Once My Mate, Always My Mate novel Chapter 2

"Hello beautiful.." Cayden says to a shocked Josey, who came barrelling in to my room after bringing Cayden back to life.

Cayden, the vampire king who she happened to fall for and deeply. I had tasked Evan to find his remains and bring them together, in the hopes of giving my sister another chance at love but now, Cayden has taken over my true mate's body.

From the voice, to the eyes and the hair. To his stance and the way he throws his words around, my mate in every way....

I know Josey never intended on him taking over Aiden's body but here we are, Cayden alive and well inside my true mate who lay somewhere fighting off his own bad spirits... there was also no need to debate this because ain't now way I am allowing this new host to take over a body that belongs to me.

"Well this is weird and almost to the point of disgust." Xander points out as he checks Aiden out, looking for something different in him but I could see it... It was in his eyes.

These were the eyes of an evil I fought long and hard before allowing it to return, only for my sister's happiness. Clearly, coming at a very high cost and I am now beginning to worry if bringing him back was not reckless...

"Oh you mean this body? I am going to have to disagree with you there pal, this is a work of art. The things I will get to do with this body that I could not even do with mine, I can already feel the surge of energy within me and I am so ready to take him for a ride." Cayden says excitedly.

"What you are not going to do is stay in there. That body belongs to me and if you want to see another day, I suggest you heed my warning and find someone else." I say.

"Oh come on, there was nobody in here. You would have done the same thing!" Cayden shouts out in frustration.

"Yes but I am the moon goddess and you are in my world now, taking over a body that exclusively belongs to me. A body that has a host returning to it very soon and I can't let you do as you please. I have grown to adore those eyes, enjoy those lips and much much more...leaving you be inside Aiden would be a crime far worse than killing him in person. Besides, Josey and I will not be sleeping with the same guy, fuck no!" I say in disgust to the last part as I imagine my sister locking lips with Aiden...

"Technically, it would not be the same person..." Xander points out and I growl, making him raise his arms in surrender.

"Don't worry, I am sure the things I will be doing to Josey will not be the same. There is jsut no way that the little boy matches my experience." He says, rolling my eyes I turn to my sister.

"Josey, I can't allow this so you can either find a new body for your host or I kill him for good and there is no way to spin this. You can't find enough reason to convince me otherwise. That is Aiden's body which bares my mark... that body belongs to me  and I won't allow another woman, not even my sister to touch it." I say, not feeling my power release itself and shaking the room.

Cayden smiles, clearly enjoying my inner turmoil from witnessing his corruption on the very temple I worshipped daily...

"I don't know how to fix this..." Josey says, looking a little helpless.

"Fine. I can fix this... One, I will make you weak because there is no way you are using the strength gifted to a god for your own benefit and since you were not born a wolf, I can't allow your version of hybrid Cayden. The pain is excruciating, just removing the wolf from you will take a lot out of you and then I will send you to a place where lost wolves go until Josey finds you a suitable body. You can either race to find a dead body right now or have it my way but what we are not going to do is waste another second debating this. You all know what I am capable of, I really don't want to act out." I say to a now groaning Josey.

"Where will I go?" Cayden asks and I smile.

"I am so glad you asked. You will have to find a human body to take over, not one of mine dead or alive. You are a vampire, the product of bad magic and even though my sister shares in your dna, I can't gift the vampire king a wolf.... you have immense strength as it is. I can't allow you to one up my kind... that would require me to babysit you and I have too much to deal with as it is." I say, nodding to Evan to go find a human for Cayden.

We all stay quiet as Evan leaves, watching Josey and making sure she keeps her distance from my Aiden... 

"Just knock him out then.. won't that make things easier?" Xander asks me, Josey hears this, she shakes her head no. Not wanting to be apart from Cayden any longer.

Evan and Josey come rushing in, Evan carrying a man that looked to be in his twenties and out of it.

"We found him, he's dying so this should do." Josey says, lookin at Cayden who gets on his feet and approaches the body that Evan lays on the floor.

Cayden looks a little disappointed and I can't really blame him. After being inside Aiden, I don't know why he would want to be anyone else... but he has got to get out of my mate.

"Come on, you said you want to be with Josey... jump in there!" Xander taps Cayden on the shoulder.

"It is not as easy as it looks. He needs to kind of die... to give me some room in there." Cayden says and I kneel down to snap his neck, eager to get him the hell out of Aiden.

They all look at me with their mouth's on the floor from my action and I just shrug.

"Well then?" I ask before Aiden's body drops to the ground. Releasing a sigh of relief, I watch the life returnon the human's skin as life goes out in Aiden's, to going pale once again and Cayden's icy blue eyes making a return. 

His power coming through in waves, the room going cold as he stands up and stretches his limbs before smiling at us. He scoops Josey up and spins her around before they run out of the room and we are left to pick up our bearings.

Cayden was back. The Cayden we all know and Aiden's body was left alone, ready to be cleansed before his return...