Forgotten Royalty (Escaping The Throne) by Tiffany Wood Page A

I hear a distant laughing.
    “I will have her Damian, and there’s nothing you can do to stop me.” I
feel someone kissing me down my neck. It’s not quite the same as when Damian had
done it. He snarls and starts to suck on my neck the same way that Damian had
before he bit me.
    “DAMIAN!” I scream. This time I could hear myself.

Damian’s POV
    I jump out of the chair and run to her side. “Sara? What’s wrong?”
She’s trying to breathe, but it’s like she isn’t getting enough oxygen. “Sara,
look at me!” I force my will on her through the mind link and she jerks her
eyes to my gaze. “We need to calm down. Breathe with me.”
    I inhale and exhale and she begins to do the same in time with me. As
her breathing slows, I release her from my hold. She wraps her arms around me
as tight as she can and begins to cry. Now that I’ve calmed her down, I
remember the dream. I couldn’t get to her. I could only watch. He wanted to
bite her and she willed herself to scream and break the mental hold. She had
woken us both up. I can’t believe he would do anything so… She looked at me and
I realized she was scanning my thoughts for answers. I saw the fear in her eyes
as she had already heard the rest of my thought before I thought it. She knew
what had happened. I pulled her back to me and thought of my love for her. I
could feel her trying to do the same but she was too upset by what had just
happened. She wasn’t going back to sleep. I started to think of how much I just
wanted to be with her right now and I felt her heart jump in response. I
quickly thought of something else.
    “You still don’t trust my feelings?” She pulled back from me and got
off of the bed. She grabbed her clothes from where she had left them laying on
the floor and ran to the bathroom. I did it again. I kept hurting her by
pushing her away.

Chapter Fourteen
    As she came back into her room she began to shout, “Stop trying to
analyze everything I do and feel. My aunt does enough of that for the both of
you!” Her anger knocks me back and she looks at me in shock. “Did I just do
that?”
    I smile a little. “Yeah, you kinda did.” I realized our bond was stronger
than it should have been. Did she really feel this way about me before I kissed
her? No, I can’t think about that right now.
    “I think you need to call someone who actually knows what’s going on
instead of sitting here trying to decide for me whether I really feel like this
toward you. Yes, your father seems like a very good choice to me.”
    I look up at her shocked. “I don’t think I’m ready for him to know
about all of this. I do have a friend I could call. She may know more about it
than me.”
    As she turns away from me, I can feel her jealousy just below the
surface. Her blood begins to boil.
    “You know what? I think we’ll hold off on that.” I realized only too
late that I had thought of my friend and visualized her at the same time. I
needed some coffee. I can’t think straight on what little sleep I have gotten.

“You mean…you have hardly slept the whole time you’ve known me? You
were in my room those two nights. I wasn’t dreaming that. You didn’t realize
that I had those dreams with you.” She had been connected to me since the day
we met. “You jumped in front of me on the school steps…and made me think you
were going to hit me with your car. I don’t care if it was an accident, you
sure didn’t apologize for it.” She was reading my mind back to thoughts before
I had even met her. She ran to the bathroom again.
    “Sara, wait. What did you see? You’re reading thoughts I’m not even
having right now. Sara?” I’m standing outside the bathroom door. I could easily
go in if I wanted to, but I wouldn’t unless she invited me this time. Her bond
with me was growing every second and I was losing control of it. My father had
never told me about this happening to anyone.
    She must have looked deeper into my memories because