Chapter 6

They stared into each other's eyes for a long time in silence. Nobody spoke, but their minds were working about a mile a min. He could still sense her uneasiness about the responsibilities a life mate held, but he also sensed that she knew the truth about his race and accepted it. He decided to show her how wonderful a life mate truly was by showing her images in her mind.

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She began to see happy couples living normal lives. They lived abnormally long lives and knew they had to be Carpathians as well. The images began to fade from his friends to her still face. She was seeing herself through the eyes of a man who thought of her with desire and promises of long nights of un fortold passion. She just knew she wouldn't be able to fulfill the acts a life mate did…because well….she just couldn't.

A blush of embarrassment filled her soft cheeks and she broke his eye contact and stared into a glass vase across the chamber. She wouldn't never let any man see her vulnerable again. Weakness was something she was not fond to show.

She couldn't help the way she felt. The men of her race had managed to steal her confidence and her pride over the years. She just felt so dirty and unclean……How can I ever be what you want me to be? Your better finding another life mate nicolae….I can't do this.

There can never be another life mate for me ever. You are mine in ever way a man and a woman belongs to one another. Do you not see how beautiful you are? But before she could argue the point he embraced her in a kiss. It happened so fast that she almost didn't have time to react. Her first kiss….she always thought the man she first kissed would at least ask her first.

He chuckled in his mind at how sweet and innocent his mia really was. He could taste it on her kiss and feel it in her mind. This only seemed to fuel the fire that was burning deep in his belly and spreading fast to his groin.

Her hands crept up the sides of his face and found his feather light hair. She had never felt such softness before in her life. The strands slid through her fingers and feel away from her hands.

He groaned deep in his throat when her hands found their way around his neck..innocently pulling him closer to her. Growing thicker by the minute, he palmed himself to find some relief his clad jeans were creating.

No one had ever been as gentle with her as Nicolae had. His kisses were sweet and patient but she wanted more. She knew she should stop but he was making it so hard for her. True she had never kissed a man before, but she couldn't help but thinking he was the best of the best. The excitement she felt was spreading like lightning through her blood and she sighed when her pleasure spread between her legs.

Nicolae took her invitation and swept his tongue past her lips and into the sweet cavern of her mouth. He felt her surprise and shock so he let her explore and become comfortable with him. He wanted her to know that he would never hurt or scare her like the other men in her life had. The last thing he wanted to do was rush her or make her uncomfortable in any way.

When she found she liked this new form of kissing she pulled him closer to her and picked up the pace. Nothing made nicolae more excited than when his little kitten found what she wanted and faced it head on like warrior. She was so accepting of new ideas and thoughts not matter how much they scared her. This showed that she trusted her feelings and furthermore trusted him. His heart did a funny little flip and he adjusted her in his arms so he wouldn't crush her with his weight. Her stiffening body winced in pain and he immediately jumped off of her.

"I'm so sorry cara. I was careless and forgot that your injuries are still too fresh." He gazed down to her brave face forcing a smile. She didn't want to make him feel bad. He was just too sweet. "Don't be sorry. I just wish I didn't hurt every time I moved."

No sooner than she said the words her clothes disappeared. And he gathered her into his arms. Humiliation swept through her and a blush stole over her naked body. He had never seen such perfection from a woman before.

Padding her over to the spring pool, in the farthest corner, he waved his hand and the cool appearance of the pool began to steam and bubble. Candles were lit and the aroma began to fill her nostrils soothing her body into a relaxed state. He lowered both their bodies into the water and saw her face wince with the hot water.

Shh cara. This will sting at first but you will soon relax in its welcoming heat. The minerals will aid in your healing. Very gently he thought his clothes away and moved them to the edge of the large pool. He knew the water stung her but it was necessary to the healing process.

She began to relax around him and she rested her back against his strong shoulders. Her head rested perfectly into the crook of his neck making her thankful it wasn't the back of her headboard. The bubbles burned her wounds at first, but like Nicolae said, she began to relax in its warmth.

She noticed his body was naked and she reviled in the feel of their skin being in such close proximity. He had a smooth chest and a toned pair of thighs. She could feel the power radiating of him but she could also sense his gentleness when he touched her. For once she was truly thankful that the bubbles, the pool created, covered her naked body from his ever staring eyes. She was still too embarrassed to be seen naked by any man.

"Why are you so ashamed of your body and of being naked in front of me? We are life mates ….. You must see that I find all of you attractive and beautiful. Can you not feel what you are doing to me?" He began to wash her battered body when she grazed her hand against the length of him. His breath hitched in his throat and he bit his lower lip to hold his composer around her.

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She turned that question over in her mind a couple of times and tried to find a way to tell him how she felt. How dirty men mad her feel when she walked by. She couldn't even enter a room without feeling all the filthy thoughts pouring into her head. Men made her feel like trash and scared her beyond belief with their in sinuous thoughts.

The only man she ever felt safe around was her father…and of course Captain Burns. But Nicolae felt like her match. She wanted him with a new desire that she never knew she had before him. That scared her more than anything.

Her encounter with Steve was entirely too close a call for her and she was still to shook up about the whole event. Remembering his breath hissing at her neck….and the smell of sex radiating off him…..her hands shackled behind her back ……and….

"I'm just scared and not sure about the way a man and a woman are supposed to act. Men make me feel raw and uncomfortable." A small shiver ran up her spine when his hand grazed the side of her body and lifted her chin to his gaze.

"You are never to think I think of you as a piece of meat." You are the most precious gift I have ever received and I will wait for you to come to me.

A tear streamed down her face and he caught it with his tongue. His kind words were enough to make her melt in that pool and she did something she normally wouldn't have done. She pulled him down to lay a kiss on his soft lips.