Lion and I are passionately kissing each other in the bathroom as we tried to remove each other's clothes.
He licked my neck as he told me how he was that close to killing the unicorn earlier.
Surely he did not mean that....
Then I saw his eyes.
Good thing he managed to restrain his anger.
He gave me kisses all throughout my neck and chest, licking my mating mark with him when we heard a loud knock on the door.
Lion sighed deeply before giving me a soft kiss in which he fixed his pants before going out.
I began to bathe, singing some sort of a love song in which I heard the door open and several footsteps coming inside the bedroom.
Lion went inside the bathroom while holding a robe in which he told me that the attendants are here to help me change. His eyes are staring at me with intense desire as I continued to bathe while looking at him, smirking as he began to pant.
I took my time washing my body in which when I saw him trying to remove his pants, I hurriedly went towards him and wore the robe that he is holding.
He seemed to forget that the attendants are waiting in our bedroom.
Or not?
He whispered into my ear and told me that it won't take long as the attendants are waiting for me.
Seriously?!
He positioned himself behind me in which his pants fell on the floor.
True to his word, it didn't take long.
....
Lion sat on a chair as he watched me getting dressed by the attendants. I can feel myself blushing as he smiled tenderly at me, telling me how I managed to capture his heart again and again.
Oh, stop!
The attendants are grinning at me as they enthusiastically asked Lion for his opinion as they styled my hair.
Several kinds of hair accessories appeared on his palm in which he stood at my back and put them on my hair.
The attendants giggled while Lion simply embraced me from behind, speaking words of desire towards me.
Then the attendants left in which I did my makeup while Lion changed his clothes.
He tried to match the color of his clothes with my attire while telling me that we should buy a lot of matching clothes during our free time.
He's so adorable.
I chuckled then told him to sit on my chair as I want to comb his hair.
He obediently followed me in which he has a huge smile on his face while I gently combed his hair, singing a love song about a woman telling her lover how much she loves him.
I continued singing as I braided some of his hair then embraced him from behind when I noticed him looking like he is about to cry.
What did I do?
I sat on his lap and faced him while wrapping my arms around his neck in which he stared at me lovingly as he told me that he would sacrifice everything for me and that I owned his life, his mind, his heart and his soul for eternity.
I started to sob in which he hurriedly comforted me, apologizing for making me cry in which I passionately kissed him as he embraced me tightly.
Our kiss became deep and emotional as tears fell down on our cheeks.
I told him that I will risk everything for him, even my life and that he's my safe haven.
He then said to me that he would give up the remaining years of his long life if I die again as he cannot live with the pain knowing that we are separated from each other and that he would try to find me and be with me for eternity.
With that, we kissed each other intensely as we began removing each other's clothes.
....
The banquet had already started by the time we arrived at the throne room.
We held hands as we walked inside the throne room in which we saw the pack saving us some seats in which there are several food on the table.
I grinned and praised them for doing a great job during the training and the event in which they all apologized to me for underestimating my capabilities.
I told them that I understood as I don't have the same physical capability like them in which Sly hurriedly told me that as soon as their magical and self regeneration abilities were taken away, they became like me and that they now understood what I've been through.
Alpha then told me that it made them determined to better themselves in order to protect me better.
I told him that I appreciated it and would also do better in order to protect them too.
Orm then thanked me that because of me, he realized that he can do more and promised me that he would do what I said from this moment on without complaining.
He thought for a moment before adding that telling him to stop painting me is not applicable.
Aw.
Speaking of portraits, that reminds me of something.
I told Lion that I needed my bag in which it immediately appeared beside me.
They looked at me curiously as I rummaged inside the bag before taking out several photographs that I brought from earth.
The pack crowded around me as I told the story of each photograph in which Ghost is interested in one particular photograph where I drove my motorcycle. I gave the photograph to him in which he declared that it would be his most precious possession besides his telescope and the bracelet that I gave him, that nobody should touch it as he glared at Lion who tried to borrow it.
Orm asked for the story behind where I was standing beside the flower shop in which I told him that in our world, flowers are being sold in which the pack looked at me incredulously.
I told them that I loved flowers but as they were expensive in my previous world, I can only look at their displays in which they became silent.
I showed them a picture of me holding a bouquet of irises in which I told them that the flowers and I have the same name.
Orm asked me if he could have the photographs of me with flowers in it in which I gave it to him.
Alpha then held up a photograph of me that is surrounded by dogs in which I chuckled as I looked at his face that seems to be in dismay.
I explained to him that dogs are pets in the human world and that the humans do not mate with them.
The pack looked at me questioningly in which I explained to them what a pet is in which they all declared that they are my pets, making me laugh uncontrollably.
Good thing that I didn't have a photograph of me holding the leash of a dog.
I noticed Sly becoming silent as he stared at a photograph in which I looked at it and saw myself posting with my old training buddies.
The rest of them crowded around us as they too became silent, with Lion looking extremely sad.
Huh?
Oh!
Now I get it!
I began to laugh again in which they frowned at me.
I was the only woman among my training buddies and yes, I admit that my training buddies have extremely handsome faces and gorgeous bodies.
I nonchalantly told them that as much as I had fun with them, they have much more fun spending time with each other as partners in which I raised my eyebrow and grinned at them.
They didn't seem to get it at first then slowly, realization began to appear in their faces as they looked at me with widened eyes.
I guess those kind of partners aren't available yet in this world.
....
The pack immediately cheered up after my explanation in which Sly asked me if he could have my photo in which I'm dancing with my dance instructor that thankfully, only his hands are shown holding me.
He asked me if I could teach him whatever I was doing in the photo in which I agreed and told him that we can do it as soon as we have time. He grinned at me as he continued to look at the photograph.
Lion took the rest of the photographs in which Alpha protested as he didn't have one yet. Lion refused to give him one in which I sighed and gave him a photograph of mine that I'm trying to hide from the group in which I am cooking on a campfire with my hair looking messy as a training buddy took a surprise photo of me.
I think I gave him the right photograph as his eyes began to soften while looking at it in which he told me that we should do what I did in the photograph someday.
I told him yes in which he smiled tenderly at me, making the rest of the pack complain as they want to join also, especially Lion.
I told them of course while giving Alpha a wink in which he grinned at me.
....
I suddenly remembered the paintings I had made when I visited a national park at a country in Africa which I can't recall. Was it in Kenya, Tanzania or South Africa? I can no longer remember where.
I gave them to Lion in which I told him that's how a lion looks like back in my previous world. The rest of the pack crowded around him in which Orm looked interested at the painting.
Ghost exclaimed that he can now understand why I called him Lion as they looked kind of similar to each other, especially on his ultimate form. The others agreed as Lion continued to stare at the paintings.
A guard suddenly approached our table, signaling us to follow him that Lion held my shoulder towards him as we silently obeyed.
We were ushered inside a room where several nasty looking creatures are waiting for us.
I have a bad feeling about this.
....
I was right.
As soon as the door was locked, I felt an extreme pain on my neck in which I immediately kneeled on the floor while clutching the cuff.
It hurts! It hurts!
I cried out in pain, making the rest of the pack cry as they beg to the nasty creatures that the pain should go to them not me while Lion embraced me tightly as tears flowed from his eyes as he apologized to me again and again with anguish in his voice.
Soon I began screaming as the pain intensified while hearing sizzling sounds around my neck. Lion continued to held me tight as I felt him sobbing, while Sly held my hands as he cried too, preventing me from scratching the rest of my neck as I nearly lost my mind from the pain.
Alpha placed his head on my lap as he held my legs, preventing me from trying to kick everyone as Orm and Ghost sat behind us.
The pack formed a protective circle around me as I started to lose my mind from the pain that continued, despite the pack's cries for mercy.
After what seems to be an eternity of pain, it finally stopped yet I continued to scream in pain for a long time until my voice gave out and tears no longer come.
My body started to shake uncontrollably in which I can feel Lion wrapped a blanket around me and the pack held me tight as I continued to sob despite having no voice or tears.
Then several more creatures came inside the room in which one of them is the Leader of the Chieftain Monarch's council in which he smiled towards us triumphantly.