Strange Love

"Oh gross! Can you just stop reading already! That's my f.u.c.k.i.n.g mom and dad!" Russ yelled out as Chary continued to read the passage of the diary over the loudspeaker.

Chary laughed loudly into the phone. [Oh no baby boy, we're just getting to the good parts. Daddy had moves!]

Ry nudged a disgruntled Russ with his elbow. "Come on man, let her finish. Hell, ya might learn how to actually treat someone you love after hearing it."

Russ glared over at him. "I don't want to hear my mom's GRAFFIC description of her first time f.u.c.k.i.n.g my dad!"

[Come on, there isn't too much s.e.x left... well I mean there is... your mom's diaries could give any of the current e.r.o.t.i.ca novels a run for their money... but it also mentions, in detail, what all went down the night your dad banished your uncle.] Chary said the sound of her flipping through pages could be heard in the background.

"Fine then, just skip to that part!" Russ barked out as he crossed his arms over his c.h.e.s.t in irritation.

Ry arched a brow at him. "Are you honestly going to sit here and tell me the guy who has been banging one of the women who raised him... his mom's best f.u.c.k.i.n.g friend... is going to shy away from s.e.x now?! The f.u.c.k man?!"

Russ threw out his arms toward the phone. "It's my mom and dad, dude! Jos is just Jos. Like I've said a hundred times it never felt like anything weird with her! Y'all are the ones who keep making it sound weird!"

[As I said, the s.e.x part is almost over with for this portion anyways. Just hush and let me get through it. The rest of us really want to hear this part! It's epic! So, either be a good boy and listen to the story or go to your room.] Chary said mockingly through the phone.

Russ glared down at the phone as he recrossed his arms and set back against the couch. "F.u.c.k.i.n.g go on then..."

Camila's room 1826

"Are you alright?" Ales asked on panted breaths as he pushed against the mattress to meet her passion-filled gaze. When she could only nod between gasps, he cupped her face and bent to place a light kiss on her lips before he began slowly pulling out of her inch by tightly restricted inch. He carefully climbed off her and sent an assessing once over along her body. With a light puff of a laugh, he tugged a corner of the bedding up and gently dabbed at the blood staining the pale skin of her inner t.h.i.g.hs. "I do believe this bedding is all but ruined anyway..." he said as he moved his sparkling eyes back to meet hers. He stood and began gathering their discarded clothing before carrying it back over and setting it on the foot of the bed. He leaned against the bed as he bent to step into his trousers.

Cam frowned as she ran her hands over the length of his arms and tried tugging him back down to her. "Ales... that was amazing... but I'm not ready to just dress and go back to our normal lives..." Her cheeks heated as she glanced toward the bed. "I'd hoped we could lay in one another's arms for a while longer before returning to business as usual..."

Ales let the pants drop to the floor as a wide smile curved his lips. He turned and pulled her into his arms, quickly capturing her lips for a passionate kiss when her face turned to meet his in surprise. He searched her expression as he brushed some of the loose curls away from her face. "I have no intention of going back to 'business as usual' any time tonight..." His smile widened as he bent and placed another lingering kiss on her love swollen, pouting lips. "I simply wanted to continue in the comforts of our own room... a room I've been only able to dream of sharing with you until now..." His smile tilted wickedly as he raised a hand to stroke his lightly stubbled chin thoughtfully. "However, I suppose, if you're not yet ready to dress or leave my arms..." He shrugged nonchalantly. "Then there's simply no helping it..." He quickly scooped her up into his arms as he lifted them from the bed. His eyes sparkled with mischief as he said, "I'll simply have to carry you back to our room like this."

Cam's eyes widened in surprise. "No, wait!" She quickly scanned her surroundings and grabbed the thick curtain hanging for the canopy of the bed, pulling it loose and coving her body with it as best as she could as they made their way toward the door. Her wide eyes studied his determined features. "Ales, you can't possibly plan to walk like this all the way to our room!"

His wolfish grin widened showing off perfectly straight, white teeth. "Oh, but I do..."

"But the servants!" Cam yelped as she tightened her grip on the curtain.

He arched a playful brow. "And what of them? They will know the second they see that room what happened if they hadn't already heard us. Besides, you are my wife and their queen... it's about time everyone in this palace knows and accepts that fact." His smile widened into a full grin as a door down the hall opened. "And where better to start..." He said as he turned slightly to meet his brother's questioning gaze from the doorway to his favorite study. He nodded his head toward Fern. "I must have a word with you sometime tomorrow, dear brother." He bit out the title mockingly. "But as you can see, it may be quite late tomorrow." He sent his brother a wink. "I shall have my hands full for several more hours with this one, I'm afraid." He bent and gave her an affectionate kiss before turning his attention back to his brother. "Oh, and don't wait on us for breakfast. We'll have Cook send something up later as well." He turned and proudly let his b.a.r.e a.s.s cheeks flex with every step as he carried Cam the rest of the way to their room, nodding to one of the chambermaids as they passed by.

Once inside he lowered Cam to their bed. "Would you like a bath or anything? If you're hungry I can have something brought up for you..."

Cam giggled as she shook her head. "You are something else you know that."

He smiled as he cupped her face and kissed the tip of her nose. "How so, my love?"

She giggled again as she ran her hand over his b.a.r.e c.h.e.s.t. "You know the entire castle will be abuzz about this in the morning, right? Their king and queen traipsing through the hallways completely n.a.k.e.d and directly after i.n.t.e.r.c.o.u.r.s.e."

"Ummhuh." He murmured with a husky growl against her fingers as he brought them to his lips to kiss and nibbled their tips. "That was the very point, my love." He lowered her hand back to his abdomen and stepped between her t.h.i.g.hs as he ran his hand through the tangled hair at the back of her head. "I do not want any of them to doubt our relationship tomorrow or the days to come. We are their rightful king and queen. I want no one to question it."

She frowned. "Why might they question it now?"

He let out a heavy sigh as he moved to her side and sat down on the bed beside her. "Because up until now they have always seen Fern and I as a unit. We have been presented to them as a package deal from the start... he has king and alpha and me as beta... until recent years in which case some of the people still look to him as their rightful leader... I... we will have to prove ourselves and present an impenetrable front once he is banned from the kingdom."

Cam let out a pained sigh as she leaned toward him and ran her hand soothingly over the taut muscles of his back. "I know it is painful for you to move forward with something that will forever force a wedge between you and your brother... but you have to know by now there is no other way."

He nodded as his troubled eyes moved back to her. "I know..." He let out a heavy sigh as he lifted his hand to her face once again. "But I don't want to think of any of that tonight... I want to continue loving you until we are both completely spent and unable to lift a single finger." He shifted onto his knees and tugged her higher into the bed. He bent and placed a light kiss to her navel as he gazed up at her through veiled eyes. "I want to get started right away on building that family..."

Present day

"And how the hell is this leading us any closer to finding out what Fern is up to?!" Russ barked out.

Chary laughed in amus.e.m.e.nt. [Because the next passage gives full details of Ales and Cam's confrontation with Fern... which led to his banishment...]

Russ set forward, irritation still coloring his words as he pushed up from his chair and made his way to the kitchen. "Then why don't you skip to that part? I'm tired of hearing about my parents' banging!" Ry and Poseidon's laughter only added to his irritation. It may not have been as bad if it wasn't for the fact that those two perverts were listening as well and surely imagining his mother completely n.a.k.e.d and performing the acts she'd written about. Hell, it was almost painfully hard for him to not imagine it...

Chary let out a puff of air. [Fine, if it's causing your p.a.n.t.i.e.s to bunch this bad we can skip ahead...] She went silent except for the sounds of pages flipping for several seconds as Russ retrieved a water bottle from the refrigerator. [Alright, here we are. There were quite a few pages I had to get through first.] She said suggestively before she began reading again.

King and queen's suite, 1826 6hours later...

Fern's lip twitched upward in an irritated snarl as he stepped into his brother's room. "You couldn't have possibly requested this meeting of yours in one of the studies, brother?" He shrugged as he set a fresh decanter of amber liquid on the desk. "No matter, I meant to drop this off in here last night anyway."

Ales smiled as he pushed up from the seat he'd been reclining in when Fern had entered. "Ah, perfect." He said as he stood and retrieved two glasses from one of the desk drawers. He popped the cork out of the new bottle and poured both glasses half full. Sliding one toward Fern, he nodded toward the glass. "It's late and quite a bit has happened in the last several days. I don't think we've yet toasted to my marriage, or Cam and I's copulation."

Fern's lips fell into thin lines. "I thought we'd agreed you'd hold off on that until we could determine whether the poor girl was still mentally capable of being a queen..."

Ales smiled widely at his brother. "Oh, to be sure, she will make a splendid queen, dear brother." He nodded toward the ignored glass. "Are you not going to share in this joyous occasion with me, brother?"

Fern snarled his nose up at the glass as he pushed it away from him. "I'd rather not... It seems rather early for celebration, wouldn't you agree?"

Ales stood and leaned over his brother as he pushed the tumbler back toward him. "Oh no, I believe it's the perfect time for it." His lips curved upwards exposing razor-sharp canines as he glared down at him with angry crimson eyes. "Now drink!" He bit out in a harsh animalistic growl.

Understanding flickered in Fern's eyes briefly before he masked it. "I have work to do later, you know this drink is laced with a sleep tonic." He pushed the drink away and scooted the seat back enough to stand. Slowly and cautiously, he turned his back to his brother. "If there will be nothing else..." A clawed hand caught his arm. The long sharp claws penetrated the thin shirt he wore and dug into his flesh underneath. His questioning gaze moved from the beastly hand gripping his arm to the angry red eyes glaring down at him. Ales was on the brink of shifting into the alpha form once again. {Obviously, the little minx had used her s.e.x.u.a.l charms to convince Ales of turning against me...} "Unless you have something else to say, please remove your hand and detract your claws, brother."

Ales's lip snarled over his upper teeth. "I do still have something to say to you... but first," He grabbed the tumbler from the desk and shoved it into Fern's hands. "Drink!" His beastly eyes glared down into Fern's. "Or are you afraid of meeting the same fate as the man you had the guards drag into the bas.e.m.e.nt last night?"

The glass fell to the floor and Fern's well-placed mask of stoicism was replaced with surprise. "You couldn't possibly believe such a thing, could you. I would never." He took a step back as Ales grew a few inches taller, the bones of his body popping and cracking with the impending shift.

"I could and you would... You did!" Ales growled only barely restraining the beast now.

Fern furrowed his brows and forged innocence. "Whatever you've heard, whatever that poor sick girl has told you, I promise you, brother, it's not true."

"Is that so?" Ales clapped his hands together loudly twice. Five guards stepped out from the attached bathroom. "Two of the men here right now were there with you last night. They dragged in someone you deemed dispensable and held him while you forced this poison down the man's throat." He narrowed his eyes at Fern. "Now, shall we see which of the guards shall be banished alongside you and which shall be lucky enough to carry out the order?" He bent and retrieved four more glasses. "Who would like to join Prince Fernando in a toast tonight, celebrating and honoring your queen and I's official start to our reign?"

Three of the men quickly stepped forward and moved to take glasses. Ales's smile widened as he held Fern's stormy gaze. He lifted his hand as the men were about to drink from the glasses. "Please, hand them to your colleagues. Allow them to have the first drink, won't you."

One of the guards who hadn't stepped forward lowered his head and spoke. "We were simply following orders, Your Majesty. Tell us what it is you require from us, and we shall do it."

Ales's beastly smile widened as he kept his focus on Fern. "Please explain to the others what happened last night." He waited as they did as they were ordered. "Ah... It would appear my wife isn't crazy after all..." His smile fell and his eyes narrowed. "Now arrest my brother and the guards who assisted him."

The two guards didn't put up a struggle, instead, they each bowed their heads in disgrace as they were cuffed and escorted out of the bedroom, but Fern wasn't going without a fight. He shoved at the guard and quickly shifted to wolf form. Shreds of clothing littered the room as the wolf made haste, nearly knocking the other guards down as it darted from the room. "Go after him!" Ales yelled as he hurried toward the door, but to his, the guards, and obviously Fern's surprise the next door down burst open. A beautiful fawn wolf leaped out into the hallway blocking Fern's path, hunkered low to the ground ready to pounce in any direction, her fangs bared in a snarl.