ADRIEN MORGAN
"Hear me out my love." I begged. "Please let me explain."
In all the past seven months I've been with Julian,I had never seen him this livid. He had snapped and what hurts most is the fact that I'm the cause of it all.
Julian had jumped out of bed at the mention of why I was in the state I was in earlier, and that was not the whole of it. He kept yelling at me,asking why I didn't think to call him once or at least drive back home and not come running in the middle of the downpour as I had. He was so devastated that I couldn't blame him for his reaction and he couldn't even let me explain to him the depth of today's situation. He kept asking question after another that he barely gave me space to answer any of his questions. And I couldn't blame him for it either,he had all the right to be mad at me.
He was right about one thing though,I wasn't in my right mind when all that happened.
"So now what? C'mon,tell me!" Julian demanded.
"It's about the dream you had!" I yelled back, and he paused. "Yes,I have an idea about what that dream you had meant. Or rather I know what it's about." I was now panting and so was Julian,he had been taken back by my words. The look in his eyes showed that he was having wheels of questions moving around in his head.
"And how does my dream affect you. How does it have anything to do with you?" He asked,quite marveled this time round,but still mad.
"Do you promise to listen to me,no interruptions from your side at least until I'm done?" I asked,he nodded. "I promise to tell you every bit of truth I know without living out any thing,so please,hear me out my love." I gave him my word.
We sat down at the edge of my bed,while holding hands and eye contact. We both calmed down a bit and I inhaled deeply before I started telling him my story.
"This is the story of my life. My name is Alekzandá,eldest of three children. I'm from a kingdom far from here,where My father, Giuseppe is the king and my mother Sienna is the queen. My brother Azrael is the last born while the middle one you have not yet met,is called Alekzaviá.
That makes us princes,all together." There was a loud gasp from Julian,so I paused. I was hoping he would have a question on the introduction but he just signaled for me to go on.
"Where I come from,people age differently from the people of the land,so you will be shocked out of your skin when you find out our real age. But that's besides the point, we'll talk about it later." I said this while reading Julian's expressions,he was seriously fighting the urge to interrupt.
"Go ahead and ask." I granted him permission and he sighed.
"So how old are you?" He asked. "What next? Are you gonna tell me that you're an alien now?"
"I'm currently 193 years old,in our time but pushing 49 in human years." His breath hitched.
I chuckled a bit at the look of marvel he wore on his face. I know,this is no mood for me to be giggling but can you blame a man!
At first,Julian seemed enticed by my laughter,but later managed to get a hold of himself. He wrapped his hands around himself and scoffed before turning so his back was facing me.
"C'mon gorgeous, you're so cute,I couldn't help but chuckle a bit." I tried to touch his shoulder but he smacked it away.
"Hmph!" He turned back,now with pouty plump lips.
"Okay, okay,I'm now serious. I'm not an alien though I'm not human either." At this declaration,he turned around. "I will be giving you all details of my origin tonight,so let's continue."
I grasped the palm of his right hand and squeezed it a bit,making him look me in the eyes and nod. That was my cue to continue.
"Unlike humans,who hold beliefs in different deity's like gods and spirits,we hold our beliefs in a goddess. Yes,Xéna is that goddess."
Gasp
I waited for Julian to ask but he didn't. I sighed but resumed regardless.
"Xéna is a very special goddess. In all the past Millennia,she had never shown herself to anyone of our kind,at least that's what we all we know. You're the first person to be blessed with her appearance, even when you're not of our kind."
I could see the wheels turning in his head as realization dawned upon him.
"You are a very special human, Jules. You are indeed one of a kind and that's not the end of it all."
"There's more?!" A frown appeared between his eyebrows.
"Yes my love, there's more." I exhaled.
"A few centuries back,Xéna bestowed her knowledge upon a high priest, from back home. It was a prophecy,he said that; "A son shall be born to my mother and father, who will bore the symbol of the goddess on his skin. He shall be the bearer of the goddess' flag in a war that would be fought in the future when chaos breaks out between various supernatural species against humans. He shall be the spine of our kingdom, with him we shall rise victors or fall to damnation. His name shall be Alekzandá: The savior."
"So, you're that Alekzandá?!" I nodded. "Where's the goddess' mark on you?"
I released Jule's hand and unbuttoned the satin shirt,pulled down the pants and boxers on one side, exposing the birth mark on my waist. Gently, Julian touched the dark patch,tracing it with his soft fingers as of trying to tattoo it in his memory.
"I was wondering why you had a tattoo of a Trident on your hip. And it's the only one on your whole body." He mumbled under his breath while making this statement but I heard it.
The birthmark slowly started tingling and glowing differently releasing a light bluish light at the contact.
This left both of us in utter shock. Julian instinctively retracted his fingers from my mark and the tingles as well as the glow suddenly died down.
"Does it do that often?" Julian asked,while hugging his hand to his chest.
I shook my head no, "It's the first time for me as well."
Julian's confused gaze reluctantly brushed over my mark and then,before it could register,his fingers returned to my birth mark and he gently stroked over it. I wonder if he even has a single idea what his mild touch is doing to me.
Each time there was contact between his smooth fingers and my mark, the tingling sensation grew. A simple gesture had suddenly turned into arousing and if I didn't retract Julian's fingers for him,we could end up in a different awkward situation.
"Okay, love, enough of the that. How about we resume?"
He nodded.
"So as I had told you, when my parents saw the mark on my hip, they named me as the Goddess had ordered. They had my other brothers later on and none of them bear the same mark as I. So at the age of ten, I started on my training. They started preparing me for the war that nobody knew when it would start. I had enough of it when I reached my prime and decided to leave home with Azrael. To come look for our mates."
"Who now? Mates! Are you werewolves?"
I scoffed,he must be reading a lot of webnovels.
Of all things I said, finding our mates is what caught his attention the most.
"No, we're not. But it doesn't mean that I'm invalidating their existence or something, our kind is different from them. Even better."
"Ohh! Okay, continue."
" So that's how we came here and started
learning the ways of humans,and with enough experience,we started establishing ourselves on land. We have made enough for ourselves and I was the pioneer for MGN.Inc. I retired and gave way for Azrael to step in as the new CEO. All the Hotels and malls we've been to are privately owned by us. We also have private resorts among other businesses."
" Okay. So where are your parents in all this? How about your other brother? Do they ever visit?"
" Yes,they do. My parents have a lot to handle but they spare some time to come pay us visits every now and then. Alekzaviá lives with them,but they will be visiting soon to come and see mine and Azrael's mates."
He gasped.
" Who is your mate?"
Julian's question made me want to slap my hand on my head. I thought he was following!
" Let me hold your hand while I tell you this,you are my mate." I held eye contact with him to show him my strict resolve. I wasn't kidding with him.
" That takes us back to that dream you told me about about me dying if you had rejected me. The goddess was trying to ease you into this." He shook his head no,as if unable to believe his ears. Tears started welling in his big blue gorgeous eyes.
"It's true." I wiped away the tears that had started free falling from his eyes using my thumbs. "I am your fated one and you are mine, Jewel. I love you, Julian."
He pulled me into a tight hug and abruptly started wailing,he was shedding a lot of tears that I was scared until he started saying words like; "So that's what she meant. You are the fated one I found" and "Why didn't you tell me right away? Why didn't the goddess show it to me directly instead of giving me hints?"
I held him close to my chest and started rubbing small circles on his back with the palm of my hand. I didn't stop until he had regained his composure.
"I'm so sorry,my love. I delayed but now I will tell you every thing." Julian sat back up and nodded.
" So the last thing I want to tell you tonight,is the secret I have been holding onto for so long."
Julian's eyes dilated as his eagerness to find out what it was bloomed to life. " What's the secret?"
" You'll have to follow me, Jewel." I sighed, then got up and offered him my hand for him to take. This next step required me to show it to him,my identity.
I was suddenly overwhelmed by deja vu,I recalled the first time we met at the beach when he held my hand for the very first time.
Julian took my hand and I led him out of my chambers to the basement where I had a pool designed to look like a miniature version of the sea. The lighting in this basement was made to look like natural light,so it looked like mid summer afternoon despite it being so late at night.
"Wait here and watch." I made sure he understood and then sat Julian at the sandy edge of the pool.
I took steady strides into the water, balancing my breath in preparation to shift.
With one last glance at my man,I sank into the water and let it fill my pores.
My body gradually started on the shifting process and in a few minutes,my limbs were replaced by a tail and fins. My fore arms were covered in scales and the gills at the back of my head opened. I swam back to the top to find Julian before he started worrying thinking I might've drowned.
At the sight of my torso, Julian's eyes widened. He instinctively covered his mouth in shock.
He then started crawling closer to the water as if to make sure his eyes were not playing tricks on him. A loud gasp followed.
"Don't tell me that you are what I'm seeing!" He wanted to crawl back to his previous position but I didn't let him. I drew closer to the shallow water,exposing my lower half to him.
"It's true,my love. I am a Merman."
He collapsed.