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Chapter Two
~Several hours later~
Caius paced back and forth in his private as he waited for the main doctor to come give him the diagnoses of the girl that somehow managed to escape from the feeding frenzy of his coven in the throne room. He ran a hand through his hair. Gods! Why did I do what I did back there? She's only food for me, not some twilling twit of a girl. Caius closed his crimson eyes and tried to recall the image he had briefly recalled earlier in the throne room that day when he had laid eyes on the girl. A hazy image floated into his mind of a golden haired woman with the same deep blue eyes and fair complexion. Caius focused on the memory with a deep frown. What was her name? And how does she connect to me? The image became sharper as the fog began to clear away, leaving him with a perfect duplicate of the girl he had allowed to live. Her skin was slightly tanner then the girl's, but completely flawless with a tiny hint freckles here and there. She was wearing a light purple colored tunic with a blue stola and a single round pendent of the sun engraved in gold that flashed a fiery red color, hung in between her shapely breasts. Caius forced him mind to focus harder. Dammit! Why? The woman turned towards him with such a sad smile, that he swore his unbeaten heart broke in a million pieces. She lifted a pale hand towards him and signed swiftly.
Aikiterina.
The image swiftly faded into the background just as quickly as it came leaving a shaken Caius with a shocked look in his eyes. "No! It can't be her. Rina…gods no! What is going on?" he cried out loud to the room. He fell to his knees and punched the floor with a powerful fist, leaving a deep dent in the hardwood floors as memory after memory of his beloved, sweet wife from his first marriage when he was still a mortal in ancient Rome. A firm knock sounded outside the study door. "Caius? It's Marcus. The doctor is with me right now. Can we come in?" Caius swiftly flashed to his chair and made his face completely blank as he adjusted his suit jacket. "Come in." he ordered in a hard voice. The door opened and the two vampires walked inside with looks of concern on their pale white faces. Marcus and the main doctor, a tall, brown haired young looking vampire with a kindly face sat down in front of Caius's desk. Caius appeared relax in his own seat, but his hands tightly gripped the armrest until they all could hear the faint splintering of wood. "Well? How is she?"
Marcus and the doctor exchanged brief looks before turning back to him. The doctor sighed and spoke first.
"Well, for one thing, I am amazed that she managed to survive a three story fall like that from the area that my assistances had told me she was found on. Secondly though, the girl does have four broken left ribs and a slight concussion on her right side of her skull. I have given her morphine to help kill off some of the pain and sleep better tonight. But, if she should start to show signs of brain damage or anything else that may potentially be critical to her overall health, I will have to bring her to the ER to have her treated more with the advance modern technology that they have available for her recovery." Caius allowed his mind to ease slightly with relief. "That's good to hear. Anything else that I should know?" Marcus raised an eyebrow at him. "You are planning to keep her in your own private chambers while your wife is around later?" The doctor quickly excused himself from the room, saying that he need to check on his patient to see how she was progressing and that he would let him know immediately of any changes in her condition. He left the room and shut the door quietly. Caius growled at Marcus. "What do you want me to say?" He snapped irritably at him. Marcus merely shook his head at him and shifted in his seat for a moment. "I can sense something is wrong with you right now, Caius. And it has to do with the girl." He stated the last part without a question. Caius closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose. "That girl is a rebirth of my dead human wife from back in 1321bB.C. I recognized her face in the throne room earlier."
Marcus's mouth fell wide open. "What? She's a recantation of your dead wife! How's this even possible?" Caius shrugged his shoulders and opened his eyes to glare at him with a cold frown. "Even if it is indeed possible for her to live another lifetime in this modern times, Marcus, the question is why?" His second older brother rubbed his chin thoughtfully for a minute as he watched the hidden emotions pass through Caius eyes. "Why do you think her soul would not pass into the eternal light?" Marcus asked in a somber tone.
"How the hell am I supposed to know the answer to that? Rina was my one and only true love before I was changed by Aro after surviving that werewolf attack in Persia."
Marcus tilted his head to one side and frowned in confusion. "Your one and only true love? Then you mean to tell me that at the beginning of your marriage to Atheodora was not love at first sight for both of you?" Caius could feel his anger rise at the name of his current mate. Atheodora was a nice woman and bed mate when their affection for each other was at its highest two thousand years ago. But he had gotten bored of her after six or seven hundred years of marriage and from then on, they pretty much stayed out of each other's way except for sex and formal events that took place twice a year annually at the castle. "My love for her was not the same as my love for my beloved Rina. Her memory may have become hazy after so many centuries, but I could never fully forgo her from my mind, Marcus. With her, it was something that I experienced only once in my mortal life."
"It was the purest of true loves between the two of you." Marcus finished for him. "So pure and dedicated to you, that she may have not fully gave her whole heart to another man after your "death". I could sense the strong connection between the two of you when I came outside to see what had happen to her earlier. It's not that strong, but it's there nevertheless and something that you need to establish quickly, if you want to claim her again as a new start for the two of you."
Caius narrowed his eyes. "Why are you suddenly interested in me claiming her as a second mate Marcus?
Marcus bitterly laughed and got up. "She already has three or four male vampires who smelled her blood and want her for themselves as their mate. I would suggest to establish the same bond that you two had before in your past lifetime and ease her into falling in love with you. But remember," he warned sternly. "She has no memories of her ancient past or you. So more than likely, you will need to rekindle her mind and soul in order to accept you as her husband and claimer. Technically speaking, she's still your first wife because you married her when you were still a mortal. But others will challenge you on that." Marcus walked out with a small smile on his lips as Caius stared after him with a rare open mouth.
~ The next day~
Aikiterina felt something icy cold and hard lightly touch her lips before it moved away with a low groan of frustration.
Wait a sec, what?
She groggily opened her eyes as a sharp, bright assaulted her eyes and caused her to tightly shut them because it was too bright for her to handle. "Husband, I don't understand this at all," a soft bell like voice said softly not far from her left. "The girl is a rebirth of your dead human wife, but you all of a sudden want to claim her as your second mate? She looks really young to be changed after all that had recently happened to her yesterday. I really feel for the loss of her mother and how she is now alone in the world without a protector. But, why this, Caius?"
"Aikiterina is still my first wife despite that fact that she has no memory of our love or brief past together." Aikiterina stayed perfectly still and kept her breathing as normal as possible as she listened intently at the conversation that was taking place not far from where she laid. "My ability to see her ancient history from back then and not her present life, is bothering me right now." The wife replied in a vexing tone. "It has to do with the necklaces she's wearing around her neck right now." Aikiterina felt a cold breeze over her face and then an icy finger gently touching her warm skin before she felt a hand reach up and pulled off her necklaces. Her mind protested at the separation of her necklace, but something inside her mind told her to remain silent as she heard the husband gasp. "This is the very one that I gave her as a young boy after shooting her in the back during a hunt." Another breeze fell on her face. "I can tell that it's very ancient but in excellent condition as fare as look go in this day and age." Atheodora said with surprise. "Helios, the Greek sun god. what a perfect protector for her to have."
She walked out of the room,leaving him alone with Aikiterina.
"I know you're awake Rina." Caius said coldly.
Her eyes snapped open and gasped sharply as she gazed into deep crimson eyes. Caius was leaning over her until he was barely an inch from her face. Pain erupted suddenly in her head. Her vision blurred for a moment to black before it came back with suddenly clarity and then the pain went away rather quickly as it came. Aikiterina's eyes pricked with sudden tears and started to cry as the memory of what happen passed through her mind.
"Materia...mama..." She sob. "Mama..." Her whole frame shook uncontrollably as great heaving sobs racked her body. Caius stood upright as she buried her face dispite the pain in her side, in her pillows and cried like nothing he had even seen before in his three thousand years. Her back shook and her small fists tightly gripped the blankets as she howled loudly against it. Cauis sat down beside her and reached a pale hand toward her hair and hesitantly stroked her hair with a gentle hand. She violently shook a couple more times before settling down and laying silently as he continued to stroke her hair. "You heard what i was talking to my wife didn't you?" He asked quietly as she rolled onto her back and stared up at him. Caius felt something strange between them spark in their minds as he tried to look uninterested.
A long minute passed before she opened her mouth to reply. "I don't know who you are and what you are talking about me..."
"It's Caius to you."
Her blue eyes widened. "Caius? where have I heard that name before?" She looked out the wide window beside her with a small frown. "Caius..." A loud knock sounded on his chamber door, driving her abruptly out her thoughts. Aro, Marcus, Atheodora, Demetri, Felix,Jane, and her twin, Alec, all walked in with surprised looks on their pale faces. They came over beside the large king sized bed and stood around it, staring at her with deep crimson eyes. Caius slide away from Aikiterina and flickered over to his desk and sat down in his chair. "Well? what are you all doing in my fucking private chambers?" He demanded with a hiss.
Jane and Alec merely smirked at him with a gleam in their eyes. "Your mate told us about the girl's past and how she is tied to you." Aro said in an excited voice. "I love to hear about this on so many levels. But," He turned on Aikiterina and smiled widely. "She's too young to understand us and our ways of what really happen to you three thousand plus years ago." Aikiterian cowered in the bed with a scared look on her face as she stared at the pale people. "Who are you people?"
Marcus and the two bodyguards exchanged a glance at one another before turning back to her.
Caius hissed loudly and flew in front of her as Aro' s lips widened to the point his teeth gleamed. Aro smiled. "You mean to tell me that Caius didn't tell you who we are after you awoke?"
"She's too weak and hurt for her to know the truth of our kind." Caius growled darkly at him.
What are they talking about? The truth? their kind?
"uhhhhhhh...no."
Felix smirked. "Go figure. He claims you and then doesn't tell you about us. How sad."
"About what? What the fuck are you people talking about here?" She demanded. Marcus, Demetri and Atheodora sadly looked at her.
Aro spoke up before Caius could stop him.
"Caius is your husband and mate from three thousand years ago and we-" He paused for a second. "Are vampires."
