Once Betrayed Never Forgotten

Chapter 73: Lethal Desires.

“You… love me?” I repeat Aleksandr’s works back to him, utterly dumbfounded.

Aleksande nods, his bright blue eyes shining with an unexpected tenderness.

“When I first met you, at my brother’s wedding, I’ll admit that I thought you were just some deliciously cute, naive little human girl, a pretty plaything.” he says, his words slow and deliberate “but then I got to know you, Arlanna. You have a fire inside of you… a fierceness, a flame so bright and brilliant that it melted the ie around my long frozen, cold immortal heart. I thought it was impossible for me to love… to feel I was wrong.”

“Vait… love inr,” I say again, stupidly, trying to make the words make sense, I just can’t believe that Aleksandr Vasiliey–world–renowned billionaire playboy, one of the most powerful and desirable men in the entire world, a man who I have only recently learned is part of an ancient and influential vampire clan – could be in love with ME.

“That’s impossible,” I marimur, looking down at my feet as a blush spreads across my cheeks. “I mean… you’re joking, right?”

“Arianna, look at me,” he says gently, f*cking his land under my chin and tilting my fave upwards, so that I’m looking into his glacial blue eyes. look like I’ms joking?”

“But nothing!” he says, grubbing my hand and placing it roughly against his chest. It feels cold, even colder than the rest of him, like the freezing air coming into a warm house in winter through a cracked open dour,

“What… is that?” Limurumir, confused by the menbing cold emanating from his chest.

“The proof of my love for you,” he snarls, pulling his shirt clown, away from his chest, so I can see the bloody, gaping stab wound marring his perfect skin. A wound directly over his heut

“After you were İsinned at the stake and left for dead, I thought I lost you,” he says, his words hurning with intensity. “I had no choice. I gave you my life’s blood – the most precious gilt that an boumetal can give. The last remaining blood in my undead, unbeating heart, capable of bringing back even the most hopeless case from the brink of death, You’ve been given a second chance. So long as you live so long as your own mortal hearts keeps beating mine will never heal. I will carry this unhealing wouent, thus pain, for decades. But I don’t regret it. I would endure it a million years, I would stale into my frozen heart a million times over, if it meant misther second with you. Because I love you…”

He grabs my hand again, placing it over his wounded heart, wincing comentarily as my fingers touch the end, bloodied laceration.

“Do you understand now, Arianna?” He asks, exasperated. “I f*cking love you.”

**I love you too,” I say, the w

words slipping out before I even realise I’m saying them, my lips moving faster than my mind.

I mean those words, I think, deep down, I’ve known for ages that I’m in love with him. My crush developed into real feelings months ago, and I’ve spent this lonely time in California trying to move on and forget him but I’d never really be able to. Cheap dorm room hookups that left me unfulfilled and unsatisfied, even my attempt to lose my virginity to a random stranger tonight they were all just a sad attempt to forget the raw intensity of my undeniable feelings for Aleksandr. Even my steamy session with Lakn at the Castle, it was all about Aleksandr, making him jealous. It’s Aleksandr. It always has been Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

The world seems to pause as he leans down, his piercing blue eyes locked onto mine. There’s a fiery intensity in his gaze, his eyes burning with desire. His lips meet mine, cold against the heat of my own. The k*ss deepens, and his coll tongue gently explores my mouth, its coolness mingling with my warmth.

His arms encircle me, drawing me closer, and I melt into his embrace, losing myself as his lips move against mine with a gentle urgency.

More… I need more.

I stand on my tiptoes, pressing myself closer to his body, wanting to engulf him, to be engulfed by him, to be one. I’ve never felt anything like it before. It goes beyond lust, beyond desire, beyond the physical–It’s just the aching, desperate need to be joined, to be together.

“Please Aleksandr,” I whisper as I break away breathlessly from the k*ss. “Make me yours.”

“You already are mine, silly pet,” he says with a smirk, leaning down to find my lips again, but I raise my finger and place it across his lips, halting him in his tracks. “I want more, I want to be with you. To really be with you… …”

I struggle to get the words out, beginning to moan as Aleksandr’s lips find my neck, his cold tongue Blicking greedily across my collarbone.

Chapter 73 Lethal Desire

“You’re saying that you want my cock inside of you,” he whispers, and I moan in response.

“Y–yes…” I manage to murmur, as I feel his growing hardness pressing against me.

“It would kill you,” he says without looking up, his sharp canines grazing the tender skin over my throat as he speaks. “You know that.”

“I don’t care,” I whisper breathlessly, feeling the longing ache welling up inside of me.

“You may not care, but I do,” Aleksandr says, lifting his head and taking a step away from me, holding me at arm’s length as his voice immediately grows cold and firm. “I can’t let you get hurt. Arianna, we can never be together.”

“You can’t be serious,” I say, searching his face for any sign of uncertainty. “You want to make love to me, to be inside of me, I know you do.”

“Of course I want that, silly girl… but I also want you to stay alive,” he says, his eyes darkening. “Those two things are not compatible.”

“So kill me then,” I say, noticing the flicker of surprise that passes over his handsome face. “Turn me into a vampire. We could be together, forever.”

“You don’t know what you’re saying,” he says wearily, now turning away from me, shaking his head. “I wouldn’t wish this cold, undying eternal life on anyone. Not even my worst enemy. These frozen centuries have been desolate, empty, lonely…”

*I wouldn’t be lonely, because I wouldn’t be alone,” I say softly, taking his hands in mine. “I’d have you. And you’d have me. We can be together.”

No

he says firmly, “I won’t let you throw your life away.”

“But Konstantin turned my mother,” I say, now feeling a hint of irritation creeping in. Why won’t he listen to me? Why won’t he trust that I know what

want? “She seems happy with her decision.

“That’s different,” he says. “Your mother lived her life, experienced the joy of childbirth when she had you, the ache of grief and bereavement when she last your father, the many human milestones that are the birthright of every mortal. She was in her fourth decade when my blood brother turned her. You are barely eighteen, no longer a child but hardly an adult, not yet. You have your whole life ahead of you. You are like a fresh spring blossom about to bloom, full of life and passibilities. It would be sacrilege for me to deny you that.”

“Is that why you stayed away, all this time?” I ask. It’s all starting to make sense. I tried so hard to focus on my studies and forget about Romania, to Forget about Aleksandr, but deep down I was hurt, always wondering why he didn’t show up, why he never came for me.

Now, I get it.

“How can I change your mind?” I ask, wrapping my arms around him and laying my head against his chest.

“Live your life, grow up, enjoy the full glorious blossoming of your fragile human mortality,” he says softly. “And when you can say that you have lived – truly lived, and known this world in all its ugliness and its beauty then, I will come for you.”

“And until then?” I ask, my eyes filling with tears at the finality of his words.

“Until then…” he says with a smirk, pulling me closer. “I will give you something to remember me by. Something you will never forget… a promise of the pleasures that someday await you.”

“Oh yeah?” I say, wiping away the tears rolling down my cheek.

“Yes, my love,” he says softly, his eyes sparkling with blue fire. “There are other ways to make love besides penetration. Let me show you.”

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