Chapter 20: Jealousy

He was with another woman.

After I decided to forgive his pigheadedness, he had the audacity to be with another woman, and at the same time deny me my right to be with a male friend.

"Serena." His voice came as a gentle whisper behind me, and I swirled around so fast my hair whipped into my face.

"I want to leave. I want to go with the Elementals." I stared at him, trying my very best to keep the pain from showing on my face as I stared into his cold eyes.

"Serena." I turned away from him and stared blankly at the sky.

"I want to leave. I do not want to stay here because I do not want to see you. I do not know what is going on with me and quite frankly I do not care. I know that my staying here is forcing you to be gentler about who you allow to come into your home, so I will hold myself at bay and leave you to your own devices." He moved closer to me, and I moved away. His nearness will only serve to frustrate me further and I wanted peace at the moment.

He followed me, and wrapped me in his arms. I should be pleased, perhaps even elated that the Devil himself has gone out of his way to...be tender towards me, but I was not. He was a pompous ass...and he was a fool who did not care at all for anyone but himself.

"Leave me alone. I do not want to be in your presence, I hate you and I want to go back home. I want to return to my home to the people I know and love. You are evil, and you are a Fallen, no longer an angel. And I cannot trust one who is not an angel." I tried to fight him, not wanting to give into his tender charms.

I felt his hands tightening around me as he buried his face in my hair.

"I'm sorry!" his words were so tender they had me bursting in tears, despite my earlier efforts not to. I could not help it. I was so grief stricken. Seeing him with that other woman...I felt like my soul was being ripped apart bit my bit.

I stood in his arms and just cried, simply let the tears fall out of my face. I cried so hard my head began to hurt. And all the while he stood there holding me to him, kissing my head tenderly and murmuring words of apology to me.

Eventually he lifted my tired worn out body to the bed and laid me down gently and dragged the the black silk blankets over me. He sat near the bed and stared intently at me.

I was certain that my eyes were red and swollen and I probably looked hysterical but his hands gently swiped strands of my hair away from my face and he planted a kiss on my brows.

"What are you doing to me?" He murmured. I looked at him, knowing full well that I should be the one asking him that. He kissed me on the forehead again and rose to climb in next to me. He laid on top of the blankets and just held me.

He smelled different. Not his usual scent of roses…this was…Like lilies. Like another woman.

I did not want to smell her on him. It just reminded me of the look on her face as he drove himself in her. The look of pure joy and ecstasy that drove her nearly mad with pleasure. The look I knew many other women have experienced long before I and will continue to experience forevermore under him.

"I will go bath." He sat up and pulled his shirt off, As I stared at his back averting my eyes from before he realized and instead focused them on the white walls trying to rid myself of the earlier image of them from my mind.

The marks on his back had healed, but there was still red bruises where once her claws had drawn blood.

"I..." I wanted to tell him to stay…that I did not mind. But I couldn't. I did mind. And he understood that. He shook his head and got off the bed.

"You think you can help me out here." There was a sheepish smile on his face as he stared at me waiting. I did not want to get involved with him so soon after another woman. I did not want to get involved with him at all, he is the Devil and I am an Angel. But that sheepish smile of his...add that to the whole day's event.

I nodded slightly not sure if I really wanted to lend him my service, but when I did not rise to meet him, he came forth lifted my body off the bed and headed for the bathroom.

The tub was filled with hot setaming water moments after we entered.

Bending over, Darien pulled his trousers down, pulling them off. I turned away from his nakedness, not certain I would be able to deal with the sight.

When I heard the sound of water sloshing I opened my eyes.

His body from breasts down was submerged in the liquid and for that I was grateful.

"Don't worry I will not do anything. I just need to be certain that you forgive me. And I am a bit tired. Today has been a rather stressful day." My bathing cloth was hanging on the wall hanger near the tub. I took it and moved behind him, kneeling on my knees I soaked the cloth in water and took the cloth and dragged it on his shoulders, then down his back.

I rinsed the cloth and began to clean his chest.

I was hesitant about touching my hands to his breasts even with the cloth, but his head was leaning back against the edge of the tub so relaxed that I could not help but ignore my nervousness.

I rubbed the towel to his chest, taking note of the rapid beat of his hearth whenever I chanced upon his nipples.

And when I moved lower, both our breaths came out in tentative huffs, barely leaving our lips. Darien turned his head to the side and breathed in my scent. My knees buckled and I slightly fell forward, my hand slipping lower to his navel.

"Do not try to seduce me Serena...I did not enjoy Catherine at all. I would not have accepted any of her…advances had I been given a choice. I just cannot ignore the Heat that surges in me during the mating season otherwise I would have turned her away And if you do that again I will not be able to hold back." His explanation was meant to reassure me, to get me to forgive him. But the very mention of her name...the realization that she was someone he had been with before for many times only upset me further.

I pulled my hand away and took the soap at the edge of the tub, and poured it on his head.

"I have no desire to know what did or did not happen and why you did whatever it is you did. I do not care for such things. Now I must rest I am tired." I got up, making sure that as I turned away my wings slapped his face, leaving a light gash on his cheeks.

I could not help but chuckle at that, Serena was becoming a miniature demon, very temperamental, and the fact that she was completely new to these emotions made them all the more aggressive. Everything she felt was raw. Pure lust, grave anger, innocent confusion, and honest jealousy. That last one had me smiling. Serena was jealous.

If only she knew how little she had to be jealous of. I have had these women so many times, they were nothing more than a source of relief for me. They meant nothing, have never meant anything at all to me and will never mean anything. She will be the one I adore, the one I would forever keep at my side. She was the one, the only one I wanted with me. Serena was different.

Unique.

And she was the only person I had ever encountered who had the power to literary make me speechless. She was the only being in creation capable of making my hearth beat at the rate it does and as often as it does.

With a sigh I dipped my hand in the tub and ran the water over my face and through my hair sending it back. I stayed in the bath for a while, but reemerged having no relief without Serena's calming presence around. I wrapped a towel diligently around my waist and walked into the bedroom to change into my trousers. I would prefer to sleep in the nude, but Serena was not used to my nudity and I certainly did not want to upset her any further.

After putting on trousers I climbed into the bed, catching her before she could turn and edge away from me. Forcing her closer to me. Nestling her to me. I planted a kiss on her head and began to run my hand down her smooth length of hair.

"You are not like them Serena. I value your...companionship. They are women in every single meaning of the word. You are innocent where they are not. Now sleep." I kissed on her head one last time before pulling the covers snugly over the both of us and letting sleep take over.

I know a bunch of u wanted him to suffer (Bwhahahahaha, evil laugh, so did I)

but he has something else coming to him

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