Chapter Two
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Gabe
The girl had been following me for weeks, always keeping to the shadows, always keeping just out of sight but I knew she was there. I could smell her, the heady intoxicating scent of her like cinnamon and burning driftwood. No other woman I had ever encountered on this world, or the world I had grown up on had ever smelt to tantalisingly good.
At first, I had thought it was just a coincidence, that she maybe lived in the same area as my birth parents but then I started to sense her in other places. One week of being on this god forsaken planet and I was being followed. It didn’t bode well.
And to make things worse. Every time I tried to see what she looked like. She would disappear. All I got was a blur of dark hair and dark clothing. The woman was a god damn ghost. Of course, I didn’t need to see her to know she was behind me, shadowing me.
My own personal stalker.
She wasn’t human I knew that much; I could tell. But I couldn’t quite put my finger on what she was either. Tantalisingly tempting was all I knew.
Slipping into the open gate of my parents’ house, I waited. She was out there somewhere, waiting watching and I wanted to find out why. If she was a danger to my birth parents, then I would kill her without a second thought. I had been a baby when they had handed me over to save my life, they had given up their own immortality to make sure I lived so it didn’t matter if I knew them or not. I loved them. I had been raised on the stories of their sacrifice. Tales of the sacrifices of all the brave shifters who had fought for their freedom. And anyway, I was getting to know them now.
My beautifully fragile now human parents. And I wasn’t about to let some woman hurt them. Pausing I crouched. They weren’t home. I already knew that. I had just come because I had wanted to see if she turned up again and of course she did.
She always did. And God she smelt amazing. My uncle London had told me to be careful, to not underestimate the dreaded councils reach or power but I wasn’t afraid. I had been raised as a Fae Warrior. Adopted son of that planets one and only prince and his human mate They had taught me well. And I had no doubt that I could beat the best Earth had to offer. A woman should be no problem at all.
I sprang forward, clearing the fence into my parent neighbour’s yard and without pause slank forward. I kept low, and everything inside of me quietened. I was perfectly calm. Perfectly at one with the nature around me. Two more fences and I slipped back into the street. She was there, hiding amongst the shadow opposite my parents’ house.
And damn she was beautiful.
The dark hair, was long, plaited in a loose braid and hanging over her slender shoulders. Her face was pale, high cheekbones, full lips. Eyes that seemed to be looking everywhere at once. But it was more than her good looks that attracted me, more than her scent. It was the power that radiated from her. I had been right to think she wasn’t human.
I was on her before she even had a chance to react. The knife I always carried at her throat and my other arm tight around her slender waist. I pulled her flush against my body, and it took everything in my power not to reel back. This close, the smell of her skin was overpowering. It wasn’t perfume or scented oils. It was her.
I said something, and I had no idea what I was saying or what she was answering. She was trying to act innocent that was all I knew. But she was far from innocent.
The knife in my hand slipped against her slender throat, it was the smallest of scratches, but it drew a bead of blood.
Power ripped through me, and it was like nothing I had ever felt before. Hot and cold. There was so much of it that my grip on her loosened.
MATE.
In a second, I had memorised her face. The angles of it were sharp but it didn’t take away from her beauty. She was mine. I knew it like I knew my own name. I had been on earth only a few weeks and had already found the one I would spend my life with.
Something that resembled fear flared to life in her eyes. She felt it too, I knew she did.
“You are so…” I was about to say beautiful when she slipped out of my arms and started sprinting down the street. I watched her go with my mouth hanging open. And then I was moving. Rushing to keep up with her, to catch her and look on her face some more.
I wanted to know her name. the name of the woman I would spend the rest of my life with. By the moon, I wanted to know everything about her. She was fast though, faster than anything I had seen on this planet so far. Even so she was still no match for me. And her running just made me want to chase her.
My fingers brushed against the black hood of her jacket, skimming the material and then she was airborne, her jump powerful and as graceful as any cat shifters.
“Wait, I just want to know your name.” Why was she running from me? She had felt what I had felt. That unbreakable bond clicking into place. “You don’t have to be afraid; I’m not going to hurt you.”
Twelve feet above me, she perched on a high wall. Her eyes blazing in her head as she stared down at me. “Don’t follow me.” Her voice was girly but there was a huskiness to it. like she was breathless.
“I just want to know your name. I’m Ga…”
Something hit me in the chest, an icy ball of energy that lifted me off my feet and slammed me back down into the road. I stared at her. A smile growing on my face. Witch then, and a powerful one. Witch and something else…
“Do not follow me “She repeated. “If I see you again, I will kill you.”
Throwing back my head I started to laugh, laying right there in the middle of the road like a fool.
My new mate was spectacular. Watching with a grin on my face she jumped down on the other side of the wall and disappeared. I didn’t need to follow her. I knew her face now. I knew her scent.
I had found my mate and she had tried to kill me but all I could do was grin.
I would find her again; I would rip the city apart until I did.
The chase was on.
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