The Taste of Seduction

His voice falls around her like silk.

"Luscious," Kate mutters. The name swirls around her tongue like bile. But each time she stares at him, she feels an irrepressible urge to fall deeper and deeper into him.

"That is an unusual name, and I have never heard of Arkaans." Meredith says, her eyes clouded by suspicion.

Luscious seems to pause and consider. Then he laugh, Kate\'s heart thudded in her chest. "You see, I am an unusual man." He laughs again, a loud raucous laughter that sounds unnatural.

Kate takes a step back. "Why did you follow me here?"

Luscious feigns a hurt look. "Why, I think you are the prettiest woman I have ever laid my eyes on. And we do have history. Yes, we do?"

"I have never seen you."

Luscious laughed. "I know, you\'re afterall living in a human world. How would you hear about the most powerful man in the supernatural realm?"

He purses his lips at her.

Kate stares at him, observing quietly.

"What do you want from me?"

Luscious sighs, "I need your help."

Kate narrows her eyes at him, "What makes you think I will help a hybrid like you."

Surprise passes across his eyes then he laughs, "You\'re really, the person I was looking for." He says staring at her.

"Two centuries ago, your ancestors along with mine and the vampires formed an alliance in order to fight against the dragons who were killing their people. With the help of your ancestors, they were able to seal them away into a different dimension using a portal.

Now the portal is weakened and some of them has escape. I have lost 10 of my people. Since your ancestors are the ones who created the portal and you\'re the last of their bloodline, you\'re the only one who can close the portal again."

Kate shifts her gaze back and forth between his dark eyes, intently studying them one at aa time. Inside them, she finds only the truth.

"Lusicous of Arkaans born out of the marriage arrangement between the werewolves and vampires in order to ensure the alliance. First and only hybrid of the supernatural realm. King and Alpha of Arkaans kingdom. Despise and feared by your people because you\'re an abomination."

Kate speaks slowly as if talking to a child.

They stares at each other in the moonlight.

Suddenly his eyes sparkles and turned blue showing his wolf.

"Mate" He chokes, his tone thick with raw emotion.

He didn\'t realize the truth before now because his vampire side has been suppressing his wolf self.

"Can\'t be."

Her green eyes seems to see through his soul. He can\'t breath as his wolf jumps in excitement. Now that his wolf recognizes her, every primal instinct was yelling at him to take her.

"Mate, Mate, Mate,"

"Claim, claim"

His wolf said excitedly in his head. He took a step back and without a word disappears leaving her alone. He needed space to think because he never thought he would get a mate.

This was all too overwhelming for him.

*******

"So you\'re telling us you found the last bloodline of the blue bloods witch and she is your mate?"

Meridian the leader of the council asks. The council was made up of 9 people. 4 vampires, 4 werewolves and 1 witch. The witch was the oldest and most powerful. He had found Kate with her help.

"Yes." He replied flatly.

"That\'s good news. Our people finally get a queen and Luna. With her powers, we would be unstoppable. Make sure you don\'t scare her away because the mate bond is strong. When two people are mated, their soul are connected, they can feel each other\'s feelings and their world resolves around each other. It\'s so rare to find someone in 1-10 people who is your mate. Congratulation my King."

A light passes through his eyes. He had to talk to her first, after all Kate wasn\'t an ordinary woman whom he could force to marry him because of the mate bond.

*******

Kate\'s nerves were wrecking as she stares into the floor length mirror. She is marrying Luscious today. When he had told her she was his mate.

She had thought he was crazy, even though she is extremely attracted to him and he is all she could think about. She loves how he cherishes her, he was the most perfect mate she could ever wished for. Her lips curled into a smile.

************

Kate was sitting at the library reading a book. She was heavily pregnant with Luscious child and she couldn\'t wait to meet her baby girl. It\'s been a year since she has been married to Luscious. She has been able to seal the portal even though it wasn\'t easy and has given the runes to open it to the council to hide it. Now peace was restored in their lands and she was enjoying marriage life with Luscious.

**********

Luscious stares at his daughter with warmth flowing in his chest.

"What name should we give her?"

"Meredith. I want to name her after my grandmother."

Luscious smiles and kisses her forehead. Their love had bloom and grown strong throughout the year.

Kate smiles, watching Luscious playing with their daughter. Her giggles were like a melody in the room. Their daughter was their joy and they love her so much.

Still weak from giving birth, she closed her eyes to sleep but unfortunately, her sleep is cut short when a scene flashed across her eyes.

They were coming for them.

Someone had opened the portal. A traitor in the council. Dragons, thirsty for blood, won\'t stop until they have revenge to being sent to oblivion,

"Luscious!" Her voice rang in his head.

They could connect through their mate bond. She had no idea who was listening to them since their had a traitor in their mist. It could be anyone.

"The portal has been opened. War is coming. Our daughter"

Her panic eyes fell on her precious daughter.

"In case we lose the war, she is our only hope. We have to hide her."

Luscious jaw tightens. A murderous glint passes through his eyes. Someone had betrayed them. He knew a witch was involved somehow or they couldn\'t open the portal.

"What do you want us to do?"

"Let\'s summon Brenya. She will send her to the human realm. We will change her looks and give our memories to her wolf. She is a tribrid afterall, when the time is right, her wolf will communicate with her."

Brenya was Kate\'s best friend, a werewolf, who spent her time in the human realm and came back during the full moon. She had married a human and had two kid with him. So she rarely came to visit her anymore.

"But how will Brenya survives in the human realm? Every full moon she will have to turn into a werewolf. People will get suspicious!"

Kate shakes her head, "No, I had developed a spell for her to hide her and her sons wolf. Also, she has been going to the human realm, going to their school and all that. Her children\'s father is human, if anyone can hide our daughter in the human realm it\'s her. "

Luscious looks at his daughter, pain glinting in his eyes. He couldn\'t even spend time with her.

*******

Kate hugs her best friend with tears welling in her eyes.

"Take good care of her, when she grows up. Tell her we love her so much and when the time is right, we will come for her."

"They have breach the wall!" A panic voice sounded in the link.

Kate turned to look at Luscious who gave her a small nod with a smile.

Kate placed the runes on the triangular axis and uttered a series of words opening the portal to the human realm.

A tear slid down her cheeks. Brenya entered the portal with little Meredith smiling at her friend for the last time. She doesn\'t know when they will meet again. But she hopes they win the war.

A sharp scream was heard outside and they knew they were just at the door.

"I love you, my precious daughter.." She says with tears flowing.