Witch's Daughter And The Devil's Son

"Dray?" whisper left her lips as she could not come up to call him by the other name. She didn't know how Erebus would react if he got to know she had recognised him.

'Will he disappear again if I call his name? I...I want to see how he looks in his other form. I had only seen those dark eyes. Will he talk to me if I try to make him talk? I want to know what's in his mind and why he shows up like this and then disappears?'

"Ahh!"

He bit her lightly and licked her skin with his coarse tongue. His intentions were clear; he wanted more. Seren was determined to not give in to him and as Drayce said that she could control him, she was ready to do it.

"Do you like to bite me that much? It hurts, you know?" Seren said, still not letting him know that she identified him.

As if her words worked on him, she found he had stopped.

"Will you say something? I am the only one talking and you said nothing," Seren commented.

She found his body stiffened at this. Drayce had told her that Erebus never talked. The only word he had ever said was- Mother. Seren wanted to try her luck and make him speak.

"What happened?" Seren asked and felt him loosening his hold around her.

'I want to see him. I want to see how he is reacting to what I said.' Taking advantage of the loosened hold, Seren slowly turned around and faced him.

Seeing her turn around, he took a step back which gave Seren an opportunity to observe him. She looked at the handsome face of her husband. The face and the body were the same but the aura around him was different. Drayce gave out a sense of brightness while Erebus was a darkness.

His dark emotionless eyes watched her as she observed him boldly. It was impossible for her to see through him or guess what must be in his mind.

'He can not hurt me. I don't have to be afraid. Though he is not Dray, he is my husband as well.'

Seren took a step closer to him while he took a step back. 'He was the one to show up and tried to be closer to me but now when I am doing the same, what is he afraid of? There is no reason for him to be scared of me, then what is he worried about?'

She didn't mind his action and instead took a step ahead once again and he had no place left to move back as the railing of the crow nest stopped him. As she was close and was looking at him straight in his eyes, there was finally some change in those dark irises as if he was puzzled as well as shocked by her action.

Seren moved her one hand up and touched his cheeks gently, her fingers caressing it to feel if it felt the same when she did it with Drayce. Touching him felt the same but somewhere it still gave her a feeling that he was not Drayce. She didn't know why or how but she could differentiate them even with her eyes closed, simply by being at their sides.

'Is it because I am their wife?'

She felt his body stiffen under her touch as his eyes observed her closely. It was the first time both of them were seeing each other clearly and under the dark starry sky and that pleasant moonlight, it felt intimate.

'I thought I would be scared but...I feel like to be closer to him...I want to be with him...' Seren's eyes didn't leave his eyes even for a moment as she felt like those dark, emotionless eyes could suck her soul. She felt a need to be closer to him than she could be.

As she continued to caress his cheek, she spoke in a low and gentle voice, "I want you to say my name."

Even though he heard her, he simply stared at her blankly. To her, he looked like a harmless being who was simply lost and she wanted to tame him.

"Can you?" she repeated. "I am tired of hearing my Queen, Your Majesty. At least you should say my name." She was careful not to call his name as she was worried he would disappear the moment she showed she had recognised him.

He didn't look like he would say her name and instead pulled her closer by holding her hand that was caressing her cheek and his other hand moved to the small of her waist. His emotionless dark eyes flickered as he looked at her intensely. He freed her hand and moved his hand to the veil that was covering the lower half of her face which scared Seren.

'Does he know he can't see my face? Is he aware of the promise Dray had made to me?' She found his hand about to remove her veil which panicked her and she almost cursed herself for acting recklessly, not knowing what could be the consequences if she didn't distance herself from Erebus.

"You can not....uhmm..."

Her veil was gone but his eyes were closed as he kissed her. Seren was shocked but felt relieved that he had closed his eyes. For a moment she thought if he was Drayce but then....the way he kissed her was different from how Drayce did.

Drayce would always be gentle at the start to comfort her but Erebus was always rough and intense while kissing, not allowing her to even breathe. As if he kept forgetting she was a human and needed to breathe.