The Carpathian Mortal

Balthazar

I wake up the next morning alone. I'm a little brought down when I see that Adam isn't there. I get up to use the bathroom and I'm still in that very sexy teddy. I relieve myself and then head over to the sink. I see a toothbrush, toothpaste, mouthwash, deodorant, hair brush, hair ties and other assorted toiletries. I brush my teeth and do my hair up in 2 cute little buns on my head. I walk out of the bathroom over to the huge closet before I notice a note on the night stand.

"Dear Serena,

I'm sorry that I'm not there this morning to escort you, I had some urgent matters to attend to, but don't worry, I've asked my 2nd brother Balthazar to keep you company and to make sure that Caleb doesn't do anything that I'll have to beat his ass over. He'll be waiting in the dining hall for you.

Yours Truly

Adam,"

Okay, well that explains why I'm alone. I walk over to the closet and find a cute skirt and a floral blouse to put on. I feel super cute. I walk out of the room and try to recall how to get to the dining hall. I follow the long hallway until I see the stairs leading down. I walk down the stairs and walk up to the dining hall door. But before I open the door, I can hear yelling in the dining hall.

"Where the f**k is Adam at Balthazar and why isn't HE attending to the little b***h? It's his f*****g guest." "I told you before Caleb that I don't know where Adam went, he only told me that he has urgent matters to attend to and asked if I would escort her today. Please calm down brother." "NO! I WILL NOT CALM DOWN! I DO NOT TRUST HER BEING IN OUR HOUSE! We all know what happened THE LAST TIME he had an uninvited guest here, or do I need to f*****g remind you all of that?"

I heard something glass shatter against a wall and then angry footsteps headed for the door. I backed away and he practically ripped the door from it's hinges. He saw me standing there and he growled fiercely at me and I could see that his eyes were glowing red. I backed up against a wall and he slammed his hand on my throat and pinned me to the wall. I yelped and he growled louder. "I don't know why you are here or how you found our home but you better hope and pray I don't ever catch you alone. You aren't welcome here." He dropped me and I gasped and could feel bruises forming on my throat.

I started to cry and could barely see and was struggling to breathe but then I felt a presence near me. I looked up and saw a beautiful young man with beautiful brown curls and those same eyes. He knelt down to me. "Are you alright Serena? I'm so sorry about that. I'm Balthazar. Did he hurt you?" I showed him my neck and I saw him frown a little and his eyes glow slightly. "What a f*****g asshole. Again, I'm so sorry. I had no idea you were right outside the door or I would have stopped him. Again I really apologize for not protecting you from him." "It's okay, I'm fine now. Thank you for coming out here." He helped me stand up and when I was finally standing, a flash hit me.

It was Balthazar and he was making a clay sculpture of a woman. It pans over to a couch where I see the same woman from the flash with Adam, except this time she is laying on a chaise lounge completely naked and she is smiling at him. He looks up and smiles at her and she motions for him to come over there. He stops what he's doing and cleans his hands off and then walks over to her. He grabs her on the chaise and gets on top of her. She plays with his curls as they kiss passionately. He buries his head between her breasts and just lays there. She smiles down at him and kisses the top of his head. "I love you so much Balthazar." "I love you too Luna." He lifts his head up and looks in her eyes. "Forever" and then the flash fades.

I come too and Balthazar is holding on to me. He looks shocked when I look up at him. "What just happened? Was it one of those flashes that Adam was telling me about?" I nod yes. "What did you see?" I tell him what I saw and he looks taken aback and very worried. I look at him puzzlingly. He sets his mouth in a grim line and walks me into the dining hall. The other brothers are sitting there quietly, not speaking at all. They glance up when they see me. The twins smile at me and the blond haired one assesses my body with a once over and looks back down at his plate.

I sit down in a chair that Balthazar pulls out for me and he sits next to me. I dig in to the giant pile of food again this morning and eat my fill of so many delicious foods. I finish eating and start to get up but Balthazar rises first and pulls my chair out. "Where would you like to explore today Serena?" "Do you have a studio for your sculpting?" He smiles at me and takes my hand. He leads me down many corridors until we reach a beautiful doorway with clearly expensive glass doors.

He opens it up and I see that he has a studio with many work stations scattered around with different sculptures in random states of completion. My eyes scan the room until I see a work station in the back of the room and see the finished sculpture of the one he was sculpting in the flash. I walk over to the sculpture and can see that it's finished but covered in dust. I go to touch it but his hand grabs mine. He looks at me with a sad look that asks me not to touch it. I withdraw my hand and start walking around looking at all the other sculptures. My hand running over them, feeling the smooth clay. He walks silently behind me as I look at all of them.

I finally see a nice couch in the back and I make my way over to it to sit down. He gently sits down next to me. "Balthazar, your studio is amazing. Your sculptures almost look like they might come to life at any moment. That's a gift if I've ever seen one." He blushes profusely. "Thank you. But sadly, I don't come here anymore. Not since her." I see tears glimmer in his eyes. And one falls down his cheek as he closes his eyes. Upon instinct, my hand reaches up to catch the tear on his face. I wipe it gently and he opens his eyes and looks at me. He just looks into my eyes for quite some time with neither of us saying a word.

I cough and we snap out of our little trance. "I have to ask Balthazar. Who was Luna? I tried to ask Adam but he wouldn't tell me at all. He brushed me off when I asked him. And also, is she who Caleb was talking about in the dining hall?" Balthazar looks at the floor and then looks at me again. He smiles a grim smile. "Alright, I'll tell you about her but you have to swear to never even breathe her name around the others. At all. I can't promise that you'll walk away with your life if you do. The pain she caused is so deep and she hurt us all so badly that we all wanted to die after her treachery." I nod my head yes. "I swear. I won't say a word."

"Alright then, here goes. Luna was our fated mate, or so we thought. She was mated to all of us. This was back before we had to go into hiding. It's been almost 500 years since it happened and it still feels like it happened only yesterday. Adam was the first one to meet her. He was in the town square of one of the towns that our father ruled over. She caught Adam's eye the moment he saw her. He swept her away and brought her here. When we all finally met her, we were instantly smitten with her. I'm sure you saw in your flashes how beautiful she was. We absolutely loved and adored her."

He looks away and I can see the tears start to fall from his eyes. "If it's too painful, you don't have to go on. I understand the pain of heartbreak." I cast my eyes downward but he lifted my chin delicately. "I can do this. I need to tell someone about this." I motion then for him to continue. "But we were fools, so young and naive that we didn't even realize what was happening until it was too late. We didn't realize that she had planned for this all along. When the uprising happened and our uncle killed our father, we didn't realize that she was a witch employed by our uncle to make all of us fall in love with her so she could turn us against one another and ultimately destroy each other."

I let out a choked sob and he could see tears in my eyes. "Why? How could someone be that cruel and heartless? I don't understand people like that. That's just evil." Balthazar smiled at me. "She started whispering in our ears that each one of us was secretly plotting to kill the others. She did it to all of us. Everything finally came to a head when we all confronted each other about what she had told all of us. We all fought against each other right in this castle. It wasn't until Adam noticed that Luna was nowhere to be found during all this so he yelled for all of us to stop before we did actually kill each other. We all stopped and he asked if anyone had seen Luna. We all shook our heads no and that's when Adam got a very suspicious look on his face. We searched everywhere for her before we finally found her. She was in the garden with our uncle and we could hear them both laughing. We snuck up on her and our uncle and listened."

He closes his eyes and balls his fist at this point. "Please, don't hurt yourself trying to tell me. I understand if you can't continue." "I have to Serena, before I go mad here from all of the pent up rage I still feel." I nod sadly at him. "We heard her speaking to him telling him that their plan was working brilliantly and that at that very moment we were inside trying to kill each other. She laughed again and said that once we killed each other, the kingdom would finally be theirs. We burst from the bushes and we were all so filled with rage, that we couldn't have pictured what happened next if we tried. Caleb jumped forward first and she looked shocked and scared. She screamed that our uncle was trying to kill her and that she needed us. But it was too late. We had heard everything. All of a sudden, Caleb rage screamed and lunged at her. He stabbed her with his daggers and then we all jumped forward and started stabbing her repeatedly. Until she was completely dead, with a scared look on her face. Our uncle during all of that had run away from it all because he was a coward and he knew he could never defeat us by himself."

I look at Balthazar and his head was hanging down with tears falling from his face. I wrapped my arms around him and just held him as he silently cried right there on the couch. I held him for a long time until he finally stopped crying. He looked up at me and he could see that my face was red and splotchy from crying myself. "I'm so sorry. Gods, I'm so sorry that happened to all of you. I wish there was a way I could take away your pain." I continued crying from true despair at hearing that tale.

The next thing I know, I feel his delicate fingers caress my cheek and wipe away my tears. I look up at him and he can see the true despair in my eyes. He looks perplexed a little. "This happened to us, so why do you cry?" "Because I know your pain, I feel it, in my heart. And it hurts and I wish I could wipe the memory of her away from all of you, including Caleb, so that you don't have to live with that pain anymore." I see a glimmer of hope in his eyes. "You really do feel it, don't you? The look in your eyes is the same look that has haunted me and my brothers for 500 years now. True despair." I nod my head yes and he can see the tears falling again.

He leans towards me and wipes away my tears while keeping his hand cupped on my cheek. I wipe away the snot from my nose and try to wipe more of my tears away. He hands me a handkerchief and I wipe my face and blow my nose. I look up at him again after I've done that and I can see him smiling down at me. He moves his hand up to my face and starts to caress my cheek. I look at him with hopeful eyes and the next thing I know, he is kissing me furiously. I can feel his pain, his anger, and his despair in that kiss. I can feel the hole she left in his heart in that kiss. I kiss him back with vigor. I try to soothe the wounds in his heart with my kiss.

He presses himself against me and I can feel his member press against my stomach. He wraps his arms around me and pulls me closer. Now he is kissing my face and my ears. He kisses down my neck with a fevered intensity. He lays me on the couch and kneels down at my feet. He kisses up my legs, then up my stomach, until he reaches my breasts. He rips my shirt and bra off of me and my breasts fall out. He looks at me like a demon possessed. He dips his head down and starts to bite my n*****s gently. I moan and open my legs wider. He switches back and forth between the two for some time until finally he sits up and then stands. He pulls me to a sitting position.

He undoes his pants and his member falls out. By the gods, he's just as huge as Adam. He smiles devilishly at me and then he cups my chin and guides his d**k to my mouth. He presses it against my lips to get me to open up my mouth. I open my mouth and he sticks his c**k in my mouth. I run my tongue slowly over his shaft and he audibly moans and grips my head. I start to suck on it and he starts to shake. I bob my head back and forth on it, savoring the sweet taste of him. He grabs my head and starts pounding his c**k in my throat. He grabs on to the little buns on my head and starts pounding even harder. I am gagging and choking on it but he doesn't stop. Finally, he slams his c**k into my throat one last time as his seed shoots down my throat.

He stops for a second before he shakes his body and then he looks at me again. This time, he grabs my skirt and shreds that too. He rips my panties off of me and then grabs me and wraps my legs around his waist. He walks to the wall right by the couch and pins me against it. He lifts my ass until his c**k is pressed against my dripping wet hole. He puts his arms under my legs and then slams his c**k into me. I gasp in ecstasy as I'm hit with an earth shattering orgasm. He pounds into me furiously for quite a while. I feel a huge orgasm coming. "Please don't stop, I'm cumming again." He pounds even harder and his fangs extend and he bites into my neck until finally he throws me over the edge and I scream his name out. Right as I do that, I feel his seed explode into me at the same time that I flood him with my own c*m.

He wraps my legs around his waist again, still connected to him and walks us over to the couch again. He lays me down gently and pulls out. I can feel his seed dripping out of me. He looks at me and he has a worried look in his eyes. "What's wrong? Why do you look worried?" "I didn't hurt you, did I?" I look at him and smile. "No of course not. That was amazing." He pricks his finger with his fang and rubs it over his bite mark. I feel the skin heal almost instantly. He looks ashamed. "Stop it Balthazar. You did nothing wrong. I wanted that. I wanted you. All of you." He smiles at me. And I see his cheeks warm up at what I said.

"I don't know what came over me. I saw the look in your eyes. The look of despair and I couldn't bear to see that. I couldn't bear to let you feel our pain from her. I lost control and I knew the only thing I wanted to do was to erase the despair from your eyes. It hurt my heart to see it. And then all I could think about was making love to you. To bring your smile back. I'm sorry for not asking. I shouldn't have taken advantage of you like that. I'm sorry." "Balthazar, look at me." He looked up at me and I knew my face was glowing and I was smiling. "Like I said before, you did nothing wrong. I'm just happy that I was able to take at least a little bit of your pain away. I loved every moment of that. And I definitely wouldn't have wanted anything different from you. I'm just happy to see you smiling. You really do have a beautiful smile."

He smiled warmly at me and then he took his shirt off and put it on me. "Sorry I shredded your clothes. I'll have to get you back to your room so you can recuperate from that." He lifted me gently and carried me down many corridors until we reached my room. He opened the door and took me over to my bed. He laid me down gently and then he got down to his boxer briefs and then got in bed with me. He pulled me close and wrapped his arms around me. He sniffed my hair and sighed happily. Before I knew it, we were both passed out. I slept for a while, dreaming of the lovemaking session between me and him. When I finally woke up, I was alone again, except I saw a beautiful clay sculpture of my exact likeness. Next to it was a note that said:

"To My Darling Muse,

Thank you for inspiring me again and I hope you will accept this small token of my affection. Thank you for listening to me and thank you for giving me a reason to hope again. I already care for you, more than you know.

Love

Balthazar,"

I gasp at the words and I feel a warmth in my heart that makes me tingly. I look down at the statue and grab it. I hug it to my chest and a single tear slides down my cheek. What am I going to do now?