Can this night just be over yet?

A ball? Really? So far my hair has been tugged and pulled; to its limit. My make up has been done and redone. Twice! They have somehow managed to even lose my damn heels!

The end product better be worth it and boy does these girls know how to gossip! Tonight alone, I have learned about my mates exes, how every girl in the kingdom would just love to be me, and about them having some mysterious secret family members, no one is suppose to talk about. Some strange uncle or something? Who knows? Just plain old gossip and lies!

The ball has started and I'm already tired. I blow out a hefty Sigh.

Is all this really necessary?

"Time for your dress your highness." Your highness! Blah! That's just not me!

"Please call me Miracle." She just smiles and nods. Gah! This dress is a little snug! How am I supposed to dance in this?

With frayed nerves, I finally exit the room. Jeez! Two flights of stairs in these heels. Someone save me! Ok one down and one to go. Deep breath Miracle! Hope they like the dress at least. They better!

Situated at the top finally, I see my mates. Their all so very demure and dashing. How did I get so lucky?

Stepping in front of them all, they're all silent and I start to nervously fidget. Someone say something!

"You're stunning" my sweet, Baron.

"So beautiful" my gentle, Lucias

"You look remarkable" my darling,
Talon

"Ravishing" my heart, Malik.

"Damn, mom good job!" Only Brack!

Everyone laughs.

"You're so very handsome." They all beam.

"Shall we go?" Their mom ask. Baron raised his elbow to me, The gentleman that he is. Grasping his arm, we all follow suit.

Entering the ballroom I'm in complete and utter awe. Their mother has definitely done an excellent job!

It's beyond beautiful, beyond the seating area is an open space set up for dancing, right in front of it sits the throne room. It's all so brilliantly magnificent.

There's a band playing off to the side. Plus a beautiful singer. While people are dancing to and fro. Crowds of others are seated and eating. Everything just seems so magical.

"Would you like to dance?" Giving Baron my biggest smile. I nod.

"Yes please." We head for the dance floor. The song is slow it all seems so romantic. Wrapping my arms around his neck, he wraps his around my waist. We're lost in the melody. He lowers his head, barely touching my ear.

"You are truly stunning tonight." Moving my head toward him; I couldn't resist. I press a soft kiss  upon his cheek.

"I love you Baron." He stops the dance a she peers deeply into my eyes, his eyes start to flicker from side to side in amazement. How could he not know?

"You do?" He barely whispers, if I wasn't close to him I would have missed it.

"I do, very much. I wanted to tell you when you told me but we were sort of interrupted." His handsome face goes from amazement to pure adulation.

He swoops up into his arms, startling me, and twirls me around. Landing back on my feet. I just smile up at him. I've never before felt so exhilarated.

"I love you too, love." Kissing me deeply, I lose my train of thought. He envelopes into his tender embrace as sparks start to implode inside of me. He breaks the kiss to soon for my own liking as he puts his forehead against mine his sweet eyes begin to gloss over.

We continue on with our dance, going to and fro again to the melody with the words of My Immortal that are softly caressing our ears we may just never want the beautiful song to ever end.

"May I cut in?" Feeling a light tap on my shoulder, I turn to see my dear heart Malik. Baron relinquishes me to Malik although reluctantly. He turns me to him as he wraps me up in his embrace, I can't help but smile.

"Having fun?" He ask me, Tilting his head to the side he adds on an enormous smile.

"Believe it or not I am!" My second dance of the night, with one of my loves, who wouldn't be?

The song then changes bringing forth another slow melodramatic melody. The band is playing older songs, with a glorious singer, her chords are drifting through the room just like a siren. She sings in her soft caress A love of a Lifetime. How fitting it is for Malik and I. Only if it could be like this forever.

"You told Baron you love him?" He looks at me quizzically. How did he know?

"Yes? How-" Malik cuts me off.

"Mind-link he told all of us." Wonder what else they talk about?

"Yes we talk about you often." As if he could read my thoughts. Maybe I should read theirs and show them exactly how it feels. Shaking my head to forage those thoughts. I couldn't do that to them.

"Good things I hope?" I taunt.

"Always" Malik kisses me down my neck automatically sending chills straight down to my spine. Feeling another light tap on my shoulder, I break away from Malik to see Brack standing behind me ready and rearing to go.

"My turn?" Laughing as I reach for him. Malik bows and then decided to leave the dance floor inconspicuously. Brack does the same as my other gentlemen did, he soon wraps me up into his waiting arms.

"Will you come to my room later?" He suggests seductively as he stares down at me, he of course has that sneaky grin he's so known for plastered all over his face. Nothing ever surprises me Brack.

"Do you want me too?" I ask him teasingly. I love this little game we always seem to play.

"The way you look in the dress, has had me hard all night." To prove his point he steps back, his undeniable proof is very much showing in his dress pants.

Grasping me again. I truly can't help but laugh. This man always seems to find ways to keep me going.

"I'll see what I can do?" Continuing our dance as the song that's now whispering around the room vibrates through the dance hall. Without You is belted out in the most entrancing way.

"Two more to go! Lucias is biting at the bits to dance with you." Searching the room I see Lucias standing at the edge of the dance floor. His eyes are penetrating me with a lustful gaze. I silently gulp at him as he starts walking in our direction.

"Times up!" Brack just laughs while he kissing me on my check then subsequently hands me right over to his brother. He quickly wraps me up in his awaiting arms. I feel the heat of his passion floating off of him.

"Are you ok?" Showing my concern he just leans into me and starts kissing me with vital desperation. I soon feel the tingles start to run all throughout me, as he lowers his hand down to the center my back he gently pushes me toward him. I can suddenly feel his desire! He unfortunately ends the kiss with our foreheads pressed together, his sparkling eyes then start devouring me. Letting out a very deep needy breath, he finally begins to speak.

"I love you." He quickly took my breath away! Lucias is showing so much devotion in expressing those three words to me that I have so long to hear from him. When the words to the song reach my consciousness, I recognize the song as Ocean Eyes immediately. He played the song I hummed to him? How romantic.

"I love you too, so very much!" He plasters on the largest smile that I think I have ever seen from him, then kisses me again, mid-song. I feel as if I'm now floating on a light cloud.

"How did I ever get so lucky?" He say's huskily to me as he's kissing me slowly down my neck while lightly sucking in my skin.

"I'm the lucky one." To have these men who so openly love me sends my heart to overflowing. How did I get so lucky?

Unfortunately the song must end, we break apart although reluctantly but he clasp my hand into his not wanting to let me go as he does it sends a string of sparks right through me. As we were walking off of the dance floor, Talon then decided to come
up to me and ask for the next dance. How can I refuse?

He guides me back to the dance floor, softly holding me in his arms. The band changes the song once again to Bad at Love! Seems rather fitting. I laugh at the choice of song inside my head. As Talon then starts to twirl me around suddenly and then brings me right back into his arms. I can't help but to smile up at him.

But then he suddenly goes perfectly still. His eyes widen in shock. Glancing over my shoulder I see two men that are starting to walk our way. They're both very striking me which peeks my curiosity.

As they grow closer to us Talon quickly grabs ahold of me to bring me closer to his side. I look I'm at all them clearly confused over Talons sudden dramatic change.

"Talon, how have you been?" Talon quickly stiffens as his grip around me soon tightens, then his eyes start roaming around until they finally land on me. Im shocked to see that there's a tiny show of sadness reflecting on his face now.

"I'm fine." He answers them stoically.

"Are you going to introduce us?" The man ask him but Talon refuses to meet his eyes. Ungraciously, Talon turns a side eyes glance toward him nervously.

"Miracle, this is Marcus and his mate Farrow!" Talon grumbles out. Oh so this is the famous Marcus? Marcus raises his hand to shake mine but before he can Talon grabs my arm pulling it back to him. The tension in the air is indescribable.

"Nice to meet you?" I mumble it as a question. I really don't want to be here! I start searching for an escape route around the room hoping for an escape out of this strange predicament as I search the room I swiftly spot my other mates watching us very intently from across the room. Oh boy! This definitely can't end well.

"Don't be that way Talon! We're still friends, right?" Marcus chuckles nervously. He looks at Farrow, then turns his eyes back to Talon. Farrow looks extremely upset. Awkward! I so want to run and hideaway.

"No we are no longer friends, if you'll excuse us!" Talon pulls me flush up against him again trying his best to walk around Marcus. Marcus puts his hands on Talons arm to stop him.

"I'll will always be your friend Talon. Please don't be this way?" Marcus pleads with him. There's sorrow in his eyes. Farrow grabs Marcus's hand pulling it away from Talon roughly. Marcus growls at Farrow. He actually growled!

Knowing the pain that Talon is feeling I grasp his arm where Marcus's hand was previously. Turning my gaze up to him.

"Please if you want to survive this night, don't touch my mate!" Expressing it with my very best sweetly disposition. I nudge Talon to walk away. I hear Marcus growl again from behind me but I pay him no interest as I take Talon to his brothers sides.

While they are all questioning him, I look back over to Marcus sheepishly, for some reason he has an evil glint in his eyes as he stares over at me.

Oh well! Thats his problem. I then return my full attention back to Talon instead as I put my hand in his.

"Are you ok?" I ask him he just gives me a an emotionless smile then silently nods his head at me.

While we're all trying to sooth Talon there comes an abrupt and loud commotion off to the side of us. People around us start to let out worried gasp aa they all turn their heads in our direction.

We ignore the stares that they are giving us and turn our attention to wherever the noise was coming from.

There's a strange woman in the center of the room that's causing the loud commotion apparently.

"Priscilla!" Brack growls out. So this is Priscilla? She's not as beautiful as I thought she would be. She has a dark look about her that with a an air of superiority makes her just look frighteningly ugly to me.

But I can see exactly why he was so attracted to her now. A feeling of spiteful jealousy soon goes all over me. Turning my attention to Malik I'm actually surprised to see that his gaze isn't on her, it's directly on me instead. He then strides his way over to me while possessively wrapping his arms around my waist as he starts to breath in my aroma.

"Hello Malik." I don't even have to look in her direction to hear the snottiness in her tone.

I smile when I notice that Malik is choosing to completely ignore her as he starts leaving little feathery like kisses down my neck, igniting those reoccurring sparks against as he does.

"Malik! I'm talking to you." She snarks while trying to demand his attention, he just grumbles on my neck choosing to not look up at her.

Spying her through my lashes I smile deviously again when I see Priscilla's face, it's beginning to turn red as she starts to fume indignantly. Twisting around I wrap my arms around his neck, as I purposefully lean in to him I start to kiss him. Our tongues go to war clashing in my mouth, I couldn't help but to let out a very lustful loud moan. I know I'm being petty! But I don't care. This is my mate not hers! Pulling away from his delectable mouth I deliberately take his hand into my own to drag him far away from her.

Behind me I can hear my mates all start laughing and I soon hear Priscilla maddeningly start to stomp away.

"You're a sly one my little mate!" Malik tells me, as he grins.

"You're mine! I will always protect what's mine! Besides, you enjoyed it!" Malik nods his head, laughing.

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