Passion After Dark (9 page)

“
I can’t do this here, I’m sorry but my editor is still inside this building, that’s his car.” I pointed to it. “I really don’t want Frank to see me in the middle of something with you. I’m sorry.”

“
Can I come home with you cara? I can’t let you go, you are in my blood now. We have a connection and although you may not feel it right now, you will.” He raised his hand to run a long, cool finger down my cheek and I shivered as sparks shot out from his touch against my skin.

“
Oh god.” I thought to myself. I was feeling it already. This man was making me feel all sorts of emotions and something told me I should be afraid of him because of what he was but a part of me knew he wouldn’t hurt me. I don’t know why I felt so confident of that but I just did.

“
I don’t live alone Dominick. I have a house mate. You might have met her the other night if you hadn’t disappeared the way you did.”

“
I know that cara, I saw your house mate. The lady with the terrible timing. She interrupted us as I was trying to get to know you. I spent the evening watching you, did you know that? I know you felt me, you were looking around all the time.” He caressed my cheek again and I stared at him wide eyed.

“
That was you I sensed? I still had that feeling when Cassie and I got home. You weren’t at my home though so why did I still feel like that?”

“
I was at your home. I followed you cara. I watched you all night until just as the sun was starting to rise. You are so beautiful, so perfect.”

I stared at him in amazement. This god like stunning creature was telling me I was perfect and beautiful. Was he nuts? Did vampires have poor vision maybe? As I looked at him
, suddenly what he’d just said sunk in and I felt my face burn with embarrassment. He’d watched me all night?

“
Oh my god. You watched me all night?”

He grinned. “
Yes bellezza, all night and I saw you and it turned me on so much I masturbated outside your bedroom window. I’m sorry. I hope you don’t mind but it turned me on so much to watch you and all I wanted was to be there with you and making you come rather than that plastic man you keep in your drawer.”

I stared at him in shock but rightly or wrongly a part of me got excited at the thoug
ht of him being so turned on by watching me that he’d had to jerk off. How he’d got up to my bedroom didn’t bear thinking about though but maybe he was really agile or something?

I realised he was still staring at me waiting for me to respond. Should I tak
e him to my home? There was no point in worrying about him knowing where I lived as he already knew and he hadn’t come after me all week so I figured I could trust him.

“
Please cara. I want you and I need you. Let me come home with you.” He asked again and with one look into those stunning eyes of his I was lost.

“
Ok.” Was all I could manage and I watched as those perfect white teeth of his were revealed again when he smiled his approval at my response to him.

“
Thank you cara. Shall we go then?” And all I could do was nod in agreement.

Chapter Six.

Dominick.

Dominick would have breathed with relief at Allie’s agreement to let him come home with her if he breathed that was. He could pretend to breathe of course and in public situations he would do so in an attempt to not draw attention to himself.

He so badly wanted his belle
zza in her home and in her bed as his need for her was like a fire burning through his body. Sex with her was better than he could have imagined and he knew as he had brought her to orgasm and felt her coming apart under him that she was his but when he lost control and filled her with his essence, he knew that he was hers every bit as much as she was his.

He knew she didn
’t understand yet exactly what her role was in his existence but she would in time. He just had to be sure he didn’t rush her and frighten her. She had taken finding out he was a vampire surprisingly well but he had to be sure she didn’t reveal that information to anyone, not even her house mate. That could be very dangerous if revealed to the wrong person and would bring Fabian’s wrath down on him for sure.

If Fabian wanted to
, he could deny him access to Allie and take away his tattoo. With both gone Dominick wasn’t sure he’d want to go on. There would be nothing in this endless life for him.

He turned his attention back to the woman before him and reached out to touch her smooth cheek again. “
I know you have your car and what an accommodating car it is.” He grinned at her, watching as she blushed when her eyes drifted to the bonnet which still bore the evidence of their mutual release on the shiny red paint. “I too have my car with me so I shall follow you to your home cara, ok?”

“
So you drive then?” She asked and he laughed.

“
What do you think I do cara?”

“
Well you’re a vampire, can’t you fly or turn into a bat or something?”

“
You watch too much television Allie. I don’t turn into a bat and I can’t fly. I do have the ability to move very quickly and I rarely drive but I followed you here and I needed to not draw attention to myself and I think people seeing a man running after a car at high speed might draw some attention, don’t you think?” He smiled again.

“
Just a little.” She grinned.

“
I can jump higher than a person and can climb with an agility that isn’t human cara, that’s how I got onto your roof to watch you from your bedroom window.”

“
How is it that a vampire can have sex Dominick? Let’s face it, the man gets an erection from blood flow to his cock and your heart doesn’t beat, right?” She raised an eyebrow looking to him for confirmation and he nodded. “So how does a vampire get an erection?”

“
It’s all to do with the blood cara. It’s life for you and for vampires. Take it away and we both die. Mine is just a slower, wasting away kind of death. Without regular blood to feed off I lose my basic functions. I can’t walk, talk, eat and I can’t have sex. I would simply slowly and painfully die the death that there is no coming back from and I would be nothing more than a withered dried out shell of a body.”

“
Do you kill people to feed from them?” She asked and Dominick knew her question and his answer was an important one.

“
Yes cara, when I first was turned I did but now I have control and know how much of a person’s life force I can take without doing them harm. Did I not demonstrate that with you?”

He watched her face as she digested what he was
saying. He hoped she wouldn‘t be repulsed by what he had confessed to her but he wasn’t going to lie. Of course when Fabian had first sired him he’d been unable to control his thirst for the blood and had gone too far, killing some people. Slowly he’d learned to control it and Fabian had helped him to learn how far he could go, just how much he could take from a person and his sire had cleaned up the mess he’d left behind, covering their tracks so no one would come looking for them. He knew that was why Fabian was so particular about no one knowing what they were, not doing anything to draw attention to themselves as it was the safest way to live. Dominick had had no problem complying with Fabian’s rules until now, until he’d seen Allie for the first time and suddenly all that he had done over the years to protect himself and those he cared about was put in jeopardy by his overwhelming need for her. His realisation that she was the one who was meant to be with him for all eternity.

“
Shall we get going now cara if you still trust me to be in your home with you?”

His relief was tangible when she smiled and nodded at him.

“Yes Dominick, I trust you. Rightly or wrongly, I do. Come on then.” She turned and unlocked her car and he closed her door before heading to his own car and climbing into the low slung vehicle.

As Allie pulled out of the car park in her red BMW and merged into the traffic outside, he followed her, keeping her car
in his sights although it wouldn’t have mattered if he’d lost track of her as he already knew where she lived and as they drove and his mind replayed their time on the bonnet of her car, his excitement grew, his cock hardened and he wanted nothing more to arrive at her home, take her to her room and fuck her every way possible until they were both exhausted. As he thought of that he grinned. His bella donna had no idea what the stamina of a vampire was like, but she’d find out, if not tonight then soon, but one thing was for sure, she would eventually find out just how long and how many ways he could and he would fuck her.

Allegra
.

I shook the entire drive back to my home with a mixture of both fear and excitement at the prospect of having Dominick there.
I still couldn’t believe that he’d found me, that he hadn’t forgotten me and wanted me every bit as much as I wanted him.

Finding out that the man who had made such an impression on me that night at the club was a vampire had shaken me up more than I
’d revealed to him. It was unbelievable that he even existed that he was real and I might have questioned the whole thing if I didn’t have the two puncture marks in my neck from his fangs. I’d seen the blood on his lips, my blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. It was real, he was real, there was no way I could deny that.

When I finally pulled into the driveway of my home I saw that Cassie was home already as her car was parked in the garage so I pulled in alongside of her little Corolla and watched thr
ough my rear vision mirror as Dominick’s black Audi pulled up behind me.

Well he was at my house and now I had to somehow explain him to Cassie. I had to quiz him before we went inside so I knew what to say since something just told me, some kind of intui
tion that I could never reveal what he was to anyone.

The reality was, who would believe me anyway? Plus something about Dominick had me under
some kind of spell with him. I was so drawn to him, so taken by him, almost in love with him already and for a brief moment I got it, I got why the women in the movies fell for the vampires. I understood why Bella loved Edward as intensely as she did in the Twilight saga, why Buffy had fallen for Angel. There was something about them that was magnetic. They were ridiculously good looking, they had an aura about them that made it almost impossible to refuse them or turn away.

“
You’ve been sucked in by the blood sucker and turned into a sucker.” I said and grinned at my stupid comment but the reality was, it was true. “You had me at bella donna.” I whispered before climbing out of my car and turning to face Dominick as he approached me, those mesmerizing eyes focused on me as he moved with a grace that had me spell bound watching him and I had to consciously stop myself from letting my mouth fall open and the drool to start flowing which wouldn’t be such a cool look. I didn’t get it or understand why this gorgeous creature could possibly want me. Why he looked at me like I was the most beautiful thing he’d ever laid eyes on?

“
So are you ready to meet my house mate?” I asked him trying to appear far more relaxed than I was feeling.

“
Relax cara.” His cool lips brushed my cheek. “I can hear your heart pounding and I can hear the blood coursing through your veins. Relax. I won’t bite.” He grinned, flashing those white teeth of his. “Much.”

Something about his comment and the humour in those eyes of his worked and I found myself grinning at him like a fool. “
That’s kind of creepy that you can hear my blood pumping through my veins Dominick. You can’t hear my thoughts I hope?”

“
No cara, I’m a vampire, not a mind reader but I can feel the tension so please relax. If you aren’t sure about this, I can go but I really hope that you tell me I can stay.”

“
I don’t want you to go.” I whispered and another one of those heart stopping smiles lit up his face.

“
I’m very pleased to hear that cara, now take me inside and let me meet that loud house mate of yours.”

I laughed at his description of Cassie. “
Loud? Why do you call her loud?”

“
That’s the name I gave her the night of the club. She interrupted when I was trying to get to know you with her abrasive voice demanding to know where you’d been and I felt it best to leave at that point.”

At his words I silently groaned. Cassie had driven him
off? She had given me so much grief about making him up, hallucinating his existence and yet she had inadvertently scared him off? Well if a vampire could be scared off which apparently they could.

“
So why did you wait until today to see me again?” I couldn’t help asking.

She watched as he hung his head. “
I got sick and I was forbidden by my sire to see you for 5 days Allegra. As vampires we have to maintain our privacy, keep what we are a secret and I broke the rules. I followed you to your home after the club and I spent the night on your roof watching you sleep and other things.” He gave her that sexy, knowing smile. “I took a huge risk of being seen and Fabian was not pleased plus I hadn’t fed because I’d wanted you. If we don’t feed we get sick and weak very quickly and I hadn’t fed for two days.”