Chapter 128 CHAPTER 128
ALIRA'S POV
It's been two weeks since Zade and I jumped into that portal and came back to earth.
I still felt a slight sense of accomplishment that I did that and so far, it's been so calming not looking over my shoulder, scared shitless of Kovar coming out of the shadows and trying to kill me.
Or the leech.
Or whatever it was that's constantly trying to poison me.
That relief is the only positive part of this and of course, the endless amount of sex Zade and I indulge in. Although I'm scared it's becoming a coping mechanism.
I found a job waiting tables. Whatever ban had been placed on my CV didn't disappear because I went down a portal and met dragons, so I was back to scrounging for daily living.
Thankfully, Zade's gold got us a good amount of money but I didn't want to squander it. Who knew if we'll ever have to run?
Mr Rowland was proof that we weren't safe here, he's always asking me questions and I'm so tired of telling Zade to stop indulging him.
But I guess he's no longer the Zade that was content being quiet and alone anymore.
He's tasted the sunlight and won't go back to the dark and I can't make him.
So I have to plan for eventualities.
This weekend, we'll be going to the library. It's time to swallow my fears and face the fact that my Mom might not be who I think she is.
“Alira!” I jerked back to see our cook looking at me.
I checked immediately to see if my scales had come to view but they were safe in the sweats I wore properly. It was a hassle refusing the uniform everyone else wore but I created a medical report and a few streams of tears.
“Your hand!” Emil pointed and I turned to see I'd placed it on the burner.
“Oh,” I pulled it back and then remembered what she was exclaiming about. “Ouch!” I yelled, flinging my hand and running to the tap.
“What were you thinking?”
“I.. I don't know,” I whispered, pulling out tears from my tear ducts.
“You know you can talk to me right?” She said, coming closer. I turned the hand away from view, there are no burn marks and that'll raise questions.
“I'm fine Emil. I miss my Momma, that's all.”
“Well don't be trying to go up to her so quickly. We still need you here.”
“I wanted to heat up the sauce so I can serve table twelve,” I chuckled, “I didn't see you.”
“This kitchen won't be the death of me. I had to pee so I went. If Anna won't employ more help, that's her business. I won't kill myself.”
“I support that motion,” I laughed.
“Go on out, I'll have the orders ready in a few minutes.”
I nodded and left with my affinity for hot surfaces.
It's been difficult adjusting in that way too. Sometimes I heat up the house so much that for a normal human, it'll be like walking into the proverbial hell but that's the only way we can sleep soundly.
One sun was just not enough for us.
It's probably another reason why we have sex a lot.
And the fact that we're not exercising or training as much.
Like wild animals being domesticated all of a sudden.
When I got home, Zade was playing a video game with Mr Rowland.
He was fully clothed while the human was in his boxers, sweating and fanning himself.
“Sunshine! You're back,” he dropped the remote and ran to me, scooping me off the ground and we momentarily forgot the stranger in the house.
“Alright, that's my cue to get the fuck out before you both begin going at it before me again.”
I chuckled as I watched Mr Rowland rush out of the house. He knows how fast clothes come off in this house, per experience.
“You've scared him out of his damn mind,” Zade chuckled, still clutching me tightly.
Just a few hours away from each other and it felt like my heart was developing tiny cuts.
I don't want to say how my absence from the other men affects me. I drink a lot of water and hyper focus on the one who chose me.
And a bit of yoga here and there, and okay, maybe I feel like going crazy once in a little while but everything is under control.
I think…
“How was your day? Did anybody try to touch you?” He asked a little too aggressively.
Since I told him about my night at the other bar, he's tried following me to work more than three times but I successfully stopped him.
Sometimes I'm tempted to allow him out so he can understand what exactly I'm trying to avoid but the repercussions of that are unprecedented and unpredictable.
“Nobody touched me, baby. Can you do that?”
“Do what?”
“Touch me? I've missed you.”
“You had me for breakfast this morning and dinner last night. I'm sure we sneaked in a midnight snack as you like to call it,” he whispered, his voice buttery and seductive while his hands travelled to my butt.
“It's not my fault you're very delicious,” I replied, biting his nipple.
He sizzled as the action made him weak in the knees. We did pleasure mapping on one of the days we were talking about human sex and I discovered a few spots that earn me exciting responses, such as this and I always take advantage of it.
It didn't take much to have him naked, and he pulled mine down quickly too, and the second his cock pushed into my pussy’s grabby hold, I forgot everything that bordered me.
How nothing felt normal anymore, how I was cold all the time, Zade was losing his glow, I was struggling to keep us fed and we weren't eating as much as we used to back in Drakkonia and how my Chi was misbehaving.
His too but he's had years to control the thing.
Mine was bound ever since that fire incident and now it's suddenly free in a world without magic. I felt it reaching out for it, but each time it got nothing in return and I suffered for it.
But now, as Zade moved deeper inside of me, none of that mattered.
I'm home.