Chapter 114

Black eyes bored down at hers, waiting for a response and in that second, everything seemed to change. The water had grown unnaturally hot, the breeze strangely still and the scenery that held peace and gave her ease earlier just felt disturbing.

Valerick's presence the root of all her problems.

After tossing the bottle from one hand to another, waiting for a response, while playing with it inbetween his fingers, he lost interest in waiting and decided to find out himself.

"It looks interesting." He muttered to himself.

He started screwing off the small iron lid of the bottle that looked tiny in his palms, and that was when she had done something she really shouldn't have had any business doing in the first place.

Her hand shot to him and she seized the bottle, snapping it right out of his grip as swiftly as she could before tossing the content of the bottle straight to her throat in one gulp, not leaving one drop behind. Then she threw the bottle and it's lid behind her with force, into the garden, hoping with everything in her that it would just never be found.

Best for it to just disappear.

She bit back the grimace that wanted to take over her face at the taste of nasty content.

Blinking, for a moment before the consequences of her action dawn on her.

She had just poisoned herself.

Great.

She had not been forced, no.

She had taken it willing.

She was poisoned.

Fantastic.

"What was that?" Valerick asked with an amsued smile, catching the sound of her speeding heart and hoping to help her relax.

"Mine." Zezi said, quickly before he even fully completed his question.

She was dying right now. She was certainly already losing some of her vitals, she just knew it.

How long would it take for her to fall down and just die? Or drown?

How long would it take for her to lose it all actually?

If that had been made for the King of Vampires, the it would certainly kill her faster.

How faster was what she didn't know.

"You sound really nervous and your heart, as much as I like to hear it beat, it's racing at a terrifying rate. I'm afraid you might lose it at this rate."

Could he just drop it?

"Well," she turned her attention back to him. "That is because it's a special kind of medicine."

He hummed, his gaze moving from her face below her, around her bosom.

His shift of attention made her aware, of the fact that her nightrobe was drenched and the thin silk material must be clinging to her body right now.

"See this is only a coincidence, I still need my space and---"

Her voice trailed off and she sucked in a shaky breath, feeling his tongue flick over her stiff nipple, the only obstacle between her taut lust filled flesh and his tongue, her silk, wet nightrobe.

Goose bumps laced her skin and she fought the urge to run her fingers over his wet abs, from snaking her hands around his neck, pulling him to her chest and have his lips against that part of her body he had just teased, this time, without her nightrobe standing in the way, in fact, she would prefer to have his tongue in more places that she could think of right now.

Ah!

The pain!

The pain that cut sharply through her body, made the pleasure die away and she shook her head.

"That is the nastiest thing I have ever tasted." Valerick muttered with displeasure. "Why are you taking that?"

Zezi's heart jammed with fear.

Did he just lick the poison off her?

Her eyes went wide as she observed him.

Would he fall down and die soon? Would he start feeling pain like she was, too? Would he figure out what it was?

Although they had told her it was a slow poison but would the little amount he had taken still affect him?!

Why had he licked that off her?!

He shouldn't have done that!

Why had he?

Just, why?!

"Are you sure that is good for your health."

It was not and it was not good for his health either.

"Are you sick, I will have the Physician take a look at you and recommend you something better and more effective than whatever this is." The look on Valerick's face showed that he certainly did not approve of it.

Of course, he would not. It was expected, being that, it was poison.

Again why had he licked it off her?! He should not have done that!

"No! I am not sick, I am fine."

Meeting a physician right now would just ruin everything and she knew Valerick, once he sets his mind on something, he would do it and ensure it was done.

"Then why are you taking that?" He pressured, trying to find out if she was suffering from an illness that she was trying so hard to keep a secret from him.

"I need to go." She started swimming away but he blocked her path, a smirk playing on his face.

He must have smelt her lust by now, there was no hiding that. What she hoped he wouldn't sense though was her pain, the one that was slowly crawling underneath her skin, making her feel like every part of her body was litting on a slow unpleasant flame.

Valerick frowned, now getting worried.

Why we she acting this way? What was wrong? He could sense her nervousness and it was the kind that Zezi would usually exhibit.

Zezi started racing through her brain for any excuse that could justify all this once and for all.

Something smooth.

Something that couldn't be questioned.

She needed to get away from here without raising his supicions.

She needed the antidote fast.

She could almost feel something snapping painfully in her.

Yes, found one.

"It's Gwen, she gave it to me. Some pregnancy enhancing medicine."

Many apologies, Gwen.

"Oh." Valerick couldn't hide his grin.

"Yes. So can you let me go now?"

"That medicine is just not going work on its own, you know. It needs something to accompany it." He whispered, standing behind her.

His words came to her like an echo, instead of how close it was, and she felt strength dripping from her, the water seeming to gain little more control on where her body swayed, than she had herself, but she suppressed it, fighting to remain in control.

"I have no plans to get pregnant." She snapped, looking back, more from pain than anger. "I only took that because I was really nervous."

That was the truth.

At least, half of it.

"Alright." He smiled, finding all this amusing.

Was the posion not affecting him at all? He looked perfectly alright and he sounded perfectly fine too, like he was enjoying everything without any slight discomfort.

"Goodnight, Zezi." He swam closer, the heat of his body emitting to hers, as he moved behind her and held her shoulders gently, the length of his member pressed against her back. "Dream of me."

"Goodnight, Valerick." Her breath was shaky for many reasons.

The minute he let go, she swam right out of the pool without looking back, grabbing her jacket and throwing it shabbily across her, once again using her wolf speed to get away from him.

This time though, Valerick's heart did not hurt at the sight, instead he beamed in satisfaction, chuckling, as many mischievous thoughts held his mind in a willing hostage situation.

His mind swayed back to the bottle and the taste of it's content.

He grimaced.

Nasty.

But if that was a pregnancy enhancing medicine, would take have any effects on him?

What if he got pregnant?

Could that be possible even though only females did that.

His frown deepened as he rushed out of the pool.

He would have to read on that.

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It was harder to use her speed, her wolf weakening from the effect of the poison she had ingested as she headed to the library.

She had to get the antidote of this fast.

She could taste her blood and she pulled the back of her palm against get her nostrils, the blood dropping from her hose had now turned from red to black.

She pushed against the library door and as expected, the librarian's space was empty but in a flash, Lady Delice was by her side, helping her before she fell to the ground.

"Ah--," she let out a sigh of relief. "Ain't I so glad to see your face."

"Lady Zezi, what is wrong? What did you--" she paused, catching the whiff of something before she realized what the King's mate had done. Quickly she carried her up in her arms like she weighed nothing

Zezi have laughed, flashing her a grin, her teeth stained with black blood, the same running down her nose.

"I found a way." She said with a gasp, her voice barely a whisper. "I found a way to feed it to him."

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