Dr. Luna
The Vampires Promised Bride Chapter 30

Lucy's leg was still a bit tight from her injury. While her leg was healed the muscles still needed to be the pain? She wasn't sure but Jasper stopped abruptly in front of her. He turned to face her with a fro "How bad is it Lucy?" Jasper asked quietly.

hed out. Not that she could beat Jasper running anyways... at least not in this form. She never made a sound, but maybe her eyebrows furrowed slightly from

"Not bad enough that I'd use it as an excuse for losing." Lucy watched as he came closer to her. He the pressed his forehead on her head and sighed. "Lucy... will you promise me something?" Jasper whispered, staring into her eyes. Their foreheads were still couching. She looked into his deep brown serious eyes as the wind played with his blonde hair. She looked at h

fused. "What is it?"

"No more secrets with us? I promise to always tell you everything from now on if you promise to tell me everything. I don't want you thinking I'm not your best friend because my cousin is Derek. You are just as important to me." He winked as his lips curled upwards. "You'll tell me anything?" way I am never lying to you."

"Yes. And if there is something I can't say I will tell you it is something I am not permitted to talk abou "Likewise. That sounds reasonable. Okay... I promise." Lucy smiled.

"I promise too." Jasper lifted his head up and looked down at her. "Now that we got that out of the wa "Tricked." Lucy said with a laugh. She should have known better. But still it was a relief to know he wo stiff." She could see the relief in his brown eyes and a faint smile reached his lips. "Okay, good." Jasper draped his arm around her shoulder. "Let's go raid the fridge."

Lucy walked next to Jasper's side back to the house. They rummaged through the cabinets and fridge instead of sitting on the couches they chose the floor.

"Justice will fit in well with us. The four of us are going to always be best friends and soon you will offi "It probably won't always be the four of us though."

"You planning on getting pregnant right away?"

v does your leg really feel? The effects of the injection may still be affecting you."

I her the truth. And she trusted him to do so. "It feels tight. Maybe a bit sore. It just needs to be worked out is all. The wound is healed but the muscles are

g a little smorgasbord of food. Then they headed to the couches and sat on the floor cross legged in front of each other. They were silly like that sometimes

be my family too." Jasper said as he plopped a grape in his mouth.

smirking. "I was talking about you and Justice finding your mates."

Lucy started coughing and quickly grabbed her cup downing the glass of water. She looked up to see "Maybe Justice? The thing is Luce that vampires don't usually find their fated mate this early in their li bok how long my dad had to wait? What happened in your case is rare... unheard of rare. It will be a while for me. But I don't mind. I don't need to settle down anytime soon... or want to for that matter. I don't live my life the same way as your mate has. I enjoy the experiences. Most vampires do. What if it takes you centuries to find your mate? I can't live like a monk until then. It is like our unspoken thing. Some of us even date and take on a companion but it is common knowledge that it is just passing the time until our mate shows up. So yeah... it will be just the four of us for a while or when Justice finds his mate. Or until you pop some puppies out." Jasper then looked up at the ceiling. "What do you think they are talking about?"

"Knowing Aiden he is probably just giving him tips on how to 'handle' me. As if I come with a manual." Lucy rolled her eyes.

Jasper chuckled. "They will get along well. Aiden loves you and just wants you taken care of. He wants your happiness more than he wants his own. He is a really good guy. He will make a great king."

"I think so too. I hope he finds someone amazing to be by his side. I won't accept anyone who isn't. I'm stricter than he is. His mate will be amazing or I'll beat the amazing into her."

"You must be really relieved... I can't imagine how you felt when you first met your mate and it wasn't 'Derek'." Jasper watched her roll her eyes.

"I was so conflicted. I hated it. I hated that I would have to reject Ryan. I didn't want to... but I couldn't let down our two species." A faint smile reached her lips. "I was a mixture of so many feelings after... our talk..." She said still keeping a sense of vagueness in the details just as a precaution. "But I would be lying if I didn't say I wasn't relieved. It was like a huge weight was lifted off of me. And for once... I was able to see happiness in my future."

"You are always burying your feelings deep Lucy... I don't like it. Don't put yourself second even to your people. You deserve to seize your own happiness." Jasper's brown eyes fixed on Lucy's. It worked out for her this time but from now on he wanted her to think about herself too.

"Hmmm... I think the same should go for you." Lucy said, raising a challenging eyebrow up at him. "How often did you want to do or say something but didn't? Because you were thinking about your sense of duty and not yourself." "Touché Lucy. Touché. We will work on it together then."

"Good. Now... ready for the challenge?" Lucy said as she grabbed the bowl of grapes. "First one to miss has to drink one of Aiden's power juices."

"Eww sick. That stuff smells like the bottom of a troll's foot." Jasper said, scrunching up his face.

Lucy giggled. "I know. But he thinks it is going to help make him stronger..." She rolled her eyes. "Well?"

"Hope you enjoy troll feet." Jasper chuckled and grabbed a couple grapes. "No unreasonable tosses either. You have to serve them up."

"Alight, deal."

"I'm glad we are on the same page. I just needed to know that she is more important to you than your own life. Because if she wasn't then you didn't deserve her." Aiden stood up from the chair he was sitting in. "There is no life without her. I'd rather be dead if she didn't exist." Derek's amber eyes set onto Aiden's. He was serious. Lucy came before everything.

"Lucy can be feisty, but she is also really forgiving. Apologize quickly and often to save you from staying in trouble." Aiden laughed and rubbed the back of his neck. "That's what I do."

"Thank you for the tip. I have a feeling I may need it." Derek laughed. "Of course, if we really are soul mates then once the marking happens that should save my butt."

"I need a soul mate then. I think my mate will want to pull her hair out with me." Aiden grinned widely. "Of course, after misunderstandings, there is always makeup s*x but that's my sister and an off-topic subject." Derek chuckled. "I'm hoping the soul mate link will help avoid misunderstandings in the future."

"You sure you don't want to just get the marking done now?"

"Not like this. Not after just recovering from the vervain injection. But I'm hoping to soon. Either I'll get the witch stuff sorted out now or I'll arrange that I can leave for a couple of days. I'm not sure how my venom will affect Lucy. I want to be able to stay with her afterwards. You both have pureblood in your system but also aren't exactly the same as me. It is weird, to be honest. You are an anomaly. Very interesting ones. It's never happened before from what my father has said."

"There is a lot that hasn't happened before with my family. We just tend to roll with the crazy." Aiden chuckled with a shrug. "I'll have to see what Lucy wants but I think we will head to the west dragon kingdom after the welcoming ceremony."

"I'll plan to come here and have your father open up a portal there. And hopefully, we won't have to be apart for long."

"Derek... I know that you may be a bit anxious being away from Lucy after what happened. But I assure you that won't happen again. Between me, Jasper and Justice Lucy will be on lockdown. She doesn't know it but I've already made some arrangements..." Aiden let a wicked smile spread across his lips. "Actually she is going to be quite angry... but it's her fault."

"Don't tell me. I don't want her thinking I had anything to do with whatever you have planned." Derek shook his head smiling.

"Yeah, you don't want this heat." Aiden chuckled. "Come on, let's get you back to Lucy." He walked over to the office door and opened it. The moment the soundproof door opened the sounds of laughter and loud squeals echoed into the room. "CHEATER!" Lucy squealed.

"Sore loser, Lucy," Jasper smirked and rolled his shoulders arrogantly.

"You are such a cheater. No. Nuh-uh. That doesn't count. That was gross." Lucy squinted her eyes at Jasper and pouted. "You know some people would consider that an indirect kiss."

"You've drank out of my water bottle before, so same thing." Jasper said arrogantly.

"That is not the same thing Jasper and you know it! That is disgusting and not fair." Lucy stood up and started chucking grapes at him.

"Hey! You are going to have a mess to clean up." Jasper chuckled as he dodged her assaults.

"Mind telling me what is going on here?" Derek asked as Aiden came down to his side.

"Didn't you hear? He tried to give your mate an indirect kiss." Aiden grinned wickedly towards Jasper as mischief flashed over his eyes.

"Ryan... wait... I can see that look in your eyes." Jasper chuckled nervously and took a retreating step backwards.

"We had a game going where you had to catch the grape in your mouth the other person threw. The loser had to drink one of Aiden's stinky troll drinks."

"HEY!" Aiden objected.

"Sorry, Aiden... anyways. Jasper put one of the grapes in his mouth first before he tossed it to me. Obviously, I wasn't catching that in my mouth and now he is proclaiming himself as the winner!" Lucy said, pouting.

Derek pulled Lucy into his chest and glared at Jasper. "You wanted my mate to have YOUR spit in her mouth?"

"I knew she wouldn't catch it. It was a certain victory. And the only rule was to serve it up." Jasper smirked with a shrug.

"Yep, sorry Lucy you lost." Aiden said, clicking his tongue.

"Ugh, I'm getting ganged up on. I can see this is going to be a swell time being surrounded by a bunch of man-boys."

"I'll get your juice for you Lucy." Jasper trotted over to the fridge and pulled out a bottle of green looking liquid. "You know Lucy, I can make him drink it instead." Derek said with a cruel grin.

"She knew the stakes." Jasper said, holding the bottle out to Lucy.

Derek snatched it from his hands and held it up to observe the liquid. He opened the lid and immediately winced from the scent. He turned and looked at Aiden. "You drink this on purpose?!"

"It's my muscle building juice. It's not that bad..." Aiden shrugged not knowing what the big deal was.

Derek looked down at Lucy and winked at her. "My mate isn't to drink this stuff ever. And if I find out she has it will be your neck Jasper. But since a bet was made I'll drink it for her."

"No no no you don't have to do that." Lucy turned to stop him but he already quickly took it down.

"Yuck... what are you doing to yourself? This stuff is putrid." Derek coughed and held that bottle out. He tossed it over to Jasper. "I blame you that something that vile is now poisoning my insides." Jasper grinned widely and shrugged. "The crazy things you do for love."

"I can't believe you drank that." Lucy bit her bottom lip and looked up at him like he was about to die.

"Like Jasper said... the things you do for love." He smiled at her warmly and leaned forward to kiss her forehead. "There will be no ganging up on you, at least not as far as Jasper is concerned." He flashed a quick glance up at Jasper. "I'll make sure of it." Lucy giggled. "It's okay. They can try to gang up on me. But they will lose. They all know it." She grinned widely. "I don't always play fair..."

Derek smiled down at his little mate with adoration. He had had a lot of trials already in his life. But leaving her today would easily be the toughest thing yet. And the time away from her was going to be pure t*****e. It already hurt just thinking about it. He would make the most out of the rest of the time he had left with her today.