ONLY YOU

Chapter Two

Darla drives me crazy, that's pretty much all I can say about her. I still can't bring myself to talk to her and she just stands there, quietly daring me to say or do something. Something more than telling her which side of the bed is mine. The days are slowly going by. At Black Wood's royal palace things look like nothing has changed. Darla walks around most of the day, reading, minding her own business. Half of the time I don't even see her.

I knew the Wolf people were cold and distant; the royal family is famous for not crying under any circumstances. But still, when Darla responded to my kiss the day we were married, I felt that there was something there, something more beneath that icy exterior. But time keeps passing and she still is a stranger to me.

"I married an ice princess," I sigh tiredly after Sean, my most loyal friend, asks how Darla is "She is beautiful without emotion. Intelligent with out passion"

Actually, that didn't ring quite true even as I said it. But how could I explain it to Sean? How to explain that there were times when I saw emotion cross her face? That in those moments when I caught her unaware, Darla was the most beautiful? Those moments are rare, as is she were just taking a break before putting her mask back on, hiding all her emotions so well that I can't see what she's thinking or feeling.

On our first night at this palace, I woke up in the middle of the night to find the spot where she was supposed to be empty. I looked around and found her by the window, the full moon projecting its silver glow on Darla in such way that made her look almost ethereal. Darla looked so young, so… lost; and I wondered what demons lived in her dreams, what places she saw when she closed her eyes that kept her from sleep. Darla intrigues me but she never gives me much to work with to solve my mental musings about her, just the occasional half clue that usually leaves me more confused than at the start.

This is what I do know about Darla: She is quiet and beautiful and pushes the peas around her plate without eating them. The only thing she likes to eat is dessert; she reads a lot and doesn't sleep much. There is something about the way she moves, slow and deliberately, that drives me crazy. She is the most unnerving person I have ever met.

"Well, Jace," Sean says, pulling me out of my thoughts and bringing me back to the real world. "Looking like that she can't be that bad." I look at him and he is smiling like a cat that just ate a bird "So, tell me. How was it?"

"How was what?" I answer, already knowing where this conversation is going

"You know, 'The Wedding Night.'" I shrug dismissively, but Sean knows, it is the down side of having a best friend, he always knows. He looks at me, blinks and starts to laugh "Oh my! You haven't done it! Oh my!"

"You know, this is the kind of annoying immature behavior I would expect from Jared, not from you."

"Jace, I love your brother as if he were my own, but don't say that. At least I can keep it within my pants. Not that you have that problem, right?"

"Funny." I say grumpily

"Oh, I almost forgot, my father is bringing Jared back next week, and I heard a certain lady is coming with them. A Certain Lady who is not very happy about your marriage"

"Shall I assume your talking about Elena?"

"You shall." Sean says thoughtfully. "You should have told her about your plan before. She was counting on you"

"I never asked her to do that."

"I know, Jacen," Sean says turning serious. "But I thought you loved her. I know she loves you."

"We have work to do." I mutter, not bothering to answer. The truth is that I haven't even thought about Elena in all this time. And look that I thought that I loved her.

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End of Chapter Two

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Authors notes:

First of all thanks to my wonderful beta, Ailleann, who is great and is making me realize more than what you could imagine. Never thought that Spanish and English grammar was SO different. Besides, Spanish is a very sloppy language; we don't care about a lot of stuff.

Anyway, thanks to those that reviewed, I'm sorry I can't answer each of you right now (I have to be up in four hours for my seven o'clock class), but I'll try my best to answer in the next chapter.

So now you know a bit about Jacen and his life, in the next chapter his former love interest shows up, so does his brother, Jared (think Cute-Dean). Also more about Darla and her family.