Romeo and Juliet: A Vampire and Werewolf Love Story (13 page)

I took a subway and then a quick cab ride to get to the front gate again. Once again, I paid the guy and then hopped over the high wall, once the taxi driver was out of sight.

I scurried down the street and made my way to her house. Her gigantic, black, creepy house.
It was closing in on 1:00 o
’
clock in the morning
.
It was
the exact
cnt >
I had
arrived last night. I
turned into my wolf form and I
climbed up the side
of the house
and waited for her
under the balcony
.

After a few minutes
, I heard
the door open and Juliet say,
“Romeo, Romeo,
w
here are you
,
Romeo?”

I
hurled my werewolf body over the side balcony wall and landed in front of Juliet. And I just stared
.
Tonight, s
he was
as
equally fascinated with me in this form as she was the night before.

When I thought it was okay,
I turned into my human form
. I stood before Juliet
and stared
into her eyes.
I exhaled and said,
“I missed you every waking moment I have been gone. You even occupied my dreams,
” I said reaching out to her, bringing her close to my body
.

She then
kiss
ed
my face
all over in a rapid
machin
e-gun motion, which sent waves of desire surging through me like humming electricity. Jolt after jolt zapped me at every kiss. If she kept on, I would have had her right then! Luckily, she came up for air.

“I missed you, too,” she said.
“
I was counting the seconds. I was so afraid I
’
d fall asleep
.
”

“You didn
’
t fall asleep,
” I said. “T
hank God
,
you didn
’
t.
”
The more
I
thought of being rejected
by her,
either real or not
,
the more I thought my heart
would
be torn
to pieces.
She was my very heartbeat.

I was startled by the unexpected invitation. That sounded like a wonderful plan, but I had two huge questions.
“What about Martha?
What about your parents?”

“They won’t know you’re here,” Juliet assured me.
“
Martha is visiting family in Queens, and my parent
s’ bedroom is on the bottom
floor.”

I was excited to get out of the cold and she wasn
’
t going to get an argument from me to be alone in a beautiful woman
’s
bedroom in the middle of the night.
And
she
wasn
’
t j
ust any woman. She was
the
woman.

She led me through the open back door
by my hand
. As I entered her bedroom
,
I was overwhelmed by the perfume and other scented items in the room. It wasn
’
t a bad smell. It just took a minute to get used to it and the last thing I car
ed
about was how girly Juliet
’s
room smelled.
However, the room was intoxicating with her scent, everywhere. Her skin, her hair, her sheets were all embedded with her unique and alluring aroma. My mouth watered.

“Where should I sit?” I asked.

“You can sit on my bed. As long as you promise to bite.”
Juliet winked at me. She was a vision of excellence. And humor.

“I don
’
t think
you can handle one of my bites,
”
I joked.

“Maybe not as the whole wolf, but I
’
m sure I can handle those teeth
when you’re just little ol’ man you
.
”
Julie
t took her finger and
slid it across my lips
,
gracing the outside of my teeth.

“You might be surprised,” I said.

“The real question of the hour, Romeo is
< ceo be surpris/span>
‘Can you handle one of my bites?’”
Juliet opened her mouth
and I saw her long
incisors
.

“Very scary,” I said looking into her mouth at her brilliant-white, sharp teeth and getting completely turned on.
She could have done a toothpaste commercial with those beauties. Having an impressive set of teeth of my own, I wasn’t immune to the power of their allure or how much pride I took in them. “Use them much?
”
I asked, my voice crackling with what I hoped was a wry irony to do battle with her own sense of wit.

Juliet smiled and said, “I d
on
’
t have to
. All my
blood is delivered straight from the local hospital.”

“Must be nice.
”

“It makes it so I leave the poor witches and warlocks alone.”

“You know
,
not all o
f them are witches and warlocks,
”
I stated.

“But you
just
never know,” Juliet said.

“That is the one advantage they have
over the immortals is that we never know. Luckily, their blood is no good to werewolves
.”

“But their kin is,
”
Juliet said.

“Their kin is as much a need for you guys as much it i
s for us. Either way, they are a
recruitment class
for both sides
.”