Hey hey, hey! So I know the baby t hing was off for some of you guys, but its ok, all the better for drama and more fights, muhahahahaha! Anyway, hope to see more reviews this chapter! Chao!

Jane

"Damn you! Damn you and all your friends!" Araie screeched as a few mice ran across the floor; her attempts at hitting them with a broom was futile. "Go away!"

When Aiden and her made it back to Wyvern's court, they wasted no time in trying to fix a stall, but it had mice and Araie had more than hatred for mice. She squealed again and ran outside of the stall, clenching her broom to her chest. "Aiden! They're bringing reinforcements!"

Aiden peeked around the corner, nails in his mouth and a hammer in his hand. "What?" He muffled and looked at what she was screaming about. The little family of mice sat in the corner, obviously spooked and frightened. "Ah." He took the nails out of his mouth. " We have visitors."

"Ewww..." Araie hide behind Aiden, scales sliding over her skin. Aiden walked into the stall and slowly hushed the mice out the door, making Araie scamper backwards. "There. They were nothing but harmless mice." Aiden smiled at Araie. She was so adorable when she was afraid. He cupped her face and tenderly kissed her forehead, chuckling when she relaxed and leaned into the touch.

"Mice are a threat to my existence." She mumbled.

"Well, then they can't come into the stall anymore because I want you to exist for a long time." Aiden smiled and the stuck the nails back in his mouth and turned to what he was doing. She smiled and played with her fingers looking at the stall. This was her new life. Soon she was going to see her new home and become Aiden's mate. She took a deep breath. She was so nervous.

The ride back to the Keep was not a pleasant one. Ulyesses managed to keep himself together but the anger and betrayal where bubbling up inside. Being a father again...now he wasn't sure how to feel. Joy obviously but this wasn't just any child. It was a Shardae. Royalty. His enemies royalty. But thinking about Sadira, it only made him angry.

When they arrived Danica and the Royal Flight where waiting, Oliza in Danica's arms. "She is in her room. I wanted several guards in there with you but she insists you two be alone." Danica keep from glaring at him, but it was difficult. She kept her gaze away from Zane and held Oliza closer to her.

Zane nodded to the guards. "Please escort him to her." Ulyesses sent one look to Zane before following the guards to the avian princess's room. Walking was difficult. What if she still hated him? What would happen now? He clenched his muscles. Damn bird woman.

The guards stopped at a large staircase, probably the only one in the keep. He looked up it and sighed. He was going to give her a peice of his mind.

"Up the stair case and all the way down the hall. If we even think we hear a scream, we will be up there, and we will kill you." One of the guards glared at him before turning and leaving him be. Ulyesses looked up the stair case again.

"Not if I kill myself first."

Sadira sat in a chair in her living quarters. She had lifted up her shirt and stared at her stomach, expecting something to happen. "Your father and I...we don't get along." She stroked her stomach gently. "I don't know how it even happened...but I love him so much...he left us, now he's coming back and I am so sorry, but you will hear yelling, and knowing your father, swear words." She sighed.

"And there is a few I would like to say right now, if her 'highness' permits it." She stood up quickly, pulling her shirt down and staring at door where the voice came from. He didn't look like Ulyesses, but she knew it was him by the nasty sneer he had on his face. His hair was unkempt, his skin had paled from lack of sun and the bags under his eyes made it clear he didn't sleep well.

"Ulyesses?" She felt shocked. This was not the man she knew.

"No shit." He closed the door and turned the lock. "And all I really want to say to you right now is the hell with you."

She stepped back. Her defenses going up. "Watch yourself."

"The hell I will. Why didn't you tell me." He walked towards her. He moved like an animal stalking his prey.

She tensed up. "You left, why would you care?"

He tensed up and stopped before throwing a chair backwards. "You've pissed me off before, but now Sadira I am so pissed off. Why wouldn't I care? Oh how about its my damn child!"

"Why would you want her if you didn't even want me!" She yelled back. How dare he throw such a tantrum. "Who said that? Did I say I didn't want you? Hm, Sadira?" He threw his arms out in frustration.

"You might as well of!" She clenched her fist. "You rejected me and told me you couldn't love me-"

"You want to know why? My sister and I left because I wanted to protect her and I finally thought I could do right by you and getting out of your life so that maybe you could mate a nice avian and have hawk babies."

She scoffed. "Apparently I'm having your baby and Danica is forcing marriage so looks like your little 'plan' was pointless." She glared at the floor. The brute had no idea how pointless it was.

"Who said I was talking the offer?" He clenched his jaw.

She turned fast, almost to fast and she had to grip her chair so she wouldn't fall. "But-"

He shook his head. "You and that child are better off with out me anyway."

She screetched and pushed the chair over, making a large thud on the floor. "Idiot! Yes, die so that I may raise a child on my own at 18 and suffer at the hands of court! My family and yours are at jeopardy here! Our child's future relies on you! You selfish bastard!" She felt the rush of hormones hit her body and she began to shake uncontrollably. "I need you."

He scoffed gently and looked at the chair on the floor before finally looking into her eyes. "Last time you said that I got you pregnant."

She closed her eyes and looked down, tears forming but she refused to let them fall. "I don't regret it. Nothing has changed." She looked back up at him. "But you need to stay alive, for our child."

He closed his eyes. "I know."

She blinked then frowned deeply. "Then why-"

"We have company." He turned toward the door, a knock assaulting the silence seconds later.

"Sadira, open the door please." It was Danica.

Ulyesses glared at the oak door. "I'm done here anyway, I have nothing to say to you." He turned from her. "Ulyesses, stop!" She screeched. He tensed and turned on her.

"Sadira? What's going on? Open the door!" Someone on the other side began to beat door.

"Give us time!" She yelled back and she crossed the room and shoved a chest in front of the door. She turned back and looked at Ulyesses who was shooting her daggers with his eyes. "This has to stop." She clenched her fists. "Its not helping either of us and is this what our child has to look forward too?"

"It doesn't make it make what was wrong right, Sadira." He looked away. His eyes were full of hurt and anger.

He spoke threw his teeth, his jaw too locked to open. "I can't help how you feel about me, but what I feel is more than hurt. You hid something precious from me."

She held back a sob and shook her head.

"It feels like some one has ripped out my heart and I want to know why."

She let a tear fall. Damn hormones. He looked up at the crying princess. He swallowed and went to move the chest. "Because I wanted to protect you. I warned you, now you have to suffer because I cannot be the man you need me to be. I just wanted to protect you..." He moved the chest and unlocked the door, Danica flying through as soon as it was open.

Danica saw Sadira's tears and looked at Ulyesses. "What did you do?"

He looked at Sadira before meeting the hawk queen's gaze.

"I'm following orders."

Aiden knew Araie was nervous. He was too. Bringing her to his home had been a big step for the raven. But what made him real nervous was how little she was wearing. It was close to nothing.

She fidgeted under his stare. She wanted to look...well beautiful. She brushed her hair and had it back in elaborate braids and her tiny top and even tinier bottom exposed most of her to him. Aiden shifted on his bed and looked at the candles he had placed around the room, along with the incense and golden melos.

"Um..." She shifted nervously and he blinked.

"Oh." He got up and approached her timidly. How in the skies was a girl intimidating when he had faced many serpiente soldiers? But she did. The trained avian was by no means scared of her, quite the opposite. He had...he just was nervous. What if he didn't meet her expectations? What if he messed up?

"You-.." he started. "I mean, I..." Aiden's face reddened as he became a bit more flustered. "You look nice," if he didn't rush it out then his voice would betray him. It wasn't true though, nice was an understatement. Araie was beautiful... the raven just wasn't used to seeing so much of a women. Even if she was his mate. Mate. A smile came from under the embarressment, touching his eyes and making them shine with pride.

She was his and he hers. It gave him a happiness he never dreamed he could possess.

She saw the love in his eyes and a bit of her nervousness went down. She smiled at him and reached out towards his bare chest, placing her hand over his heart.

"Its fluttering like a baby bird's." She stepped closer.

"I'm nervous." He admitted. "But don't tell any one." He chuckled. Araie, who felt just as nervous, felt the impulse to reach out to the ruffled man before her. Cupping his cheeks in her palms, offering gentle soothing caresses to his flamed face. He met her emerald gaze as he nuzzled one of her palms, gracing a small kiss upon the lily smooth skin. Neither felt compelled to talk; what words could convey their feelings more than this moment? Aiden pulled her to his chest, kissing her forehead, then the tip of her nose, before laying a passionate kiss upon her full lips. There was no longer an avian and serpiente, just two lovers surrendering completely to the other.

She pulled away gasping for air. He stared down at her intently, lust seeping into his gaze as he looked over her now swollen lips. "I love you." She said in a hushed tone.

"And you I love you."

Irene bounced the grouchy Salem. His resembled his just as irritated uncle who was sitting low in a chair, legs crossed. Irene thought her older brother looked like a child, utterly ridiculous.

Salem whined a squirmed against his mother. Zane rubbed his temple and sighed. "Irene let the poor boy down, your smothering him." He was in such a foul mood.

Irene frowned and let Salem down to waddle around. Her little boy was growing so fast. She scoffed. "Just because your mate denied you your bed for the night does not mean you take it out on me." He stood up and began to pace.

"Its more than that! She threatened our brother with execution! And now he is betrothed to the avian princess who is also carrying his child and Nacola is going to cause an up roar when its announced in two days!" He sighed and crossed his arms. "And his sister and Sorrell are missing and he's taken it out on me."

Irene watched Salem move around. "It has its own course, you can't control it."

"I fear war in the families, and when the families fail to work together, then the seam with rip apart. What Danica and I have worked so hard to make is going to fall apart and it will all return to the war." Zane exhaled, forgetting that it was indeed nessacary to breath.

Irene closed her eyes and shook her head. "No, you and Danica will not let that happen. As for Sadira and the idiot, we have to leave them be."

Zane bent down and picked up his nephew. "I just don't want it to get out of control."

"It won't. Its time for Ulyesses to receive a wake up call."

Yay! Finne! So I wrote a smut for Sadira and Ulyesses, called This Night of Solice.

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