Chapter 93 Our first time

Chapter 93 Our first time

Early 1800's

ELIZABETH'S POV

As I lay under the beautiful night sky, star gazing, I think of how lucky I am. I met the love of my life in the most unexpected way, for me at least. He's everything I've wanted in a man, handsome, has the best smile, sweet and knows how to put a smile on face.

"What are you smiling about?"

Speaking of which.

I giggle, looking away from the stars and locking eyes with his hazel ones. "Nothing."

"I don't believe you. There is always something going on in that beautiful head of yours." He moves my hair behind my ear without losing eye contact.

"I just love being here with you." I admit.

"Lucky for you the night isn't over." He stands up and offers me his hand. I look at him confused but still taking his offer.

He helps me off the ground but I lose balance and almost fall back down, causing me too shriek. He catches me in time and I let a breath out as I stare at him in shock.

A few seconds later, I drop my head back and break out into laughter. Nik, pulls me back up and has his arm securely around my waist this time.

My laughter dies down when I see him just staring at me with that smile. "What are you smiling about?" I ask while smiling uncontrollably.

"You." I look away from him as I begin to blush uncontrollably.

He cups my face, so that I am looking directly at him. He places his soft lips against mine and I couldn't help but moan enjoying the warmth they give mine. He pulls away and looks at me with need and admiration and- "I love you." He says catching me off guard.

We've never said those words to each other before. I have known I loved him after the first month of our relationship, he didn't do anything specific, I just realized I did then.

Tonight marks our 4th month.

"I love you too." I finally admit.

"Really?" He asks in disbelief and shock.

"Yes." I laugh at his face once he realized I was serious.

"Ugh, thank goodness." He pulls me back in for a kiss but harder than before. I cup him by the face as he pulls me in by the waist and lifts me off the ground and spins me around.

I giggle wrapping my arms around his neck, still not breaking our kiss. He then slowly lowers me to the ground and we break away to catch our breaths.

"You have no idea how long I wanted to tell you that." He says with a huge cheeky smile on his face.

"I'm glad you did."

"Me too." We unconsciously begin to dance in circles. "I love you."

"I love you too."

"Say it again."

I laugh as I repeat the words. "I love you."

"I'll never get tired of hearing that." He kisses me on the head before pulling me in closer. "I never wish to be parted from you, Liza."

"And we won't. I promise."

I rest my head on his chest and close my eyes, not wanting this moment to end.

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PRESENT

He's dead.

Why am I sad? Shouldn't I be happy after what he did to me and my family?

I wipe the tears from my face with the back my hand before turning him over to get my sword out of his chest. I close my eyes and I whimper as I pull the sword out. I stumble back and crawl away from his body as fast as I could.

I can't stand looking at him like this, especially when I was the one that did this to him. I killed him.

Just repeating it to myself makes me break down even more.

I'm not sorry I did it but I'm clearly not happy either. I thought this would have went completely different. Happiness, relief and celebration, that's what I thought I would have felt when I finally put him down.... but it's the complete opposite.

Hearing him say he loved me set something in. I don't know if he was lying or if he was telling the truth but the look he gave me. It was the same look he gave when we first said 'I love you' to each other.

That's when we were happy and worry free. No war, no betrayal, just us in our own world but I still don't know if he was faking it from the start or not.

What if what he told me was true? About his father, him loving me, was all true?

Would I have felt different?

What the fuck am I saying? Of course not, because even if he didn't do all that I thought he did centuries ago, he is still a horrible person and I can't look past that.

Gathering myself, I get up off the floor along with my sword. The door begins to knock as if someone is trying to break it down. I stand in a fighting stance ready for whoever it is but when they finally bust through, it's Jules.

"Liz." She shouts in relief once she spots me. She looks down on the floor and sees Nik's body. "Oh, you got him. Good, but we have to go now." She says rushing out of the room.

I quickly follow behind her after taking on last look at him. "Why and where is the baby?"

"Andrew has her and he's waiting outside for us but we have to get out of here, fast. Nik, planted bombs all over the castle and they are blowing up one by one. The next one is on the west wing and it should go off in the next 2 minutes."

"2 minutes?!"

"Yes! Lets get out of here." She makes a turn to the left but I stop her.

"No, this way is faster." We turn to the right but I trip on something causing me to fall.

"Oh god, come on." Jules helps me up but I look back down to see I tripped on someone.

"Jules, we can't leave her." I kneel down and feel for a pulse. When I got something begin to shake her violently to wake her up. I don't got time to be soft.

"Who is she?" Jules asks as the girl finally open her eyes.

"I think her name is Francesca. I remember her from the time I was here months ago." I cup her face and gently tap her to wake up. "Hey, we got to go now."

"Elle?"

"Not really, come on we need to go." I stand up to help her up and so does Jules. We put her arms around our shoulders and wrap our arms around her waist before we take off running.

"There is the door!" Jules shouts looking at the huge double doors ahead that are barely hanging on to it's hinges. We spot Chris, Lucas and that guy I think they call Luca waiting outside.

"Francesca!" He was the first to see us and runs in to take her from us. He picks her up bridal style and we all run outside.

"Where are the others?" I ask.

"They're waiting out in the woods." Chris answers.

Almost immediately the bomb goes off knocking us down. The loud blast causes my ears to ring, I could barely hear anything. I lift my head up to see everyone is ok. I let a breath of relief out and look behind me to see the entire castle is on fire and burnt bodies everywhere.

I feel arms pulling me up off the ground. I realize it's Lucas shouting for us to go. After finally getting my balance back, we quickly take off in the woods direction. In the middle of running I let Elle, back in control.

She needs to see her daughter and I don't want to stop her and maybe because I need some time to myself.

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ELLE'S POV

I feel myself being pulled back in and find myself running in the woods. I look beside me to see, Jules, Chris, Lucas and Luca carrying someone.

How did we get here? I can't remember anything, other than Cristian and Nikolaos. Why can't I remember anything like I usually did?

After a good few minutes of running I spot people waiting around a huge clear area. The first person I see is Anna standing under the moonlight, I stop running completely once we lock eyes.

She first looks at me in disbelief before a huge smile breaks out. She instantly begins running towards me but my smile drops when I realized she wasn't stopping. She jumps on me causing us both to fall on the ground.

Her laughter fills me ears as she squeezes the life out of me. "I missed you so much." She shrieks with excitement.

"I missed you too." I say, hugging her just as tight. After a minute without breathing we finally break away from each other. "You're not going to cuss me out?" I ask as we sit up on the ground.

She laughs and shakes her head. "Not tonight."

"Tomorrow. Got it." I joke.

She giggles and nudges me with her elbow. "Coraline is a beautiful name by the way."

My smile immediately drops remembering Cora. I instantly begin to look around and stop on the man holding our child wrapped in a blanket. Tears begin to well up in my eyes as I get up running towards them.

"Oh my god." I cry out.

Andrew carefully gives her to me and pulls us in for a hug. "She's ok, she's ok." He repeats as he kisses me on the head. The tears finally begin to fall as I hold Cora in my arms. She looks so tired and it seems like she's been crying the whole night

"I'm so sorry." I whisper to her.

"It wasn't your fault, baby."

I pull away so that I could look in the face. "But- but if I've been more aware, I could've stopped this from happening. They could have taken her from us, Andrew." He sighs, not saying anything and pulls me back in his arms.

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We camped out for the rest of the night because it's late and everyone is tired. People took turns on keeping a watch out just in case there was any survivors. We will do a full search around the area in the morning and head back home right after.

Andrew and Jules filled me in on where they found Cora and from the sound of it, they could of taken her if they didn't get there in time. Some of the demons were taking an escape route at the back of the castle but Jules luckily stopped them. Nikolaos was really about to get away with everything.

Speaking of which, everyone was happy and relieved to hear Elizabeth was successful on killing him. It just makes me smile, just thinking that we're finally out of this war. Cora is finally safe and we can move on and live happily ever after.

Speaking of happily ever after, Isabel is dead. I am not going to lie but I was ecstatic when I heard Andrew killed her. I wanted to kill her myself but the hands of my love works too.

All of us are now surrounded by multiple camp fires we made for everyone to get warmth from. I am sitting in between Andrew's legs while leaning back on his chest for warmth as I hold Cora as she sleeps.

"Where are the guys?" I ask as they finally run across my mind. I haven't seen them all night.

"Rhea sent them to the Valley to look for anymore of the girls there but they are obviously all here so I don't know what's keeping them."

"The valley?"

"Yeah, you know there?"

"Oh my god." How could I forget? "Andrew, I saw him. Cristian, he was there on the valley." I say through our link, not wanting anyone to hear.

"Really? What happened? Did you get to talk to him?"

"Um.." I gulp afraid of telling him what happened between us. If I tell him what Cristian he did, he might kill him once he gets his hands on him.

"Elle, what happened?"

"He wouldn't talk to me." I half lied.

"That's it? What happened next?"

"Nothing."

"You're not telling me something, what happened between you and him?"

"He bit me."

"He did what?!" He asked out loud

I quickly put my index finger to his lips to keep quiet. "Shh." I say looking down at Cora sleeping.

"He bit you?" He whisper yelled.

"Yes."

"How bad?"

"Andrew-"

"How bad, Elle?"

"He wouldn't stop." I whisper looking down at the ground as I remember the moment.

Silence runs between us for a good minute and I finally gain the courage to look back up at him. His jaw is clenched as he looks into the darkness of the woods with pure anger in his eyes.

"Say something." I beg.

"I'm going to kill him."

"Andrew, please don't. It wasn't his fault, Nik was the one that did this to him."

"He could have killed you, Elle."

"But he didn't."

"How come?"

I pause for a second before answering. "Nikolaos stopped him." He scuffs while shaking his head.

We are distracted by the sound of footsteps coming in our direction. Everyone perks up and wait for the person or thing to emerge from the bushes.

When they do, everyone audibly gasps. It's Daniel and Jeremiah carrying an unconscious Cristian.

"Guys, we got a problem." Simon says walking from behind them.