Love Bites Ch 01 06

Chapter 1: Discovery

~Andreyah~

"I love you." He said as he stared at me with pale bluish- gray eyes, then I awoke.

"Damn." I muttered under my breath.

This was the fifth time this week. It was always the same dream, those haunting eyes staring at me with devotion and love. I wondered if he was my mate but then I pushed that thought back into the recesses of my mind. I may be part Were but I think there was a flaw in the mating thing just like the one with my ability to shift. I looked into the mirror as I curled my long honey brown hair.

"Is it time for another haircut, Andreyah?" my older sister Nella asked me.

She was flawless of course, as she inherited more of our Were ancestors' features. She's beautiful with her slim frame and curves and her long, curly, brown hair with the black lowlights she had gotten for her 17th birthday last month. She also shifted into a gorgeous lioness. Her sharp hazel eyes and features added to her beauty. I of course only inherited the hair color. We were like night and day with our features. She's slim while I'm thick and curvy, she has long, curly hair while mine is straight and shoulder length. She has the hazel eyes of her lioness while mine are a clear chocolate brown. Our personalities are similar but different. She's crazy and bold with an even temper while, I'm shy with a very quick temper.

"Yes, Nella, it is." I replied with a smile.

It was time for a haircut as I rarely let my hair grow past my shoulders. I prefer it to my chin with a nice flip. I braced myself for her reply since she says the same thing every time.

As if she read my mind she replied, "Maybe you could let it grow out this time?"

I refused to look at her because if I did those eyes would convince me to let my hair grow out again.

"Can you please let me get ready for prison in peace, Nella?" I asked.

"A prison? I can't believe that you still think of high school as a prison. Well, once you become a junior or find a special somebody you won't think that way." She said as she turned and left my room. I knew she was unhappy with me.

As usual, I should've held my tongue. My mouth was my biggest problem but also my greatest ally. It usually started all my problems and then helped me weasel out of them. I looked in my closet and saw my pink tank top that Nella always asked me to wear and figured maybe my wearing it would put us back on good terms. I randomly picked out a pair of jeans and my pink and white Nikes. I don't know why, but I had a strange feeling in my stomach like I was being pulled towards something or someone.

~Alecsander~

"I'm yours." she said with love and devotion in her chocolate brown eyes.

"I love you." I said.

Then my alarm buzzed and woke me from my dream.

"Ugh." I groaned as I rolled over.

It was her, my mate and all I had to recognize her by was chocolate brown eyes.

"Breakfast is ready, sire." My assistant said as she left the room.

"I have to seek mother's advice on this after school today, father." I sent the thought out to my father telepathically. He had been the only one helping me find her. He was the one who suggested that my twin sister, Aleca, and I sign up for high school to see if I could find her. The only other characteristics I had were caramel skin and chocolate brown eyes. I rushed through the house using my amazing vampiric speed. Once I was in the kitchen I hugged cook and thanked her for the amazing breakfast that I was sure was waiting for me in the dining room.

"'Morning father." I stated as I sat down

"You don't look well Sander." My father said with concern.

"Father, you'd sleep just as well if you had a beautiful girl haunting your dreams and you knew she was your mate but had no way to find her." I replied with slight sarcasm masking my irritation.

"Sander, that's no way to talk to the king even if you're crown prince." Father exclaimed with false surprise.

"Sorry father, this girl really has me on edge." I said in between bites of cooks famous blood pancakes.

"It's okay son, I remember how I was before I finally found your mother." My father said dreamily like he always did when he mentioned my mother.

"Umm... I have to get ready for school, father." I said as I rushed out of the room.

I was not in the moo d for one of his stories of "true love" and "happiness". I walked into my closet and looked for something presentable and appropriate to wear. After a second of speculation I threw on a red button-down shirt, some skinny jeans and some red and black Air Jordan's. At that precise moment I felt a tug and knew that she must have been near.

"Father, you're a genius." I said quietly as I grabbed my book bag and rushed to the bus stop.

~Andreyah~

I got dressed and went into Nella's room. She was in the bathroom putting on make-up. I knocked on the door and looked through her jewelry box.

"Don't you have your own accessories?" She asked me with genuine curiosity.

"No, I don't, but I had the strangest impulse to get dolled up today." I shrugged "I guess it's just one of those days."

"Maybe your mate is pulling at you." She half joked "I had that strange impulse right before I met Jason." She declared lovingly.

"Don't joke like that Nells." I said worriedly "Just because I've been dreaming about blue-grey eyes and I'm having strange impulses doesn't mean anything. I don't shift like you and Andrey. I probably don't have a mate." I finished with less confidence and more worry.

"Yeah, you are so right Dreyah. You were put on this earth to never find a mate. Put these on." She said sarcastically as she threw some pink and white heart earrings and matching bracelets at me.

"Do I have to wear the braceletso, Nells?" I whined.

"Yes, you do if you want to look good for your mate." She declared.

"Mate? Twin, how could you keep some like that from me?" My twin Andrey asked like his feelings were really hurt.

"I'm not keeping anything from you, Twin; Nells just thinks that my mate is pulling at me." I said as my annoyance peaked out.

"Stop fidgeting, Dreyah." Nells said. She took it upon herself to flip my hair up.

"Yeah, Twin, stop moving. Nells is making you look good for your mate." Andrey laughed.

"Put a sock in it, Drey, before I shut your mouth permanently!" I exclaimed my temper rising.

Drey always knew how to bring the worst out of me; I guess that was his way of showing his love for me.

"Oh please, can you two stop before I shut the both of you up permanently." Nells said angrily.

I forgot how she got when she was in her fashion diva mode.

When Nells was done with me I was a completely different person. She had my hair in delicate flips, my lips pink and glossy and my eyes lined in black. She made me take my jeans off and put a skirt. After much begging she let me keep my Nikes on. I would give the jeans up but never my Nikes.

"Onward to the bus, my fair ladies, before we are late." Drey said sarcastically as we left the house.

"Do I have to look so girly, Nells?" I asked as we walked to the bus stop.

"Yes, Dreyah you do; you have to look extra fine for your mate." She retorted.

"Ugh ok." I sighed. I knew there was no sense fighting about it.

We barely made it to the bus in time and it was about to pull off as we got to the stop. One of my best friends, Jazmyn, wasn't on the bus so I chose a nice secluded seat to sit by myself. Before I knew it I drifted off to sleep.

"Excuse me, can I sit here?" a very familiar voice asked.

I looked up it, "It can't be." I mumbled and I thought I was dreaming again "It's you." I said as I looked into his pale bluish- gray eyes.

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Chapter 2: Love?

~Alecsander~

It was her; she looked so good in her pink tank top and it brought out her skin tone.

"Father, I have found her." I exclaimed with much joy through our mental link.

"And it's you" I said as I sat down.

"I can't believe that Twin and Nells were right." She said with a look of astonishment on her face.

"I think a formal introduction needs to be made. I'm Alecsander Romero." I say as I kissed her hand "and you are..."

"Andreyah Chevalier, I've never seen you before, are you new here?" she stammered

"Yes I am, I'm starting high school late but father promised me that I could go to school for my high school education, even if it did take three years of begging for him to cave." I lied smoothly.

"Oh, I'm assuming that you were home schooled before." She said bashfully "I'm sorry, but how did you know that it was me? Are you a Were?" She asked.

"Umm, not exactly it's more of an, 'I saw you in a dream' kind of thing. I'm assuming you're a Were if I'm not one; right?" I asked to direct the attention away from me.

"I might as well tell you if we're to be mates." She mumbled "Yes and so is my twin brother, Andrey, and my older sister, Nella." She said biting her pinkly glossed lip as though she was scared to tell me anymore.

I turned and whispered into her ear, "If you keeping biting your lips I'm going to kiss you."

That caught her off guard and she stammered a reply, "I'm sorry. I bite my lip when I'm nervous. Nells is going to kill me from ruining her masterpiece."

"Masterpiece?" I asked.

"Yeah, she thought that I was going to find you today and she dolled me up for you." She answered.

"Remind me to thank her." I replied.

"Thank me for what?" Nella said

"Oh. You must be Nella, I'm Alecsander." I said as an introduction. "... Andreyah's mate." I finished smoothly.

Her jaw dropped, then she smiled and called a boy over who looked a lot like Andreyah.

"Drey, this is Alecsander; Dreyah's mate." She explained to the boy.

"Oh, so you're the blue eyed dude Twin keeps dreaming about." He said "Nice to meet you. I'm Andrey, her twin brother, and if you hurt her I will find you and kill you slowly and painfully." He threatened in a calm voice.

"Drey, please stop threatening my boyfriend, I mean my friend who's a boy." She stammered, sounding embarrassed.

"There is no covering that up little sister, you said boyfriend." Said Nells

"Yeah little sister, when were you going to tell mom and dad that you were dating someone?" mused Andrey.

"First of all, he isn't my boyfriend yet; second of all I wasn't covering anything up; and third of all you're only sixty seconds older than me." She huffed angrily.

"Excuse me, if I may butt in?" I asked.

"First of all, I am your boyfriend." I confirmed "Second of all, I won't hurt her so that threat was useless." I directed towards Andrey.

"And third of all, do you want to meet my dad and mom after school today? My mom and sister just got back from their trip and I would love for you to meet them." I finished rather lamely. All of their jaws were on the ground but she looked the most shocked.

"You're my boyfriend?" she asked

"Yes, and you're my girlfriend." I answered.

"You want her to meet your parents already? You must truly be her mate." Andrey said the in a most serious voice.

"Yes, I'm hers and she's mine, now can you guys please leave us alone for a while?" I demanded more than asked.

They left us and I turned to look at her. She's even more beautiful when I can see her in person, with a curvy body and plush lips that I couldn't wait to have against mine. She was looking at me like I was the best thing to pop into her life and I couldn't help but laugh.

"We've been a couple for less than a minute and you're already looking at me like I'm the best thing that ever happened to you." I said happily.

Anger flashed through her eyes and she retorted hotly, "We don't go out, you never formally asked me, and don't assume that I going to say yes, I barely know you."

I couldn't believe what I was hearing "I don't assume that you're going to say yes, I know that you will."I said my own temper rising.

"Oh yeah, how are you so sure?" she asked.

"If my memory serves me correct you were the one who stared at me and said, 'It's you.'" I replied.

"Yeah, but you were the one who-" she started but couldn't finish because I captured those lush lips with mine.

~Andreyah~

His lips tasted like ambrosia and I felt as though I was burning from the inside out. He started to pull away, but I stilled him by putting my hands in his baby soft hair and pulling him closer. Our tongues started to play tag when we were interrupted by Andrey.

"If you want to get to school on time I suggest that you stop ripping my sister's lips off and get off the bus." He said smartly.

"Drey, back off." Nells said "They're newly found mates so it's going to be hard keep them off each other."

"Shut up, Twin." I yelled "you're interrupting something special."

Then I captured Alecsander's lips once more to memorize the feel of them. His lips felt like velvet and his hands were soft as they ran through my hair.

"That's how you kiss somebody, now let's get off the bus." I said confidently. I could see the shock written on all of their faces and couldn't help but laugh.

~Alecsander~

I couldn't believe that she did that. I then realized that there was much about my mate that I didn't know. It wouldn't be wise to keep my identity from her.

"Andreyah, there is something that I must tell you."

"Can it wait till we go to your house? I have to go to the library." She asked.

"Mi amor, this is very important."

"Oh, tell me at lunch ok. Come on, let me show you to your class so you know where to go and I can go to library right quick from there." She exclaimed.

I couldn't wait for lunch and sitting through my first two blocks was torturous. There wasn't one thing my English and Math teacher could teach a 325 year old vampire prince, with origins from Spain. I ran into her twin on the way to the lunch room and we started to converse.

"Alecsander, I know that you're lying to my sister about what you are."

"What do you mean?"

"I know what you are and I know that you love her; don't start your relationship off with lies. That's my friendly advice to you, bro."

"Wait, how did you know?" I asked obviously shocked.

"It's my ability; I was born with the ability to sense lies and to find the hidden truth. Dreyah has an ability too, she just doesn't know it yet." He explained and then walked away with an all knowing look in his eyes.

I had a feeling that there was more to Drey than the eye could see. Little did he know that I was already planning on telling her the truth, I just hope that she's ready for it.

~Andreyah~

Physics was fun, but my friend Sarah saw right through my happiness.

"Who is he?" She inquired?

"I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Don't lie to me, Dreyah, I can smell when you lie remember."

I often forget that Sarah was Were and the fact that she was an Alpha-Princess like me. The only difference between us is that you could sense her beast a mile away if you're Were, while mine laid dormant. I could see her seniority in her bright green eyes. When we first met during our freshman year, she would always ask me to run with her. She was the first and only person to smell my lioness. One day I couldn't handle it anymore and told her about my inability to shift. She told me that that could not be possible because she smelled my lioness as soon as she was in smelling distance of me. Sarah's sense of smell was unbelievable. It was ridiculously strong even for a Were. She could smell lies and truths and she could even smell what your emotion was. The most handy use of her ability was that she could smell what kind of Were you were.

"Oh yeah, I forgot, sorry Sarah. His name is Alecsander, he's my mate but he's human."

"Human? Are you sure, I smell vampire all over you and you're lying even if you don't know it."

"He told me that he wasn't Were so I assumed that he was human." I said to reassure myself "I jumped to conclusions Sarah, that's all."

"No honey he didn't tell you that he was vampire, he led you to believe that he was human!" She yelled angrily. She was starting to get mad and her eyes had an eerie glow to them.

"Calm down, Sarah, I'll get to the bottom of this." I said confidently. The bell rang and I made my way to the lunch room with a mission.

~Alecsander~

I saw her walk in and went towards her. I leaned in to give her a hug and she rolled her eyes and walked away. I knew that she was angry and could only imagine why. We got our lunch and sat down.

"Mi amor, I have to tell you something." I began

"Before you start, Alecsander, tell me one thing." She began obviously fuming, "What the hell are you, and don't lie or I swear that that... ugh!"

I took a deep breath and said, "I am a vampire prince." I paused to observe her reaction

"And......?" She asked with a gesture of her hands.

"Wait you're not shocked or appalled or anything?" I asked flabbergasted.

"No, I love you even if you are a vampire. I'm just pissed that you didn't think to tell me the truth from the beginning, Alec."

"I'm sorry, babe, I just thought that you wouldn't accept me or that you would be disgusted by the fact that your intended was a vampire."

"I would never be appalled by my intended." She exclaimed "Ever since my twelfth birthday when we found out that I couldn't shift, I thought that I was never going to find a mate either."

"You can't shift?" I asked.

"No I can't." She answered. There was a long silence before she suddenly said, "Tell me more about you."

She was obviously changing the subject so I answered "There's not really much to say other than the fact that I have a twin sister. Her name is Aleca and she should be joining us shortly."

"Wait, did you say Aleca?" She asked.

"Yeah, Aleca Romero, why?"

"Romero? I thought that name sounded familiar you're the heir to the Romero coven, right?" She asked.

"Yeah, my sister and I share the throne since we're twins."

"Wow! My mate is a vampire prince and a vampire twin." She said smugly, "So you're King Alexander and Queen Amanda's hidden son." she added.

"Yeah I guess you can call me their "hidden" son." I laughed I was in my own personal utopia, she was taking this so well. Now I wouldn't have to hide my true self from her.

"Since you told me about yourself I'll tell you about myself" she started "My ancestors are from a rural African tribe near Egypt. They migrated to Egypt during the time of Egypt's old kingdom. My ancestral grandmother married the pharaoh's youngest son and they had children. That makes my bloodline royal. Cleopatra and Marc Antony had children that were sent away for their own good, those children were blessed by the gods like every member of the Egyptian royal family. Their blessing was the ability to shift into lions or lionesses. All lion shifters are African, African-American, or mixed." She paused for dramatic effect, "Me, I'm mixed my dad is a French human. Since all lion shifters or Weres are of royal blood, the alpha family is chosen by how close you are to the original royal bloodline." She paused again, this time to swallow her sorrow, "I, Andreyah Thea Chevalier, younger sister of Nella Ambre Chevalier and twin of Andrey Marc Chevalier." She looked away and then stared deep into my eyes before she continued, "I am a direct descendant of Cleopatra and Marc Antony."

She started to sob, "My brother is next in line since he's the only boy; we're twins so we have to share the throne so to say."

"Dreyah its ok, when we marry you won't have to share the throne with your brother anymore." I explained not understanding why something like that would upset her.

"You don't understand, I can't shift and that's a sign of weakness. If a female of the pride was to challenge me, I would have to give up my position. I'm an embarrassment to my family!" She cried.