Protecter's Love by Kayla Trautman (books to read in your 20s female TXT) 📕

told me to put you in a hotel! You bastard! Let go!"

"No! Stop!" The man I saw first yelled. Taliesin picked me up and carried me off with me kicking. He hoisted me up and started running, "I'll have to put her in the cage."

I yelled, "Hell no! You aren't putting me in a cage like some animal! Put me down!" He turned down the hall and opened the door, "Get the cage opened!" He yelled. "Now, Manfred!" The man I saw first, Manfred, walked in ahead of us and Taliesin followed.

I hooked my feet around the doorjamb, "I! Am! Not! Going! In there!" Taliesin yanked me from the wall making me yell in pain as my feet were roughly bent the wrong way. That stopped my fighting allowing him to continue.

Then a loud voice sounded on a loud speaker, "ALERT! WE ARE CRASHING! ALERT! WE ARE CRASHING!" Taliesin growled and before he did anything else the building shook even more violently. It threw everyone off of their feet. I landed on the floor with a yell and heard Taliesin's and Manfred's yells.


Chapter 15: Locked Up

I held my knees to my chest and glared out the cage at the closed door. They had managed to get me in here after all the shaking stopped. When we were on the floor while the ground was shaking, Taliesin threw himself overtop of me to protect me from anything that might've fallen. But that didn't save him from my rath. He had kidnapped me. I was furious.

The door opened and a group of people came in. There were three women, all wearing strange clothing that barely covered them. There was a man without any shirt on. He was buff like the wrestlers in the ring at WWE that you believe are on steriods. It may have been good for someone else but it was hideous for me. Not my type.

Taliesin was also with them and he wore no shirt as well. His chest was stained with black marks as if he had been putting together a car or something.

They surrounded my cage staring at me in wonder and amazement. And shock. I thought I saw fear in one woman's eyes. I turned around, putting my back to them and scooted up towards the wall, "I will not be watched as I am locked in this freakin cage. I'm not an animal."

"Of course, your majesty. We apologize." They all said at once. Except for Taliesin. He just sighed. I covered my ears lightly, "And stop saying that. I'm not a damn majesty." I turned around and crawled to the front. I grabbed the bars and glared hard at Taliesin, "Get me out of this cage. And take me home. My foster parents won't take kindly to you kidnapping me."

"You kidnapped the princess? I thought you explained to her about Seanders, Forelanders, and everything else, didn't you?" One of the women exclaimed smaking his arm. He backed up and frowned at her, "I did. She just won't believe me. She believes that she is just a human who mutated. She doesn't even realize that she destroyed our engine and made us crash when her powers reacted on her anger and pain."

I yelled, "God dammit, Taliesin! This isn't a joke! Open this cage. My skin's fucking hurting because I haven't been able to change all fucking night, I feel all nasty and need a shower, and I'm fucking sore from whatever device that man used on me! Now I'm even more pissed off because I'm being held captive and I'm in a cage like a fucking animal!"

"Then stop acting like an animal and listen to what I've been telling you." He said. I inhaled and let my breath out slowly. That's when the door popped open with a loud snap. I crawled out and stood up once out.

It was a small cage at that. I turned to look at Taliesin as I rubbed my arms without even knowing it until I was already in the middle of doing so.

He came over to me and grabbed my shoulders, "I'm sorry that this all is so confusing to you. But you need to calm down for now. At least until you learn to control your powers. And just change. Don't fight it. It'll only hurt more."

"But it hurts if I'm not in the pool. Water helps it." I told him. "It'll only get worse if you wait until you explode." He repeated. I sighed and muttered, "But . . . there's a lot of other people here. They'll see me . . . I'll be naked."

He looked up at the others and inclined his head towards them, "Do you all mind changing now so she won't feel so uncomfortable and out of place?" They nodded and closed their eyes.


They trembled a little bit. I asked, "What are they doing?" That's when I realized that Taliesin was trembling as well. I touched his arm, "Taliesin? What the hell's happening?"

"Just . . . wait. You'll . . . see." He groaned. I backed up and then they became a blur. I squinted my eyes trying to see them but I couldn't. Then after a moment my vision cleared and they all stood there looking at me.

The women had scales like me except they weren't blue. They were purple. It was awkward seeing them like that. They were practically naked. I looked over at the man. His chest was bare and he was just like the girls except his scales were black. And it was like he had shorts on. It literally looked like he wore shorts with a scale design.

It showed the bulge that held his manhood and I quickly turned around blushing. This wasn't right at all. That's when I bumped into Taliesin. He was the same way as the other man but with him . . . I had no problem really looking at. I liked it.

When I got done checking him out and I met his eyes I found him smiling. "Do you have a crush on another man? Do I have to step my game up?" I frowned, "Step your game up? Taliesin. Don't. There was never an us and you know it. It was just an affair.

"Having a little fun until you regained your memory. And it seems that you have. And you found someone else to have fun with so there's definitely nothing going on between us.

"And . . . I don't have a crush. I just have a problem with . . . nudity. I know they're not really . . . but they might as well be."

One of the women laughed, "Oh, your majesty, if you don't mind me saying so, you'll just have to get used to it. This is how everyone walks around back home. We only change this way when we're dealing with humans."

"Yeah, well, I don't know if you realize it or not, but I grew up with humans and consider myself one." I told her. I looked down at my hands when they started to hurt in a way that I couldn't ignore. I bit my lip and moaned lowly.

Taliesin touched my arm, "Elena. Change. It's getting worse." I jumped back away from him and looked at him, "You need to stop touching me like that."

I closed my eyes and sat down on the floor. I held my knees to my chest. I bit my lip and that's when it hit. I shot back on the floor laying on my back. My chest rose and I gasped. I closed my eyes and waited it out. It would be over soon.


Chapter 16: It's All Too True

The pain went away and I was no longer pins and needles or numb. I opened my eyes and saw Taliesin kneeling beside me smiling. "You're the most beautiful Seander I've ever seen." He said softly.

I frowned, "Stop that. Flattery won't help you win over my forgiveness." I peered down at myself and saw the scales. I sat up and grabbed his hand when he held it out.

When I was standing I turned to the others. I only glanced at their faces quickly before turning my eyes to the floor and stepping behind Taliesin to hide my nakedness.

"Elena. Come on. You're not showing anything. You're all covered up." Taliesin complained. "Easy for you to say. You're a guy. You're thing is covered completely. I only have the triangle, and the rectangle covering my bottom.

"There's absolutely nothing on the sides. Then there's only scales covering my . . . the rest of my breasts are showing skin. It's too much."

He grabbed my arm and pulled me out from behind him, "Too bad. You're gonna get used to it anyway. And you are going to forgive me." "Says who?" I asked. "Me." he grabbed me by waist and lifted me up over his shoulder. I smacked his back, "Put me down!"

Taliesin spoke to the others, "I'll show her to her room so she can clean up. I'll check in on how things are going with the engine in a couple hours or so." "Certainly." Someone said to him. Then I heard footsteps. I looked over and saw them leaving through the door.

I panicked, "Hey! Wait! Somebody stop him! Tell Taliesin to put me down!" No one listened and the last person was out. I groaned and dropped my head down, "Goodness. If I'm supposedly this Princess then how come they wouldn't listen to me?"

"Because you haven't really accepted it. You haven't made the decision to take your rightful place as queen of Rahanni. So until then, I am in charge. At least of this ship."

"Ship?" I asked. He laughed as he walked out the door and turned right, "Yes, a ship. What in the world did you think we were on?" I frowned and smacked him, "Don't make fun of me. This is all very new to me and I'm just starting to accept the fact that I'm a Seander."

When he entered the room I had left, he closed the door and dropped me on my butt on the floor. I yelled, "Hey! That hurt!" He nodded, "I know. Go get a shower. You'll find the bathroom through those doors."

I stood up and dusted my hands off, "I will not take orders from you." "Yes you will." He took a step towards me. "Or do I have to force you to take a shower? I don't know why you're fighting me. It's not like you weren't just complaining about being dirty."

I shook my head, "I said no." "Well I said yes. And what I say goes on this ship. And you're on my ship." He went to reach for me but I turned and tried to get away from him. But he put his arm around my waist and hoisted me up against his hip.

I screamed, "Let me go!" He groaned as he opened the doors, "Stop screaming. I'm not hurting you." "Yes you did! You hurt my butt!" I yelled. He chuckled and I felt his other hand on my bottom, stroking it, "I apologize. Feel better?"

"No! Now let me go!" I tried kicking his leg but he just growled in my ear and then opened the curtain to the huge