Dangerously Yours Till Eternity

They pulled apart to breathe.

Her grip on his shirt loosened then her forehead creased in a frown, observing something.

“Your heart.”

“What about it?”

She reach out and levelled a finger slightly underneath his nostrils.

“You are bre-breathing?! I thought–”

“Oh, that.” He nodded lightly in understanding.

“Is is because you are a Pureblood? That’s why you can do all that?”

“No,” he chuckled lightly. “It’s an illusion.”

“Illusion,” she repeated flatly.

“Yes,” he took her hand pressing it against a part of his chest where his heart should be beating beneath.

Her eyes widened in awe.

She couldn’t feel anything this time.

She placed a finger underneath his nostrils as she had done before.

Nothing.

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Then it returned back to normal.

An illusion!

“So every vampire can do this?”

“Yes, it is the way we live undetected in the human society.”

“Why don’t you do the same illusion thing with your cold skin?”

“There are limits to how far we can go. That is one of the limits.”

She nodded in understanding, taking the information in and burning it to her memory.

It felt like everything was done now and she could feel that whatever next question he wanted to ask wasn’t something she was ready to give an answer to yet.

Shs could detect it from how serious those brown beautiful eyes of his had gotten.

“Ivy?” He started and she tensed up.

“Uh?”

She wasn’t ready for this, she so wasn’t ready for this!

Thankfully, his phone started ringing at that moment and she looked down instinctively to the direction it was ringing from, somewhere tucked away in one of his pockets.

“Your phone is blowing up.”

“I know,” he replied, not making any attempt to reach for it. “We are not done ye–”

“You should answer it,” she fired back instantly.

He frowned a little before he eased off her, and answer the call.

Soon he walked away to one side of the sitting room, out of Ivy’s hearing range, she could still see him though.

See how he was pacing around, digging his hand into his pocket then pulling it out, before clenching and unclenching his fist, and once again, a repeat.

Then he started walking back to her, the frown no longer on his face but she could sense that whatever it was that he had spoken about on the phone, it was really urgent and it didn’t look like as if he was pleased with it one bit.

“That was Jett. I must go.” Then he added quickly, “important business matters.”

He turn, combing the room with his eyes to ensure he wasn’t forgetting something.

Worried, she asked before she could stop herself, “Will you be fine?”

“I’m always fine,” he smiled, walking over to her then pressing a kiss against her forehead. “I really wanted to tell you all these from the very beginning, but I was thinking it was going to be too much. So, I thought I should try and make you fall in love with me first the human way, before I tell you, but then there was this thought that kept bothering me. I felt like taking things that way might feel. luje manipulation?”He said, in a small voice, like as if he was scared of her thinking that way.

She chuckled despite herself, looking up at him. “It is manipulation.”

“I’m sorry.” Then he added, his next words were heavy, his face hard, like as if he didn’t want to say them but they had to be said. “I want you to know that you have a choice.”

She squinted her eyes at him in confusion.

“No imprinting has been done yet.” A free hand wandered to a side of her neck, caressing it, then he stopped, pulling his hand away.

“You can still leave me if you want and I’ll understand. My world is very different from yours and it has its own risks,” he took in a deep breath then exhaled. “We are not the same and if you will be with me, I want you to do that because you want to, not because you feel like you have to.”

“Isn’t that going to have any effect?”

“On you?” His hands cupped her face and a large smile crossed his lips, his eyes a little glassy. “You’ll miss me terribly, but you will be fine. I’ll make sure that you are by staying away, as far as possible for as long as possible.” Then he added with a dismissive chuckled, “maybe throughout your lifetime?”

She gulped, a lump suddenly forming in her throat. She could almost feel like a part of her was leaving her.

“I was talking about me.”

“Oh.”

He smiled again, “while you decide this, worry only about yourself.”

She frowned, her mind working fast.

What would leaving him do to him?

“I want to tell you that I have all the time in the world to wait for your answer, but things are happening and they are happening fast. I don’t have so much time to wait anymore.”

Her heart was racing with worry now.

“What—?”

“In three days from now, I’ll be waiting for you at a restaurant of which I’ll be sending the address later.”

“What are yo–”

His phone was ringing again and he quickly started talking, ignoring it.

“If you want to be with me, come there and let’s have dinner. If you don’t–,”he paused, then continue, “if you don’t, stand me up.”

“Christopher, I–”

“And I’ll never appear in front of you again.”

A look of longing flickered in his eyes and he pressed his forehead against hers.

Shs would have settled for this form of goodbye but the fact that she might never see him again after this, crossed her mind and in no time, she was kissing and he was kissing her back.

This time around, when he pulled away from her, in a blink he was gone.

She reached for her phone on the side table.

There was a message notification.

Had he sent the address already?!

It wasn’t him though.

It was Elsa.

The message read,

“I was only messing with you scaredy-cat. I’m not on my way to grab you or something, but there is someone on his way though. You know who. This is me doing my best friend duties.” She had ended the message with a wink emoji.

A warning about something that had already happened. Accurate timing.

She chuckled.

A ding.

Three messages, all from Chris.

The first was an address of the restaurant.

The second read,

“Ginger tea is in kitchen cabinet, in case you need more. Take care and see you soon.”

Her eyes misted as she read the last.

“Hopefully.”