Nadine Book 5

25. My King

Future Dipak smiles. "So innocent."

"I was telling her it's a fight."

He chuckles. "Don't worry, we win."

Another statue turns into Tre. Then Marcus. Then Tye. They are so damn sexy. They all have long hair.

"Tye's not here."

"I told you he wouldn't be. This is right after he kissed that girl."

Future me bounces my hair. "I know that hurts."

My eyes fill up with tears.

Tre punches Tye hard in the face. Blood pours out his nose.

I spider monkey up the front of Dipak. I wrap my arms around his neck and hook my legs on his sides. He wraps his arms around me and holds me in place. I stare at future Tre and Tye and hold tight to Dipak.

"What the f**k jackass? It was 10000 years ago. And I see the tears in her eyes too." Future Tye stands up. "I'm so sorry. It'll work out. You need some time. I'll earn your trust back in time. And I will never do anything like that again."

"I miss this. So damn innocent." Dipak carries me over and puts his hand on the invisible wall. "Go get Tye, or I'm taking this home with me." He hugs me and snuggles with me. He touches the wall again. "I would really like to take her home with me."

My Tre and Marcus take off. Dipak stares at me. Future Dipak snuggles me and messes with my hair. "Always so cute with the curls. And a little dirt on your face. You are so damn adorable." I smile and lay my head on his chest. He's my Dipak. My muscles relax and he holds me tighter. "I love you." He kisses my head.

"I love you too, Dipak."

"Oh damn. That is amazing coming out of your mouth."

Future me rolls her eyes. "Do not get attached. You can not keep younger me."

"But she said she loves me."

She nods. "I do love you."

Dipak snuggles me. "I get all the love."

"Marcus."

"Yea, I see him. Let me have a turn holding her."

"No. She's mine."

"She's ours. Give her to me."

"No." He carries me through the invisible wall. I guess they made it back with Tye. He looks like s**t.

"He's trying to take her away from me."

"Well she's ours."

"f**k you. She's mine."

Future Marcus comes outside. "Let me have a turn with her dickhead."

"No. I love her. She's mine."

"I love her too. Give her to me." Future Marcus holds out his hands to me and I go to him. I wrap around him. He snuggles me. "f**k. Can we keep her?"

"No."

"You are so damn adorable." I smile and lay my head on his chest. "And so cuddly."

Future Dipak nods. "Tell her you love her."

"I love you angel."

"I love you too, Marcus."

"We are keeping her." I play with his hair. "She use to put herself to sleep playing with my hair."

"I remember that."

Future Tre walks out. "My turn."

"f**k you. She's mine." He hugs me so tight. I hug him back. "I love this. She's such a baby."

Tre puts his hands out to me. I smile and put my arms around his neck.

He scoops me away from Marcus. "God you're f*****g perfect. And you smell so good."

"Tell her you love her."

"I love you baby."

"I love you too, Tre." I lay my head on his shoulder. I really do love him.

"We're keeping her."

Future Tye holds his hands out to me.

I stare the other way. "Please babydoll."

Tre hoists me up. "Break his nose again."

"Stop breaking my nose for something that happened 10000 years ago." He points at his younger self. "Break his f*****g nose."

My Tre punches my Tye right in the nose and breaks it. Blood pours out.

The Tre that's holding me laughs. Then he whispers in my ear, "Please let him hold you for a minute. He does love you so much. What happened was a long time ago for us. He knows you're mad. But 1 hug please?"

I nod and Tre passes me to future Tye. I snuggle into him. I miss him.

"She's so little and sweet. And these curls and messy face. You are the most precious thing I've ever seen."

Tye tickles me a little and I giggle.

Tre and Tye both hug me.

"Her eyes."

Marcus smiles. "Dipak her eyes already."

"So damn young and still gets black eyes with 2 of us."

Dipak shakes his head. "I don't remember that from when she was little."

Tre nods. "It started when..." He glances at his younger self. "Does dad have a dragon?"

"Yea."

"Oh f**k, now I remember that. That was fun. I had no idea what the f**k I was doing... It worked though." Future Dipak looks at his younger self. "Good job."

Future me comes out of the barn. "I have everything. The crown is still on your head, Dipak."

Future Dipak takes the crown off and puts it on my Dipak.

I wiggle down and give my Dipak a hug. He scoops me up. "My king."

"My queen babygirl." I relax, and he holds me up by my butt.

"No, don't go to them." Future Marcus gets in his pocket. "I have candy." He pulls out something red on a stick. "Come here and you can have it. I know you like it."

I go to him, and he picks me back up.

"Don't bite it. Just suck on it. You'll hurt your teeth." He gives me another hug. "So what did you do today?"

"I rode a camel."

"Was that fun?"

"No, it hurt my butt."

"Like I was saying. I have everything done here." Future me steps to future Dipak and puts her arm around him.

I can't help it. "MINE."

All the future people smile. Dipak smiles the biggest.

"She is so cute."

"I am. I am cute when I'm younger." She smiles at me. "So you have 8 mates and I have none currently. This is going to be an interesting trip. We're going to have to swing by the castle before we go. We're not taking their 2 crowns. We don't need 7 crowns. They can keep theirs safe. We can get ours fixed if they break."

"What about the rings?"

"I have 8. I'll get them separated on the ship."

"Where are we going?"

"You are going to take your first planet. It's been in turmoil for a while. We saved it for you. Nothing extreme. But we can show you what you will be doing. It'll take a week. We'll get you back in time for China. But we have a week to show you all kinds of stuff." She smiles at Marcus. "Don't worry, you'll take me to the mountains many times. We have a lot of fun. I love that time with you. I think if you took me this time, it wouldn't have been fun. I was heartbroken."

Future me goes up to my Tye. She brushes his hair back. "You are so young too. I think everyone forgets that. You have to act like a king before you even come of age. I understand that gets to you. But I will not tolerate you doing anything behind my back. You should know, even as young and precious as I am right now, I am thinking about refusing the bond. A life where we hide things from each other is not the life I want. I refuse to have that." He wipes a tear away. She punches him in the face. He falls backwards. Then she helps him up. "I always regretted not doing that."

All the boys nod.

"Anything else I need to punch someone for?"

"You should probably beat the hell out of me." My Marcus stares at the ground.

The 1 holding me smiles and shakes his head

She hugs him. "Marcus, you are a good man. One of the best I've ever met. You are honest and caring. You love deeply. All the damage you do is to yourself. You need to let everything before me go. Forget it. It's only in your head." She pushes his hair back. "You get yourself so worked up for no reason. The only thing I care about is that you were mine after that first kiss. That sealed it, Marcus. That's when you became mine. Let the rest go. No one is mad. I will never be mad about anything before that."

He wipes his eyes and they hug.

"MINE."

Future Marcus squeezes me. "You are so damn feisty. I love you."

"I love you too."

"f**k YOU ALL. I'M KEEPING THIS."

I start playing with his hair and he rubs my back.

Future me hugs my Tre. "Always my rock. The one I can count on for anything. No matter how weird it is. And the 1 who takes care of me, so I better not be mean to you."

She goes to my Dipak.

"I FOUND CANDY." Future Dipak is standing there with a bag of something. "COME BACK TO ME. I HAVE CANDY."

"I already gave her candy. You're going to make her sick, Dipak."

"No I won't. It's a little."

"It's a whole bag."

"Little one want some candy?"

Then I run over and take his candy. Then I turn around and jump up on future Tre. They crack up laughing.

"I forgot how ornery you were." He runs over and tickles me.

I crack up laughing and go back to him. I wrap around him, and he holds me up by my butt. My Dipak glares at him.

"You are the sweetest. Let me have 1." I put one of the candies in his mouth.

My Dipak snaps and kisses future me.

"MINE"

"MINE TOO. You were even a good kisser young." She kisses him again.

"MORE MINE."

"NO, HE'S MORE MINE. I'M OLDER."

"MINE."

"YOU CAN'T HAVE THEM ALL."

I start sobbing and try to throw myself off Future Dipak.

Future Tre looks around. "Yea we should probably agree on something before we get on the ship for a week."

Future Tye shakes his head. "I can't touch her. She's to young and precious. It would be wrong now."

Dipak smacks my butt. "We will cuddle you and love you and pick on you and spoil you all week. We'll give you all the candy and presents we can. But you are to young to be trying to claim us. And woman, keep your ass off him."

"FINE. BUT YOU WERE SO NICE TO HER."

"SHE'S A BABY."

"WELL HE'S YOU."

"I mean it, woman. If you touch one of them, we all get this little one."

"Yea, we're not doing that. I'll stick with the older boys. She gets the younger boys, and we'll get along."

"Also she is to young to control screaming mine. They aren't even bonded yet. You are going to have to keep your hands to yourself when she's around. She can't help it. You will make her upset. And you know we won't do anything with her. So there's nothing for you to even worry about."

"Fine."

"I mean it. Do not argue with your child self. You could mess her up."

I shove candy in his mouth. "YOU TALK A LOT."

"Well, I won't argue with her about that. But as long as you boys don't touch her, I'll be fine."

Dipak squeezes me and swallows. "I guess I was done talking." He pats my butt and winks at me. "You can sit with me. We'll drive."

I give him the biggest smile and one of those little ships drops out of the sky and lands beside us.

I sit in the very front with older Dipak. He sits beside me and pushes a few buttons.

"Everyone ready?"

"Yea, we're good."

The shuttle lifts off the ground. I panic. I can't get out of this box, and it's flying. I jump straight over the back of the seat. I land on both Tye's.

One of them puts me in the isle. "Use the isle babydoll."

I run to my Dipak and straddle him and hug him.

"You're alright sweetheart." He rubs my back.

Tears fall out of my eyes. "I want bear."

Tre wipes a tear off my cheek. "I figured. This is a lot. The last couple of days have been to much for you. We're going to the castle though. I'll get bear. You want bunny too?"

I nod and wipe my eyes.

Older Dipak stands up. "Just to f**k with everyone. We're going to my old office, and you can get the stuff you want to take."

"Please don't forget bear."

"I won't baby. Do you want anything else?"

"Bunny."

"Grab her a bunch of these human dresses. She doesn't need to be dressed like that and acting young." Tre nods. "I'll take the crowns with Marcus. We'll get them stored away."

Dipak picks me up with him.

Future Tye is standing outside the shuttle. "Can I take you babydoll? That way they can go get your stuff?"

I start sobbing.

"We'll get you some candy. You want some candy? Or cake? I remember you like cake, right?"

I nod.

"Come here babydoll." He holds him arms. "Let's get you some cake."

"When she pukes on you, I don't want to hear about it."

"I forgot she does that."