night. I looked up at Draven with pleading eyes but he just laughed.

“Oh
no
,
you
’
r
e
not getting out of it Keira dear!” Sophia looked dead serious.

“Draven doesn’t want me to go
.
” I said bravely and Draven looked at me then back at Sophia with folded arms. It would have been more convincing if he wasn’t grinning like a fool in love.

“I don’t give a
Damn
what Dominic wants! He has kept you to himself for to
o
long, now it’s my turn to have some fun with you
.
” She made me sound like a doll being passed around. Who was next
,
Vincent….
? O
ops better not think that!

“Plus you owe me
...
remember
?
” Oh no
,
she didn’t just pull that card! Draven shot me a loo
k and Sophia’s mouthed the word “b
usted” at me.

“Someone elaborate please
.
” Draven’s voice was cool and collected but I knew it wouldn’t last.

“Sophia just helped get me some stuff last night, but that’s it…
isn’t it Sophia
” I said this last part as a warning….one she didn’t take.

“Is that so and
how exactly did you keep this from me
?
” Now he was intrigued.

“Oh Keira here is very gifted
,
brother
and so it seems has learnt some new tricks…I am surprised she hasn’t said anything
.
” I decided to use this new gift right now!

“Great, thanks
a lot
Sophia!”
But this made it worse because she answered me out loud even though I was ready to let her in.

“You
’
r
e
welcome
!
” What the…did she wake up this morning pure evil! Draven shot her a look and then me, he was
clearly
waiting. He held out his palm and motioned for his question to be answered.

“Well
,
Keira here can talk to me without you hearing, she is using her mind and she can focus hard enough on letting me into her mind when she
so
chooses
.
” I rolled my e
yes like this wasn’t that big a
deal but she carried on.

“She didn’t want you knowing about her umm…unfortunate timing. But she was in pain and needed some supplies. I believe this was her only reasoning for trying to go home last night. But she didn’t want to disappoint you, so instead
,
she stayed and sough
t my help. It was very clever of her, was it not brother?”

“It was indeed
.
” Was all he said but his look said so many other things.

“I didn’t tell you any of those things, how did you know I felt that way?” Draven
was the one to answer
, although the question was directed at his sister.

“When you open up your mind it gives way to your thoughts
,
not just the ones you cho
o
se for her to hear
.
” He smiled at his sister like he was proud of her deception. Great, well I will never be doing that again!

“Keira
,
show me
!
” Oh shit! Now Draven wanted to see it first hand and I had a feeling I was heading for a trap.

“NO
!
” I said before folding my arms across my chest like a stubborn child.

“Oh come on Keira, you even agreed that it was fun last night. Let’s show him, you could even call him a rich arrogant fool and he would never know!” She giggled as Draven growled at her.

“I said No
!
”