6
We were seated and told our server would be with us in a moment. I looked around the room seeing nothing but pointy eared creatures drinking wine and laughing around a large white room for dancing and I felt like I was in enemy territory.
"Don't be so tense. There is no hostility here." Kandomere said and I just shrunk back in my seat and watched as people looked at me.
"Easy for you to say." I replied and a white-haired pixie cut elf came up to us with a ground plate with two glasses of golden liquid and I just tilted my head and watched Kandomere nod briefly and take his glass. The woman now turned to me with the plate and I just looked at it and then up at her.
"I will have water." I replied and she nodded and walked away after handing us our menues. Kandomere scoffed and chuckled.
"You don't drink. You are filled with surprises." he said and I shook my head.
"I don't drink in public." I said.
"Oh fancy." He teased. Was he really trying to be humorous right now. I just shook my head and just looked around some trying to count how many people are in the room.
"You worry too much. You really think anyone is going to try and hurt you? I am a federal agent. They'll have to come through me to try." he said.
"I don't need nor want your protection." I stated flatly.
"All my employers have my protection and soon loyalty." he said.
"So where is the documentation I need to sign to officially work for you?" I shot back looking at him now as my water was brought in a wine glass. Kandomere exhaled with annoyance.
"Forgive me. I have left the files at home. I was in a hurry and didn't want to be late for this evening. They are at my home in my district." he said.
"So then we have no reason to be here." I said planning to get up, but he raised his hand.
"Wait, Odette. I… don't know much about you except for the fact you are a siren. You may not want to admit it but you're scared. Scared of being surrounded by the very people who oppress you. Let us try and bury that hatchet. You may not know it but you have valuable skills and are the first siren to work in Homeland Security's Magic Task Force. I would be honored if you worked with me. Let's use this night to just get to know each other one elf to a siren." he said. His voice was still firm and hard and it was keeping me at a distance and I just shrugged.
"Fine." I said and looked at the menu. Everything was written so neat and perfect and in another language. I closed my menu immediately. "I don't know this language." Kandomere chuckled some and nodded.
"I apologize. Let me help you. They have tons of dishes. Do you have any preferences?" he asked.
"Tortellini with alfredo sauce." I said lowly and he nodded looked through his menu. I could hear a violin playing gently and soothingly now and I looked in the direction of the ban and noticed the violinist was playing in my direction. He had caramel skin and long locks with deep green eyes. He's tall and rugged and I knew just by looking at him that he's siren. He's trying to attract my attention with his music. I couldn't help but smirk and look at Kandomere.
"They have that." he said suddenly with an arched brow. "So tell me. Why don't you drink in public?" I shrugged looking up some.
"I just like the quiet I guess. I like drinking and listening to music. I think I have shared a drink with my roommate. He's a cop." I replied. His brow remained arched.
"Ah LAPD. Good man." he said yet his voice was withdrawn and I noticed the violinist was playing different tunes from the band and I glanced over at him to see him continuing to play and he winked at me. I couldn't but let out a gentle giggle before covering my mouth quickly with my hand. However, I was already caught. Kandomere looked me over.
"Something about what I said amuse you?" he asked and I shook my head.
"No I am alright." I replied before glancing up at the elf who had come back.
"Are we ready to order?" she asked.
"Yes I will have the Rigatoni alla Genovese…" Kandomere answered and his voice faded out from my ears as I turned slowly to look at the siren playing his gentle melodies once more trying to attract my attention and I had to say it was working. He is gorgeous and magnificent at his work and I looked him over with interest. "And my date will have the tortellini with alfredo sauce."
Now my head snapped back to him and he just gave me a look as if saying 'what' and I was completely brought back to attention as the waitress nodded and took our menu.
"You're not good at hiding intent," he said flatly crossing his arms now. He looked upset, "I can tell you're distracted. So what's going on?" I shook my head.
"Nothing. I am perfectly fine." I said lifting my glass to drink the water which tasted really good. He gave a famous brow arch as if not believing me and I just shook my head smiling with embarrassment.
"You see the violinist up there?" I asked not taking my eyes off him even as he gives a quick glance to the stage and he nods.
"Yes I have noticed him playing here before." he said.
"On other dates?" I questioned and he shook his head.
"Don't change the subject. What about him?" he asked. I shrugged.
"He is a siren trying to attract me with his music playing." I said grinning some. "Siren males play certain songs they find beautiful to females hoping to attract future mates."
Kandomere nodded slowly and now eased up some taking a drink from his glass.
"Is his music attracting you?" he asked. I laughed.
"He is a great player, but I don't think he's my type." I said and he tilted his head.
"What is your type?" he asked. I now shook my head.
"Oh no I am not getting into this discussion with my future boss." I said and he shrugged.
"Well you aren't signing any papers right now." he countered and I just stared at him a bit unsure if I should discuss my relationship life with him. I sipped my water and sat the glass down.
"Like most my kind, I like dominant males, alphas. Sirens mate for life. The right siren's music of any kind will one day click with my music playing and then we will know." I said and he slowly nodded.
"I never knew that… mates for life. So what do you do until that happens, finding your mate?" he asked. I smirked.
"The same thing everyone else does. I fuck." I said and his ears twitched once more and he stiffened some.
"I see." he said and I smirked.
"Don't you?" I asked and he shook his head.
"No. I like to be careful. I work too much and not every elf woman can handle that. It's…difficult to maintain a balanced relationship. If you have noticed we love showing off whether that is our possessions, friends or family. If a woman can't show me off then there is no point of dating." he explained.
"Do you want a woman you can show off? You don't seem too snobbish like the elves I have seen. Maybe clothe wise." I pointed out noticing he is still wearing that silver-plated necklace and he looked down at it and nodded.
"I come from an upper class of elf. It is expected of me to wed someone of the same class." he said.
"You didn't answer my question. Do you want marriage out of convenience or love?" I asked and he smirked.
"That's two questions." he said. I shrugged.
"So answer both." he said and he looked away some.
"I do want a partnership someone I can… love and not feel the need to show off." he said lowly and I nodded.
"Of course." I said in an understanding tone and he leaned in some placing his elbows on the table and crossed his fingers some.
"So what of your family? You talk to them any?" he asked and I nodded.
"Sometimes. They are all scattered around L.A. Due to the Siren Forgiveness Laws, we are allowed certain neighborhoods where entire clans are allowed to stay so I can always go to them when I need them." I explained lowly. The Siren Forgiveness Law states siren families that range between 50 to 100 members are allowed certain neighborhoods, houses, or apartments that are built over any land once owned by the sirens when they were merely forest hundreds of years ago. My father is head of my clan.
"Fascinating. It's good you are close to them." he said. I smiled now as the food was brought to us and we began to eat.
"What about you? Are you close with your family?" I asked and he shook his head.
"Quite the opposite. My father wanted me to become a judge, but I liked to be in the field. I am the only elf in the family not a judge or doing a job related to the court system." he said. I nodded.
"But you bring bad guys to justice. Isn't that enough?" I asked eating my food and he just shook his head.
"No." he said and I just swallowed some and nodded.
"I see." I replied. As the night went on, I noticed Kandomere was no different really from himself in the job setting. He was calm and collective and barely chuckled some never truly laughing from his body. It was always somewhat mocking. Once we were done eating, he asked for the check and I noticed neither of us finished our food.
"I hope you liked it here." he commented and I nodded.
"Yes it was delicious." I replied and once the check was put on the table, on instinct my hand reached for the check and just as that happened his hand touched it as well, but suddenly grabbed my hand and he shook his head.
"You are not paying for this, any of it." he said and I just tilted my head in
"Why not?" I asked and he scoffed some.
"The man always pays." he said and I just stared at him for a moment feeling his grip tighten just a bit and I nodded.
"Okay. Okay." I said and he released my hand and I moved my hand back and let him take the check. He took it and reached into his suit and pulled out a wallet and placed a card on the check and handed it back to the waitress.
"So you will need to sign the paper work before this night is over. Are you comfortable coming to my place to sign? Maybe finally I can see you drink something real." he teased and I sneered playfully.
"You have anything good?" I asked and he smirked.
"I have something good." he replied and I was a bit reserved at first but nodded. What harm could it do?
"Sure." I replied.
And that my friends, is how I ended up on his bed, naked with him between my legs.
My fingers gripped the sheets as I felt such pleasure build in my stomach and chest. His tongue flicked across my clit teasingly, and it felt amazing. It was wrong, it was so wrong, but I could not deny the ringing of my moist walls, my eyes closing in bliss.
"Ah." I replied weakly feeling his hands wrap around my smooth chocolate colored legs.
"You want more?" he asked and I swallowed some and looked down at the top of his blue hair, his electric white eyes, the eyes of the demons of his kind. I wouldn't answer and he gave my slit another quick lick and I groaned in response nodding. I expected his sharp teeth to cut me, but it never happened.
"Yes." I replied lightly and he crawled up my body, his chest like a stone wall against my stomach, his pecs pressing into my breasts mushing them some. He inhales sharply looking me over, his face airlessly moving over mine. Our faces were so close to touching, but they never did. His kind, my kind. So wrong, but felt so good.
"What's my name?" he asked lowly, his rough fingers sliding down my cheeks. My lips quivered in fear at his question and I sighed and closed my eyes some, our breath mixing together. "What's my name?"
"Kandomere." I responded