Free Dream of Me by Magenta Phoenix Page B

until I did. However, we found our new home was also home to others.”

    “There were other gargoyles already here?”

    He sadly shook his head. “No. They were different, but were like your people in the way they possessed a humanoid form. They called themselves Kelithians. They possessed golden hair and fair skin that was beautiful on sight. But inside they were — are dark creatures. They possess an insatiable greed and dark powers that could control the earth around them.”

    Beginning to feel more at ease, Elena rose to her feet and moved a step closer. “What happened?”

    “They wanted this entire world for their own and like the humans they saw us as the abominations of the earth. They sought to snuff out our lives, so we fought. For years we gave ourselves into bloodshed of each other. We became like savage beasts, hungry for the taste of blood and destruction. They say it was then that the Goddess finally grew angry at the constant bloodshed and decided to end it. To punish us she took away our gift to dream seek. Our ability to find our mate’s through dreams and bind them to us.”

    “That seems strange. Couldn’t you just find your “mates” in a more normal way?” she asked, making quotation marks with her fingers at the term mates.

    “We cannot discover our mates in any other way. Dream seeking forms a bond with our chosen one. It is stronger than anything on this earth. If you and I had met any other way, I would have felt the uncontrollable attraction that I feel for you but I wouldn’t know that you are mine. I would be driven mad with needing you but never able to tie your soul to mine.”

    Elena shook her head at all the information he had given her. Inside her a war waged between reason and the possibility that everything he was telling her was true. If their so called “Goddess” had taken away their ability to discover their mates, how had he found his way into her dreams? “How is it that you can come in my dreams if you lost that ability?”

    Slowly he took a step towards her. Leaving but a hair’s length between them, his hand reached out to stroke a single finger down her cheek gently as he looked down at her startled eyes. “I believe that my Goddess has shown favor to her children. In the mist of so much death, she led me to you. She has given my people a second chance and I won’t question her priceless gift. You are the first to cross over into our world which makes you incredibly valuable to my people.”

    Her lips parted wordlessly as his words caught her by surprise. “What are you talking about?”

    “You represent the hope of my world.”

    Pulling away from his caressing hand, Elena shoved a frustrated hand through her long tresses with a groan. “Look; even if I believed in all of this — and I’m not saying I do — I have a life on my own world.”

    Frowning, Kieran’s entire body became tense. “This is your world now.”

    Rolling her eyes at his stubborn attitude she planted her hands on her hips as she glared up at him. “Listen up buster, just because you and I have some type of dream-bond-mojo going on — according to you, that doesn’t mean that I plan to just drop everything I have in my own life just for you. I barely know you and you don’t know that first thing about me.”

    “I know that you are mine and anything else doesn’t matter,” he stated with a shrug of his shoulders.

    Rage and anger were too kind of words to describe what she was feeling in this moment. She liked him better in their dreams when she could pretend that he was imaginary. Did he really think that he could just drag her to some alternate world and decree that she’d live there and like it? It was ridiculous that she’d leave her business and her friends to live in a strange world with a man she barely knew.

    “I can’t stay here.” Her eyes sought to discover his reasonable nature — if he possessed one.

    Shaking his head, his hands gripped her upper