Seduced by the king into submission

Chapter. II.

I was restless, my heart beating louder each passing hours and I felt it almost stopping when the doorbell rang...

"Honeyyy" I heard mum yelling! I immediately stood from my bed

"Honey the door! " I opened my bedroom door and walked by the small corridor that separated my room from the living room... I was the only one that had his room downstairs.. Everyone else slept on the second floor

"I got it mum" I said to myself cauz I don't think anyone could have heard it.. I stared at the door for a while before reaching the knob with my sweaty palms. I turned it opening the door..

I immediately relaxed seeing this strange old me in front of me.. He had so many wrinkles and not so much hair on his scalp that I was surprised by how straight he was standing; in a grey suit that screamed 'expensive! Expensive dude! '.. 'Not bad for a granpa' I thought to myself making me grin.

"Hi mister! " I said my nervousness long gone.. It couldn't be that bad!  I mean he's just an old man coming to visit my parents why should I be scared!?

"Please come in" I said gesturing him to enter..and he did.. I was about to close the door when he turned to me

"Oh, I came with my grandson he must be a few steps behind me" he said before going into the living room
That's when he appeared in front of my door! I just froze there..
His presence was overwhelming, the air became thick all of a sudden! Every part of me screaming danger, I just wanted to flee.. But his gaze was so intense making me unable to move.. His light blue eyes were mesmerizing, his deep black hair fluttering under the cold night wind.. He was perfect.. Too perfect..his black suit embraced his perfectly sculpted body.. Thump thump..

"Orion. " he said taking my breath away with a breath taking smile

"H.. How.. " I was cut by my mum voice

"Orion!  How rude of you! Excuse my son, please come on in"

"You have a cozy house, small but cozy" the old man said.. How rude! Coming here telling us we had a small house! If he wasn't a granpa I would talked some sense out of him.

"Thank you" I heard mum say

"You must be hungry! Let's eat! My husband is on his way he'll be here soon..."

The atmosphere was awkward.. My eyes only on my plate ignoring the intense stare from the two strangers.. I was just praying for this dinner to be over

"Mum, where are the twins and Eric? " I said realizing they were absent from the table

"They're went to grandma house for the weekend" she said as dad was now home making his way to the kitchen.. He placed a kiss on my cheek

"Excuse me for being late, I had a last minute problem to deal with" he said to the strangers who both stood to shake dad's hand

"Mister Bellmare, it's a pleasure meeting you again" the grandpa said

"Please don't be so formal, let's see what my beautiful wife made today! I'm starving" he said and the three sat down.
"Mum.. Dad.. "I said leaving my chair

"I will not bother you any longer, I think you have important things to talk about.. If you'll excuse me.. "

"H... Honey wait"

"Son, sit down, we have something to tell you"
I sat as my father instructed me to.

"Son, there are many things about our family and this town that you've not be told, we were waiting for you to come of age first and you did, 2 months ago when you turned 17"  dad said

"Things?  Like? " he looked at mum who nodded for him to continue.

"I know you've heard many things about the lost forest.. And in each stories the forest was out of question... The trught is we are descendants of werewolves.. It might sound ridiculous but hear me out first.. As I said our ancestors were werewolves.. We were strong fighters and no illness could have reason of us... We lived longer and were among the most feared creatures of the forest.. But all came to an end one hundred years ago.. We were cursed.. "

"Cursed?  Why? " I asked not so impressed by the story dad just told about us being werewolves... Well I was surprised but being told this story by my parents, the thought of it being false didn't cross my mind

" we were cursed by the the Brwitches clan after one member of our clan raped the youngest daughter of their royal family.. Raped and killed.. I guess he wanted to conceal his crime by killing her and burying her so she wouldn't be able to inform anyone of it.. But they were a clan of strong witches so it was a matter of time before they would find out about the crime... "

"So came the time they found about it" my continued

"Their queen, Elisabeth's mother.. Elisabeth is the name of the poor girl.. " mum said

" consumed by anger and sorrow came upon our lands 'you lowely creatures! You dared baring your fangs at my blood! Death would be too sweet of an ending for you dogs! I curse you and your children, the children of your children! Your unborn descendents! You shall wither in your weakest form for eternity consumed by illness till your kind disappear from this forest! ' she said.. "

"And that's what happened son... But she was not satisfied with this.. Every year when the red moon appeared, they would come killing women and children without mercy.. They did for half a century.. They did it till the Lionsteal family bestowed us with their protection" he said faintly smiling at the two man sitting with us..

" But in exchange for their protection.. " mum added

"One of our clan child would be offered for marriage to the Lionsteal royal family when their Prince came of age to take over the throne" she said squeezing dad's hand that was holding hers

"Why?  I mean we became weak so why would they one of us"

" Our women fertility rate is rather weak" the grandpa said

"But we are the strongest in the forest.. You are the weakest but you're really fertile so it's a fair trade" he added sipping his glass of wine

"You're right" I said smirking like a business man who just had a huge contract

"But why is it so important for me to know all about that" I said looking back at my parents

" H.. Honey, the Prince. ."she said looking at the the man I was avoiding with my eyes the entire time

"The prince came to aged of taking other the throne from his father so he came for his bride" so the man drilling holes in my body with his gaze is a prince I guess

"Yeah dad but that doesn't concern me does it? "

"It does" the prince said... I still didn't dare look in his direction

"Because you are to become my bride"