Domino was right. When Faeron returned the next day to visit her, he told her how his conversation had gone with his employer, and it had not exactly been pretty, or response free. The wood fairy had taken all the blame, despite the fact that Shi had basically attacked him in the doorway, but he had told Mr. Hughes that he had given the girl a choice, and she had chosen him. Mr. Hughes had roared at him and told him that Shi had no experience with wood elves, that she would not understand what it meant to be imprinted. Faeron had listened patiently, taking the verbal beating, and told Mr. Hughes that he would do anything he had to do to make things easier, to give Shi as normal of a life as possible, but that he simply could not let her go, that his heart was connected to hers now, and it would not work.
Mr. Hughes had threatened to fire him anyway, and Faeron had pleaded for his job, asking that the angel consider making his position here permanent if Shi wanted to remain at the spa, but not in a sexual way, he would not allow her to fuck anyone here. He had said that he would pay for a small home to be built either on the property, or on land nearby if Mr. Hughes wanted him out, but didn't want Shi to have to leave. He had promised to take care of her, to marry her as humans do. It all sounded so incredibly romantic to Domino, and she had been surprised to see the conviction in the wood elf's voice as he spoke with a great deal of care for the black-haired, pretty woman that he did, indeed, seem extremely connected to.
In the end, Mr. Hughes had decided to allow for construction in the wing where he had housed Faeron to create a large apartment for the couple. With extra bedrooms, of course, as they were already on their way to starting their family. It had been done begrudgingly, and out of respect for Shi, Faeron knew, since Mr. Hughes was still holding judgement on Faeron's reasons for being here. The wood elf had thanked his employer and listened as Mr. Hughes threatened him in several different ways before finally returning to his room to find Shi still where he had left her, frustrated at the length of time she'd been left.
He had not told her how that part had gone, but because of the indemmar from the previous day, she knew it involved his cock swelling to full staff and when he thrust it into her, it would suddenly shine with the scrawling script of elvish language, and the words would be seared onto the flesh of her vaginal walls, not painfully, but she would be branded internally, marking her as only his from that point forward. Shi would have come in glorious hard waves and he would have been affected as well. Oh, to be a fly on the wall in that room last night, Domino had thought to herself and heard him chuckle, damnit. She hated that he could hear her thoughts.
She'd spent her night snuggled close to Alexandru, and they had touched and kissed as they had taken to doing. He had left for only a little while to feed, and she had had to endure a short visit with Klaus who was again studying the ultrasounds of her abdomen to check on the placement of the placental veins in her uterus. They had not moved any farther into the uterine vein, and he held out hope that they would not go too far. He had suggested another adjustment to her blood intake, and then had left, thankfully, without saying anything more nasty about her relationship with Alexandru.
"I am so sad that you've had to deal with him for so many years, Alex. It must be quite terrible." She had whispered against his chest.
He had run a hand over her naked side and kissed her forehead before responding. "Not everyone gets to choose their sire. It's why I live where I do, the farther I am from him, the less he can control me. He has chosen for a very long time to let me be on my own. Before I brought him here, I made him promise to leave us afterwards, to let us live our lives in peace from him."
"And he agreed to that? It doesn't sound like him." She'd muttered.
Alex had chuckled and smoothed his rough palm over her right ass cheek, "He has many spawn, Domino, I am not the only one who he can choose to mistreat."
"I wish there was a way to break that sire relationship. To get rid of that hold he has on you." She had looked into his red eyes as she spoke.
"There is, he can simply say 'I release you, Alexandru,' and I would be free of him." She had gasped at his words.
"Really? Then why won't he? It seems so archaic to force someone to do what you want them to." She had tightened her hold on his chest and he'd placed a hand over hers.
"He is very very old, Domino. I don't think he even thinks about such a thing, he has certainly never released any of us."
"Have you ever changed a human, Alexandru?" Domino had realized that she had never asked him that before.
He'd grinned, "Would you be jealous if I had?"
"I'm already jealous that you have to feed on others, of course the thought makes me jealous."
"I have never changed anyone. I think the decision to do so is not something to take lightly." He'd told her and she'd been surprised to hear that he hadn't.
"But you were ready to change me the second you learned that I was pregnant." She'd whispered, curling her fingers in the coarse hair of his chest, she didn't think she would ever get over how warm he was, she had always thought of vampires being cold, being dead.
"Because I love you and I want you safe. I don't like seeing you like this, with all this human medical shit attached to you. I want you healthy, alive, not like this." He'd grumbled as he'd moved her to her back on the bed and kissed her more fully on the lips.
"We're close now, Alexandru. I'm over thirty weeks along, the baby is moving like it should, I'm okay. It won't be much longer." She'd tried to reassure him, but knew from the look on his face that he wasn't listening.
