The Werewolf King's Bride

(From Demetrius's Perspective)

Blue was under a lot of pressure and I had no way of taking it away. I wanted to make it our fight, not only my wife's. But in the end, Azure wanted Blue, her power, and most possibly our son. He saw no one else and wanted no one else. I even wondered if Azure would kill others if he had Blue. He was killing so Blue would give in.

It was not really a game, was it? It was just a bargain, whether Blue realized it or not.

"A bargain," I mumbled, without even meaning to do it. I had been feeling strange for the last few days. I thought Evelyn's kidnap would have less effect on me. While I did not miss her much (we never spent too much time together), I wanted her to be safe.

"What you are feeling is entirely normal," Blue told me when I told her this. "A brother is supposed to be worried about his sister."

'Except a shitty brother.' She did not say this, but I am pretty sure she thought it. She is still wearing that necklace that I gave her on her birthday and our wedding night so I would not be able to read her mind. But she did not need that anymore. She could always block me from entering her mind and reading her thoughts. However, she wore it anyway.

"It's your first gift to me. I would forever wear it," she would tell me every time I mentioned it.

I was feeding Demian from a bottle. It was one of those unusual times when he decided to not cry in my arms. It was almost like he also understood what his mother was going through and so he was giving her a break.

Blue was with Dion, reading him a fairy tale story from a book while he sat on her lap, his head against her chest.

"Then they lived happily ever after," she finished. She finished every one of those stories with the same line. I wondered if it was even written there.

Did everyone have a happy ending? For me and Blue, I thought we had a happy ending. I really did. But it was not the ending, after all. There was a story after every ending. Death, confusion, and many more things.

The story of me and Blue had barely started.

Dion and Demian had been staying in our room for a long time now. Blue and I rarely had time for ourselves. Now after all this happened, everything felt gloomy. I was not heartless, alright? After Evelyn's disappearance, truth be told, I had not been too much in the mood to have sex. I felt empty in a way.

Perhaps I cared about my sister more than I thought.

I think it was mainly because of Blue. She tried so hard trying to get me and Evelyn closer. Evelyn, Merrick, and their daughter Ava loved her. But I always thought they did not care much about me. It was not the truth now that I thought about it. Just like the way I cared about Evelyn- in an unconscious way- she also perhaps cared about me just as much.

"Seep wee Mummy," Dion said. He could talk well.

"On the bed?" Blue asked. Dion nodded furiously. Blue looked at me.

I would not lie. I actually had trouble sleeping with Dion between us. I had the habit of hugging my wife tightly when I slept. But with Dion, I could not sleep well as I kept fearing I would kick him or something.

I nodded at her. There was no reason to make things difficult for her. If I told her no, she would say no to Dion and feel bad about it the whole night.

"Alright," Blue said and Dion grinned, showing him new small teeth. Blue placed her index finger under his chin. "But first, clean your teeth and take a pee."

Dion touched his hair and stared at Blue questioningly.

"Yes, darling, I will brush your hair," she said and chuckled, although it sounded sad somehow.
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Blue rang the bell and summoned the maid who had recently started to look after Dion (in the presence of Blue or me only); we refused to let anyone be alone with any of our kids.

She took him to the bathroom.

I sat on the bed beside her. She sighed and leaned against my shoulder.

"Thanks for feeding him," she said.

"You don't have to thank me. Just because you are the mother doesn't mean the whole duty of taking care of them falls solely on you," I said.

"I know. I am grateful that you think that way," she said. "Some people… My father, back in my world'- she winched and corrected herself- 'my former world, never used to take care of either Max or me. He said it was a woman's job to take care of kids."

"He had always been shit, my love," I said.

"That's true. I know all of it. But you know, no matter how much time passes, I cannot seem to let go of that time. I keep thinking. I have stopped having nightmares, but I think about the time back then. Sometimes, I even wonder what would happen if you had not gone there to get me.

"But then again, that kind of thought are pointless. After all, you went there because Azure had it all planned. It all happened because of him. If it was not for him, we would still be strangers, with no idea of the other's existence," she said. "You would be married to someone else and have kids. I would probably be a sex slave or something."

I did not like how she talked about it. I did not like to think about what would have happened if things went differently. It was pointless. No one could change the past. What was the point of thinking about the past?

"Don't talk about that," I said. "It doesn't matter what would have happened. If you think that way, you can think of many things. For example, if you tripped over a stone, you could always wonder what would have happened if you did not trip over it. It's pointless, my darling wife, to ponder about such things. The past is the past.

We have the present and the future."

She sighed. "Yeah. But you know, if I could change the past, I would never make Reece my assistant," she said. "If he remained where he was, in the comfort and safety of his own home, he would have been alive and well.

"And I could be in peace."