Wow... okay well I guess you all are probably both angry and happy with me right now. Sorry able the hiatus, during the summer I thought I had some how accidently deleted this story from my computer and then got so caught up with starting my first year at university I just never started to write. But happy to say that I am back and ready to go! And I promise that tonight I will start chapter four and have it up for you faithful readers in 48 hours.
Hope you guys aren't too angry and will enjoy this chapter which I slaved over for you. Remember to review please!
UPDATE 17/09/2013 : Again this story is being revised! Only minors changes have been made to spelling, grammar and to the flow of writing. No major changes to the plot have been made. So welcome old and new readers, hope you all enjoy it equally.
Diederik woke in the earth as soon as he started to feel the strain and distress from his lifemate. Immediately he thought it was from her waking to a strange place, and he briefly wondered how she had woken so soon. Putting that worry to the back burner of his mind he settled back to rest for the last few hours of daylight, until he could rise and greet his lifemate properly. He monitored her as she got up and looked around the room, but he did not notice her attempts to leave. He only finally noticed as he felt the safeguards he placed on the doors from the room she was in shatter completely and she fled from the room.
His eyes snapped open in fright thinking someone had gotten in, then his thoughts turned to horror as he realized that she had instead broken through them herself. His lifemate, a petite, fragile human had been able to break through his ancient safeguards.
'Impossible…' Diederik thought as his mind sought out hers, forcing himself into her thoughts he watched her reach the upstairs where she could see the outside and the sun. This made him hiss, he was too late to go after her and bring her back to the safety of the room where he was. The sunlight flooding the upstairs was too bright, it was simply too early for him to leave the earth. Helpless in the soil he watched her leave his dwelling, watched her once again break through his safeguards. He read her mind extracting where she would go, he knew that within the time it would take her to get there versus the time it would take for the sun to set and he would be able to give chase he would be able to reach her in time to catch her before she left town.
Not that she would ever escape him. There was no where on this earth she could do that he could not find her. She was his lifemate, his other half, he would find her always.
Pushing the earth up he rose and entered the room looking to the bed his lifemate had lay in only a few short minutes ago. Sadness enveloped him, his body demanded her presence, and needing it more than the air he breathed. His gut clenched at the idea of her running around town, able to be hurt, injured or manipulated by the vampire he had been chasing. Primitive rage and the need to possess rose deep from within and the beast drew from the darkness in him just as angry that she had left.
Withdrawing from her mind as she ran into town, he let out a long angered sigh. He would have her back, she would be safe with him once again and very soon. Very soon he would whisk her off to a safer place, maybe head back to his homeland to be with his brother and cousins once again. A place she could not run from him so easily. He would have to show her how to be a lifemate, his lifemate and he would have to teach her about Carpathian life. Of course he planned to convert her, she obliviously had the physic ability that would allow her to survive the process, but he would do so once she was ready. But what he was more concerned with trying to first making her secure and safe. As he could tell was that she was scared, very scared of whatever she was running from, but whatever it was he would protect her from it.
Stiffening, Diederik felt her suddenly overcome with anxiety, reconnecting to her mind though the connection, though it was very distant and weak, he could tell she was in town, and was trying to find her way back to her motel. But it seemed that he was the cause of her anxiety, she was worried that he would find her. His very core shook with this information, his lifemate feared him. Diederik felt like weeping at this thought, he had taken her to protect her as any Carpathian would upon finding their lifemate. But she had run and was now afraid of him.
As the sun got lower to the horizon, Diederik was distracted from his lifemate as he sensed the vampire beginning to mobilize. The dark creature spread it presence over the city like an ominous storm. He had awoken and was preparing himself for night fall, the creature seemed just as desperate as he was to get out of the earth and to it's target.
'Soon Grádhág… I will be with you soon. I will protect you, and tell you everything.' He silently vowed to her as he patiently waited. As every moment ticked by the sun inched closer to it's full descent. As the moments passed, Diederik felt as if it were hours without his lifemate near. As the sun fully disappeared below the horizon, Diederik burst from the room and quickly dissolved to mist and flew from his home. Without hesitation he went straight for the city, his sole focus on his frightened lifemate.
Everlet ran from the bus stop and down the street, the adrenaline that had been pumping in her veins was starting to disappear. It had been a long hour since she had left the house she had woken up in, she was all too anxious to get her things and leave. She had run half way into the city before she came to the bus stop and was able to get a ride into the rest of the town. As the motel came into sight she ran faster, rushing past other guests and a few young workers she entered the building and hurried to her room.
Nearly crashing right into the door marked room 143, Everlet fumbled through her pockets looking for her room key. Her clammy hands could barely grasp the small inoffensive card as she tugged it out of her left pocket, and could even barely make her hand slide the card through the sensor to unlock the door. But as soon as she heard the small click signaling that the key had unlocked the door, Everlet threw the door open.
What the brunette did not expect what she saw waiting for her on the other side of the door.
Her room had been torn apart, her clothes lying across the floor with the duffle bag in shreds, bed and other such furniture. Gasping in shock at the sight, the bedside lamp was turned over and the glass of the broken bulb scattered across the floor, her things mercilessly thrown, ripped and otherwise destroyed while the evidence was scattered across the room. She froze as the door swung closed behind her with a soft thud.
"No… No…." Everlet gasped out and tears came to her eyes. He had found her, somehow, someway he had found her and even got into her hotel room. The heart raced in her chest but her body failed to respond to the panic rising within her.
She looked to the nearby pieces of her ripped pictures lying on the floor. Collapsing to her knees she picked up the pieces and looked to them. The few she had managed to save before fleeing her home were now destroyed. And the culprit had ripped her from the pictures and taken just her image with him. Glancing around with the torn photographs in her hands she saw her clothing some ripped, others torn and lying in ruins around her. The whole room has torn about, feathers from the motel pillows were scattered across the floor, the bedside table tipped over and the formerly neat bed sheets had been pulled from the bed and looked partly shredded.
Her brain could barely comprehend or think of what she should be doing then. Normally someone would call the police and have this dealt with legally. But whoever this was, had done so before, and just like the last time there would be no trace of the intruder. Everlet knew she should be grabbing all she could salvage and run again, head to the nearest bus station and grab the first one, didn't matter where it was going and get out of town. That was what she knew she should do, but she remained frozen on the floor.
But her chest ached, her mind was wild with shock and fear, and for some unfathomable reason she wished he hadn't left the house she had woken up in. She almost wished she had stayed with her kidnapper, which for all she knew could also be the one who did this. But some small voice in her mind said that, that was not the case. The man she had ran into last night and took her was not the same that stalked her no matter where she went and haunted her dreams.
Everlet was unaware of how much time had past, but she knew it wasn't much more than just the few minutes. Suddenly the door burst open behind her and a misty figure drifted in from the night. The young woman whipped her head around and stared at Diederik as his body solidified before her eyes and she gasped at the sight of him.
At first Diederik's eyes didn't look to his lifemate's, his darkened eyes scanned the room, as if looking for some hidden enemy. After a quick look around his surveyed the damage and then looked to the girl he was most worried about. Everlet scurried back from the man but Diederik didn't allow it, as she managed to push her away across the floor trying to get away from him, the man merely stepped forward in great long strides to close the gasp. The petite woman was staring up with him with wide and terrified eyes she gave a cry of protest and tears sprang to her eyes.
"No! Stay away!" she cried out and lifted her hands and braced herself ready for him to grab her, expecting him to grab her and throw her to the bed and take advantage of her petite and smaller body.
Diederik gave a shocked look and hesitated as he reached for the girl lying crumpled on the floor, did she really think he was capable of hurting her? But he could see in her mind the memories of finding or receiving notes from a stranger promising that he 'would make her body his'. This new knowledge brought a wave of rage and endless anger over him. However he knew he would have to deal with this unknown foe at a later date. Collecting himself he knelled next to his lifemate and reached his large arms forward and wrapped them around the girl and crushed her against his chest.
Everlet struggled feebly against his arms but found herself being tucked against the man's chest. Her mind seemed to slow down by a few miles an hour, her body relaxed against him and a comforting warmth washed over her. Feeling one arm around her middle holding her to him and his other hands brought up behind her head cradling it against his shoulder he pulled her into his lap and held her firmly there.
"Shhh… Shhh… Grádhág. Everything will be okay, that I promise you." She heard him murmur against the side of her head. His deep and thick velvet voice washed into her ears and she couldn't help but believe him. His voice was just so inviting and unlike anything she had ever heard before.
"I will make everything okay, I will make you safe once again." He vowed lowly, and Everlet lifted her head. She could see him looking once again around the room. His eyes were angry this time as he further surveyed the damages that had been done, biting her lower lip she didn't struggle against him though she knew she should. But without a word Diederik lifted her up and cradled her petite body against him and walked from the room, the door seemed to have opened on it's own will and he brushed the back of her head with his hand.
"Don't ever do that again Grádhág… you nearly scared many years off my life with what you did. You were safe, if you only waited a little while longer I would have been with you. I would have kept you safe." His said and Everlet was sure he was talking to himself more than her.
Lifting her head she spoke to him, "What do you want from me?"
Diederik came to a stop and looked down at her pale face as it was turned up to face him in the dim lights of the motel and he smiled. "Do I have to say it out loud Grádhág? I want you safe and with me, that is the only way it can be. But no more talk for now… we will go back home and talk there."
His words were final and Everlet knew not to say any more. She felt so drained from all that had happened in the past twenty-four hours that she could not even fight him at this point. As he moved to the street that the motel was on he swiftly made his way to a cab and knocked on the window before opening the door and sliding them both in, but kept her tucked at his side. The driver was middle eastern and Diederik spoke to him is what Everlet could only guess was Arabic. Then they were off heading back to his home.
Sorry that it is shorter than my other but I felt that this was a good place to stop for now. Anyways please review!