"You are my mate, Amaryllis," Ulric said as he stared at her from across the table. He enjoyed toying with her before telling her the blatantly obvious truth that she was too innocent to see.

Amaryllis's eyes widened as she stared at the handsome man in front of her. She, a mere human, was mated to the most powerful vampire in the world? How could this be, she thought.

Amaryllis shook her head. "No, I'm not."

Ulric raised up a brow.

"You're too powerful to be mated to a weak human like me," Amaryllis said sadly as she looked down at her plate, her mood now gloomy. She really wanted Ulric to be her mate. The odd connection she felt with him seemed to grow stronger everyday and she could no longer try to ignore it. But the fact that he was lying to her about them being mates made her heart hurt.

"Amaryllis, I'm not lying to you. You are my mate," Ulric said quietly, not wanting anyone to overhear. It was none of anyone else's business. He would reveal the news when he was ready.

The girl stared at Ulric looking for telltale signs that he was lying, but she saw nothing in his beautifully unique eyes, well except maybe for some annoyance on his face as he frowned at her.

"Oh," she said as a smile broke out on her face. "I have a mate!" She said with a level of giddiness and joy that she hadn't felt in a long time.

"Yes. Now let's go," Ulric said as he grabbed Amaryllis's hand and pulled her up from the chair. He stopped and gently grabbed her broken wrist and inspected it. "We need to take you to get your cast removed in two weeks," he said as they walked out of the kitchen.

She nodded her head as she relished in the feeling of his big strong hand wrapped around her wrist.

As they walked around the corner of the hallway, the couple saw Thierry walking toward them.

"Hi!" Amaryllis squealed as she waved her hand. He waved back and met the couple, standing about a foot in front of them.

"Where are you going?" Amaryllis asked as she saw a bouquet of flowers and a stuffed teddy bear in his hand.

"I'm going to see my mate in the hospital," he replied.

"Ohh. Is she awake?"

Thierry shook his head, looking sad. "Not yet. But I know she will be soon. She's a fighter," he replied as adoration for his mate was visible in his eyes. Amaryllis hoped Ulric would feel love and adoration for her one day like Thierry feels for Marley.

"General Stirk," I heard as a nurse from the hospital ran around the corner. This one, in particular, was a vampire but there were also humans who served as nurses.

Who was she talking to? Who is General Stirk?

"We think Miss. Benton might be waking up! Her eyelids were moving and her finger twitched!" The vampire nurse said excitedly.

Thierry looked relieved as he ran with his vampire speed to the hospital wing, wasting no time to get to his mate.

"Your Highness," the nurse curtsied in Ulric's direction. She gave him a weird smile, but Amaryllis wasn't sure what it meant so she just brushed it off.

Oh, Stirk must be Thierry's last name and Miss. Benton must be Marley.

Ulric looked at the nurse as she rushed around the corner. He had never seen that many doctors around, mainly because they aren't needed. Vampires aren't likely to die from blood loss due to injuries because of their extremely advanced healing abilities. However, they keep a hospital around just in case a vampire is severely injured and fighting between life and death. They also keep a hospital to treat injured human servants or the few human mates that vampires may have.

Amaryllis gasped as she placed her hands to her cheeks. "I hope she wakes up. I really want Thierry to feel better again. And I want to meet her," Amaryllis said. "Do you think I can meet her when she wakes up?"

Ulric nodded his head, shooing off the nurse that was sending him seductive looks. The thought of being with another woman after Amaryllis made his stomach churn as if somebody had added drops of poison to his food.

"Let's go," Ulric said as he pulled on her wrist, ushering her down the hallway.

Ulric unlocked the door to his quarters by pressing his thumb on to the finger pad on the wall right beside the door. He was the only one in the castle except for Thierry who had access to his room. He would have to program Amaryllis's fingerprint into the pad so she could get in by herself in case he wasn't around.

Amaryllis went straight to her bedroom and changed into a short sleeve shirt and a pair of loose sleeping shorts. She also let her hair down after having it up in a ponytail all day. Leaving her room, she met Ulric in the kitchen.

Walking into his home, Ulric went straight to the kitchen and opened the fridge, pulling out a blood bag listed with Amaryllis's name. He popped the bag and poured its contents into the glass. Amaryllis looked on fascinated as she watched the smooth dark liquid that was once inside her body fill the glass.

He had a very long day and all he wanted was the delicious taste of his mate's blood in his mouth.

Ulric took the first sip and leaned his head back in satisfaction as he groaned. Amaryllis blushed as she watched the effect her blood had on him. She was proud of herself for making her mate feel good.

Ulric stared at her over the rim of his glass. When he finished off the blood, he walked closer to her and closed his eyes as he breathed in the lovely scent of his mate. She smelled heavenly, like vanilla and clementine, with a mix of his own scent. That thrilled his innermost beast, loving that his mate smelled like him. Once their mating process was complete, she would have the same scent as him to other vampires, letting them know that she was completely taken by her mate.

Amaryllis shivered as he stared at her with such intensity in his eyes. She felt like she was his center of attention. Being the center of attention was a feeling she wasn't used to at all.

"I'm a bit tired. I'm going to go to sleep," Amaryllis said as she turned to walk back to her room. However, a large calloused hand wrapped around her waist, preventing her from walking further.

"No," the king said as he led his little mate to the living room. He sat down at the end of the couch and propped his elbow on the armrest while patting the spot next to him for Amaryllis to sit down. "Sit with me," he said.

Amaryllis sat down on the cushion but kept a far enough distance away from him so they weren't touching. She didn't want to make him upset.

Ulric rolled his eyes after a few minutes when she still hadn't moved any closer and was a stiff as a board on the couch. Wrapping his arms under her legs and behind her back, he lifted her up and placed her in his lap, her head falling into his chest.

She breathed in his woodsy, manly scent as she kept her head glued to his chest. She loved the feeling of his strong body wrapped around her much smaller one.

She wasn't sure what to do with the hand that was laying against the side of his body, so she laid it on his stomach and enjoyed the feeling of his muscles rippling as he moved.

Amaryllis looked up and met his black and silver eyes as he gazed down at her. She blushed, knowing she'd been caught looking at him and tilted her chin down to look at her hands.

Ulric caught her chin with two fingers and pulled her head back up. "Don't hide from me," he said hoarsely.

"Ok," she whispered as she started up at him, watching the flecks of color swirl through the blacks of his eyes.

She wasn't sure what took over her, but she found herself slowly moving her head toward his lips.

He grabbed the back of her head and pulled her up to his face, smashing his lips onto her own. Ulric wrapped his hand in her hair and tugged on it, making her mewl in pleasure.

Amaryllis turned her body so she had a better angle at his lips, meaning she placed her hands on his chest as her bottom half was straddling his. One of his hands was wrapped up in her hair and the other one was wrapped around her back.

He licked her bottom lip and she gladly opened for him, allowing his tongue to slide in. He groaned as his tongue met her's, loving the taste of her.

Amaryllis moved one hand from his chest to cup his cheek. She could feel the stubble of a beard growing. Soon, she began to feel an achy sensation between her legs. Trying to relieve the feeling, she attempted to squeeze her legs together, but Ulric's large thighs wouldn't let her. Instead, she ending up practically humping him, causing little Ulric, who Ulric had been trying to suppress, to make an appearance.

Ulric hissed as his little mate continued to basically grind herself against him without her even realizing it. "What's wrong?" She asked worriedly as she pulled away. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," he growled out as he sat still trying to calm his hormones, but it wasn't working. All of sudden, Amaryllis's face deepened ten shades of red and he knew she must have felt his raging erection.

"Oh," she said as she felt something very big and very hard in between her legs that belonged to Ulric. She looked down and saw a gargantuan sized tent in his pants as his erection pushed against her shorts-clad core.

"Does it hurt? Do you need me to get off?" She asked as she placed her hands on his shoulders to get off of his lap. She didn't want to cause him pain.

"No!" He growled. "Stay here." He grabbed the underneath of her thighs and pulled her down his legs even further. Now she was completely on top of his member.

She gasped loudly at the feeling. It felt very nice. Amaryllis had never felt something like what she was feeling right then. Nobody had ever touched her the way Ulric was, not that she ever even wanted a man to touch her the way Ulric was.

The ache between her legs was stronger than ever and she thought she might just die if she didn't relieve it soon.

After being jostled around his lap, she came to the conclusion that rubbing herself against him will make her feel better. So, she clutched his shoulders and began to grind her most private parts against the hard part in his pants.

"Fuck," Ulric moaned as she began to move against him. He wasn't planning on doing this tonight, but if she was willing, he sure as hell wasn't going to say no.

Ulric grabbed her hips with his hands and thrust his own body up against hers. She let out a small scream at the sudden sensation.

Ulric glared at the thin piece of fabric covering the place he desired the most at the moment, but he knew they weren't going to complete the mating process that night. Amaryllis still needed to be eased into it as she wasn't ready yet. She didn't even know what the mating process was yet.

He pushed her head toward his body further and placed his face in between her neck and shoulder as he breathed in her fantastic scent.

"Ulric, what is happening?" Amaryllis cried out as she felt an odd, but immensely pleasurable feeling building inside of her.

"Just let it happen," Ulric said as the two continued to grind against each other. He felt his own release building up, and no other time that he had been with a different woman, having actual sex, did it feel as good as now when he was simply dry humping his mate. She had absolutely ruined him for any other woman, not that he wanted any woman other than her.

Ulric let out a guttural, beastly sounding growl as his climax hit, and Amaryllis squeezed her body as tightly as she could to his and cried out in pleasure. She had never felt something so magnificent as to what her mate had just done to her. After the shock of her climax was over, she still continued to keep her arms wrapped around his strong neck as he kept his face buried in her neck.

"Did I just...?" She timidly asked. She couldn't say the word out loud, it was too embarrassing.

"You just had your first orgasm, Amaryllis," Ulric's muffled voice said. He finally pulled his head away from her neck and looked at her face.

She was beet red, obviously blushing. Her lips were swollen and looked well used. Her hair was a mess from where his hands were buried in it. Her green eyes sparkled with romance. She also had a smile in her face. It made Ulric prideful knowing that he was able to satisfy and pleasure his mate.

"You should go to sleep, it's late," Ulric said.

"Okay," Amaryllis nodded as she unwrapped her arms from his neck and stood up.

"Goodnight," she said as she walked toward her room. She was sad though. She didn't want their night to be over yet, not when they just had an amazing connection like that. She shrugged though, figuring Ulric wanted to be alone or something.

Once she got in her room, she went straight to the bathroom and cleaned herself up. Once was cleaned up, she stared at herself in the mirror. She never would have done something like this if Ulric was some other guy. She would never be so willing to give herself up like she just did if she was back home.

But she wasn't back home, and Ulric wasn't just some guy. He was her mate. She didn't regret what just happened between them and she even hoped it would happen more often. She knew that he was the one and the only man she had been waiting to give her whole mind, body, and soul to.

After braiding her hair for the night, she went back into the bedroom to go to sleep but was met with a large, shirtless, body on her bed.

She stared at Ulric in confusion. Mainly she stared at his deliciously sculpted body. It was like he was chiseled out of stone.

What is he doing?

"You're not sleeping in here anymore," He said as he stood up from her bed. He grabbed her hand and led her down the hallway. Amaryllis stared at the muscles rippling in his back as he walked.

He opened the door to his bedroom and held it open for her. "You're sleeping with me from now on," he said.

"Why?" She quietly asked as she looked around. His room smelled exactly like him and she breathed in the wonderful scent.

"You're my mate, Amaryllis. I'm done trying to fight it. I'm done trying to fight you. I won't sleep without you by my side any longer," he said.

He motioned for her to sit on the bed as he walked into his large walk-in closet.

What does he mean by he's not trying to fight it anymore? The mate pull? Why was he trying to fight it in the first place?

Shrugging, Amaryllis pushed the thought to the back of her mind. She was just happy that Ulric was being nicer to her and treating her better.

When Ulric walked out of the closet, she shrieked and closed her eyes. He was completely naked. Thankfully she didn't see his male parts, she only saw his very bare thighs. She didn't think she would be able to handle seeing what makes boys different from girls that night.

"Ulric, why are you naked?" She shrieked as she hid her eyes behind her hands.

"I sleep naked. It's more comfortable that way. Now get in the bed."

"I can't sleep next to a naked man!" She cried out. This was all too much for her. Having her first orgasm and sleeping next to her naked mate all in one day was just too much to handle.

"Get in bed, Amaryllis," he demanded in a voice that made her immediately listen. She was sure his voice would make grown men cry. In fact, she had seen him make a decent amount of new soldiers cry during the time she had been there. Ulric was a very scary man, but she could tell that he treated his people well and was highly respected.

"Okay," whispered as she got under the covers. She pulled them up to her nose and deeply inhaled. They smelled so good, exactly like him.

She finally opened her eyes when she heard Ulric flick the light off. Then she felt the big man get into bed. The mattress dipped beside her.

Her comfy position was ruined when she felt his muscular arms slide against her body and pull her into his own body. His penis was against her butt and her eyes went wide. She could tell he was more than well endowed through his jeans, but now that his parts were fully pressed against her, she could fully feel just how large Urlic was.

"I don't think I can sleep with you being naked," she whispered into the darkness. Though this new position was very comfy as she was snuggled with her mate, his huge penis was distracting. If they were ever to have sex, there would be no way he would fit, Amaryllis thought to herself.

She felt his chest vibrate as he let out a laugh at her remark. He then pulled her even closer to his naked body just out of spite.

"You'll be fine."

After a few minutes of silence, Amaryllis turned around in Ulric's grasp to face him.

"Ulric?" She whispered. She couldn't even tell if his eyes were open or not because of how black they were.

"Yes?"

"Goodnight," she said as she cuddled up closer against his body, not even caring about his nudity.

"Goodnight, Amaryllis."

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