Guardian

xv. lashing out

Austin finds his warlock of a future wife inside their bedroom. She's laying in their bed with a book propped up in her lap. He closes the door and jumps into bed with her, resulting in her turning some of her attention towards him.

"You're in bed before dinner?" He questions, resulting his head on her chest. "Something up?"

"I don't want to have a wedding," she states forwardly, and his mood immediately drops. "I was not informed that formal events happen to be married. We have been... what's it called? Engaged? I don't know, but we have said we were going to marry three whole months ago. I want to be married. I should almost done with my first trimester of pregnancy. But I am not simply because of this stupid wedding."

"Well, in my defense, you're the reason we haven't had sex."

"If you impregnate me before we are married, you will be slaughtered. It is literally a necessity. Me or any past Miracle Warlocks that generate my powers, will destroy you. Me giving myself to you will latch us together forever, so they want that person to be my husband. Miracle Warlocks are still connected by blood so closely that Marie or Lian or even Hope would have the urge to kill you."

Austin sits there, sort of dumbfounded. He had thought it was just a moral planted into her that she couldn't have sex until she was married. But he realized how serious it was for her.

"Sorry, Ally, I didn't even realize—"

Ally shakes her head. "I should have told you."

They sit a peaceful quiet with Ally playing in Austin's blond strands of hair and Austin rubbing his thumb over her small stomach. Ally starts to drift to sleep when Austin kisses the space between her cleavage and gets up to shower.

"Love you." He murmurs. Austin places a kiss on her lips to which she tiredly barely responds to before he covers her with the blankets and goes to the bathroom.

—

"This town is really going crazy for your wedding, eh?" A voice says while Austin, Ally, Izabel, and Zay are eating breakfast.

They all turn their heads and see Marie, standing there with her two daughters and a few guards. "Please tell these guards that I am not danger."

Zay grin and zips over to Hope, immediately hugging her tightly. "Hope!"

Hope laughs and hugs him tightly. "I just did my hair this morning and your static is frizzing it up."

He pulls away slightly and looks at her. Zay looks to her hair then back to her eyes. "Do you want my hugs or do you want less frizzy hair?"

Hope grins and wraps her arms around his neck tightly. "Hugs!"

Ally gets up from her seat to hug her sister, laughing from the joy of seeing her. "I missed you."

"Mmm, missed you, too."

Austin meets the two at Ally's side and Marie gives him a look. "I can't believe you're gonna be my brother in law," she turns to Ally with a smirk. "There's still time to find someone else."

"She's good." "I love Austin. I'm alright."

Austin smirks at Marie, to which she rolls her eyes at. He looks down besides her and sees Lian. With a grin, Austin crouches down to her height and opens his arms. "Hey, Scaredy-cat."

Lian looks up at him with her Hazel eyes then at his opened arms. When she looks up at him, she simply waves before going behind her mother's leg and her hair changing to its white state.

"That's progress," Marie says, reaching her hand down to rub her daughters head. "She waved and her eyes didn't change its color."

Austin stands back up and looks at the twins. "I'll let you guys catch up. I've got last minute building to do."