thought killed me. That would mean certain death for him and the others.
“No, no one has bothered themselves with the task of finding you. In fact, this Darien man that you were s o adamant about getting back to has made no attempt to find out if you are still alive, let alone OK. I shouldn’t even tell you this, but just last night, he was at some bar dancing the night away with an unknown slut, and mind you, I am using that term loosely. This woman was a mess.”
He wasn’t even trying to hide the hatred in his voice; I could feel the disgust that he was feeling for the most important man in my life radiating off him. The last bit of hope that I had been holding onto disappeared. I was hoping that with everything else that had happened, Akia would have forgotten that I had let Darien’s name slip in my drunken stupor. We were all in trouble and it was my fault. I wasn’t sure how I was going to fix this, but I needed to do something soon.
“Wait a minute. How do you even know who Darien is?”
“I had my people do some checking on your little boyfriend. You wanted to go back to him the other night so bad badly I figured he would be out of his mind worrying about you. I was going to have one of my men bring him here so that he could help you. I didn’t want him to think that something happened; I thought maybe he would be better able to take care of you than I was. I just wanted you to wake up and from the way you sounded when I wouldn’t let you leave to go to him the other night, I realized that you two were in love. Now mind you, I believe that all is fair in love and war and I fully intended to fight for you. Still, I figured if there was a slim chance that he could help you, I wanted him here. Then, when my men reported back to me and told me he wasn’t acting the least bit worried or concerned, I had them follow him some more. The next time when they reported back to me, it was the night when he was hitting on the slut. This confirmed what I had thought all along; this Darien of yours is a worthless waste of your time. Not only was he not worried about you, but I am certain that he was trying to have sex with this other woman.”
Akia wasn’t jealous; he wasn’t happy by all means but he was willing to give me Darien because he thought that it would save me. That alone should have made me feel a little bit better. However, although he might not be the jealous type, he was mad; mad because he thought that Darien was stringing me along, even angrier because Darien wasn’t mourning my potential loss the way he thought he should be. I was oddly flattered, but even more scared. The only thing that was worse than a jealous Dominus, is a pissed off vengeful one that has his sights set on your best friend.
I took the fear and did the only thing that I knew how to do with fear, I turned it into anger, an emotion that I was very good at controlling and using for my advantage. Yes that is what I needed. I was angry now and I was glad. I would take anger over confusion or fear any day. I jumped out of bed and started collecting my things. I was sure I would pay the price for moving around as fast as I was later, but right now I didn’t care. I felt like the room was closing in on me and I couldn’t stand it any longer. Being so close to him without touching him on top of everything else was making it even worse.
“Where do you think you are going? You are not well enough to leave yet.” Akia truly sounded worried and for just a brief second I wanted to tell him he was right and let him take care of me while the rest of the world happened around us, but the smart part of me knew that he wasn’t a dumb creature, and all too soon he would start putting the pieces of the puzzle together and realize there was something a little off about me.
“You have no right nosing around in my personal business and I am not going to sit here and listen to you belittle my friends.” Every time I bent over
“No, no one has bothered themselves with the task of finding you. In fact, this Darien man that you were s o adamant about getting back to has made no attempt to find out if you are still alive, let alone OK. I shouldn’t even tell you this, but just last night, he was at some bar dancing the night away with an unknown slut, and mind you, I am using that term loosely. This woman was a mess.”
He wasn’t even trying to hide the hatred in his voice; I could feel the disgust that he was feeling for the most important man in my life radiating off him. The last bit of hope that I had been holding onto disappeared. I was hoping that with everything else that had happened, Akia would have forgotten that I had let Darien’s name slip in my drunken stupor. We were all in trouble and it was my fault. I wasn’t sure how I was going to fix this, but I needed to do something soon.
“Wait a minute. How do you even know who Darien is?”
“I had my people do some checking on your little boyfriend. You wanted to go back to him the other night so bad badly I figured he would be out of his mind worrying about you. I was going to have one of my men bring him here so that he could help you. I didn’t want him to think that something happened; I thought maybe he would be better able to take care of you than I was. I just wanted you to wake up and from the way you sounded when I wouldn’t let you leave to go to him the other night, I realized that you two were in love. Now mind you, I believe that all is fair in love and war and I fully intended to fight for you. Still, I figured if there was a slim chance that he could help you, I wanted him here. Then, when my men reported back to me and told me he wasn’t acting the least bit worried or concerned, I had them follow him some more. The next time when they reported back to me, it was the night when he was hitting on the slut. This confirmed what I had thought all along; this Darien of yours is a worthless waste of your time. Not only was he not worried about you, but I am certain that he was trying to have sex with this other woman.”
Akia wasn’t jealous; he wasn’t happy by all means but he was willing to give me Darien because he thought that it would save me. That alone should have made me feel a little bit better. However, although he might not be the jealous type, he was mad; mad because he thought that Darien was stringing me along, even angrier because Darien wasn’t mourning my potential loss the way he thought he should be. I was oddly flattered, but even more scared. The only thing that was worse than a jealous Dominus, is a pissed off vengeful one that has his sights set on your best friend.
I took the fear and did the only thing that I knew how to do with fear, I turned it into anger, an emotion that I was very good at controlling and using for my advantage. Yes that is what I needed. I was angry now and I was glad. I would take anger over confusion or fear any day. I jumped out of bed and started collecting my things. I was sure I would pay the price for moving around as fast as I was later, but right now I didn’t care. I felt like the room was closing in on me and I couldn’t stand it any longer. Being so close to him without touching him on top of everything else was making it even worse.
“Where do you think you are going? You are not well enough to leave yet.” Akia truly sounded worried and for just a brief second I wanted to tell him he was right and let him take care of me while the rest of the world happened around us, but the smart part of me knew that he wasn’t a dumb creature, and all too soon he would start putting the pieces of the puzzle together and realize there was something a little off about me.
“You have no right nosing around in my personal business and I am not going to sit here and listen to you belittle my friends.” Every time I bent over
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