The next day Freya sat in her room reading a book as she tried to get Lucien out of her mind. She hadn't seen him since the vampires tried to take Hope and she had decided that it was a good thing. She needed to be focused, to have no distractions.
Lucien was some pain in the arse million something year old vampire, too arrogant for his own good, though darn right handsome, but that didn't matter. She needed to forget about him and her desires. To protect her family, that was what she needed to do.
Trying to focus on the text in front of her she looked blankly at the page of her book.
A whooshing sound is what alerted her as Lucien now stood before her.
She let out a gasp as she met his eyes "You could have, I don't know KNOCKED" she sounded pissed as she got up from the bed, placing her book on the nightstand.
"What's the matter love?" he asked as he walked closer to her, reaching out her grabbed her waist and pulled her to him.
She sighed as she let him, looking at the way his hands went around her waist. She pulled out of his hold after a moment "I thought we could continue where we left off" he smirked at her, reaching out for her again but she moved away.
"Lucien, you have to forget about us, we are never going to happen, okay?" she looked over to him with an unreadable expression on her face.
"Why the change of heart sweetheart?" he asked.
"They nearly took Hope. They did take her, if it weren't for my sister they would have her. It's my job to keep her safe, especially with Nik and Elijah gone. I need to be alert and I wasn't. I was stupid and I can't ever be again, not when her life is in danger"
"It's not your job to watch her all the time" he argued.
She now stood looking out of her window, watching as people flurried by "I knew Nik and 'Lijah were out of town, he asked me to protect them and I should have realised something like this would happen"
"Her mother is a hybrid. Her whole family are supernatural, it's not just up to you"
"Don't you get it" she turned her gaze back to him "I searched for this family for over a thousand years, I can't lose them" she walked back over to him "Me and you, a witch and a vampire, it'd never work" she uttered "I'm pretty sure most, if not all of my family hate you"
"You're really willing to scarifie your happiness for that of your families?"
"If it means keeping this family whole then yes, anyway it's not like we would have been anything more than just a fling, a cheap one-night stand" she averted her gaze so not to see his reaction to her words. She knew by the way he was with her that it would've been much more than that, it WAS much more than that but she had to put a stop to it before it even began. To keep her family safe.
He'd be lying if he said her words didn't hurt because they did "Your family won't be in danger forever love"
"Don't count on it" she mumbled before turning away from him. Within seconds Lucien was gone and she was alone again.
She went about her day. Busying herself. Doing anything but think about him, a few times she had a weird feeling of someone watching her but she shook it off. Paranoia was not a trait for her.
Eventually day turned to dusk, dusk turned to night as Hayley had insisted on going to the bayou with Hope. Of course Rebekah had insisted on going with her much to Freya's delight because she was not going to let them go out there alone and she knew her sister was more than capable at keeping them both safe.
Freya sat at home alone as she raided the liquor cabinet. Eventually going up to bed, she drifted off to sleep thinking about a certain vampire. How his lips were equally soft and rough against hers. How his hands felt on her skin. Her body came alight with every touch, every kiss. How so handsomely charming he was.
