Passion After Dark (24 page)

She stepped over to him, biting into her wrist and tearing away some skin so she began to bleed freely. “
Feed from me now or you will die, come Nicky, don’t be a fool about this. Your human is not worth dying over. Now drink.”

“
Fuck off Fran. I don’t care if I die, don’t you get that? I’ve lost the only woman I could ever love and without her, there’s nothing. Now go home, you’re bleeding all over my floor.” He pushed her and stumbled before falling onto his bed as it took too much effort to physically try and make her leave.

“
Don’t piss me off Nicky.” She held her wrist over his face, dripping blood across his closed mouth, nose and some went in his eyes. She forced his lips apart and dripped blood onto his tongue despite him trying to fight her off, but he was too weak and against his will, she got some blood into him. It wasn’t much but it would be enough to prolong his sorry existence by a bit longer.

“
Go home Fran. You should be happy now, you did it, you got some blood into me, I can taste it, I can feel it tingling through my body. Thank you, thank you for fucking nothing.”

“
Stop being such a child Nicky. You’ll need your strength to fight for your human or are you just going to let Fabian have her? You must know he wants her for himself?”

“
He doesn’t want her Fran. He only wants to use her. He’ll fuck her and wipe her mind. It’s all part of his desire for control and he always likes to make a point, show he’s the boss. You know Fabian’s not been happy with me since I decided I wanted to live a more human than vampire existence. He’s been looking for a chance to punish me, make me suffer and he’s done it. He destroyed my relationship with Allegra by doing what he did last night. There’s no need for him to do anything more to cause me suffering, I’m suffering already. I have no desire to continue with this life Fran. Just go and leave me alone now.”

“
You are a fool Nicky. You aren’t fighting for your human. You claim you love her and yet you let her walk away, you let Fabian win? How can you say you’ve suffered enough? Be warned, I have told you and you have chosen to ignore me. Our sire will claim Allegra for himself. Whether you choose to believe that or not is up to you.”

“
Just go Fran, I’m tired. Go back to Fabian and you can report in to him as that’s the only reason you’re here. I’m sure he will be delighted to hear that I’m miserable, so go, go GO!” He screamed at her.

Fran raised her hands a
s if in surrender. “Lighten up Nicky boy. I’m going. You’re going to put me off my dinner with your sad Sally routine.”

“
Get out of her Fran. You’ll understand why I don’t get up and show you out?” Dominick raised his brows at her.

“
Oh good bye dear brother. This is getting boring now anyway.” She kissed him on the cheek and walked out the door.

When he heard his front door open then close again he dropped the towel and crawled back into bed. He checked his hand and cock and noticed the skin was already m
ending itself after the small amount of blood Francesca had forced him to swallow but it was going to take a lot more than that to heal him properly.

*********

Allegra.

Now that I
’d made the decision to see Fabian I realised that I had no way of contacting him. I had no number for him, why would I? I wasn’t involved with him, he wasn’t my boyfriend but I needed to see him and I realised the only way I could do that was to drive to his home and hope he was there.

I
’d never been there but Dominick had told me where he lived and I was pretty confident that I could find it based on his description. It was a big imposing home on a hill and hard to miss apparently. Still I had the suburb and street name, the rest I could figure out for myself.

I wasn
’t comfortable about going to his house to see him but I had no choice and even if I’d been able to contact him I couldn’t have him come to my home. I wasn’t prepared to risk him being around Cassie again and the nature of what I was going to ask him to do.

Explaini
ng where I was going to Cass would have been the fun part but fortunately she announced she was going out with friends. That solved my problem. No Cassie around for me to have to explain where I was going.

The next problem I had wa
s dressing for a memory erasing. I didn’t want to wear something too revealing as I was hoping to get through this evening with only a loss of memory not sex with Fabian.

The thought of having sex with him after seeing the way he liked to play scared the crap out of me.

Deciding that I had to stop giving this all too much thought I pulled on tight blue jeans that hugged my figure and hopefully would give me a buffer between myself and Fabian. “You are a fool Allie if you think clothing will stop a vampire fucking you if he really wants to.” I whispered and then spent the next couple of minutes arguing with myself.

I pulled on a black camisole top and tied my hair up in a pony tail. My make up was minimal and finally I was ready to go and face the man, vampire, fuck it but he was
no ordinary man, and hope to hell it went the way I wanted it to go.

I hurried out the door and to my car not wanting to give myself time to think about what I was doing and hoped like hell that I
’d paid enough attention to Dominick and his description of where Fabian lived.

I knew the suburb and there weren
’t that many homes that fit that description in the area where Fabian lived.

When I finally got to the street where he was supposed to be, it didn
’t take long to find a huge sprawling home on a steep hill with views out over Hobart. I spotted the Rolls Royce near the house and knew I had the right place.

As
the thoughts of it all and what I was about to do threatened to overwhelm me, I panicked and nearly pulled back out of the drive and broke speed limits to get back home, but only the thought of Dominick inside my head and the pain that thinking of him brought to me was enough to stop me leaving again.

I climbed out of my car and stared up at the huge home. God but it was like a fucking massive crypt
to me. A fitting home for a vampire and on legs that were shaking, I approached the imposing iron, fuck, Fabian had an iron front door and went to knock but the door swung open of its own accord and I got a glimpse of a huge foyer with a corridor running off it that led deep into the house.

Fuck, did he have to do all creepy shit like this? I was already feeling like I was stuck in a
horror movie and I hadn’t even stepped inside yet.

While I stood nervously debating whether to set foot in the lion
’s den or get the hell out of there, suddenly Fabian was standing before me.

“
Allegra, what a pleasant surprise. You came alone? No Cassandra this evening?” He smiled at me but the look in his pale eyes made me shiver.

He was already trying to stir me I could te
ll and those eyes of his, fuck those eyes were so intense. I’m sure he could tell exactly what I was thinking when he looked at me. I felt like he could see inside me with that pale gaze of his.

“
I’m sure you already know I’m alone Fabian. I came to see you to find out if you would be kind enough to do something for me.”

He stared at me for a moment. “
Now that would depend on what it is that you wish for me to do my dear Allegra and I would also like to know what you will do for me in exchange?”

I shivered
again at his words. I didn’t like the way he looked at me and who did he think he was calling me ‘his dear’ Allegra? I wasn’t his and if I could get out of this evening without having to sleep with him, I would be happy. Although looking up into his pale eyes, sleep would be the last thing a man like Fabian did with a woman. I’d seen him and heard him, for fuck sakes I’d watched the man come and as I stared at him, he smiled, that all knowing smile of his and I knew, I knew the bastard somehow could tell what I was thinking about.

“
Come Allegra, there’s no need to hover like a nervous school girl. I won’t hurt you. Fran is here and so are Damien and Lucien. You remember my sons don’t you? They are Dominick’s brothers, but you knew that already.”

He took my
elbow and started to lead me down the long corridor to god knows where and I jerked my arm to pull free from his grip but he dug his fingers in, refusing to let me go.

We finally arrived in a large, almost circular living room where Fran, Damien and Luci
an all sat. They stood when Fabian walked in leading me, well except for Fran. She just gave me a mocking smile.

“
You all remember Dominick’s little human don’t you?” Fabian spoke and I tensed up. Surely he knew I was no longer with Dominick? I couldn’t believe that no one had told Fabian. Fran would have found it all quite amusing, I’m sure.

“
That would be ex human Fabian. Have you forgotten already? They are no longer together. I’ve just come from Dominick’s home and god, but he is pathetic. I had to leave as he was making me ill with his miserable behaviour.” She rolled her eyes dramatically.

My heart skipped a beat and began to thump painfully in my chest. What was wrong with Dominick? I badly wanted to ask Francesca how he was, what was pathetic about
him but I couldn’t. I wasn’t supposed to care. I was here to have Fabian clear my memory of ever having known him after all.

“
Of course Fran, how foolish of me to forget.” Fabian chuckled quietly and my eyes shifted to him again. Forgot? My ass. That man wouldn’t forget something like that.

I looked over to Damien and Lucian who smiled but said nothing and I wondered what the deal was with them. They were like minions to Fabian the way the acted. I had barely heard them say two words between the pair of t
hem. Like the rest of them they were amazingly good looking and for a brief moment I wondered if all vampires were like them? If I was changed would I be beautiful too? ‘Stop thinking like that Allegra, you don’t want to be vampire. This lifestyle is not for you remember? If you couldn’t handle one night of it how could you survive eternity living it?’ That little voice inside me asked and I had to concede that the voice was right.

“
I need to speak with you alone if possible please Fabian.” I said, needing to cut to the chase and explain why I was there so I could get the hell back out of there again.

Fabian
’s pale eyes moved over my face and without breaking eye contact with me, he asked the others to leave the room. No one questioned him, they all stood and quietly left, although Francesca being the way she was, she couldn’t help but make her presence felt by flicking my long pony tail as she passed us and that was enough for me to look away from the imposing vampire and give her a look of annoyance.

Once
we were alone and I suddenly questioned what the hell I was doing, Fabian began to circle me slowly, his nostrils flaring as he sniffed at me and I began to tremble with a mix of fear and excitement. Fuck these vampires and the way they could suck a person in with their looks and smell. God, I hated to admit it, but Fabian smelled wonderful too.

“
So Allegra are you just going to stand here all night enticing me with your smell or are you going to explain what it is that you want from me?”

Holy fuck! He th
ought I smelt good? I swallowed trying not to stare at him because I could feel his eyes, that pale, all knowing stare of his drawing me in and it scared the crap out of me.

“
I want you to do to me what you did to Cassie.” I started to explain, my voice shaking and Fabian’s eyes flared with something, god what was it? Then my words I’d just spoken registered. Oh fuck, I hadn’t meant to say that. “I…I..I didn’t…what I meant to say was…I…I..not that..not the sex..the mind thing.” I finally stumbled and tripped my way through to say to him.

Fabian laughed softly as I stammered, trying to make it clear I didn
’t want the sex. “You disappoint me Allegra. I thought you were here for a fuck. You can pretend what you saw the other night offended you but you were aroused. I could see it and smell it and it made me want to fuck you too. When you watched me come, I was imagining coming in you Allegra, did you know that?”

I wasn
’t sure whether to be turned on or even more repulsed by his words. I knew he’d used Cassie since he’d wiped her mind clean of any knowledge that he’d taken advantage of her but to think he’d used her body while pretending it was someone else and that someone else was me, just made me feel sick. Ok, slightly turned on, but mostly sick at the thought.

“
You know you pretend to be offended by our lifestyle my beauty but you would make a wonderful vampire, I know you would. Perhaps I should turn you myself?”

God to be sired by Fabian? Hell no! “
You are wrong and you are sick Fabian to think that I could be turned on by your lifestyle. If it turned me on so much I wouldn’t have ended it with Dominick but although he seems more distanced from this life than the rest of you, he can’t walk away from you all completely and having to be around you and the way you treat others is not what I want in my life.”