Page 35 of Dark Prince

The heels I chose are my six inch Louboutin Dolly Pumps. They’re not for stripping though, these are my pride and joys. I saved up for these and I had only ever worn them sitting on my bed before today. I hadn’t had anywhere to wear them, until now. When I pulled them out of my closet, I told Axel that no matter what, if anything happened to these shoes, I’d kill him with the heel, through his eye. Just in case he thought about doing anything wild, he would know how serious I was about these fucking shoes.

Axel and his family wait on the other side of these large double doors, which are a dark wood, with an array of weapons carved into the borders. It’s an interesting choice that’s for sure.

He called this a collaring ceremony, kind of like a wedding but instead it’s a Dom and Sub committing themselves to each other in a different way. I’m carrying a single blood red rose when the doors open and my eyes widen at the sight. There’s an altar at the center of the large room, with candles and some other spooky looking shit.

Is that a skull?

Shit. Fuck. What did I sign up for?

I agreed to Axel’s terms, they were pretty simple honestly and he said we could work the rest of our terms out as we go, but for the basics it was just I agreed to allow him to be the Dom and that I would submit to him. He’d become my protector, my savior, my everything and I would be his in any way he sees fit. Now, I told him I wanted a few lines that he either needed permission to cross or didn’t cross at all and when he agreed to those. I agreed to this.

His sisters Maci and Cara stand on each side of the altar. His five fathers behind it and his mother in front of them. Kenan seemed to be missing as well as his still absent brother JT, whom I’ve yet to meet.

Axel stands in front of the altar, in a pair of black slacks and a silk button down, with the top three buttons undone and his sleeve rolled up. He’s got a shoulder holster on, with his knife, all leathery and dangerous looking, hot damn. He’s showcasing those beautiful veiny arms covered in tattoos and his hair like he always has it, messily on purpose. I’m still not sure how he manages that and still looks so put together. He literally looks like he just walked off a movie set, ready to devour me and kill anyone who gets in his way.

When I get to the end of the path, I stop just before Axel and he nods. “Remove your shoes and kneel.” He says. I step out of them, and Cara runs over, picking them up off the floor and returns to her spot. I snap my head to her as she’s inspecting them. I swear to God, I’ll kill her if she even thinks about sticking her feet in them.

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“CORDELIA LILITH CRAWFORD.” Candace starts. “Axel James Mazitti.” Shit, I didn’t even know his middle name. We’re really going to have to get to know each other.

I drop to my knees, to the small black pillow that I didn’t realize was there. I figured they’d totally make me kneel on the hardwood floor.

“You both enter this ceremony of your own free will?” Candace asks.

“Yes.” We say in unison, staring at each other.

“Then I will turn this over to you.” Candace, steps back to her husbands and watches us.

My heart starts racing when Axel kneels down for a second to lift my veil. The corner of his lip twitches for half a second when he finally sees my full face. I’m glad he’s pleased. I worked hard on the makeup, making sure it wasn’t too slutty, but still thick and sexy. That’s a fine line that is very hard to not cross, but I think I managed to pull it off.

He pulls out a small chain cutter and removes the silver collar from around my neck and I feel it fall to the ground with a small clanky sound. My breath catches as he holds up a black and silver chain with a red lock on it. “Tell them who you belong to, little deer.” He says, placing the chain around my neck, pausing for me to answer before he locks it.

“I am yours.” I say softly, but loud enough for them to hear. The clicking sound of the metal lock signifies that he’s sealed it.

“Stand.” He says, holding a hand out of me.

My shoes appear before me and I step into them as Axel holds me upright. Once they’re back on me, we walk over to the altar and I see a small dagger, a piece of paper and a lit candle, all next to the skull that seems to have blood on it. I didn’t notice that before.

Axel picks up the dagger and we turn to face each other. I have no idea what’s about to happen, so I’ll just let Axel handle this part I guess. He raises the dagger to my hair and cuts a small piece off, laying it on the paper. Furrowing my brow I watch as he grabs my hand and pokes the tip of it to my thumb, cutting me. What the hell?

Then he flips the handle over and hands it to me. I suppose it’s my turn. So I reach up and slice some of his hair off, dropping the small curl to the pile with mine and then take his hand, and press the tip to his thumb. We turn to face the altar, Axel picks the candle up, pours some wax over the locks of hair and I just watch. Not sure what I’m supposed to do. I’m assuming we pierced our thumbs for a reason.

“I swear to protect you with my life.” Axel says, pressing his bleeding thumb to the wax.

Oh, this is our vow part. Okay. Shit, what was I supposed to say? Erm, uh. Shit. oh right, I remember. “I swear to submit for your sanity.” I say pressing my thumb to the wax. Awe, cute our thumbs make a little bloody heart in it. I’m assuming that the paper is our contract.

I look up at Axel, hoping that’s all we have to do, because this is starting to get awkward, standing here in basically nothing with his family.

“We’re leaving for the next part.” Candace bows her head and leaves the room with the guys on her heels. Maci waves and heads out behind them.

“Someone has to stay and watch.” Cara says, skipping over to the chair across the room.

“Watch what?” I ask, my eyes going wide.

“This.” He shoves me back to my knees and pulls his belt off. Oh god, is she going to watch us be together, like, naked and shit. Isn’t that weird? His sister, watching us.

I watch as she gets comfortable, kicking her feet up as she doesn’t take her eyes off of us.

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