Chapter 70

Zen and I are still lying on the hay. I stayed in his arms while he gently caressed my long hair.

We're still naked and lovingly enjoying each other's warm bodies. My right hand rested on his chest, feeling every beat of his heart.

How I love the snow prince's heartbeat.

It's like I've always been very shy around men; they can't look at me, touch me, or even call my name. My grandmother kept me away from men in the human world for several years to preserve my virginity, for which I am very grateful.

Every first should be for him: my first dance, my first kiss, my first love, and even my first heartache. But he's not just my first; I want him to be my second, my third, my fourth, and until my last.

My virginity is only for him, only for the Second Prince, only for the Snow Prince. And I will never regret what happened to us. When I was still in the world of people, I still wondered what it felt like to be kissed, but now that I'm in the world of vampires, it wasn't just a kiss that answered.

The whole environment was still dimly lit due to the small candles surrounding the interior under the tree. I gently removed my hand from Zen's chest and slowly raised it to play with my shadow.

"Look at this Zen; what do you think it is?" started I will play with my shadow. This is what I learned from my grandmother when I was a child; we do it before we go to sleep, and it is what I used to do until I grew up. I make a rabbit from the shadow of my hand.

"It's a rabbit," Zen said softly as he still didn't stop stroking my hair.

"How about this?" Now I made a kangaroo in the shadow of my hand. Maybe there is something like this here?

"It's a kangaroo baby." I felt him kiss the top of my head.

"I'm great, aren't I? I have talents in shadow arts, Zen." I woke up and told him. But I just snorted when I saw that he was not looking at the shadow of my hands but at me.

"Yes, you're so beautiful, Claret." I almost stared at the snow prince's answer. Why is his answer far from what I said?

I just bit my lip when I saw him staring at me with his red eyes. God! Zen Lancelot Gazellian "Zen, I'm still tired." I tormented him when I said this. I saw him grin, and his eyes gradually turned black.

"I thought you had rested," he whispered softly, like a child robbed of candy.

"It wasn't even half an hour before we stopped Zen! Oh my god, what more rest will you give me?" He just grinned at me as if there was nothing.

hears what I say.

My eyes rolled again when I felt his hand.

"Behave, Zen; it's next year," I said seriously, stopping his hand from crawling up my thighs.

"I am a good boy, baby." He quickly removed his hand from my thigh and put it on his head again.

"Behave?" I asked him sarcastically.

"I am just massaging you, Claret," he answered me with a smile. 'Massaging' in my late old age, something almost happened to us when he became my masseuse. I was in front of the mirror.

"Why don't you try your shadow Zen? Can you do anything with your shadow? I can teach you." I smiled at him.

"I know some shadows from Claret." Zen raised his left hand to play with his shadow. When I saw what he was doing, the answer quickly came to mind.

"It's a goose," I answered.

"No baby." My forehead furrowed. What else is that? Geese have longer necks than geese. It can't be a duck.

"Ostrich?" I asked again.

"No baby..." I stared at Zen's shadow. What is this?

"Duck?" impossible, babe.

"No." Zen answered quickly.

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"What about a swan?" Zen shook his head at me again. What else is it, then? I looked at it again for a minute, but I couldn't think of anything else.

"It's a goose, Zen; there's nothing different about what you're doing." I saw Zen smirk at what I said.

"It's a vampire baby." I was just tormented by him. Since when did a vampire take the shape of a goose?

"We are fooling around here, Zen," I said, shaking my head.

"No, it is really a vampire, Claret. A vampire pretending to be a goose." I couldn't help but grin at Zen's explanation to me. The snow prince is really smart; why didn't I think he was a vampire pretending to be a goose? Very good.

"And you know what is his favorite thing to do, baby? He loves pecking girls' necks." Zen started applying the goose beak to my neck. I can't help but laugh at what he does. Damn this snow prince; he knows so much.

"Oh, he's a vampire goose then," I said, laughing as I watched my shadow being pecked by the goose. Even if the shadow is a goose, Zen's hand is still pecking at me.

"But not just the neck, baby; he loves every part of a girl's body." When he said this, my heart suddenly started beating faster. Zen's eyes are now red, and I know my own eyes are red as well.

"Every girl's body? That goose is not loyal Zen." answered to him. I chose to watch the shadow of his hand near my neck again.

"He's loyal, Claret," Zen said softly, turning to me again.

"Look at the shadow, baby." I didn't say anything and looked at our shadow again.

"It wasn't only her neck; the goose loves her cheeks." Zen's fingertips touched my cheek.

"Her nose." I just closed my eyes when it touched my nose.

"Her forehead." Now the goose's beak is applied to my forehead.

"Lastly, the goose transformed into his original form." The shadow of Zen's hand disappeared, and he quickly replaced it with his own shadows that slightly dominated me.

"And she will peck his wife's lips." I just closed my eyes when Zen's lips touched mine. Kissing me passionately with love, heat, and passion My hands moved up to his nape again to bring our lips closer together.

After our long kiss, I just felt Zen's finger running over my reddened lips.

"God, I am addicted to your lips, Claret." He was about to lower his lips to mine again when I blocked them with my hands.

"Zen, we're going to bite each other again. I am still full." He sighed at what I said before he collapsed again to lie next to me.

He quickly turned me toward him so that I could turn his arm into a pillow again and hug me tightly.

"Can we stay here for weeks or a month? Let's just go back to Sartorias when you're pregnant." I was slightly distanced from what he said. Pregnant right away?

"What's with that reaction, Claret?" I wrinkled when he asked me. I averted my eyes from him.

"Claret," he called me seriously.

"It's just that I am not ready yet? I don't know Zen. I am still an eighteen-year-old girl. I guess it's too early to have children? Besides, you're not the first prince, so you're not obligated to have children right away, right?" I find it hard to look into his eyes. I just want to tell him my true feelings.

Yes, I used to force myself to get pregnant so that the queen could come out. I made that decision because I had other reasons, but this time I knew on my own that I didn't want to enter the life of a parent. I feel like I still have a lot to learn.

I felt him hug me tighter.

"Zen." I softly called his name.

"It's okay, what my Cordelia wants is what she will follow. I just can't say if what we did today will pay off. I didn't use any protection." I just stared at Zen.

"Condoms are fashionable in this world?" I asked in surprise.

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"Condoms?" Zen answered me.

"This is what people use to prevent women from getting pregnant; didn't your brothers tell you this? I'm sure Caleb and others are using it during their human world travels." I saw Zen nod slightly. as I said.

"I remembered, it's a rubber, but here we don't need to wear such things; we just need to apply a spell of "oil' to our ----." I touched Zen's mouth.

"Enough, I know." I quickly removed my hand from his mouth when I felt his tongue on my palm. My god!

"Still in virgin mode, baby?" he said to me when he woke up.

"Stop me, Zen, look for our clothes. We can't be naked like this; what if someone gets into this tree?" He has already destroyed my nightgown, so all I can wear is my underwear and my very thin shirt.

"Later, I'll look for it," he answered me.

"Zen." I wanted to tell him something.

"Yes, baby?" I took a deep breath before I began to speak.

"About my precious virginity, aren't you surprised that I didn't scream despite my objection to you before?" I didn't hear an answer from him right away, and I waited for a few minutes.

"I know you'll give me Claret too." I stopped whining as he quickly said kissed the center of my breasts.

"Zen, I am serious. Aren't you even surprised?" I asked him again.

"I am not; I have known for a long time that what Dastan informed us was not true." I was stunned by what he said.

"What? How? Did he say?" I asked him in disbelief.

"In the first days when I knew that nothing could happen to us, I almost went crazy thinking how I could wait for a hundred years, especially when you are within reach. It's harder to wait when I'm by your side, Claret, but in the following days I don't know why I suddenly remembered something..." I just stared at Zen while listening to him.

"Remember?" Why did he stop?

"I've witnessed Homer and his mate having sex when I was a kid. Her mate was the first woman from the prophecy during their time." I just stared at what Zen said.

"You're watching?" I shouted loudly. How could Zahara and Homer let a child see what they were doing?

"I am not; that was an accident. I'm glad they didn't notice me," he said to me with a smile.

"Why didn't you tell me that you already knew? Why did you let us argue?" I asked him again.

"I let Dastan do what he wanted to do; I deserved it. I was just following my brother's wishes. I thought when First, he likes you too; you are the dream of every male vampire in this world, Claret. You are not just the girl from the prophecy; you're beautiful, powerful, and kind-hearted. And I know even a king will fall for you, but I know all the truth. "My brother is still in love with Elizabeth, and he's doing this whole thing out of revenge." I put my hand on his chest.

"At least you're fine now," I said softly.

"Yes, and I'll support him no matter what happens. He's not just my king but my big brother." I bit my lip at what he said.

"Zen, I can't believe I'm hearing this from you." I smiled at him.

"I can't believe I can say this either," he answered me before he kissed me on my forehead.

"I love you, Prince Zen."

"I love you, but there's someone else here." Zen got up quickly. I immediately noticed the flying chunk of ice where our clothes were hanging.

We both started to get dressed while I felt the aura of the vampire on this same island. It is not just one, but four.

"Stay here, Claret."

"No! I'll go with you, Zen," I said emphatically while holding his hand. I couldn't sense the danger in the aura of the four vampires, but I wouldn't let him go alone.

Zen and I held hands while coming out of the tree, and when we finally got out, I immediately frowned when I saw the four women who had been appointed before.

They quickly came to me with tears in their eyes.

"What the hell is happening?" Zen asked, which was not answered by the four.

"He's been caught, Claret; Danna is already in Sartorias. He will burn the entire kingdom." I just held my mouth with my itchy hands.

Fuck! Why did I let myself have fun when I still have this problem? Oh, Danna. I am so sorry. damn "We need to go," I said emphatically to Serena.

"You can't; no one will leave until the woman who killed my father has been killed." We both turned around at Zen's words.

"Zen! She didn't kill your father!" tough answer "She did; that girl was just circling you because she knows people are soft." I felt the temperature starting to cool and ice forming around the five of us.

"What are you doing, Zen?" she frowned when I asked.

"Don't make me do this; I don't want to fight with you. Don't leave this island; she deserves to be killed."