My Guardian - Shivani Sharma (rm book recommendations .txt) 📗

chase me, but vampires only desire one person, the one they are made for, their soul mate if you will. Mine is you.” Alia stopped breathing as he continued, “Vampires are fiercely loyal to their significant other but it is rare that they may take another other than their destined partner. My older brother had found his mate not long after he turned twenty in human years and has been happy since. I, on the other hand, grew tired of wondering where you were, so I found a sorcerer and asked him to find you. He told me you had centuries to be born and the only clue he gave me was that she would have a cherry blossom shaped birthmark on her neck and be of royal blood in the Knight clan and daughter to Elena.

 

“I had been close to the castle since your great-great-grandmother was Queen, and your great-grandmother hit on me and I hid from her and waited in the shadows until I met your mother. I told her I was waiting for you and I was eager for her to conceive a daughter, she and Sara were skeptical I could tell, but when she told me she was pregnant I was rejoicing. Sadly, your mother died before I could thank her, and since then I have been waiting and watching you and as I have I had fallen in love with you.”

 

He saw her eyes widen before they seemed to close, “I can’t say I’ve fallen in love with you,” she opened her eyes to look deep into his, “but there is one thing that I do love about you…” Jared waited for her to carry on, “your voice. It’s always helped me sleep at night, haunted my thoughts about what you could possibly look like.”

 

“Alia,” he said lightly, “I want you to stay with me. Even if you cannot love me in return,” she heard the desperation in his tone. “I will give you everything you want, the love you deserve, which I promised myself and your mother you would have the day you were born. I will protect you with my life, my very being should it come to it. I will not force you into anything, if you wish to leave now I let you go without question and let you fall in love with someone of your own choice…no matter how much it breaks me. I will live alone if you choose to be elsewhere; you alone will have my heart, no other woman will I see. My eyes are only for you and only have been. What will your decision be?”

 

The Ellwood waited for her answer, he was eager to hear what she would choose. ‘I don’t want to lose her…’ she seemed to be debating quite hard with herself her eyebrows scrunched together and she bit her lower lip. If this was to be the last time he was with her, so be it, but he would hold her as long as possible. Then he tightened his grip.

 

Digesting everything he had said, from his past and to how he found out about her and how he waited for her touched her. He did seem devoted to her with his confession. And when he said he wanted her to be with him she felt warm and fuzzy, and when he said if she wished to leave, he’d let her…she didn’t know what to say to that. He was giving her a choice. Creasing her eyebrows together, she thought, ‘He has been so kind to me, even over the years, I love his voice,’ biting her lip. ‘Perhaps I could come to love him in time.’ She blinked when she felt his embrace become stronger. When she had seen his anguished expression her heart ached, she may not love him because she knows nothing about him, but she knew this was killing him.

 

“Jared,” she said softly.

 

Her gentle voice broke the vampire from his inner turmoil of her possible rejection. She stared up into his dark eyes, hand replaced upon his face and her thumb rubbing his thin lips and her gaze flickering to them before returning to stare into his orbs, which watched her movements with such intensity. “Perhaps in time I can love you, will you let me get to know you?”

 

“If that is your wish.”

 

“Then I will stay with you, and if everything turns out, I will fall in love with you just as you have with me.” Alia smiled at her vampire, taking notice of his relieved expression. “But before I go, can I leave Sara a message?”

 

“Of course,” Jared said, “and if it pleases you, she can come along. There is plenty of room.” With that, the Ellwood vampire carried her in his arms and dashed through the trees toward the Knight castle with haste, eager to take her with him so he could protect her and show her how much he loved her, and he prayed, that she would eventually come to love him in return.

 

Saying goodbye

(Jared P.O.V)

 

“Alia,” I said lightly, “I want you to stay with me. Even if you cannot love me in return,” I said in desperation. “I will give you everything you want, the love you deserve, which I promised myself and your mother you would have the day you were born. I will protect you with my life, my very being should it come to it. I will not force you into anything, if you wish to leave now I let you go without question and let you fall in love with someone of your own choice…no matter how much it breaks me. I will live alone if you choose to be elsewhere; you alone will have my heart, no other woman will I see. My eyes are only for you and only have been. What will your decision be?”

 

I waited for her answer, I was eager to hear what she would choose. ‘I don’t want to lose her… If this was to be the last time he was with her, so be it, but he would hold her as long as possible.’ I thought and then tightened my grip on her.

 

“Jared,” she said softly.

 

Her gentle voice broke me from my inner turmoil of her possible rejection. She stared up into my dark eyes, hand replaced upon my face and her thumb rubbing my thin lips and her gaze flickering to them before returning to stare into my orbs, which watched her movements with such intensity.

 

“Perhaps in time I can love you, will you let me get to know you?”

 

“If that is your wish.”

 

“Then I will stay with you, and if everything turns out, I will fall in love with you just as you have with me.” Alia smiled at me. And I take a breath of relief. I am more than happy that my mate has accepted me and decided to stay with me.

 

“But before I go, can I leave Sara a message?” she asks.

 

“Of course,” I said, “and if it pleases you, she can come along. There is plenty of room.”

 

With that, I carried her in my arms and dashed through the trees toward the Knight castle with haste, eager to take her with me so I could protect her and show her how much I loved her, and I prayed, that she would eventually come to love me in return.

 

“You will make friends where we go, others like myself who will not harm you.”

 

She looks up at me, “I know you’ve always wanted someone to talk to.” I answered her questioning stare, glancing down at her.

 

“They are quite friendly, and I haven’t seen them for a while. I’ve remained by your castle for years and they were usually the ones who came to see me.”

 

“I would like that,” she snuggled closer to me, her face in the crook of my neck and the male could feel her breath hitting my skin and he shivered lightly.

 

Upon arriving at the castle, I reluctantly released the girl from my arms and hid while she spoke with Sara, who appeared with the princess in the garden where I was waiting.

 

“You’re taking her now,” Sara stated, knowing.

 

“I am,” I reply, “she has agreed to come with me.” My voice rang through the garden, unseen in the cherry blossom tree I was fond of.

 

Alia turned to Sara who was the only mother-figure she had, “I wanted to ask if you wanted to come with me.”

 

After a moment of contemplation, she smiled, placing a hand to her shoulder.

 

“I had promised to watch you and your sister, but I guess I turn over part of that job to I. He’ll watch over you, and I’ll have to remain here to watch over your sister…” her tone was sad.

 

She was dismayed, her only friend wouldn’t come, upon seeing the Sara reassured her, “We will meet again, Alia.”

 

Turning her saddened gaze up, Alia had seen something she had never noticed before. Barely there sharp teeth pointing through the woman’s lips, “You’re a vampire too.”

 

“That explains it,” I said, “I knew there was something off about you.”

 

“You were too stuck on Alia being born you never realized I was kin,” Sara snorted.

 

“Well forgive me for not wanting to be alone,” I growled and hid my face as I realized what I had said, a slight blush on my cheeks.

 

Sara grinned and Alia looks at me with a wide-eyed.

 

“I’m always last in everything compared to my brother,” he whimpered.

 

“Let’s leave now, ” I said and turned my attention back to my mate, my embarrassment is forgotten.

 

“You’re ready?” I ask.

 

Smiling she nodded, “Of course. I don’t need to bring anything do I?”

 

“Everything will be provided,” I grinned, suddenly appearing before her, very close she blushed.

 

“You look beautiful when you blush.” He said again, smirk now on my face, one she couldn’t get enough of.

 

Sara watched them, enjoying the interaction between them, but remained silent. And after so long, they kept staring at each other, she broke it, “A King always needs a Queen.”

 

Alia looked at me more, “King?”

 

“Of course Alia,” Sara continued, smiling, “I am one of two princes, he’s to be the King, my brother is the High King.”

 

There was silence while she thought of them. “It’s true, Alia,” I said, looking away.

 

“But if you wish to leave or see me as no more than a friend I will have no other woman. I won’t even look at one. Besides, you’re different from all of them.”

 

“You should get going; the guards will be changing their shifts soon.” Zara interrupted.

 

“Sara…” the princess was close to tears, as she quickly embraced the woman.

 

“As I had said, we will see each other again.”

 

“That will be a lifetime in human years; I’ll be close to being dead or will be.”

 

Grinning Sara answered, “Not if you become a vampire like I, and if you choose another he can make you immortal without changing you.”

 

“Let’s go, Alia, you will see her again, I promise you.” The Ellwood grabbed her delicate hand, eager to get her away from the palace that brought her no fond memories other than the medic.

 

“Go Mi’lady, be happy.” I pulled her on my back her legs to my hips and my arms underneath with her arms wrapped around