Knowledge and Seclusion

[Perplexia]

Kanya laid in her bed wide awake, her body still aching in places that begged to be touched. She ran her hand down to the aching clit and slowly moved her finger over it. Closing her eyes she remembered the way Darian had felt against her. It didn't take too long for her to place her self on the very edge she'd stopped herself from going over. Her finger continued to rub the swollen nub and with in moments she found herself gasping in an euphoric bliss. Flushed with a warm spasm as her hips moved involuntarily, her body dispelled a fluid that left her thighs damp. She wondered if anyone had heard her as she did this, she tried to muffle the sounds she made. Finding herself quite embarrassed, and yet quite relieved at the same time she giggled a little and rolled over onto her side clutching the dress that had no scent left of her beloved.

The morning came and she awoke from the most divine sleep she'd ever had. Kanya stretched lazily and placed the dress back under the pillow. Taking a long hot bath as she blushed and smiled to herself over the last evenings occurrences.
Kanya was certain whatever she experienced was better left unmentioned in the presence of her mother, but she made a note to question Darian about it. He had been around for ages. For certain he would know if there was something wrong with her. She didn't worry that he wouldn't want her if she had some sort of freakish ailment, but thought it best to advise him of it before he committed himself to her. He had after all trusted her with his deepest secret.

At breakfast for once she was silent staring down at her plate as her mother yammered on. Her father had Darian engaged in talk of buisiness as her mother went on about the wedding and perhaps moving it forward a bit considering everything was going so well with the assembly. Kanya just nodded and looked up at Darian on occasion before looking down at her plate again.

"Father if you don't need Darian this afternoon i would like him to take me into town so we can make some final wedding decisions." Her mother started to speak and Kanya gave her a look. "It will just be Darian and I mother, certainly no one can deny an engaged couple the benefit of being alone in public."

Her father agreed, she thought perhaps he secretly hoped she'd call off the engagement, but Kanya just wanted some time alone with him. Their evening escapes to the wild were great, but she needed to question what she'd experienced.

As the afternoon came and he fetched her from her mothers yammer, he took her arm and escorted her to the carriage keeping the top down so they could be secluded from the world and alone.
"Last night" she started as her face flushed "after i got to my room, i ached between my thighs" she went to more of a whisper. "so i rubbed the spot, i'm not sure why an i think theres something terribly wrong with me. I arched and twisted and this fluid came from me in a bought of explosion. I thought i should warn you that i evidently have an ailment of sorts."

 

[alex_cali83]

Darian spent most of the night dreaming of Kanya and the evening near the meeting tree that they had just spent together. The feel of her body against his, the smell of her arousal as he kissed her, the face paced beating of her heart against his chest as they both had drawn closer to the edge in their state of arousal. All of it was enough to get Darian’s blood stirring again and make him as hard as a piece of stone. Knowing there was no other way to get satisfaction tonight Darian resorted to finishing what was started earlier that evening.

He slowly began to stroke the full length of his shaft, closing his eyes to picture that way Kanya looked tonight; Her pale face flushed with blood from her ride, the thin cloth sticking to her body from the moist evening air, the wild look of her hair after being tussled in the wind. All of these things brought together in his mind elicited a low moan from his lips as the image of his love began to sink down onto his member, moving her hips slowly as she took his full length inside her. Darian imagined the look on her face as their bodies joined together, moving as one body as they climbed towards ecstasy.

Darian did not know at the time, but as he was pleasing himself, Kanya was also doing the same. His body rocked in time with his strokes as he continued to imagine what it would feel like to be joined with her physically. As he began to approach his climax, Darian moaned low in his throat, the sound building until, like his body, it peaked and he exploded, leaving a salty, sticky mess all over the tunic he had been wearing. Breathing heavily, he took the shirt off and used it to clean up the slight mess he had made. Feeling much better he settled down to sleep peacefully for the rest of the night.

The next day, Darian ate breakfast with Kanya and her family. He stole glances at her occasionally as her father and mother talked more about work and the wedding respectively. There was a glow apparent on Kanya’s face, one that he had never seen before in all his time with her. When she asked her father to release him in the afternoon so that she could claim him, he smiled at her. He knew that she wanted to spend time walking around with him in the late afternoon, but he wasn’t sure what she wanted to talk about.

As they sat in the carriage that afternoon on their way to town, Kanya told him what she had done the night previous in her bed after their tryst. Darian shifted a bit in his seat, not in discomfort but to hide his arousal from knowing she had thought of him that way. He smiled and took her hands in his own, looking for the words to reassure her.

“Kanya, I too have a confession to make to you. Last night, most likely while you were pleasuring yourself as that was what you were doing, I was doing the same within the confines of my room. Thus you have nothing to worry about my love as it is quite natural to do for now. However I don’t want you to wear your body out before the night of our wedding by pleasing yourself. I am supposed to be taking care of you in every fashion my love” Darian smiled at the last bit of advice he gave her and leaned back against the seat of the carriage. He knew that if he kept talking about sex with her, it was only going to further arouse him and that would put him in a very bad spot.

 

[Perplexia]

Kanya blushed slightly and turned her head embarrassed about her naivety. Reaching town he helped her from the carriage and they made their way about nodding as people looked their directions. Truly they had no business in town short of getting out of the house and being in public.

"i suppose i have a lot to learn" she advised softly as they walked. Before Darian had the opportunity to respond they were approached. "why heaven be, if its not the infamous Kanya St. Claire, why roomer had it child you'd finally found a man you deemed worthy enough to marry." Charles Godfrey declared. He'd been excommunicated from England partly due to her advise to the King over his character flaws and his traitorous communications with France. He'd only pursued Kanya briefly before she made it quite apparent she would rather marry a boar then him. She would have ensured his stay in England if he'd managed to con her with charm and gotten her to marry him. He, like many thought that he would be able to woe her with gifts and compliments only to be disguarded like the trash he was.

Kanya squeezed Darian's arm lightly. "Charles Godfrey, (she gave a slight curtsy and fake smile) i see that you have managed to avoid being hung here.
May i introduce Lord Darian Silver my fiance'."

Godfrey gave his charming smile and slight bow. "Did this little filly advise you that she had an in with the King?" he questioned Darian "I believe if it hadn't been for her i would still be at home on my land with my title."

Kanya smiled "If it hadn't been for your drunken ramblings at the pub you mean, about how you were planning on having the King removed from the throne, and how you planned on marrying me so that you would be ensured to stay part of the noble bloodline so perhaps you'd have the opportunity to win the King of Frances favor and take the throne for yourself?" She questioned with a smile.

"Heresay" he replied coughing lightly.
"I believe that the witness' that testified against you proved it to be fact, now if you'll excuse us."

Godfrey grabbed her arm lightly "you owe me miss" he said lightly.

 

[alex_cali83]

Darian listened quietly as Kanya held her conversation with the man who had been introduced as Charles Godfrey. Darian felt uneasy about him, there was something about him that just seemed off but he couldn’t put his finger on it. Perhaps it was just the fact that the man reeked of hatred and loathing towards Kanya. In fact the feelings came off of him in waves and had Darian not been as used to it as he was, he might have been knocked off his feet.

When Charles made mention of the King, Darian chuckled to himself slightly for he had remembered where he knew him from before. Darian had actually been present for the trial of the man, though he stayed back in the shadows away from the prying eyes of others. The King had actually asked him to come and watch, as it was one of the biggest scandals in his court at the time and he didn’t want to mess it up. Darian had given his friend a fair assessment of the trial afterwards and told him how he thought it went well.

“You seem to think that I don’t know things about my own fiancée sir.” Darian quipped back sharply. “I do wish to let you know that I know quite a bit about the woman I love and she in turn knows quite about me. For instance, I love to ride in the cool night air and that I am good friends with the King. He in fact sent me over here to help her father with personal matters.”

Darian felt the squeeze on his arm and heard the dismissal of the man as he was getting ready to ask a question of him. He placed his hand over hers in a protective gesture and went to proceed past the man with her when he saw Godfrey take Kanya’s arm and heard him whisper harshly to her that she owed him. It was at that point that Darian almost lost control of the Beast inside himself. The fear that someone might try to kidnap his beloved again surged to the forefront of his mind and his body reacted in kind. Darian’s hand lashed out and grabbed Godfrey’s wrist firmly, applying enough pressure to it for pain but not for breakage.

“Another thing my beloved knows about me is how much I detest those that threaten what I love. Now I believe you had better be on your way lest you end up like the last man to threaten her in my presence. Trust me you don’t want to end up like him; jailed, alone and driven half mad with halucinations of things that never could be. Mister Godfrey, we shall take our leave of you now.” Darian uttered these last words with a wave of anger emanating from his eyes at the lesser man. Should Godfrey ever think to hinder his relationship again, Darian wanted him to know what was in store for him. He released Godfrey and smiling at Kanya lovingly, continued their walk down the road picking up their conversation where they left off.

“This isn’t something you can really learn from a book or anything love. It must be learned through trial and error, like many scientific things in this day and age. And you needn’t be worried about anything like impressing me or the like, I love you for who you are and I shall be patient as you learn.” Darian smiled, trying to ease her worries.

 

[Perplexia]

"you handled that quite nicely dear" she said with a smile as she squeezed Darian's arm again. "let us speak of something lighter, our honeymoon perhaps, or the plans of our travel. I suppose our first stop should be England so we may thank the King for sending you to me. That and i would love to see their faces as i'm introduced as your wife. The women shall all cry and the men shall sulk. I on the other hand will be made to feel like a princess, floating above the world as you dance with me in your arms."

Kanya smiled as they walked trying to place the brave face on for Darian. The truth was Godfrey unnerved her. The sooner they left this place the less likely it would be that he would have the opportunity to devise a way to make her pay.

Although she understood the full extent in Darian's threat to the man, she knew the man would not. He would simply view it as a man protecting his fiancee. Nothing less could be expected. She thought perhaps Godfrey would have been disappointed without it.

Upon their walk through town they were greeted by several families offering congratulations. Women clutching their mans arms in joy as if to know the threat of their beloveds being vexed by Kanya was lifted. Men on the other hand seem to do the same. Although the women still seemed to swoon a little at Darian. It only made Kanya smile wider. He was indeed a handsome man, but more then that he understood her, and accepted her lashing tongue and quick wit.

 

[alex_cali83]

Darian didn't know what Godfrey might try but he was not going to let another man try and ruin his new found life with Kanya. He had vowed last time that no man, alive or dead, was going to come between him and Kanya, and he planned on keeping to the promise.

Darian walked on with Kanya at his arm, a gentle smile on his features for all the world to see. He didn't care what others thought of her because he knew the truth about this beautiful woman. She was intelligent, beautiful, witty, plus so much more that most men of society frowned down upon. As they continued to walk, an idea flashed into Darian's mind.

"You know I have been thinking about our honeymoon beloved Kanya. I agree that we should return to England and pay a visit to the King. We both owe him many thanks for different things he has blessed us with the opportunity to experience. However, before we continue on our journey, there is someone you will have to meet. I'll not tell you who yet so don't ask." Darian stopped her question before it even got to her lips by placing his finger to her lips. The sensation of her soft lips touching his finger sent a shiver down his spine. The pure feeling of it made him want to kiss her deeply and passionately, for he had not done so yet today.

"Once we are done in England, we will go wherever you wish to go my love." Darian said, obviously flustered about the feeling rising inside his body. "We could visit France and its many vineyards, Greece and its ancient ruins, perhaps even make our way to Germany. What is it you would like to do my sweet?"

 

[Perplexia]

Kanya smiled and nodded. "I think visiting the King would be a good idea, I think he will be most elated at your success in sweeping me off of my feet." She looked at Darian teasingly as he told her not to ask. "Ooh i do love a good intrigue, but i warn you my love i do have this mysterious power in getting men to reveal what they thought they wanted to keep a secret." she laughed as they continued to walk.
"I think that i would like to go to Italy, i want to see where you're from, and meet your father, i also want to see Greece and Egypt. Will you do that for me my love? Take me to your home?"

She squeezed his arm lightly as they reentered the coach and she waited for his response.

 

[alex_cali83]

Darian helped his beloved into the carriage again, making sure she was seated before he entered as well. He sat down beside her and wrapped his hand in hers, squeezing it lovingly as he thought for the first time in a long while about his home.

Darian had not returned home in almost a decade, as he had been traveling to help his friend the King as well as trying to find a wife. And here he was several years later with the most wonderful woman he had ever met. Darian smiled at his thoughts and kissed Kanya lovingly before answering her.

"You know that I can resist you charms and wiles my love, kind of. Then again I know that I have ways of making you fall under my own charms..." Darian whispered in her ear as he stroked her cheek with his free hand. The feeling of closeness to her was driving him mad with desire and it was taking all his willpower to keep his composure. Her soft skin felt so smooth under his touch and the warmth of her body caused his body to begin to ache to be naked against hers. Darian calmed his emotions and finished his original thoughts.

"I shall be honored to return home with you as my beloved wife Kanya. Nothing would make me happier my love. You have also picked some wonderful places to visit and I shall make arrangements after we visit my family to go to Greece first. So tell me my love, what made you pick those places?"

Darian breathed quietly, his breaths coming ragged and short as he waited for her to speak.

 

[Perplexia]

She smiled as he spoke of his ability to resist her charms and wiles. In truth perhaps it was because he could that she loved him so passionately. Kanya wished she had the ability to resist his. His restraint seemed more refined than that of her own. Her thoughts left her as his hand touched her cheek and his soft words spoke to her.
Once again her body reacted to him with such a flush of desire she was sure her cheeks must have blushed a deep maroon. By the gods she had no idea how long she could take this torture of being so close to him and having to remain chase. Thoughts of the way his hands hand roamed over her thin gown, thoughts of the passion his lips arose with in her from toes to head repeated with a sincere revival.
She blinked as he asked her a question. Trying to focus on what it was he had asked. Finally her mind revealed the question.. "why" had she chose those places.
She smiled readjusting her body with in the seat of the carriage before replying. "They all have a significant history my love" she said softly hoping that answer would suffice. Then added "In truth i would want to visit every place and learn as much as i can about what was and how they fair today. I'm interested in learning their fables and myths, their legends. I suppose i want adventure. I will never be happy maintaining the duties of a proper society wife. That does not mean i do not wish to marry you" she quickly added "It means that i know you will allow me to be who i am and will enjoy the adventures our future life has together."
She smiled readjusting herself once again. Her eyes staring into his finding herself becoming lost in them. Luckily they pulled back up to the house and she was saved from her curiosity of his reaction if she simply were to act upon her impulsive passion. What would he think of her then? Would he have stopped her?
Kanya smiled mischievously at her own wicked thoughts as he helped her down from the carriage and took her arm inside.

 

[alex_cali83]

Darian was surprised by the amount of heat he felt come off her body whenever he touched her lovingly or longingly. It felt as if a furnace had been turned on full blast in close proximity to their bodies. His fingers always ached to etch every curve of her body into their memory as they roamed across that beautiful skin or hers, tracing from her lips all the way down to her toes. It was an impulse and a craving he had to put on hold many times.

As they pulled up to the house again, he was saved from his thoughts of her for a brief moment. He instead turned his thoughts to her answer, wondering just what legends and myths he could turn her attention to that might sate her appetite in each place.

"Kanya, my love, I shall do my best to sate that desire for knowledge in each place that we go. I shall work on an itinerary tonight for our honeymoon, of course starting with where it all began for us." Darian gave a grin to his beloved, when he noticed the wickedly mischevious grin spreading across her features. This intrigued him and he leaned down close to her ear so that others would not hear his question as they entered the hallway.

"What are you thinking about my love that has you looking like the first day I met you? Do you remember that day as I do? You trying to scare me off by entering all wild haired and mischevious?" Darian whispered in her ear quietly but kissed her ear softly after the words were spoken, awaiting her reply.

 

[Perplexia]

Kanya smiled and stepped away as footsteps began to be heard. "oh there you are her mother exclaimed with her frantic joy. "I certainly hope you didn't make a nuisance out of yourself in town Kanya." she then added.

"I was on my best behavior mother" she replied in a curt melodic tone. "Good well i need you for your fitting and I've picked out your Maid of Honor and the bridesmaids."

Kanya clenched her fist and she began to feel her blood boil. "You did what?" she asked trying to keep her tone more civilized. Before she could answer Kanya continued. "I will pick out who i want to be a part of my wedding mother. If you've put out invitations or requests you are to descend them immediately. For i will not share my day with a bunch of socialite ladder climbers all in your hopes they provide you with benefits of social connection."

Her mother looked shocked at the accusation. "you will do as i say Kanya for you owe it to me, and if you refuse then there will be no wedding"

Kanya looked at her mother squarely in the eyes and smiled. "then there will be no wedding, we'll simply elope."
"Do you see? Do you see what your in for, how this willful child disrespects me, you may wish to think twice over marrying this one. She'll be your ruination, and cause you social humiliation. She'll never be tamed a bad apple she is" Her mother declared in hysterics to Darian looking for some form of sympathy.

 

[alex_cali83]

Darian watched the festivities between Kanya and her mother for a time before speaking his own mind. He simply looked at Kanya's mother as she exclaimed to him hysterically, his eyes filling with mirth at Kanya's mention of them eloping.

In all my years, I never thought there was a woman out there that would even dream of eloping with me. They all wanted their perfect weddings, with their socialite families attending, looking to climb the social ladder at my expense. But here is Kanya, pure and wild, a wonderfully intelligent woman with ideas and plans of her own, who wishes to share her life with me. I'll not lose her over petty arguements. Darian smiled as he thought to himself, his eyes continuing to dance.

"My lady, I do believe that Kanya is correct in this matter. It is in fact her wedding day and the most special time she may ever have in her life, so it would not be fair to deny her whom she wishes to bring to this blessed event. Also I would rather give my beloved Kanya her dream wedding and not force her to elope with me, so please reconsider. I am not the least bit worried about how she acts nor about her ruining me socially, for those don't mean as much to me as her love and adoration."

 

[Perplexia]

Kanya's mothers mouth dropped wide open. She had no reply after being put in her place by her future son in law. There were simply two choices, one let Kanya have her way, or two Kanya would elope and once again disgrace the family name.
"I see that i have been once again over ruled. Fine Kanya, compose your plans and have them to me with haste. The sooner we get this over with the sooner i will be rid of you, God help you Sir for you surely will need it." Raising her nose to the ceiling she turned and walked off in haste.
"Thank you for standing by me" Kanya said softly to Darian looking up to him with more admiration and love then she had ever before. The words her mother spoke so harshly would have wounded her once, but over the years of being told what a disgrace she was she had hardened against them.
"Please excuse me my love while I go off to write down the wedding plan, the sooner i'm done, the sooner i can be named your wife and we can leave these walls that cage us." There was a anxious sound to her tone as if she actually pictured herself as a caged bird feeling the calling of flight.
Raising to her toes she kissed him softly upon his lips. Her eyes locking to his as she stepped back. The smile only he could incite crossing her lips with a feverish bliss.

Walking from the room she felt empowered by him. As if being with him gave her more courage to make it through the coming days. With in a few hours time she had the entire wedding planned. It would not be acceptable, and it was not done for spite, but merely from her own wishes.

Sitting down at dinner she smiled across the table to Darian, her eyes fliritng with him as she handed the parchment to her mother.

"This is unacceptable" She muttered going over it. "But you are of noble bloodline, you must have a large ceremony. Private secluded ones are only for the poor."

"I only want my groom, the priest, and my parents there." Her mother waved her hands around in a tissy. "my only daughter and she wishes to be given away like a pauper".

"woman hush yourself. it is her wish, her wedding, it is so" her father declared shutting his wife up.

"is this acceptable to you Sir?" she questioned of Darian.

 

[alex_cali83]

Darian sat at dinner with Kanya and her parents, chuckling slightly to himself at the reactions around the table. Her mother looking frazzled about the wedding being set to "poor" standards, drew a certain amount of mirth from his smile and he turned to share this infectious smile with his beloved when she asked his opinion.

" If those are the terms that you wish my love, then so be it. Whatever pleases your heart pleases mine as well. However might I make a suggestion for the time in which it is held?" Darian asked with a slight twinge of questioning.

" I would greatly wish that it be below the starry sky of the night, for at night was when I first laid my eyes upon your face and also the time in which I asked you to be my bride. Would you grant me that hand in our wedding my dearest Kanya?"

 

[Perplexia]

Kanya smiled at his response, he always knew how the correct thing to say. She could see her mother cringing out of the corner of her eye. "Indeed Sir" she replied with a smile of sincerity. "I have the perfect spot in mind" she was of course referring to their tree. The tree that was their beginning.

"My darling daughter you may have whatever you wish, simply name the time in which you would like it."

Kanya looked up at Darian "That is your decision my love, for it is your schedule we must work around."

Her eyes danced as she looked at him, yearning once again for the moment in which they could be alone.

 

[alex_cali83]

Darian looked at Kanya as she answered him, knowing full well that she had some idea in her head when she agreed. He smiled and bowed a tiny bit to her, his eyes dancing with mirth.

" I do believe that a perfect time would be around....7 o'clock. The stars should just be coming out which would make you look even more lovely. But then again, maybe that is just what I behold in my own eyes..."

Darian smiled softly at her, wrapping his fingers in hers as they got ready to part for bed. His eyes danced with the sight of her, making his breath catch in his throat.

" Well my love, how about we turn in for the night in our respective rooms?"

 

[Perplexia]

Kanya was more refering to what day the would get married upon but let the subject drop for the rest of dinner allowing her mother to recover from her nerves.

The evening had been spent as usual with Darian reading to her from the book of the lykan. When it came time for them to go to bed he stated. "" Well my love, how about we turn in for the night in our respective rooms?"

She smiled and nodded kissing him lightly under supervised eyes. When the house fell quiet she was out of her bed and out the backdoor making a run for the stables.

Pulling herself upon her steeds back she clicked her heals. The horse knew already where it was going, their tree. The one place they could be themselves without interruption.

This night there was no fire, perhaps he hadn't made it here she thought. Her horse danced around nervously "darian?" she called out.
Nothing replied yet the horse still shifted. Turning swiftly she clicked. The smell the sound it was similiar as it had been when she was a child. A werewolf was on her tail, and closing in "DARIANNNNNN" she screamed.

 

[alex_cali83]

Darian had smiled when she agreed to turn in for the night, knowing full well that she would head out for her midnight ride to the tree. He always anticipated her rides now, knowing that he could spend time alone with her there without anyone caring what he was or how she should act.

He was just about ready to head out the door and go to meet her when the scream caught his ears. It wasn't a scream of pain coming from her throat. No it was something much more, a scream of terror, like a ghost of the past had reached out and grasped her heart.

Darian wasted no time in leaping through the window on the second story of the huge house, landing on his feet and already clearing ground as fast as any thoroughbred horse. His senses sharpened as he let the vampire in him take over more of his human instincts, causing his features to distort slightly. Darian hated how he looked when the bloodsucker in him surfaced but he had needed to use it over the years to survive many encounters.

As he closed on his usual meeting spot with Kanya, he could smell it lingering in the air. The air was permeated with the scent of her and her horse's fear, but lingering under it was the scent of a lykan, a werewolf. Darian slowed his pace, looking around for the beast but he saw no sign of the shapeshifter.

"What on earth could a lykan be doing all the way out here?" Darian thought to himself, "I haven't heard of an attack out here at all back on the shores of Europe."

 

[Perplexia]

Kanya screamed again and urged her horse faster. Her horse was already racing for its life, barely noticing its rider upon its back.
She thought she saw a figure please be Darian she thought as she screamed again feeling the darkness reaching out.

The horse kicked back catching the lykan in the chest and also making Kanya loose her seat. It wasn't hard to do with only her night gown between her an his back.

She tumbled to the ground as the horse kept running, momentarily phased by the impact of the ground. Once regaining her sense she got up an attempted to run. Her ankle had been twisted when she fell causing her great pain, yet the urge to live was stronger.

 

[alex_cali83]

As Kanya's horse caught the lykan in the chest and deposited Kanya, not so gracefully, on the ground, Darian came hurtling through the air at the beast locking into a fierce battle with it. His features twisted in rage and frustration, he began an assault on the werewolf with his hands, tightly locked around the werewolf's wrists.

"Kanya my love, I am sorry that I was so late for our meeting and that you have to see this." Darian spoke calmly despite the look on his face. He manuvered under a bite from the overgrown dog and headbutted it. All the while he kept wondering who this beast was.

 

[Perplexia]

Kanya watched in terror as her beloved secured the werewolf. With a sharp blow to the head from Darian he went unconscious. She watched in terror as the wolf began to shift back into his human form. Before them, naked upon the dirt floor laid Charles Godfrey.

Her mouth stayed open as Darian secured his wrists and ankles. Pacing around him like an animal wanting to go for the kill but denied by his master.

How are we going to explain this? she questioned after regaining some form of composure. If they let him go, he'd comeback again, but this time it would be a plan. If they had him arrested they would have to explain why they were out at this hour alone. It would jeopardize her father, bringing a shame to him and eventually bankrupting him. It could even cause the King to withdraw his title.

She never thought she'd hear the words come from her mouth but she knew it was the only way they would be free. "kill him" she whispered.

 

[alex_cali83]

"Kill him." The words echoed in his head causing a conflict of emotions to break out. Kanya wanted this man dead and he had promised to protect her at all costs. The question that haunted Darian's mind was how?

If I kill him like I normally kill hunters, then it will bring questions. Questions I will have to run from, questions for Kanya and myself, however if I kill him as a gentleman then there will be fewer questions. Darian thought to himself, trying to puzzle out what to do with Godfrey.

Godfrey stirred a little in his unconciousness and Darian stood in front of Kanya with his back shielding her from what he was about to do. Darian reached in his cloak and removing his pistol, shot Godfrey in the chest. Darian then placed the pistol near Godfrey's outstretched hand as if to make it look like a lost gentleman's duel. He quickly gathered Kanya up in his arms and checked for any sort of wounds.

"Are you alright my love?" Darian asked her with a great sense of worry on his features.

 

[Perplexia]

Kenya buried her head against Darian's chest. "yes, i'm fine, i would have never thought he was a Lykin" she said softly. Tears came to her eyes as her body pressed against him. "They will have heard the echos of the shots, we need to get back to the house" she said regrettably as their evening had been stopped short.

"will it always be like this?" she questioned softly