Chapter 2

**A/N at the end** 

“Okay stranger, what the hell is going on?” I asked Adeke, who by the way was sitting practically on my lap. Good god, this man seriously needed to give me some space before I found myself attacking his gorgeous body with my lips. With my question Adeke smiled at me causing my heart to jump in my chest. Oh my, those lips…please just put them on my body…anywhere would work. I shook my head attempting to get these foreign thoughts out of my head.

“Well…babe…um…” Adeke suddenly seemed nervous. He ran his wonderfully masculine hand through his hair. Wonderfully masculine? Where the hell did that come from? Please don’t tell me I am turning into one of those sexually charged women who only think of…

“Well what?” Leslie exclaimed, cutting into my internal dialogue and prompting Adeke to explain to us why I was acting the way I was to him.

“This may sound really, really strange but it is the truth….I am Gaea.” Adeke stated looking at us expectantly.

Personally, I had no idea what a Gaea is and by the look on Leslie’s face neither did she.

“What the heck is Gaea? Is it some kind of Indian or something?” I asked looking back to Adeke and almost found myself lost in the brilliance of his green eyes…

“No. Gaea, throughout history have been mistaken as fey, witches, gods, angels, demons. Hell any reference to some kind of mythical being has actually been one of us or those with Gaea blood…”

 “Wait; did you just say mythical being?” Leslie interrupted.

“Yes, I am a mythical being.” Adeke looked me in the eyes as he says this. Immediately, I want to laugh but the feelings I get with him are so far from my usual self that I had to rule out the idea that Adeke was joking with us. This feeling I get when I am around him was completely unexplainable.  I wanted to touch him, to feel my hands run through his thick black hair and down every square inch of his body…my eyes followed my thoughts and ran down his chest taking in his every touch-tempting muscle that seemed to strain at his buttoned up white shirt.

Mine.

Okay, that was weird but the thought seems to be on an echo through my brain. My whole body seemed attuned to this man. I felt at war with myself to keep my hands off of him well… mainly his wonderful muscles. I just wanted to touch him again. I wanted to run my hands down…okay enough Anahi. I took a breath and forced my eyes away from his chest but soon my eyes found their way to his full lips and I wanted to feel how soft they felt against my skin.

Mine.

Adeke cleared his throat and my eyes shot away from his wonderful lips and up to his shocking green eyes. I wanted to melt on the spot with the look he gave me, one of pure undeniable lust. He wanted me. A smirk touched his lips before he asked, “Mine?” 

“Oh god, did I say that at loud again?” I asked my cheeks instantly burning in embarrassment over my spoken thoughts.

“Yes. Yes you did and I do have to say that it is nice to hear it coming from you every time you say it… Anahi you are mine.” He stated reaching out to push my hair behind my ear. I moaned slightly at his words and leaned into his hand. “With Gaea like myself we only have one person who is our perfect other half. Our mate. Anahi you are my mate, my other half, the perfect woman for me.” Adeke stated and I simply sat in shock for a second. This gorgeous man is saying that I’m his perfect woman, yea right!

“Wait a minute. How in the hell do you know this? I’m not Gaea. I am human so... I know I couldn’t possibly be your ‘mate’. Plus, look at me. Why would you be destined to be with me?” I barked out at him laughing. In my eyes Adeke was aa close to perfect as a man could get. I mean honestly, why does a man need to have eyelashes that long. and the curve of his lips...don't get me started there.

“I am looking at you.” I felt his hand under my chin pulling my face to his. I caught my breath at his lust filled eyes that bore straight into mine. My eyes dropped to his full lips and I unconsciously licked my lips, just wishing it was his lips I was licking. A deep vibrating moan rumbled from Adeke’s chest and my eyes snapped back up to his. I watched his green eyes darken as he stared down at my lips. Feeling a little embarrassed under his intense stare I bit my lip and attempted to duck my head down.

“No hiding.” He growled stopping me before crashing his lips onto mine. A moan escaped my lips as the burning feeling returned and traveled from where his lips touched mine. Instantly I was hooked, I wrapped my arms around his neck attempting to pull him closer. Within what seemed like seconds, I opened my eyes as his lips pulled slowly away from mine and I found myself lying on the couch. Adeke smirked down at me grinding his groin into mine and it felt so good I wrapped my legs around him to grind back while pulling him down to me to run my tongue slowly across his lip. His eyes widened a little in shock before a wicked grin crossed his lips.

He pressed his body against me again as he whispered in my ear, “Anahi, you are as beautiful as your name describes, and so sexy I’m having a hard time keeping my hands off of you.”

“Then don’t.” I purred into his ear before nipping it lightly with my teeth.

“Oh God, your gonna have to stop that.” He growled as he ran his hand up my thigh to pull me closer to him.

“Why? Are you gonna make me?” I teased nibbling on his ear lobe. I smiled as he tilted his head to give me better access and I continued to play with his ear gaining a few growls from him in the process. I tensed in excitement as I felt his hand slowly creep up my leg only to tease the skin exposed at the waistband of my skirt….

   Something freezing cold and wet suddenly splashed into our faces causing us to jump apart. Some strange instinct emerged from inside me and I turned to snarl at the reason Adeke was forced from me only to find Leslie standing with an empty cup in her hands looking at me scared.

“Whoa! Anahi chill!” Leslie said holding her hands up in defense. I would never hurt Leslie and the look on her face caused me to step back and look at Adeke who was standing behind me with wide eyes. I was suddenly scared of myself for simply putting that look on Leslie’s face.

                “Adeke, what is wrong with me?” I asked worriedly, Leslie sadly forgotten at the moment.

“As I said Anahi you are my mate. As my mate your Gaea blood will surface…it seems you are Animal Gaea. As to what kind will be a mystery until you change. You felt she was taking your mate from you when your body wanted me most. To answer your question earlier, you are able to be my mate because you are Gaea.” He answered.

“I’m not Gaea. I would know if I was right? Right?”

“Babe, you could not be human and be my mate at the same time. It is unheard of for someone such as myself…” he trailed off.

“What makes you so special?” I growled.

“Anahi, I am the Prince of Summer, Gaea Royalty. I am only to mate with a full blooded Gaea, usually only happens between royalty but in the past hundred years or so things have changed and no one in the royal families have mated to another royal.”

Him being royalty was a shock but only one question seemed to echo through my mind, “If I’m Gaea how did I not know this?”

“Actually now that you mention it all Animal Gaea change for the first time as they reach puberty… sometimes a female won’t change until she meets her mate but that is only with royals...” Adeke drifted off and began to chew on his lip deep in thought.

“Royalty?!” I immediately started laughing at this. Come on, me being royalty is just ridiculous. I am nothing near regal. I’m a frumpy excuse for a woman let alone royal. Someone seriously got their destinies mixed up if they thought I was royalty.

“Anahi I’m not joking. For you to not know you are Gaea proves you are from a royal family. Yet, I thought I had already met all the Animal Royalty, including all the daughters…why wouldn’t I have met you?” Adeke seemed to be muttering to himself again almost forgetting I stood waiting for him to explain. He suddenly looked up from the floor straight into my eyes. His eyes widened as he studied me closely, taking in all my features individually. Soon enough I started to get uncomfortable with his intense gaze and started blushing.

“What?” I asked shifting uncomfortably under his curious stare.

“It couldn’t be you.” Adeke stepped closer to me and lifted my chin with his fingers. Electric shocks traveled through his fingers to the places he touched causing a strange rumbling to come from my chest. He stumbled away from me almost shocked at the sound but he stopped at the couch as a bright smile spread across his face replacing his look of shock. “It is you... Anahi, you certainly are special…and to think that you are mine.”

Okay… and I thought that I was confused before…what in the hell is this gorgeous man mumbling about…and why did my body get angry at the distance he put between us? The word mine coming out of his mouth though left tingles down my spine and made me forget about the distance now between us. I couldn’t stop my eyes from wandering down the length of his body and back up to his face, instantly turned on. Mine. Oh, to hear that simple word again from his lips seemed to be the only thing I craved. I needed to hear it again so bad that my next words came from my mouth before I could stop them.

“Say it again.” I demanded from him. I could hardly recognize my voice as it came out as a sexy purr. Something seemed to pull me to him and rather than resisting it, I gave in and walked slowly his way. His eyes drifted down my body as I swayed to him before a smirk found its way onto his face. When I reached him I instinctively wrapped my arms and a leg around his body to rub my body fully against his. Putting my nose to just under his ear I couldn’t help but inhale his summery scent causing me to purr loudly.

“Oh, I have got to be the luckiest Gaea on earth…” Adeke mumbled before I cut him off with a swift nibble to his ear.

“Say it again.” I whispered into his ear before I began rubbing my hands all over his delicious body while pulling him to me tighter with my leg.

“Mine.” He growled finally wrapping his arms around my waste pulling me flush up against him. “Mine. Mine. Mine.”

I moaned loudly with the first word and almost lost all control of my legs by the last. “Why does that make me feel so good?” I mumbled still feeling the aftershocks from his words coursing through my body. I was unable to keep my hands off of him as I found myself unbuttoning his white shirt to press my lips against his chest. A deep moan escaped him as my body moved against his uncontrollably.

“Your Animal surfaces more and more as I stake my claim on you. It will only get worse until I Claim you completely, until then I will have to keep from saying you are mine…” he was cut off by my lips as they devoured his hungrily. He allowed me a few seconds of fun before pulling away smirking down at me. “Or I could just save it for when we are alone because I think I am enjoying your reaction a little too much. Anahi you are too sexy for words, but sweetheart right now is not the right time for this.” He briefly shifted his eyes behind me before his gaze dropped down to my hands which were done unbuttoning his shirt and decided to run aimlessly over his…eight pack! This man was a freaking god!

“Anahi, would you please stop undressing the poor man for heaven’s sake!” Leslie’s voice suddenly broke through to me. I groaned loudly at her before dropping my hands away from him and turned to face my forgotten friend.

“I hate you Leslie.” I pouted at her causing her to burst out laughing at my pathetic looking face.

“Anahi you are my best friend and I don’t recognize the person in front of me. Not to say that you aren’t more interesting this way but I can’t seem to get any straight answers about all this…” she waved her hands at me and Adeke, “with you going seductress on me every thirty seconds.”

“Sorry.” I mumbled feeling bad that I ignored her the way I did. I didn’t feel bad for long as I caught Leslie eyeing Adeke’s sculpted body behind me. My possessiveness over Adeke caused me to growl her way and step closer to him. 

Leslie chuckled at me before she spoke again, “Adeke, honey, could you please button your shirt back up because as much as I am enjoying the view Anahi doesn’t seem to like me looking.”

“No.” I suddenly turned to Adeke and ran my fingers lightly down his chest, “I like you this way.”

“Okay.” He stated watching my fingers intently. I couldn’t seem to control myself around him. The need to touch his skin was so strong I know that I would have to fight hard to stop myself.

“Guys! Come on already!” Leslie stomped behind me. I heard her inhale and exhale a few times trying to calm herself down. My lips quickly found their way to Adeke’s neck and I smiled as the breath left him quickly, knowing my touch affected him just as deeply as it did me.

“Leslie, I don’t believe that she can help herself…” he paused to sit on the couch with me straddling his lap, giving me better access to rub my lips across his neck. “I am guessing that her Animal side is making her put her scent on me…” he stopped talking to gasp as I nibbled at his ear before rubbing my cheek against his. Seeing as I couldn’t help myself from rubbing against him this explanation actually made some sense…

“Okay. So earlier you talked about Animal Gaea and the different kinds…What is she?” Leslie asked him curious.

“Seeing as that I have met all the Animal Royalty I can only come up with one conclusion…My mate here is the Princess of Cats…” he trailed off with a deep moan as I ran my nails through his hair.

“Cats?” I asked purring into his neck…damn I even sound like a cat.

“Each species on earth is represented in the Royal court but the Cat family is special for they rule over all the Animal Gaea. It is true when they say that the lion is the king of the jungle…” he trailed off again as he ran his hands through my hair causing me to purr loudly again.

“So how do you know that she is from this family? Besides this whole purring thing she keeps doing.” Leslie asked suspicion thick in her voice.

“She is the only one missing.”

“Missing? What do you mean missing?” I exclaimed sitting up to look into Adeke’s eyes suddenly interested in the conversation.

“She went missing. Twenty years ago the Princess of Cats was stolen in an attempt to stop their Royal line. The kidnappers were found but the baby never was, she was thought to be dead after so long. The lost girl has to be you…you look so much like your mother.” Adeke said smiling down at me.

“My mother died when I was a kid, my father too.” I stated confused.

“My guess would be that you were adopted at some point in time. The resemblance between you and Queen Sofia is astonishing to the point that there is no way for you to be someone other than her daughter. Anahi you are special. You are one of the last members of a very powerful family line. You will have powers and skills that we could only imagine…” Adeke smiled.

Millions of questions and thoughts ran through my head. I thought back to my memories of my parents, I didn’t resemble either one of them. They were actually the complete opposite of my dark features with fair skin and blue eyes. Having lost them at the early age of seven and traveled through the foster system until turning eighteen their memory had certainly faded. Thinking of all the years I hoped for a family to stick with me or adopt me…and here I had one all along.

“Have they been looking for me?” I asked quietly playing with the buttons on Adeke’s shirt.

“Relentlessly.” He answered sternly.

“I have a mother and a father?” I asked stunned yet mostly to myself.

“You have a lot more than that.” Adeke said grinning.

“More than that, what do you mean?” Leslie asked for me, hope shinning in her eyes.

“Anahi, not only do you have a mother and a father waiting for you but also a twin brother and two younger twin sisters.”

Wait, I’m a twin?

**A/N: Hi anyone who is reading this! I am still new at this so go easy on me if you leave a comment! Please, please, please vote! Thanks!!! **