Beauty and His Beast [MxM] (UNEDITED)

Fortis POV

I gritted my teeth, holding back the disgust I felt as the shameful moans emanating from him as he pushed himself down against me every time I thrusted against him.

I looked ahead, not really wanting to look at him, even as he reached up, his hands curling around my neck as he pulled me down and slammed his lips against mine moaning against me as he arched his back, spilling his seed against my stomach.

I pulled out of him, not even bothering to finish myself off and climbed off his bed. I ran a hand through my hair that had become a bit longer now that I hadn't found it in my to cut it, not when I would remember his words each time he touched my hair.

You have beautiful hair. Much like an enchanted creature..

I shook the thoughts from my head as I looked around for my clothes, finding them and throwing it over my body. I looked around for my boots, knowing for certain that I had left them around there somewhere.

"Are you going to see father?" Kronar asked as he breathed heavily looking at the ceiling before he rolled over and laid on his stomach.

I didn't answer him and rather moved his things around, looking for my damn boots when I heard him sigh and stand up from his bed. He bent down and moved aside his clothing, picking my boots before he held them out to me. I looked at him for a second before I walked towards him and snatched them from him, pulling them on before I turned to leave, only for him to grab my arm.

"How long are you going to put this up for? He's been gone for years yet, he still has a hold over you. Why!" He asked as he held onto the sleeve of my shirt.

I looked at the door, not turning to face him for even a second. I couldn't bring myself to look at him, not after he used my secret against me to please his desires. That was something I would never forgive him for.

"I stayed here for you when he left! I was the one who found you by that river hopeless! It was me! I was the one who held you when you cried for hours! Me!" He yelled as he forced me to look at him. His eyes bearing hurt in them that just made me sick to my stomach.

"I love you. Fortis. Me.What does he have that I don't?" He asked as he looked at me, his black orbs staring into mine.

I walked towards him, watching as he backed up until his back touched the wall. He looked up at me as I towered over him, his dark orbs looking into mine.

"How about respect and self decency. He would never have used what you did, against me to bind me to your bed. Your own brother." I replied as I watched him look at me before he lowered his eyes, scratching his forearm, something he did when he was kid and felt cornered.

"I only did it because I love you and I hated that I did. That's why I did all those awful things when we were kids. I just wanted it to go away, and when Zenair found out about it, I panicked okay." He answered making me glare at him as he shrunk back against the wall.

"That was no excuse for you to frame him and have him banished just because he found out you were in love with your brother! Nor was it an excuse for you to use my secret against me!" I yelled as I slammed my fist the wall beside his head, seeing it crack.

"I'm sorry. I just. I just wanted you to love me like you loved him." He said in a quiet voice looking down at his naked state before he wrapped his arms around himself to hide from me. I looked at him once more before I walked out of his room.

It took everything in me not to go back in there and beat the shit out of him. But the more I thought about it the more I realized that I couldn't exactly blame him. For love made us do things that we ourselves questioned.

I walked down the corridors, ignoring the looks I had been getting from almost everyone since my father decided to name me as his heir once he died, which would probably be any day now. Although Kronar and I were months apart, I suppose he too knew what a fuck up Kronar was and didn't trust to leave his kingdom to him.

I stood outside his door and let out a sigh before I pushed the doors open, greeted by a strings of coughing sounds. I walked toward his bed and found my mother by his bedside, whispering healing words before she turned and saw me. She smiled at me as she stood up and walked towards me. I knelt down and allowed her to kiss my cheek before I stood up and looked at my father.

"He doesn't have much time. He wanted to see you before, you know." She said she placed her hand on my chest causing me to look at her.

"Hear him out. At least once. Clear your mind of the rage you constantly feel and listen." She said softly before she ushered the servants out and closed the doors, leaving me in silence.

I walked towards his bed and sat down next to him. I watched as he turned his head and looked at me, his black eyes searching every inch of my face, as if he was memorizing it and held out his hand towards me. I looked at it for a second before I took his hand in mine.

"You look so much like her. You have her eyes and her beautiful hair. Her voice, her smile, her heart. Everything." He said in a whisper as he coughed once more, a slight trail of blood oozing out past his lips. I reached across and wiped it away with the cloth left at his side.

"Did you..-" I trailed off, not knowing if I should ask the question I had always wanted to ask.

"I did. I loved her so much." He answered as he looked at me before he turned to look out the window, a smile spreading across his features as a far away look dawned his face as if he was remembering something.

"She was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen. Skin as white as snow and hair as black as the night. Eyes glowing a bright shade of green like the grassy lands she was so fond of." He said as he described her to me.

"She loved adventure. Always out in the wild despite her duties to be lady like, and that is how I met her. I had been out on a hunt when I first laid eyes on her at a river. I was so mesmerized by the way the water just glided down her skin. I remember hiding from her out of fear that she would be disgusted by the way I looked." He said as he turned and looked at me.

"But when she did, she just smiled and said she hadn't seen a creature like me before. I remember I would meet her everyday and listen to her tell me stories of her land and her people. I could spend hours just listening to her and when we made love for the first time I remember feeling like there couldn't ever be a moment so dearly beloved to me than that." He said in a whisper, his eyes fixed on mine.

"What happened?"

"She just stopped coming to see me after that night. She never told me what I did wrong or why she didn't want to see me, and then, the healer brought you to me. I didn't need her to tell me that your mother didn't want you because of me. My assumptions only proved true when I heard the rumors circulating around that I had raped her." He answered, causing my eyes to widen.

It was something that I too, had believed for the sole reason of him never defending himself against it.

"There was no need for me to. She had made it clear what she wanted and I knew then, that I was the only one who felt it." He said as he squeezed my hand, making me look at him.

"I have not done well by you Fortis and for that I will always be sorry. I cannot even begin to express my regret of ever treating you the way I did and although I may have my reasons that seemed justified, it does not change the fact that I was never the father you deserved. I just didn't want you to hate me." He said making me narrow my eyes in confusion at his words.

"You were every reminder of her. Of the only person I ever allowed to see who I truly was and she hated me for it. Fortis, I would have never been able to live with myself if you came to hate me as well so I did the only thing I knew how to do. I pushed you away. When you were a little boy, you cried at night for hours, and I didn't know what to do with you, but when I picked you up held you, you remained as still as a deer and looked at me with those eyes. I couldn't bear it if those very eyes looked back at me with hatred. So I gave you to the healer and asked her to raise you into the fine man I knew you would become." He said as he gripped my hand, tears beginning to spill past his eyes and down the sides of his head.

"I told you that no moment was more beloved to me than the moment I spent with your mother, but Fortis, that couldn't be further from the truth. The moment I held you for the first time. My own son, in my arms, no other moment had been more beloved to me than that. You looked up at me with such awe in your little eyes that I knew then, I could never be who you deserved" He said as he choked on a sob, my own tears spilling past my eyes and down my cheeks.

"I'm so sorry. My son. I'm so sorry for ever hurting you like that. Please, do not hate me more than you do now" He whispered as he held tightly onto my hand.

I shook my head swiftly, unable to find my voice as my tears rolled down my face as I gripped his hand.

"I don't father. I don't hate you. I never did and I never will. I promise" I said as I looked at him and watched him smile at me weakly.

"And that is enough for me my Dear Fortis. My brave warrior ." He answered as he closed his eyes slightly, his grip on my hand loosening as it felt from my grip.

"Father! Father! Dad!" I yelled as I shook his body in effort to get him to wake up again, only for him to remain as still as stone.

I had so much to ask him! I didn't get to tell him my secret!

I yelled and shook him, even as the servants came rushing in and pried me off him, did I not cease my yelling. I felt someone wrap their arms around my waist and looked down to see my mother looking at me with an expression of grief across her face.

"He didn't know. I didn't get to tell him. He died without knowing." I said as I stared at his body wide eyed while they placed the scared stones above his eye sockets.

"He knew little one. He knew." She whispered as she rubbed her hand against my back shushing me as I mumbled incoherent nothings.

Even as they all dropped down on the their knees exclaiming the words recited to a king, did my mind not register what was happening. In a swift moment, I had seen my real father, the father I had always wanted to know, only for him to leave me.

I stared at his cold body, hearing the door open behind me. Footsteps approaching me and someone kneeling before me. I turned my gaze and looked at Kronar, dressed in his battle gear, all traces of his feminine side that he only showed me gone, now replaced with the brutal warrior he was , his expression a mixture of sorrow and stoicism as he briefly glanced at our father's body before he looked down at the ground again.

"My king. The portal has opened. They have arrived" he said as he looked up at me.

I looked at him, then at my father's body, feeling myself close down yet again and hardened my expression.

"Prepare the troops. Defend our kingdom at all costs."