Kaylee and Damien (6th in werewolf series)

chapter six

"When the rains blowing in your face and the whole world is on your case, I would offer you a warm embrace, to make you feel my love. When the evening shadows and the stars appear, and there is no one to dry your tears, i could hold you for a million years, to make you feel my love... There ain't nothing that i wouldn't do. Go to the ends of the earth for you. Make you happy, make your dreams come true. To make you feel my love." 'To make you feel my love' Garth Brooks

Kaylee stripped down to her black lace bra and panties and went out into the water. She took her time to make sure she got off every bit of blood and the stink of the sub demons. She grabbed her tattered jeans and scrubbed them as clean as she could before laying them over a rock in the sun to dry.

She walked out of the water and pulled on Damien's shirt. She had to roll the sleeves up several inches so she could see her hands and the bottom of the shirt hung halfway to her knees. Kaylee sat down in the sand and stretched out her long legs. She leaned back on her elbows and threw her head back, closing her eyes and letting the sun shine on her face. This place was truly beautiful.

She didn't even realize Damien was around until his shadow fell over her and she opened her eyes to see him sit down in the sand beside her. He sat cross legged with his arms resting on his knees as he stared out at the water.

"Why?" Kaylee asked after several long moments of silence.

"I thought that it was best." Damien replied.

"How could you have possibly thought that hiding that from me was best?" Kaylee asked as she raised from her elbows, brought her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them.

Damien sighed and looked over at her. Damien was over one thousand years old and he had seen everything there was to see in this world. Kaylee was not the most beautiful woman he had ever seen but there was something about the sight of her that tugged at his heart. Something about her pale skin, deep brown eyes, and soft red hair made a part of him come alive that he hadn't even been aware existed. Demons were not supposed to feel caring, or gentleness but when it came to Kaylee he felt all of those things.

Toward everything else in the world he could remain indifferent and cold but there was no use in him pretending he could do the same with Kaylee.

"I had my reasons, Kaylee." he said. Kaylee rolled her eyes and looked over at him and she saw that his blue eyes were locked on her.

"Don't you think I deserve to know what they are since it's me that you hurt?" she demanded. She saw pain in his blue eyes as he reached out and laid a gentle hand on her cheek.

"I never wanted to hurt you Kaylee."

"Well you did." she replied pulling his hand away. "And I want to know why." Damien dropped his arm back down onto his knees and looked back out at the water.

"At first I hid it because I did not understand it. Demons do not have mates. Then you acted frightened when you learned I was a demon and I continued to hide the fact that I was your mate because I did not think you would be happy to find that you were mated with a demon. Then as the years went on I hid it because I worried your family would disapprove." Kaylee took a moment to digest everything he had told her.

"If demons don't have mates then how are you my mate?" she asked. Damien shrugged.

"I don't know." he replied.

"So all these years when you've always been there every time I've needed you, it was because we were mates?" she asked and she found that she was upset by this fact. She had fallen in love with Damien without knowing that he was her mate. She had hoped that his devotion to her came from something other than a mate bond.