The Legacy of Kilkenny (44 page)

 
My father was right, my soul belonged to Oakley and his soul belonged to me.
 
We stood there and kissed, his head bending to kiss my neck, slowly running his finger around the edges of my bra, giving me shivers.
 
He whispered to me, “Pru, you look beautiful.”
 
We backed up to my bed and he pulled me down on top of him.
 
We kissed, our hands exploring and feelings exploding inside of me.
 
I’d never felt what it was like to love a man, I was pretty sure, I was experiencing it now. He was so attentive and considerate, we lay side by side.
 
As he gazed into my eyes telling me he couldn’t wait until we can be a public couple.
 
I close my eyes silently agreeing.
  
I could feel my eyes stinging with tears; I held them back as I should.
 
Finally the beauty of our bodies coming together as one.
 
He was my heaven.

I tried a half a dozen times to tell him how I felt, I just couldn’t.
 
Someday soon, it will be right, I can feel it.

 
A good long run was what we needed.
 
I saw the woods in a different light, it was home, it was exquisite, it was the place that I fell for Oakley.

Sleep came on fast that night, he never left my side holding me tight against him.
 
My brain relaxing; I was almost asleep when I heard my name.
 
I opened my eyes and looked around, I was alone inside Allie’s apartment.
 
Great, I was asleep but I was with him.
 
“Arien?”

“Love!
 
I was hoping you’d sleep soon, I was getting thirsty.”
 
Arien said to me as he walked across the room to stand directly in front of me.
 
He took my hand and I pulled it away.
 
“Love, what’s wrong?
 
You’re so distant tonight.”

“Really?
 
Why in the hell are you harassing me?
 
I don’t understand your obsession with me.”
 
I fumed.

“
Tsk
tsk
.”
 
He shook his head back and forth.
 
“Princess, I love our time together, I’m starting to wonder what wolf tastes like.
 
Can I have a little nibble love?”

I took a deep breath trying to remind my subconscious that I was in control of my dream.
 
“Arien, what do you want.”

“You’re just no fun sometimes. What do I want…. Hmmm, good question Princess.
 
I’d like to run my tongue across this vein right here.”
 
He took his index finger tracing a line on my neck.
 
“I’d like to know if you like it doggie style.”
 
He smirked to himself.

I went to punch him but he grabbed my fist in mid air.
 
Oh I am going to learn how to make objects appear in my dreams and stake his ass right after I ram it through his heart.

“Love, you’re being so moody tonight.
 
I’m just having a little fun.”
 
He let go of my hand and put his arms around me as I went stiff trying to make it as difficult as I could but he over powered me.
 
“Can I have a little kiss?”
 
He whispered.

“No!
 
Ohmigod
, I am so going to kill you one day, I promise you that.”
 
I felt as if my anger was going to make me explode.

His mouth closed on mine.
 
No matter how hard I tried not to, my mouth responded to him, causing all of the same tingly sensations that I get from Oakley.
Fangtastic
, vampires turn me on.
 
He must have power to manipulate
weres
, I was going to find the remedy.
 
I tried to control myself, but felt my will succumbing to his.
 
I tried to keep my body as rigid as possible but his hands in my hair and those lips and his obvious desire, I was in way over my head.
 
I looked down and I was wearing the million dollar bra from Victoria’s Secret and some string up my butt.
 
He was manipulating my dream, not just by being in it but he controlled me too.
 
I had to learn how to overpower him.
 
I missed Josie.

“You look exquisite Prudence, simply exquisite.
 
Shall we dance?
 
I’d love to feel the way you move.”
 
He snapped his finger and some romantic love song came on.
 
“Oh, I love this song.”
 
He proclaimed.

Of course he does.
 
“Leave me alone, I’m sleeping.”
 
I demanded.

“No can do love.
 
You give me the Great Wolf, I give you Allie and your dreams back.
 
Until you do that, I will continue to visit you.
 
I will continue to dress you and undress you.
 
I know you’ll like that part.”
 
He pulled me to him again and kissed me.
 
I struggled as long as I could but it was so damn tempting.
 

I’m going to wolf hell, I know it.
 
I’m the only
were
in the world that has some hot guy in her bed and dreaming about and making out with the enemy.
 
I need a priest.

I sat up gasping, Oakley sitting up with me.
 
How was I going to explain this dream.
 
He’ll be too worried about me to go with my dad if I tell him, so I opted to lie.
 
Hell was getting closer and closer to having a cell made just for me.

“It was nothing.
 
Go back to sleep.”
 
I guided him to lie down.

He flipped on the light.
 
“What’s wrong P?
 
Was he in your dream again?”

I stroked the side of his face, “No, nothing like that.
 
It was just me dreaming about a run and my prey had turned on me.
 
Go back to sleep, I’m going to journal for a few minutes.”
 
I kissed him despite his beginning signs of morning breath.
 
I guess he isn’t perfect after all.

He closed his eyes, and I heard him say, “I love you P.”

No sooner had he said it, he was snoring.
 
Of course, that is my luck, but he said it!
 
He does love me.
 
I could barely contain my excitement, my brain was too revved up to write.
 
I needed a bunny to chase.
 
I slipped out from under his arm, turned out the light and tip toed outside.

 
“Going somewhere?”
 
Shaynie said.

For the love of,
oh
whatever. I threw my hands up in the air. I’m never going to escape her.
 
“I’m going out for a run.” I was determined not to invite her along.

“Oh great, I was too.
 
I guess we’ll go together, your dad would prefer that anyway.”
 
She tossed her hair acting smug.
 
“So I’m guessing you and Oakley are exclusive huh?
 
I came home and heard you.
 
Don’t worry, your secret is safe with me.
 
I guess you’ll owe me one.”
 

OHMIGOD I was going to tear her tail off.
 
Owe her one?!
 
No way, no how.
 
What an evil little manipulative bitch she was turning out to be.
 
“Don’t worry about Oakley and me.
 
If you want to run, I guess you better shift.”

I knew it took her longer to shift than it did me, something I like to take advantage of.
 
Thankfully clothes wouldn’t be an issue for me and my t-shirt.
 
I ripped it off over my head and shifted.
 
I could hear her grunting and panting as she shifted.
 
It was becoming clear she hadn’t been doing this long.
 
How exactly did she become a wolf I wondered?
 
Was she one of those bitten wolves?
 
Interesting…. I was defiantly checking out her lineage.
 

Despite her ability to tick me off, we ran together.
 
I cleared my head and only thought about finding a bunny to chase just in case she was tuned into my thoughts.
 
One of those horrible abilities wolves do.
 
She wasn’t technically a part of us but she was a guest and we could communicate with our own and sometimes guests..

“Shaynie?”
I thought.

‘
What can I do for you?”
 
Her tone sarcastic as usual, (at least when she talked to me).

“Just checking to see if you were tuned in.
 
There is a bunny hidey hole near the pond, follow me and I’ll show you.
 
I don’t eat him and he doesn’t eat our garden so that means I don’t want you to hurt him.”
 
I knew it, she
could
hear me.
 
Dammit
.
 
I blocked out everything but the bunny.

“Really?
 
You have an agreement with a bunny?
 
Wow, you are slightly interesting Pru.”

“You’re right, I am.
 
Slightly.”
 
I was meditating later, no way around it.

My nerves were frayed, Shaynie and Arien had driven me halfway mad and now the hunting expedition was taking Oakley away.
 
I’d sent Abel a text about four in the morning to meet us for breakfast at Waffle Corner.
 
He still didn’t know about the meeting last night, just another one of those details to go over with him.

I really missed Josie, she hadn’t responded to any of my messages and she hadn’t tried to dream walk like she said she would.
 
I was starting to get worried, maybe she had heard that Oakley and I had gotten closer or maybe whatever Arien was doing was keeping her from getting in.
 
That
had
to be it.
 
Oh, I’m going to design a stake for him, the most insufferable man or vampire on earth.

After the guys left on their hunting trip, Abel and I practiced the different techniques from his sense of smell to his hearing abilities.
 
We had secluded ourselves away from Shaynie and Bryon just trying to get back to basics of his human life mixed with his wolf life.
 
Abel’s physical characteristics had changed from the first day that I met him at that FBLA meeting.
 
I remember that scrawny kid, the one with the messy hair and awkward gait, now he was sculpted with rock solid abs, more defined features and a personality that was made up of humor and wisdom.
 
There was a small part of me that missed that kid, the one with the crush on me, the one that held onto my every command. Not now, he was becoming a man and our relationship was changing from mentor to equals.

Abel and Bryon were crashed out in the family room after watching episodes of
Family Guy
so I took the opportunity to try something I had never tried with Abel… I was going to attempt entering his dream.
 
Even though the guys were cutting logs with their freakishly loud snoring I tip toed into my room so I could get into a relaxed state of mind.

One two three four, four three two one, one two three four, four three two one, one two three four… over and over until I had erased all of my stresses and could concentrate only on our connection.
 
Abel was easy to detect in the house, our proximity was going to help the dream walking for our first time.
 

“Abel?”
 
I tapped him lightly on the shoulder trying desperately not to freak him out.
 
I looked around to see where we were and realized we were inside of the school cafeteria.
 
Leave it to a guy to dream about the cafeteria.
 
He was sitting at a table alone eating chicken nuggets and ketchup.
 

“Hey Pru,
whats
crackin
’?”
 
He popped a doused nugget in his mouth.
 
“
shwit
down,” he said with a mouthful of nugget.
 
He motioned for me to sit across from him, it was obvious he enjoyed his food.