Chapter 11

One week later...

Sayuri's POV.

I awoke warm and comfortable once again to a set of strong powerful arms wrapped around me and I couldn't help but smile... Ukaran had been very respectful to me... Oh, a few times, he's wanted to be intimate with me, but I asked him nicely not to do that sort of stuff for right now... I liked him a lot... More then a lot... But I wasn't ready for that just yet... I was a virgin after all, and mama told me not to do something like that unless it was with the man I loved and make sure he loved me too... And Ukaran did seem to care about me... It's been about ten days now, since we first met each other, and the warn feeling that bloomed in my heart each time I was around him, continued to grow... It still scared me some... The darkness that I felt inside him when he would become more passionate and want to see my body, but each time, I'd refuse... He'd become angry... But he never once tried to hurt me...

Today, he gave me some of the dried deer meat that he'd seasoned with his own herbs and smoked salt... It was very delicious... His home was so lovely... There were fields of thornless roses blooming at the caves entrance, blooming weeping willow trees as you walked further into the cave, and many many different types of trees that had big juicy sweet fruits and some nut trees growing in abundance here...

" Ukaran?" I asked, " How is it that the plants here flourish so wonderfully?"

" It's the way it was when I made this cave my home." Ukaran said smiling at me...

" Oh..." I said blushing.

He looked so handsome when he'd smile like that... It wasn't like the first time I'd met him... He always had a dark smirk on his face, it reminded me of a predator... But now, his smiles had much more warmth in them and when he'd hug me or kiss my lips, it was always with a sweet tenderness... I loved him... I knew he had a darkness in his soul, but I loved him any way... I can't tell him yet though... I couldn't bare it if he didn't feel the same way... Ukaran was looking at me in that special way again... Where his ruby red eyes went to a more jewel like garnet color that made me feel like I could melt... I wanted him in the same way that he wanted me, truly I did... But if my father ever smelled a males scent on me, he'd be in grave danger, for my father would undoubtedly kill him...

" Why is it, you do not wish to feel passion, the way I want us to?" Ukaran growled suddenly. " I know you want it too, I can smell your arousal..."

My breath caught when I heard his deep silken voice and just the sound of him had heat pooling all throughout my body...

" I... I am afraid..." I said worriedly.

" I understand..." Ukaran growled as he stalked towards me, " Everyone fears me... It's a sign of respect..."

Ukaran was up against me in a matter of minutes pinning me to the wall of the cave... I gasped as he began sucking on my neck, a bit more roughly then he had in the past... Just like he could undoubtedly smell my arousal on me, I could smell his as well... It was frightening as well as intoxicating to know that I was the reason he felt like that... Ukaran shocked me then, when he took my hand and pressed it between his legs, making me blush furiously...

" Please..." I whispered fearfully, " I'm still not ready... I can't... Not yet..."

" You want me..." Ukaran growled, nipping my neck hard, " You cannot deny it..."

" I do... I can't lie to you... I really really do... But my father... I don't want you to get hurt..." I said worriedly.

" You deny me... Not because you fear the pain that comes with losing your virginity, but because you fear for my safety?!" Ukaran growled in confusion, " Why?!"

It was on the tip of my tongue to tell him the truth... To tell him that I had already fallen in love with him... But I couldn't... As much passion as he'd already showed me and as sweet and gentle as his kisses were, I still feared his rejection of my feelings for him... So I told him the next best thing...

" I... I think it is because... I like you as more then just a regular friend..." I said blushing.

Ukaran was silent, visibly confused as he released his hold on me... He then turned and left the cave... Tears sprang into my eyes as I watched him go, unsure of what I said wrong... So I just sat there and began to cry... My heart felt like someone had torn it to pieces...