Captured Love

Chapter 6

I was dreaming of the beautiful garden he lead me to, foreign beautiful flowers with petals scattered about in the breeze. His back facing away not far from me was walking among the colorful greenery at a steady pace. I followed his tall silhouette deeper and farther than I thought was possible for a simple atrium. Then again nothing was ever as it seemed in this place. Doors would magically appear and disappear at the wave of a hand. The ancient artifacts I had seen previously showed no origin relation to anything I had ever studied in university.

The images floating through my mind seemed to be my brain trying to process the events of the morning. In my dream the more I tried to follow him the more distance grew between us till eventually he was gone and I was all alone left in a foggy forest.

"Evelyn, come to me" my dreamworld started to fade out as I could hear a voice calling my name. It was him, his voice.

I sat up gasping as if my body only now was able to breathe. Looking around in a panic I had nearly forgotten where I was. The man was sitting across the room reading a large leather bound book. I suppose feeling my eyes on him he looked up and spoke.

"You appear to have only just fainted from high stress anxiety. It is recommended you rest in bed for now till your body has calmed. Once you are stable enough we can then continue our ceremony of union."  After he finished talking he lowered his head back into reading the novel he held.

"Who exactly are you?" I questioned his identity incredulously. There was no way a normal person like that what was described in his bio was him. The dating profile of Emerson was an average joe who's hobbies included hiking, fishing, archery and gardening. Looking back I now realize the last activity should've been the red flag considering most guys wouldn't be caught dead tending to flowers. I had a sneaking suspicion however that the whole profile was a fake and he was using a false identity.

"I am Amias guardian of this realm and you are to be my companion a helpmate Evelyn. We are to fulfill our duties in maintaining the balance in the human world vs the spirit world."

I know I thought of him as crazy, but that is only because that's all I'm hearing coming out of his mouth.

"When you say spirit world do you mean like the dead or the afterlife?" He shakes his head. Amias now that I know his true name closed his book vanishing into thin air. I couldn't believe it even with my own eyes.

"We are currently in the spirit world, our realm now." Palm opening up, a hologram like screen shoots out flipping through images like a computer textbook.

"Since the beginning entities like myself have existed. Spirit kings is the title we are given from the fae people. They are a species coexisting in your world along with other sentient beings. You unlike them are purely human, as is most of the time when our other half is chosen from birth." Sucking in a breath I tried controlling my anxiety from rising.

'I know I'm not crazy, but I'm starting to believe him. How else could he be performing all this like magic. I know technology is advanced however not to this extent. Magic is the only explanation I can think of.'

"Let's say I believe what your saying now,  what does this all have to do with me? From the sounds of it 'bonding/having sex' with someone could've been with anyone to become your companion. " Amias shakes his head again.

"Are you not listening to what I just spoke. Our helpmate is chosen since birth. No one can just become our companion other than the one who is born for the role. You Evelyn are my bonded companion and once our union is complete you will be the equivalent to my Queen."