Clara
I haven’t been able to calm down despite all that Blair gas been telling me to sit down and have some rest. I know that I have been through a lot but I nolonger feel the exhaustion. Emma and Justin have been offered where to go and rest but they are also unwilling. They want to wait with me.
If Lenora and Evan has not come in here to keep us company, I would have already run out of this house, transformed in the woods and gone to look for Damien.
In my head, I keep praying for his safety. Please be okay Damien. Please be okay. I keep repeating this mantra in my head over and over again. Oh, moon goddess, please watch over him and the others that have gone with him.
I know that she is the goddess of the werewolves but she should be able to protect him. She is the one who give Damien to me as my mate. She is the one who gives mates and I am sure she didn’t make a mistake to bring us together.
Please don’t let us be separated by this, oh moon goddess. I have never prayed this hard to the moon goddess. I always acknowledged her as the provider and protector of the Werewolves but I have never asked her for anything this important.
I get up from the couch and start pacing about again. I can’t lie to myself that I calming down. Nothing is going to be able to put me at peace other than seeing Damien and making sure that he is alright.
“I am going out there. This is not helping at all,” I say.
“You can’t go there. What are you going to do when you reach there? What if you get yourself into danger?” Lenora asks me.
“I don’t care. I am so worried about him. What if that Lazarus does something bad to him? What if he thinks that I am still there?” I ask.
“I am sure that that the council had made it there by now. Everything is going to be fine. Amber must have made it there and informed them. They are going to stop Lazarus,” Blair tells me.
They have been telling me this since I reached here. I also know that but it is not assuring me. Nothing is going to be able to assure me about Damien’s safety.
If Lazarus’s spies are out there waiting for me to come out so that they can capture me and take me back to Lazarus, I don’t care. I am going to find Damien. Staying here waiting for Damien is just giving me terrifying thoughts. I would rather be on my way to find him hoping to see him the next minute.
“Where are you going?” Lenora asks me as I head for the door.
“I am going to find Damien,” I reply without looking back. I am sure that I must be looking really crazy right now after all that warning about not going out to find Damien but I don’t care, I am going to find my man.
“No, Clara. Wait!” I hear Blair’s voice from behind me as I reach for the door handle. I am not going to listen to him. I have heard enough. I know what he is going to say. That I shouldn’t go out there. That it is dangerous but I don’t care. If Damien is out there then it is better that I be out there with him.
I quickly open the door and dash out so that Blair won’t be able to stop me. I hear him coming after me while calling my name and begging me to stop. I just give him a deaf ear and run through the compound towards the woods.
Damien’s scent!
I can smell his sweet mouthwatering scent. Damien where are you? I must be losing my mind.
His sweet scent fills my nostrils penetrating it’s way into my system making me crave him. I run into the woods like a deranged woman without looking back. I just follow his scent. I can here Blair and the others calling after me but their voices are muffled by foggy mind.
I keep running, only dodging the trees but Damien’s scent just gets stronger. There is nothing in my mind other than getting to Damien. It is my only motive right now despite the fact that my legs are getting weak and I am running out of breath.
I crash into something hard. This is not a tree. It is hard but then also soft. Oh god! I must be really losing myself.
Damien! It smells like Damien and feels like Damien.
“Clara?” his sweet voice cracks Into my ears making my exhausted body melt. He is here.
I lift my head slowly and look at him. Even with the shadows of the trees cast on his face, he still looks handsome. His ocean blue eyes brood over me both with concern and exhaustion.
I lift my hand and touch his face so that I can feel him on my skin. God!
“Damien,” I murmur out. my voice sounds soar even in my throat. Tears start welling up in my eyes threatening to flow out any moment.
“Clara! Oh, thank goodness you are safe,” he says while pulling me in a tight bear hug. I really needed that. I need the reassurance that Damien is here with me and he is safe.
“Oh, Damien. I was so afraid that I was never going to see you again. I thought I was going to lose you,” I tell him, hot tears rolling down my cheeks.
“Hush now. I am here with you, baby,” he whispers to me and then wipes my tears off my cheeks with his thumb.
He then sweeps me off the ground into his arms. I wrap my hands and his neck and keep looking at him.
“Where are the others?” I asks him while looking behind him.
“They are coming. It’s just that I couldn’t wait for them. Don’t worry they are okay,” he replies while walking towards the house.
“What about Lazarus?” I ask him.
“We managed to stop him and he is going to be locked up in the Ventrue headquarters. All you need to know is that he is now under the best jailing there is and he won’t be able to threaten us again,” he replies. Oh, that’s good. Maybe I will ask him the details later.
We meet Blair and Evan on our way out of the woods. They look terribly worried. When they see us coming, their eyes widen in surprise.
“Damien! You made it back and you found her,” Blair says looking really relieved.
“We tried to stop her but run away from us,” Evan says. Damien looks questioningly at me and I just give him a small smile.
“It’s okay now that I got her before she has gone too far,” he says without removing his eyes from mine.
“The others are coming. They are going to be here in a second and they will answer all your questions. I am going inside with Clara. Please tell everyone not to bother us,” he adds.
“Okay,” Blair responds with a nod. I can tell that he understands the situation.
We head into the house and find Emma and Justin standing in the living room looking very confused.
“Who are they?” Damien asks me.
“My new friends. I met them in that house where I had been locked up. They are also victims of Lazarus. He turned them,” I explain to him. He first takes a careful look at the both of them and then at me.
“If you consider them your friends, then it is okay to me for them to be here,” he says.
“I will see you around. Please feel at home,” he says. Emma and Justin give him a smile and he nods to them. He then carries me upstairs to his room.
After entering the room, he puts me down and then closes the door. He walks slowly around me as if checking for any damages. His presence is enough to put me at peace. I can’t believe he is here right now with me. Thank you, moon goddess for answering my prayers.
“I am so sorry for not coming sooner. I hope he didn’t even lay a finger on you,” he says and then wraps his hands around my waist xxx so from behind.
“It’s okay, Damien. He didn’t touch me,” I tell him.
“That’s good for him. If he had then, I could have gone to teach him a lesson right now, ” he says and then burries his head in my neck. He sniffs my hair and then hums.
“I missed you so much, baby. I am so sorry for everything, ” he whispers into my ear and then kisses my neck. I close my eyes and relish the feeling of him.
“No, Damien. Please don’t blame yourself,” I tell him. I turn and look him in the eyes. He looks so sad and tired. I want to kiss his sadness away. God! I want to kiss him so bad!
I raise my hand and caress his face. I run my hand down to his chest and I roll a button of his shirt between my fingers. Damien lifts my chin so that I can look him in the eyes.
“Oh, Clara. You have no idea how worried I was about you. I am not afraid to admit that I was really scared of losing Clara. You mean so much to me,” he says. Tears threaten to spill on hearing these words. I grab the collar of his shirt so that I can bring him closer to me.
Our lips meet in a hungry powerful kiss and Damien moans into my mouth. Oh! His mouth feels so good, so perfect!
He grabs my ass and I wrap my legs around his waist. He puts me against the door and then kisses me harder and hungrier. Oh, yes! A moan of pleasure escapes from me and Damien squeezes my ass. This is what I have been yearning for all this time. I feel like it has been ages since I last felt his lips on mine. I never want to break away from this kiss.