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9

"I want to go someplace of where I can spread my son's ashes." Electra announced out of the blue as she and her bodyguards walked along the castle walls one afternoon. "If that will be alright with your master of course." She quickly added when she caught the wary looks Laura and her sister were exchanging beside her. She didn't want them to get into trouble again as they had been after Caius found them in the swimming area without his personal permission.

Sexton shrugged his broad shoulders as the group walked down a narrow staircase that led back to the castle. "I am sure that he would not mind you doing that since it involves something important to you. I might be able to take you to the Tuscany lakeside that is like an hour's drive from here. There is a lot of flowers, trees and wildlife. Its really beautiful to the eye and it would a good resting place for your son."

"Well, well, if it isn't the human girl that Caius brought back with him from America." A brazillen accent purred from within the shadows once they had entered. Sexton immediately grabbed Electra and pushed her behind him with the two female bodyguards placing a defensive stance in front of her. They hissed darkly as one of the shadows stepped forward into the light and revealed itself as no other, than Domonica herself.

She smiled politely at the girl as she came close enough towards her. "What makes you think that you would be able to win Caius over as your husband and king?" She demanded. "You are a simple feeding tool that should have been eaten when they found you. But someone decides to take pity on you and saves your life, only to bring you here and make you take the place of Caius's dead mate." Domonica let out a low laugh. "He will kill you in the end when he becomes bored of you. He deserves me to be his next queen, not you."

Sexton spat at her direction. "Watch what you say to her Domonica or it will be your last words should I report you to Aro, himself." He warned. Electra gazed upon the vampire mistress not with loathing, but with a mixture of self pity and jealousy. So this one thought only lust and supposed companionship to a ruler would get her to the throne? She almost laughed at the very thought of feeling Caius's cold hands wrapping around her throat. He was under the strict orders of Aro to keep her alive for the next six years and make her his next queen.

"I have only human feelings and a heart that knows how to love without lust." Electra replied bravely. Domonica narrowed her crimson eyes at her. Electra could feel the hatred flowing from the other woman like a think blanket of haze.

"I will not let you have him." Domonica hissed sharply at her. "Mark my words human, your life can be over in a flash." After running her heated gazed over the faces of the other vampires, she turned and flickered off in the other direction, leaving Electra slightly shaken from the encounter of Caius's mistress.

"Are you alright, my lady?" Sexton asked with concern. He helped her lean against the wall. "I would advise you to stay away from that woman as long as she is staying here for your own safety."

"What is going on here?" Caius demanded suddenly from behind. Sexton bowed his head respectfully at his master. "We just had a run-in with Domonica, master." He replied honestly. Caius scowled darkly as he walked up to where Electra was standing. He lifted her chin up so he can look into her green eyes.

"If you value your life, Electra," He said softly. "Do as I tell you so I can keep you alive as long as possible." He turned to the bodyguards and waved them off. "I will personally escort the girl back to her private chambers. Leave us." He ordered in a hard voice. Laura cast a worried look at Electra before following the others. Caius waited until they were gone to regard the human girl once again.

She was very quite as she stood still against the wall. He leaned his palms on either side of her head to prevent her from leaving. "Do you really believe you can win my heart with just your human feelings alone?" He challenged her. "Domonica is correct that I can kill you very easily by giving into my natural instincts as a vampire." Electra drew a shaky breath and let it out slowly.

How could she make him see that love is more then just lust? She turned her eyes downward, her heart pounding loudly in her ears. "Love is something from deep down, Caius." She replied. "It can only be felt with the heart and shown through both by action and with words. Its not judgmental, nor does it question what the other person is. I am still grieving for the loss of my son in my heart. A mother's love doesn't stop when her child is no long part of the world. It keeps on growing and growing until she is able to see them in heaven." She reached out and touched his hand beside her head and looked straight into his eyes. "But in order to love a child, one has learn first with the individual who helps create that little seed of life. My ex didn't know what love was at all when we were sleeping together he only knew lust and the sexual cravings of the body."

"So what makes me any different from your ex or any other man for that reason?" He pressed. "You don't know what I have been through in my former life as one of you. Nor do you understand how I feel." He growled. Electra saw his body tense as she watched his inner emotions flicker across his face before her.

"Can you trust me?" She dared to ask him. Caius stared at her with surprise. Of all the things that she would ask of him, the girl was asking simply for his trust in her.

"You want me to trust you?" He asked with a heavy smirk. "For what reason do you have to gain if I give in?"

Electra wasn't even sure what she was embarking upon, but she knew that the life that she had left behind in Washington, no longer existed. She was being forced to begin anew with people who were unnatural to the world itself and with the one of the leader's who didn't know how to properly love because of the all the abuse he had received as a former sex slave growing up. But if she could only open up his eyes to wonders of what a human heart could bring, then it wouldn't be very difficult for him to learn feel his tightly lidded emotions that have laid dormant within him.

"Because I have to learn how to love you as well, Caius." She said after a while. "And gaining your trust is one of the first steps we must take together and if you are willing to do just that, then I am willing to place my very life into your hands."

He watched her eyes for any lies that may lay within them, but he didn't find any. Could he really allow her to see the raw emotions that he thought no longer existed inside his heart of hearts? He pushed away from her and let her have her space between them as he turned away from her. Every minute that he spend with Electra, every kiss they shared, every touch he allowed her to place on him, he could feel all of his mental and emotional defenses breaking down right before his eyes.

"I give you my trust, Electra." He agreed. "But," He added severely turning back to her, his crimson eyes cold. "It doesn't mean that you are to question my actions in the future. Do you understand me?" She slowly nodded her head and silently followed him behind with a small feeling that she had somehow managed to gain a small step towards defrosting his cold heart.

At least Caius said yes to her. That was enough for now until her next step. All she could do was to content herself with learning how to live in a new environment with new people, cultures and views that were going to be the big test of whether or not she was going to make it successively during her allowed existence as a human being for the next six years. "Am I already starting to love him?" She asked herself. Caius opened the door to his private office and stepped aside to allow her in first.

"Perhaps...but we both still have a long way to go. Just don't let my fate decide what you are going to do, Caius."