Beauty and His Beast [MxM] (UNEDITED)

Ares POV

For the first time in my entire life I had wished that time would pass by in the blink of an eye.

The past month, waiting in anticipation for Aven to return, not certain if he would even listen to me or if I could even convince him as well as my father not to attack.

I walked back and forth, pacing the room as I watched him enter the palace yard along with the soldiers who looked to be over a hundred thousand. Each holding weaponry I had never seen before. Weapons that looked so deadly, it succeeded in bringing back that knot with in my gut again.

I sighed as I reached down and placed my hand over my huge bump, taking a deep breath as I watched Aven look up and make eye contact with me, a smile spreading across his face. I ran my hand across my hardened stomach and tried my best to smile back at him before I looked down at my belly.

Something was definitely wrong.

Sure it was normal for Fae babies to grow at a rapidly since our pregnancies lasted for not more than three months, and I was currently in my second month, and yet, my stomach was way bigger than it should have been. My healer had been alarmed at the rapid growth of my baby to the extent of me looking as though I would give birth at any day.

I bit the inside of my cheek as I felt him move around yet again, something he had been doing quite often lately and sometimes even woke me from my sleep.

I leaned against the window sill, looking at all the soldiers and men below, each prepared for battle in every sense of the word, and heard the door behind me open slightly. Immediately greeted by strong scent of Aven as he walked into the room.

"It looks as though you have your army all set." I stated as I watched the men below.

"Our army. And I missed you too. It's been a month" he replied as he walked towards me and wrapped his arms around my waist only to jerk in shock when he felt my bump.

I turned around and faced him, allowing him to see me. I watched as he looked at me, widening his eyes as his eyes travelled down to my huge stomach that had begun to hurt with all the standing.

"You're umm. Wow." He stated as he scratched the back of his neck and looked as though he didn't really have any other words to say.

"Runor says he's growing pretty fast and strong." I said as I shrugged and watched as he came toward me, smiling at me as he leaned down slightly and pressed a kiss against my forehead.

"Our son isn't the reason you called me here is it? You've never wanted me to come up here with you before." He said in a quiet voice as he searched my eyes, to which I shook my head and looked down.

"I need you to call your attack off on the Orcs. I know I have the full authority to do it myself, but I want to stand unified on this matter so that everyone else will follow suit." I said as I looked up and watched him narrow his eyes at me, as if he didn't understand what I was saying.

"They're not all bad, they just don't know the life we do. They cannot express as we can and because of that, they're mistaken for a brutal kind. They're just trying to survive like any other species would and the only reason they took me was to use my god power to preserve and protect their race to ensure that no one harmed them again." I said, watching as Aven took a step back from me and watched me with a gaze that I could not even begin to decipher.

"They think with the instincts of survival. Just like anyone else would. You take out the threat before it harms you, and that's all they've been doing. They even have their own realm, how much more proof do you need?" I asked as I leaned against the wall when it felt like too much to stand anymore.

"That man. The one that led us to you. You called him Fortis. A name from Latin, and as far as I can remember, Orcs cannot speak latin. Did you give him that name?" He asked as his silver eyes found mine, staring at me.

"I did." I replied and looked down at my stomach, placing my hand on it, a gesture that did not go unnoticed on Aven's part.

"The Brave One." He uttered in a whisper as he walked towards me, stopping just in front of me, looking at my stomach. He smiled slightly as he placed his hand on top of mine over my stomach.

Something about the way he smiled in that moment was not the same smile I had known. If anything, this smile looked..

Pained..

"This child you carry within you.-" he trailed off when he felt him kick,continuing to look at my stomach as he sadly smiled at it..

"He isn't mine, is he?"

It was the very question that had been plaguing my mind since I had learned that I was with child, and yet it didn't seem as thought it was a question for I knew the answer deep within my core. It shone so bright that there was no room for doubt.

I shook my head as I looked down, unable to look at Aven in that moment.

"I'm sorry." I said in a whisper as I watched him bend down until he was on one knee in front of me. His face directly inline with my stomach as he leaned in and placed a kiss on my stomach.

"I might not be his father by blood, but I will love and protect him as my own. As I promise to you even when your heart is bound by another." He said as he looked up at me, slowly rising to his full height that towered over my by at least two feet foot.

He smiled at me as he looked at me. His hand finding it's way to my cheek, where he ran his thumb across my bottom lip, looking at it for a brief second before his eyes found mine yet again.

"What I wouldn't give to be him." He whispered as he looked at me once more before he walked out of the room and left me to my silence.

I sighed as I looked down at my growing stomach, whose size had finally made sense once I had fully accepted it. I smiled I placed my hand on top of it and turned back to my window, once again admiring the vast lands that surrounded our kingdom.

"You will be truly loved little one."