He seems to have a destination in mind, because when we get to a secluded waterfall he stops. I look around in awe of our surroundings. When he kneels, I step off. On three sides we are surrounded by trees, coming from a hilltop a stream of water shoots out and lands in a glistening pool of water. It’s not a massive waterfall but it is beautiful. Large rocks surround the area making the water pool deeper.
I feel a pair of arms wrap around my body. “I have been wanting to take you here for a while. This is my little place away from it all. I would come here a lot. Especially when we were in high school. I would come here and picture you here with me.” He buries his face in my neck.
“It is very beautiful.” I am still in awe of the place. I love the place that Markus and I have, but this place is just as beautiful, actually probably more so.
He pulls me back. His lips grazed my skin. “I want you here.” He pulls at my clothes making it clear what he wants.
“Darius.”
“I’m a dying man, Soph. Grant me my last wish.”
I turn around in his arms. Cupping his face with my hands. “You are not dying. Don’t you dare say that.”
He looks in my eyes returning the desperation to me. “Without you, I will. Even if I make it through this bomb in my head, I will die when you leave me.”
I feel a tear slide down my cheek. “Don’t say that Darius.”
“It’s true. I need you.” He pulls me into his chest. “I have accepted this a long time ago. I can’t live without you. I tried. I tried to find my real mate. I tried anyone else. It has only been you.” He brushes my hair with his fingers as I lay my head on his chest. “I love you. I know you don’t believe me and I have done things that contradict that. I can’t take them back. I can’t fix the bad things that I did. I can’t make it better and that is what kills me the most. Not this thing in my head, but what I did to you.”
“What makes me so special? I am just a girl that no one likes. Why do you feel so strongly about me?”
He pulled my face up close to his. His lips barely brushes mine as he speaks. “Maybe I am just crazy, but I never felt stronger about anyone else in my life. Not even Sasha. I tried to find my mate. I showed you that I did. You are the only one that I need in my life. Don’t ever doubt my feelings for you. I can’t explain why it’s so strong. It’s like you were supposed to be my mate. I just wish you felt the way I do.”
“I do care about you, Darius. I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t. When it’s just you and me, I can’t explain it, it feels right somehow. Then I get around Markus and I only feel for him. I can’t really explain any of this.”
“Then give me now. Just you and me. My dream of us here together. If it’s just us then you care for me right?”
“Darius, are you sure you want to keep doing this?”
He gazes into my eyes as he tips my body back. “More than anything in the world. You are my mate. If only for now. You will always be the mother of my child. Always, you will have some piece of me. Something that no one else will have. My first born child.” As my back reaches the ground he attacks my lips. I can’t explain what is happening. Things just feel like they are exploding inside me for the first time when Darius kisses me. I always felt a little something, even if it was disgust at first. But this time it felt like the first time I kissed Markus.
I think Darius felt the shift too, because he deepened the kiss and let out a moan. I felt myself clawing at Darius, like I never had before. Quickly he strips me bare to match his skin. Through the whole thing it feels like it is the way it is supposed to be. I feel connected with Darius on a whole other level. Not just the baby, but every part of me feels connected to him. Before there was always this block, this wall that prevented us from fully connecting, but here it’s gone. Just us. He watches me with love in his eyes as he makes love to me.
When we are both spent and breathing heavily on the ground he pulls me onto his chest. “That’s my girl. I felt it. You were there with me.” He brushes my hair. “You know, I heard that this spot is sacred.”