The King Of Immortals [YOU GIVE ME TEMPTATION]
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Chapter 6 Scorching img
Chapter 7 I Am Not A Pet img
Chapter 8 Stop Fighting It img
Chapter 9 Tell Him That........ img
Chapter 10 Not This Way img
Chapter 11 You Are Alive img
Chapter 12 Choose!! img
Chapter 13 I Am Good Looking img
Chapter 14 And That Was Me img
Chapter 15 Need More Blood img
Chapter 16 A Hundred Years img
Chapter 17 She'll Be There img
Chapter 18 It's Not Your Fault. img
Chapter 19 I Like Your Dress img
Chapter 20 What Do I Taste Like img
Chapter 21 Do You Hate Me img
Chapter 22 Do You Hate Me II img
Chapter 23 One. Small. Lick. img
Chapter 24 I ___ You img
Chapter 25 Are We Sitting img
Chapter 26 Just Like That img
Chapter 27 Just Like That II img
Chapter 28 You Still Killed Her img
Chapter 29 Believe Me img
Chapter 30 Prove It img
Chapter 31 She's Alive img
Chapter 32 Arrogant img
Chapter 33 Faster Is Better img
Chapter 34 Lion King img
Chapter 35 Our King img
Chapter 36 To Be Saved img
Chapter 37 I Need A Purpose img
Chapter 38 Help img
Chapter 39 Her Fear img
Chapter 40 Ten Miles Away img
Chapter 41 My Son img
Chapter 42 Self Control img
Chapter 43 The Divulgence img
Chapter 44 The Divulgence II img
Chapter 45 The Divulgence III img
Chapter 46 The Divulgence IV img
Chapter 47 The Divulgence V img
Chapter 48 Werewolves img
Chapter 49 Werewolves II img
Chapter 50 Werewolves III img
Chapter 51 Werewolves IV img
Chapter 52 Werewolves V img
Chapter 53 Interjection img
Chapter 54 Interjection II img
Chapter 55 Interjection III img
Chapter 56 Interjection IV img
Chapter 57 Interjection V img
Chapter 58 Crusades img
Chapter 59 Crusades II img
Chapter 60 Crusades III img
Chapter 61 Crusades IV img
Chapter 62 Crusades V img
Chapter 63 HELL img
Chapter 64 HELL II img
Chapter 65 HELL III img
Chapter 66 HELL IV img
Chapter 67 HELL V img
Chapter 68 GUST img
Chapter 69 GUST II img
Chapter 70 GUST III img
Chapter 71 GUST IV img
Chapter 72 GUST V img
Chapter 73 HARBORAGE img
Chapter 74 HARBORAGE II img
Chapter 75 HARBORAGE III img
Chapter 76 HARBORAGE IV img
Chapter 77 HARBORAGE V img
Chapter 78 BOGEY img
Chapter 79 BOGEY II img
Chapter 80 BOGEY III img
Chapter 81 BOGEY IV img
Chapter 82 BOGEY V img
Chapter 83 PARADIED img
Chapter 84 PARADIED II img
Chapter 85 PARADIED III img
Chapter 86 PARADIED IV img
Chapter 87 PARADIED V img
Chapter 88 FREQUENCY img
Chapter 89 FREQUENCY II img
Chapter 90 FREQUENCY III img
Chapter 91 FREQUENCY IV img
Chapter 92 FREQUENCY V img
Chapter 93 FIDELITY img
Chapter 94 FIDELITY II img
Chapter 95 FIDELITY III img
Chapter 96 FIDELITY IV img
Chapter 97 FIDELITY V img
Chapter 98 LUSTER img
Chapter 99 LUSTER II img
Chapter 100 LUSTER III img
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Chapter 5 A Breader

"I know," Ethan barked. "Don't you think I'm well aware of our prophecy?"

"Yet we play right into it... every century," Alex muttered. "I thought... for a second, I thought this one would be different. It felt different, right?" The room fell silent again.

"What..." My voice was hoarse. "...what am I doing with you? Why was my number called?"

"Oh, dear..." Stephanie plopped down into a seat. "Ethan didn't explain that?"

"Again, fifteen minutes," Ethan muttered under his breath. "And she's human. It's not like her capacity for learning new information has evolved." I glared at him.

Mason chuckled, "Honey..." Stephanie reached her hand across the table and placed it on mine. "Whatever your family has taught you is a lie. You aren't here to teach us or do anything of the sort. You're... you're a breeder."

"A breeder," I repeated. "Like a horse?"

Mason laughed harder. Well, at least I knew werewolves weren't out to kill me.

Ethan swore and sat down on the other side of me, "We call numbers every fifty years to breed. Immortals cannot procreate with other immortals," he explained. "Humans are chosen based on their scent, strength..." He coughed and looked away. "Physical appeal."

"But I'm ugly," I blurted. "To you I'm ugly. We're ugly, we're nothing, we're" Ethan shook his head slowly. "And that's the greatest deception of all." His hands moved to my chin. "To us, you're not ugly. You are absolute perfection."

"To a Dark One," Mason continued, "you're life itself."

GENESIS's POV

My breath hitched in my chest as I stared at the strangers around me. What did that even mean? Life itself? I was nothing. Why would I be taught humility and self-hate my whole life only to be told by the very ones I was supposed to fear that I was life itself?

"Jealousy," Ethan said softly, "quickly turns to envy. Envy is a dangerous thing because you end up wanting so desperately what you'd never been given in the first place. The greatest sin an immortal can commit is to laugh in the face of what we are... and want." His eyes were sad. "He wants you."

"To kill me?" I whispered hoarsely.

"No." Ethan cupped my chin with his smooth fingers. "He wants to possess you and believe me when I say you'll like every part of that possession - until he leaves you. Dark Ones always leave, and you'll die."

"Maybe she's different," Stephanie said in a quiet voice.

"You'd be willing to sacrifice another?" Mason roared, slamming his fists onto the table. It split down the middle right in front of me.

Gasping, I slid my chair back and nearly fell out of it.

"How many times have we said we'd stop testing the prophecy?"

Stephanie looked down at her hands. "It's the only hope we have."

"Hope," Alex muttered. "What a sad, pathetic little word."

"We aren't letting Cassius have her." Ethan's green eyes flashed as he released my chin. "We won't repeat what happened last time."

"What happened last time?" I asked, knowing I'd probably regret the answer.

Mason's entire face crumpled with pain as he let out a howl and ran out of the room.

"Shit." Alex stared after him. "It's going to take hours to get him to come out of his state now."

"I'm so sorry." I held up my hands. "I had no idea"

"Of course, you don't," Ethan snapped. "You know nothing."

I am nothing, I hung my head.

"Be easy on her," Stephanie said in a calm voice. "She's been brainwashed for quite a while."

"Will he be okay?" I asked in a small voice. "They were" I was about to say werewolf and had to stop myself. "Mason? Will he be okay?"

"After he runs." Ethan hung his head. "Maybe if he eats something other than berries and the damn pinecones I keep finding in the upstairs bedroom."

Stephanie's lips pressed together in a small smile. "He finds comfort in the outside."

"Yeah, well, he's ruining my wood floors," Ethan grumbled.

"You live together?" I blurted.

All eyes fell on me. "All immortals live together in one sense or another." It was Ethan who kept answering my questions. "And you didn't offend Mason as much as remind him of what should have been... what could have been."

"Oh." I swallowed against the dryness in my throat. Shock must have been wearing off as I could at least feel my body again, though what I felt was shaky and weak.

"Ethan..." Stephanie glanced between us. "I know you don't like the idea, but it's the only way."

He chewed his lower lip; fangs descended from the top of his mouth. "I know."

"It's the only thing we haven't tried." Alex put his arm around Stephanie. "It won't be so bad, will it?"

What were they talking about?

And why was I suddenly feeling rejected all over again?

"It won't be so bad," Ethan repeated. "It will be absolute torture... hell rising to earth... and you ask me to do this still? Knowing what you know?"

The two of them hung their heads but said nothing, it was on the tip of my tongue to ask when the entire temperature in the room dropped. I saw my breath.

"He's close." Alex cursed. "Do it now!"

Ethan's green eyes met mine; they flashed then went completely black before he said in a low gravelly voice, "I'm so sorry."

All I felt was pain, as black overtook everything.

"I love you so much." The woman danced in the field, throwing her hands up into the air in excitement. "Say you love me."

"I love you." Ethan grinned. "Always, you know this."

"Say it again!" She laughed and threw herself into his arms.

I felt everything he felt like it was me. He wasn't just elated, he was... perfect. Life was perfect. The universe was at one with him and his mate.

"The hour grows late," he whispered against her temple. "Shall we go back to the castle?"

She pulled away and pouted. Her dark hair fell in loose waves down to her waist. "Catch me first."

"Too easy."

"Do it!" She laughed then took off ridiculously fast.

Laughing, Ethan chased her into the forest.

It was impossible not to laugh with them, not to experience the love firsthand. It was so beautiful I wanted to weep, but I couldn't feel my face or any part of my body. Maybe I was dead. But at least I'd seen true love once. It was something I'd never forget the way he held her, the way their hearts beat the same rhythm.

The scene changed, she was in a large bed. The curtains were pulled back from the window, letting in the moonlight.

"A daughter." She held the baby up in her arms and grinned. "Ethan, we have a daughter!"

Ethan's face was pure awe as he took the small bundle in his hands and whispered against the baby's head. "So perfect."

"She is."

"We did it," Ethan said with tears in his eyes. "I cannot believe it after all these years." The temperature in the room dropped.

"Quickly..." Her eyes were fearful. "Take her away from here."

"He would never harm a child." Ethan shook his head. "We can trust him."

"We can't!" she cried. "You've seen what they are capable of."

"Leave it!" he roared. "I will protect us."

The door to the room burst open as Cassius casually walked in, his eyes scanning the room with a cold detachment that caused me to shiver.

"So..." Cassius tilted his head, it looked animalistic. "You defy me?"

"She's half-human," Ethan said. "You know the rules."

"The rules..." Cassius grinned. "...and you've broken them."

"No." Ethan shook his head. "That's impossible."

The woman in the bed started to cry softly in her hands.

"Maybe you should ask your wife where her loyalty lies."

"Ethan..." she sobbed. "I'm so sorry! It was the only way! It was the only way!"

Realization dawned in Ethan's eyes as he fell to his knees. "Tell me you didn't do this, my love... tell me!" No more words were spoken.

I felt like my heart was breaking right along with his, cold green eyes met mine as if he truly knew I was there, in that heaven or hell, in the dream.

                         

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