Passion After Dark (36 page)

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I’m aware of that fact Nick, but I need to know what your lady has planned for me, what she intends doing to me and I also want to see if her power can only be used against me or does it affect others?” His eyes shifted to me again.

“
Well how do you intend testing that?” I asked and when he gave me that look of his with a raised brow I backed up. “Fuck Fabian, you want me to deliberately try to harm you all? I’m not interested in this. I don’t know why I can hurt you, I don’t know why it’s taken this long for Katarina or whatever her name is to come after you but I want no part of this. I don’t think you understand. I have no wish to do anything other than live my life with Dominick. Neither of us embrace whatever aspect of being vampires you all seem to want to be a part of. Our desire is to live as close to what our human lives were as possible. I don’t want to hurt you Fabian. You helped give me life.” I turned from him and began to pace around the room.

“
I need you to do so though little one.” His voice was soft but firm. “Try with Damien and Lucien first.”

I stood looking at him and then them, not moving. “
I can’t.” I whispered.

“
I insist that you try Allegra or I will be forced to make you try.”

“
Fuck you Fabian.” I snapped and my better vampire hearing didn’t miss his softly spoken yes please. So he still wanted me, despite everything he still wanted to fuck me?

Although I had
no intention of ever doing as he wanted, never giving in to it, it didn’t change the fact that there was an undercurrent of sexual awareness that hummed between us.

With an impatient sigh
I swung my arms at Lucian and Damien but nothing happened. So I obviously couldn’t harm them. “Attack her.” Fabian ordered and they stood advancing on me. I backed up and as they lunged at me, I threw my arms up.

“
Back off, leave me alone.” I screamed and they fell back, howls of pain filling the room and when I looked at them, they were bleeding from fresh cuts to their arms and faces.

“
Come to me little one. I need to know if you can still harm me.” Fabian’s voice reached me as I stood staring in shock at Dominick’s brothers, linked by the blood of Fabian who had turned them all.

“
No Fabian, please.” I begged him but he strode towards me and reached for me, his expression determined.

“
Leave…me…alone!” I screamed at him and threw my outstretched arms towards him. With an enraged howl, he too fell back, blood flowing from the wounds I’d somehow inflicted on him.

My eyes turned from him and met Francesca
’s. “Oh hell no!” She yelled. “Leave me out of this. I have no doubt you can harm me too and I have no wish to see you put it into action.”

“
Now it’s Dominick’s turn.” Fabian said and I turned to him in horror.

“
No, I’m not going to try and hurt him. He’s done nothing to me. Don’t ask me to do this.”

“
It’s ok cara. I want you to try. I need to know for myself whether you can also harm me.” His expression was so serious and I felt myself close to tears at the look on his stunning face.

Without warning he suddenly charged me and his unexpected assault worked. With lightenin
g fast reflexes my arms came up and I tried to block his attack but nothing happened and he barreled into me, knocking me over. We both went down and he landed on top of me.

I couldn
’t hurt him, fuck it but I couldn’t hurt him. The relief shot through my body and I smiled up at him, pushing one hand through his hair to brush it back from his face.

He grinned back, his eyes glowing with his love for me. “
I’m so sorry cara. Are you alright?” He asked and I laughed.

“
I’m better than alright. I can’t hurt you, I can’t hurt you.” I punctuated each word with a kiss to his face.

“
So as I suspected Katarina’s curse does not work on those you love Allegra. However the rest of us are fair game.” Fabian said.

Dominick climbed gracefully to his feet and pulled me up
with him. “Well now that you know what Allegra is capable of Fabian, what do you intend doing?”

“
I’ve never been in this position before, I must confess. I guess the question is what do you intend to do little one now you know how powerful you are?”

“
I want to know what you did to Katarina’s daughter Fabian, I need you to tell me the whole story of why this woman would come after you 500 years after you were responsible for the death of her daughter. We aren’t going anywhere until you do me this favour and explain it all to me.” I told him and after a moment’s silence, his eyes watchful as he studied me, he nodded.

“
Very well little one. You might like to take a seat for this one. I’m working on memories from 500 years ago, so please bear with me.” He said, taking a seat on the large wing backed chair and Dominick and I sat on the lounge, watching him and waited for him to tell us his story.

Chapter Twenty Three.

Dominick.

Dominick could feel the tension in the room especially from Allegra as she sat beside him, her hand firmly held in his as they waited to hear what Fabian would tell them about his past.

Fabian was silent for a moment, apparently deep in thought, his fin
gers steeped on his chest as he obviously thought about the best way to begin his story.

“
Like I said before, I was only a relatively young vampire, less than a hundred years old when I saw Carmella for the first time. She was beautiful, hair down to the backs of her knees, not unlike yours little one.” His eyes met Allegra’s and Dominick stiffened at the thought that his sire was comparing a young woman from 500 years ago to his bellezza.

“
She was very beautiful and an innocent, untouched and vulnerable and of course I had to have her. I pursued her, I tried to win her over as a potential suitor, not as a vampire. I hadn’t even thought about mind controlling her at that point. I guess you could say I was a kinder, gentler man back then. I wanted her because I was falling in love with her or so I believed.” He paused for a few minutes as he worked towards remembering memories from so long ago.

“
Of course, her Mother found out and Katarina was not happy. Carmella was only 16. Too young to be involved with anyone, too young for me, I knew it, but I wanted her.” Fabian’s eyes locked onto Allegra’s. “I wanted her so badly. She was like a fever in my blood, eating at me, burning through me, calling to me and I couldn’t walk away, I had to have her.”

Dominick watched his sire as he spoke, his eyes on Allegra and it was obvious to him that everythi
ng he was saying to describe how he’d felt about Carmella was how he felt for Allegra. He wanted her every bit as much as he’d wanted that poor girl all those years ago.

“
So what happened Fabian? Obviously you went after her anyway?” Allegra prompted him.

He smiled. “
Of course little one. When I want something that badly, it is hard for me to accept that I cannot have it. She was young, impressionable, I only had to tell her things that she wanted to hear, make her promises that dazzled her and made her dream of a better life outside the life she had with her Mother and the village where they lived.”

“
So did you mind control her.” Allegra asked.

“
Not straight away. I got her to the point where she would sneak out of her room at night and we would just kiss, hold hands, but of course that wasn’t going to be enough for me forever.” He swept a hand through his dark blonde hair before he continued.

“
Eventually I got her to allow me to feed from her.” He said and Allegra looked surprised.

“
So she knew you were vampire then?”

“
Not right away but it was too hard to keep from her. She was 16, sweet, untouched, not only did I want to fuck her, but the sweetness of that young virginal blood of hers called to me, I had to taste her.”

“
How did she react to you being vampire?”

“
She seemed to put some huge romantic spin on me being vampire, like I was some kind of hero or something. She was good for a man’s ego.” He grinned.

“
It started off with me drinking from her and feeding her enough blood to heal the puncture marks but then one night I decided I’d waited long enough for her. I planned to fuck her.” He sighed and paused again for a moment.

“
It did not go well. She was too small for me, she was very tight and she screamed. Her screaming excited me and I couldn’t stop. I bit her, I fucked her and she just wouldn’t stop screaming and there was blood, so much blood. When I finished with her, she had fainted but I managed to get enough blood into her to heal the damage I’d done but she was terrified and was threatening to tell her Mother, she was hysterical and that was the first time I used mind control on her. I altered her thoughts so she had no memory of what had happened.”

“
So you raped her?” Allegra’s voice reflected the disgust showing on her face.

“
Call it what you will Allegra. She wanted to fuck at first she did. There was something not right about her. She was far too small. Such a tiny cunt. No one would have been able to fuck her. I think you forget too that I am vampire, same as you are now. You know how important sex is to us, how driven by it we are. I couldn’t have stopped with her. The blood, the smell, her screams excited me. I’m not going to apologize for what comes naturally to a vampire and our senses, our basic urges are not easily controlled.”

“
So you’re saying that the word ‘no’ means nothing in the vampire world.” She challenged him again and Dominick squeezed her hand. They wanted Fabian’s story, she didn’t need to piss him off in the process.

Allegra.

The more I listened to Fabian’s story, the sicker I felt. He’d actually seemed quite reasonable at the start of his relationship with Carmella before her Mother had tried to keep them apart but once she began sneaking out to meet him that was the start of her journey down the path that would lead to her destruction.

“
So how come you didn’t call it quits then Fabian, why did you go back again and again? Nothing was going to change with her was it? If she had a problem, a physical defect, having you fuck her over and over again wasn’t going to improve the situation.”

“
I wanted to leave her alone, but I couldn’t. Her beauty, her innocence kept drawing me back to her, plus her Mother’s continued efforts to keep us apart angered me. I had to show her that no one told me what to do.”

“
So how did you overcome her physical problem Fabian? You continued to have sex with her didn’t you?” I asked.

“
Of course little one. She was so tight and fuck but it felt so good. Do you have any idea how intense it is for a man to have a tight little cunt squeezing his cock like that while he fucks her?” His excited eyes met mine. “Of course you wouldn’t. You lack the necessary equipment.”

His words and his excitement over the memories of that time so long ago made me feel ill but I fought to keep my expression neutral and not
reveal what I was thinking.

“
Did she get any better or did you tear her to pieces every time you fucked her?” I asked, dreading the answer but needing to know.

“
Sadly no, she never improved. I could not make sex an enjoyable experience for her and that is not my usual style little one. Judge me if you must, I see it on your face but I pride myself on making a woman come and preferably multiple times. There was nothing I could do to make it better for Carmella. I tried but she was physically too small and all I could do for her was feed her blood to heal her and mind control her. Eventually I started to alter her thoughts into believing we’d had sex and it was great so she wanted to come to me. She wanted me until the pain began. I couldn’t stop and the more we had sex, the more I had to control her mind. What no one had told me was there are limits to everything in life and even mind altering someone has limits. I had no idea I would destroy her brain and I had no idea that eventually my blood would not be effective enough to heal her completely. She was just 17 years old when she finally went mad and died not long after.”

“
So why did she go mad Fabian? Was that all from you, the mind control?” I had to know.

“
I don’t know Allegra. I prefer to think that she was not necessarily of sound mind anyway. I’ve mind controlled women before and a few times too and nothing happened to them. I know if it’s abused they can end up with some damage done to the brain. I learned from my time with Carmella though. I’ve mind controlled women and men for that matter, more than once if I was using them to suit my own purposes but sexually, never again did I fuck a woman more than once or for more than one night. I’ve maintained that rule for 500 years now. Only one woman has tempted me to break my own rule.” Those pale eyes of his met mine and I knew from what I saw reflected in them, that he was talking about me. Was that because I reminded him of Carmella with my long hair I wonder?