Free Forgotten Royalty (Escaping The Throne) by Tiffany Wood Page A

woke up the next day, I looked all around my room for Damian. I
couldn’t find him. He said he wasn’t leaving. I got out of bed and got dressed.
    What time was it? Crap! Aunt Lynn didn’t wake me up and it was already
ten o’clock. Damian probably woke up early and went to school. I smelled eggs
in the kitchen. Aunt Lynn probably stayed home since I was still here. I got
dressed and walked to the kitchen. To my surprise, it wasn’t Aunt Lynn making
the eggs, it was Damian.
    “You’re still here? I thought you left.”
    He takes the eggs off of the stove and turns around. He walks over to
me, grabs me around the waist and lifts me onto the counter. “Where else would
I have to go? I don’t want to be anywhere unless I’m with you.”
    I look into his eyes. He kisses me softly. Then he buries his head in
my chest.
    “Wait, what about Aunt Lynn?”
    He laughs and lowers me back off of the counter. “I snuck outside
before she finished in the bathroom this morning and waited for her to leave. I
wasn’t about to get you in trouble.”
    That was a relief. He walks me over to the table and sits me down. He
brings me some eggs and toast and then gets me a tall glass of O.J.
    “What’s with the royal treatment? Wait, better question, what happened
to me last night? You said you knew what you were doing when you made it stop.”
    He looks down at the plate. “Well first, you need to get your strength
back after puking all of your dinner and half of yesterday’s lunch out last
night. As for what happened to you, or rather what’s happening to you, that’s a
longer story. Remember how you’ve felt each time you’ve kissed me? Each time it
gets more intense, right?” He waited for my reply.
    “Yeah, why?”
    He looks straight at me. “You found out yesterday that I’m a werewolf.
What if I told you that you had similar genes in your blood?”
    Now he was being crazy. “I think Aunt Lynn would have told me if I was
a werewolf.”
    He kinda laughed. “She doesn’t know. Your dad was full blooded. Your
mom didn’t have any of our genes. Your dad would have explained it to you when
you hit puberty if he had been around. We don’t go around announcing ourselves
and some of us reject what we are totally by marrying mortals. When this
happens, the offspring can either become a werewolf or live a normal life.
Since I met you, your senses have been heightening. Each time we kiss,
something else enhances. This is your body’s natural response to having a male
werewolf around. You find yourself more and more attracted and can’t stay away.
I told you I didn’t want to do this to you last night because I knew how close
you were getting to the next stage.”
    I take a bite of my eggs. “So, what’s the next stage?”
    He shook his head. “I was afraid you would make me explain that. Well,
I guess I made my bed; I may as well lay in it. The changes you’ve been going
through prepare you to mate with one of us. Your body senses the attraction and
there is a chemical reaction from our pheromones. If I hadn’t stopped us last
night, we could have gone all the way. Yeah, you thought you wanted it at the
time, but I didn’t want to be the one that you looked at in the morning and
thought, oh my God, what did I do?” He dropped his gaze to the floor now.
    “I know that you haven’t done that before. We can smell the difference.
If I knew for sure that you wanted me to, nothing would have stopped me. I just
couldn’t take that from you without you knowing everything. It would be like
using a date rape drug.” He kept his head down now. He was ashamed of himself.
“I almost let you convince me that you really did want it and that it had
nothing to do with the hormones. I know I was right though. When you started
having the seizures in the bathroom, it confirmed it. When you get intense like
that, and you don’t finish, your body goes through a withdrawal like it would
from drugs. You suddenly purge your system of