The Bad Boy And The Mermaid

Chapter 15

Hunter

I loved her. There was no turning back from it. I was ruined completely and I was ready to accept my fate. If she didn’t return my feelings, I wasn’t entirely sure I could get over it. I wouldn’t get over her. I knew it that much.

I moved a little upward and pressed my lips between her breasts and heard her sigh in pleasure. She wasn’t wearing a bra. I reached for her right breast and took the left one in my mouth. I heard her moan, and her fingers digging into my hair. Just when I thought I was doing the right thing, I saw the tears spilling out of her eyes.

I rolled the t-shirt on her body and sat back. Why was this Goddess like woman crying? I’d only been trying to distract her from the painful cramps that Hannah was talking about, heck if I knew anything about women on their periods.

“Did you hate it?” I asked her.

“No.” Blue said. “But you’re only trying to distract me because you don’t want me to know the truth.”

“What are you talking about, Blue?”

“You’re afraid to admit that I’m going to eventually bleed and die today.” And then she closed her eyes, joined her hands and started rambling in another language which I assumed was mermaid language. And this had to be her prayer.

“What are you saying in your prayer?” I asked, still confused.

“I’m asking the gods to forgive my sins.”

“In what way have you sinned, please explain.” I may have sounded a wee bit sarcastic, but who was I kidding, sarcasm never worked on Blue.

If Blue was a sinner, then if I had to count the amount of bad things I had done in my life, I should have been in hell working as Lucifer’s personal advisor.

She passed me a look that said I was interrupting her prayers. “I have sinned according to the rules of the Underwater World, Hunter. My first sin is running away from home and stepping on land, even worse that I like living here and I enjoy the human food, my second sin is letting a Human boy touch me, my third sin is...” she was close to tears again. “my third sin is wanting to be touched and kissed by a human. My fourth sin is letting a human soil me completely. I’ve broken all the rules there are and I guess I’m paying the price now.”

I sat there in sheer astonishment. Blue was implying that I had spoiled her by touching her with my dirty human hands, she hadn’t said it outright but that’s what it had meant.

I deserved it. I deserved hearing the truth from her. She’d made it loud and clear.

I gave out a laugh. “Maybe you should have thought about it before you came snuggling into my arms when I slept on the couch or when you asked me to sleep with you in bed. How about the times you begged me to kiss you, Blue? Did you ever realize that you were partly responsible for letting me lay my hands on you?”

Her mouth was hanging open because I’d raised my voice again. I didn’t care. I was angry. “You asked me why I was a sinner and I’m telling you what I think.” She said still not realizing that she had hurt me with her words. It was like a sharp knife twisting in my gut. The pain was almost unbearable.

“Trust me, Love, you’ve told me everything that I needed to know. And I sincerely apologize for touching you with my degenerated hands, oh and my mouth wherever that it touched your body.”

“But Hunter...” Property belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.

“I’m very sorry; please forgive this debauched poor man, Your Grace. I promise it won’t repeat again.”

“Why are you saying all this?”

“It’s not fair! All I did was help you out because you were lying naked on the beach. I was just looking out for you and what did you do?” I shrieked. “You said I was dirty and you looked into my past forcefully.”

I didn’t know when I was completely consumed by my anger that I grasped her shoulders in a fierce hold, “Would you rather have preferred if it was your mermaid boyfriend kissing you and touching you instead of me? I’m sure if it was him, it wouldn’t have been a sin because that’s allowed, am I right? Answer me!”

“Hunter...“She was crying again. “Stop Please...”

I instantly loosened the grip. What was happening to me? I had been so mad with anger, jealously and rage that I even scared Blue.

I stood up. “I’m sorry, I really am. I don’t know what’s gotten into me. And about the bleeding, there’s nothing to worry about. It just means that you’re a woman now. Every woman goes through this every month for five days. It’s quite natural so you’re not dying.”

Relief flooded her features, but she didn’t say a word.

“You can ask Hannah.” I handed her medicines. “If you’re having cramps, take these.”

I didn’t wait to see her expressions, and walked out of the door shutting the door behind me with a loud bang.

Hannah was making her way upstairs but I ignored her and began rushing my way downstairs, she was calling out to me. “Hunter, where the hell are you going?”

I walked out of the mansion, and sat down in my car and turned the ignition key. I saw Blue staring out the window, trying to hide herself. Even though her face was concealed behind the curtains, I could still see her. Silly woman.

That’s right. She was a woman now.

Hold on a minute.

What was I saying?

Blue was a mermaid and looking at the way she reacted she obviously had no idea about menstruation. She started her periods today like any normal woman.

Was there a reason for it?

Oh god. Was it because of the “sins” she kept talking about? Had I really screwed her chances of going back to her world?

I held the steering wheel tightly, fighting back the urge to walk back to the mansion and take her into my arms. No good was going to come out of me touching her. If anything, I would just fuck up her chances of becoming a normal mermaid, (if that was possible at all).

Did that mean she couldn’t go back to the Ocean? Why did I feel an utter sense of relief? I also felt utterly guilty for having this feeling. It was so wrong. She was better off without me. Hadn’t I been insulted by her enough?

I had to accept my faith. No body was going to love me. There would be Hannah, and my family, but no one in my life that would ever call me theirs.

It was the harsh truth.

* * *

Blue

I had never seen Hunter that way. His eyes were filled with an emotion that I couldn’t even describe, he had been so angry that I was scared he would hurt me. When he had grasped my shoulders, I could feel his energy.

He was sad, lonely and disappointed but his intention was never to hurt me. I didn’t understand what I had said that had made him so furious. I had merely stated the truth.

The door suddenly opened and for a second I thought it was Hunter.

“What happened now?” Hannah asked.

“I said something that I think I shouldn’t have.” I admitted.

I told Hannah what happened and the conversation that went between me and Hunter. Hannah stared at me, she was completely shocked and baffled.

She took my hands in hers. “Honey, most of the time you say the sweetest things, but sometimes it could be lethal.”

“I don’t know what you mean.” I said.

“What you said was obviously hurtful, especially for Hunter who’s craved for love every since he was little.”

“That reminds me, I wanted to ask you about Hunter. His mother, I mean. What happened to her?”

“What did you see in the visions you had of his past?”

“A golden-brown haired little boy with silver eyes. He looked so adorable, it took me a while to realize that it was Hunter when he was just three years old. I saw him eating ice-cream in the mall. He was asking for his mom, but his mom wasn’t coming back. He stayed with the authorities for a long time until someone recognized Hunter and his father came to take him back home.” I told her. “I don’t understand. Did Hunter’s mom leave?”

Hannah’s eyes were sad. “Jessica, Hunter’s mother, she was a very ambitious woman. I mean there’s nothing bad to be ambitious but well, she was different. She married our father because she wanted a hike in her modeling career and dad realized that quite late. She married only for money.”

“But that doesn’t explain why she would neglect the child?” I said.

“Jessica never wanted a child, but when she got pregnant with Hunter she cursed the child, Blue. She wanted to get an abortion but father won’t let her. As soon as she gave birth, she wanted to be rid of the responsibility of being a mother so she found excuses to hurt Hunter. Didn’t you notice his back? He has scars inflicted from cigarette burns.”

“Oh my god.” Tears rolled down my eyes. “I’m a bad person.”

She shook her head. “You didn’t know. The last thing Hunter needs right now is pity or sympathy because it was a long time back.”

The air was filled with silence. “Do you love Hunter, Blue?”

“I think I do.” I admitted.

She smiled knowingly. “Hunter is haunted by his past, and he’s quite selfish and overbearing when he wants to be but he’s a good person. I think he loves you too.” And then she added, “you will just have

to figure out how a mermaid and a human can work it out.”

I nodded. A minute later my eyes widened. “I did not...I’m not...” I stuttered.

She laid a finger on my lips. “I knew you weren’t human, I just wasn’t sure. At first when I realized what you were, I freaked out but then I noticed you’re the same like any of us. I’m glad to have met you, Blue.”

I shrugged. “Hunter told me not to tell anyone.”

“It’s okay, your secret is safe with me.” She giggled. “I’m going for clubbing tonight, do you want to join me?”

“What is clubbing?”

“It’s fun. You will enjoy.” She said with a dazzling smile. “Now all we need is a sexy dress for you.”