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He sat back down beside me and grabbed my hands holding them in
his, "I sorry this has happened."
I nodded, "I know, its my uncles fault, not yours."
He nodded, "I will introduce you to the three of them, and I won’t leave
your side while you speak with them. It will be good for you to get to
know them."
I swallowed a lump in my throat, Damien was trying to get me to like
one of the suitors so that he could marry Desmond without guilt. I
nodded and stood up, taking a deep breath, and putting the dagger
away. I took another sip of water then straightened my shoulders,
"Alright, introduce away."
We walked into the ball room, arm in arm and he led me directly to the
three Lycans. They bowed and apologized for frightening me and
eventually introduced themselves, as Lucas, the tall one with the sandy
blonde hair and full beard, he was the Lycan leaders second son. The
third son was William, he was quieter and darker than his brothers, but
smiled and bowed low to me saying very little and not lingering over
me at all. The last one was Gabriel, the youngest, he was about my age
but stood a good foot taller than me. He bent down, and smiled at me,
kissing my hand, his green eyes sparkling with amusement. His fingers
were long and slender, making me think of an artist’s hands rather than
a warrior princes hands. I smiled back at him and the other two
groaned and traded coins with each other.
I looked back to Damien but his eyes were the color of steel as he
stared at the three, and kept his hand on the small of my back and I got
a sense of possessiveness as well as protectiveness from the gesture. I
turned and thanked him for helping me and nodded to a fuming
Desmond, he looked at her then back at me, his face flashing with
conflict before nodded to me and dropping his hand.
"If you need anything..." He let the sentence hang and I thanked him.
I turned back to the suitors and suddenly felt very overwhelmed by
how they towered over me. They all three smiled and offered to take
me to the balcony for fresh air. I thanked them and followed Lukas,
William and Gabriel flanking me on either side. I turned my head
looking at them confused and Gabriel shrugged, "it's a pack thing, its
not threatening."
'Um, Okay." It was weird, but probably harmless. At least that's what I
told myself.
We all stepped out onto the balcony and I took a deep breath, feeling
the cool breeze cut through me but enjoying the fresh air anyway.
"It’s pretty strange."
I looked at William curiously, "What is?"
"Well, your uncle made it sound like you being born a human was more
of an embarrassment than anything else. But as soon as we arrived the
whole place has been scrambling to make sure your safe. I don't think
anyone even thought about the other three betrothed." Lukas nodded
agreeing with his brother.
"We came here thinking you would be brow beaten at the least, maybe
we could be your dashing saving heroes. Instead we get rumors about
you being the precious blue diamond princess."
I moaned and rolled my eyes, "My aunts to blame for that one. She
plays up how unique I am, and if there's anything a vampire loves, it’s
to possess something unique."
All three brothers nodded, "Yeah, we were pretty surprised actually to
hear about you. It isn't every generation one of you is born, but to have
two of you born in the same generation, is pretty special."
Gabriel sat on the edge of the balcony and nodded, "Yeah, not only is
the great Prince born a vampire, something that hasn't happened in
what did the old coot say, a century?"
The two brothers nodded, "But then a human is born from two
vampires and that hasn't happened in about a millennium. For
creatures that prize rare things, the Prince really doesn't seem to
appreciate you."
They all agreed and I narrowed my eyes at them, "So you are here to
charm me into marrying one of you?"
They nodded grinning, "Great, and what if I don't want any of you?"
Luke rubbed his beard for a moment, "Well in a month if we haven't
made any progress with you, one, two or three of our other brothers
will show up and have a go at it."
"How many of you are there?"
"Not counting my older brother who is on his honeymoon right now,
there are eleven of us, seven of us brothers, we have four sisters too."
My jaw dropped, "Are you serious?"
They nodded and I leaned back against the balcony, "Wow, that's a lot
of kids."
They laughed and Luke put his hand on William’s shoulder, "William
here isn't interested in getting married, so no offense to you, but in a
month he will be leaving. I was going to leave to, but..."
His eyes roamed my body for a moment and he smiled wider, "I've had
a change of heart."
I looked at Gabriel who's squatting beside me on the balcony ledge,
"And Gabriel?"
Gabriel hopped down and held his hand out, "Gabriel wants to dance."
I smile and hesitantly put my hand in his and shyly let him guide me
back into the ball room. Damien and Desmond were already there
dancing, and I looked at Gabriel who squeezed my hand gently, "Don't
worry Princess I don't bite."
I chuckle and let him pull me close and begin to move to the music. I
was surprised at how well he knew how to dance and by the end of it,
the combination of dancing and Gabriel's constant snide remarks about
the different vampires had me smiling and laughing with him. He spun
me into another dance and continued to talk about himself and his
seven brothers and four sisters.
I felt the hair on the back of my neck rise and looked behind me to see
steel gray eyes staring at me. I smiled at him and nodded before he
turned away. Gabriel didn't miss the interaction and snorted, "His loss,
he must be absolutely crazy to be dancing with that bleached out stick
figure over you."
I pushed Gabriel away a little as he leaned in too close and smiled, "I've
been raised vampire my whole life, Desmond is stunning by vampire
standards."
He snorted and rolled his eyes, "Yeah, whatever, I got the better end of
the deal anyway."
I blushed and suddenly a cold hand was on my shoulder, "May I cut in?"
Gabriel frowned but nodded, turning on his heel and stalking back to
his brothers on the balcony. I turned and looked into steel grey eyes
and smiled, "Hi."
He spun me and then pressed me against him in a slow waltz, "You
seemed to be enjoying yourself."
I looked up at Damien and nodded, "They look worse than they are."
"I don't like how that pup was looking at you." I sighed and put my hand
on his chest and pulled back to look at him.
We stopped moving as we stared at each other, "I'm just trying to make
the best of the situation I'm in Damien."
He closed his eyes for a moment and when he opened them again his
eyes had returned to their grey, "I know, just remember that you are
supposed to be courting me, along with them courting you."
I smiled up at Damien, "As if I could forget."
He's eyes flashed silver before he dropped my arms and stepped back. I
looked after him, watching him grab Yuki's hand and move with her
onto the dance floor. A very large hand dropped onto my shoulder and
I looked up to see Luke staring darkly at Damien.
"Wanna dance?"
I laughed and nodded, "Sure."
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