Pigalle Palace (4 page)

I whirled her back around to me so I could put my lips to her ear. I whispered sweetly, “I'm the unspoken passion women secretly desire. You wonder about the mystery behind my eyes, don't you?”

“Yes,” she whispered back.

“I am sex upright and poised. I am the lover you dream of.”

I could feel her shudder underneath my touch, enthralled by every word that came from me.

Every inch of my skin crawled as I moved my hands all over her
body. I was ready to see all of her, exposed, naked. But, that wasn't all I wanted to see. I wanted to get to know the beautiful woman for who she was. That really wouldn't matter; the woman she would become after the transformation would ultimately take over. I wanted to remember her the way she was, nonetheless.

“Rain…”

“Yes?”

Lifting her off her feet, I carried her to the plush bed covered in a golden silk comforter and laid her down gently.

“I want you to have me,” she stated.

Placing my index finger over her lips, I hushed her from speaking. “Shhhh… Not another word.”

Removing her halter top, jeans, laced panties and bra, I took off my black jeans. I slowly removed my boxers to reveal the rest of my skin. As my hands caressed her, I could feel her quivering. My lips went to her nipples and my tongue roamed.

“A storm is on its way,” I uttered, before flicking my tongue back and forth. “Can't you feel it?”

While my fingers played around with her clit simultaneously, I slipped through her crevasses and found her soft wet spot, fingering her slowly.

Moving her hands to my dick, I could tell she was more than ready to feel me inside of her. She stroked me and I moaned. Guiding me to her sweet center, I inched my way inside of her. She gasped as I filled her up to capacity, skillfully, moving in and out of her.

The juices trickled between her legs and I kissed her lips, keeping at a steady pace. I didn't want to interrupt the flow. I moaned louder against her lips, feeling powerful with each pounding stroke, rhythm far from timid. Knowing exactly how I wanted to please her,
I had no problem helping her reach the purest form of ecstasy. I lifted one of her legs and rested it on my shoulder as I clutched her ass with both hands. Deeper, I went.

I could feel my fangs coming to the surface. As I stared down at her, I could tell she was mesmerized by the fire in her eyes. Suddenly, her body stiffened completely and her arms dropped limply to her sides.

I immobilized her. That was the best way to make her trapped inside of her own mind, so she wouldn't be able to scream if she was afraid of what I was revealing. I caressed the side of her face with my fingertips, turning her head slightly to the right.

Selfish thinking was something I needed to work on, but how could I pass on making this woman mine? I would deal with my family later. Essence was made for me. I felt that way. Colette knew it, too; that was why she'd brought her to me.

I placed my lips on her neck and her blood pumped through her veins against my cold lips. I quickly removed my lips from her skin because a part of me was too afraid of the outcome. What would I do if this plan backfired? I couldn't worry about that. One thing was for sure: I wanted Essence to love me and I wanted to love her. I kissed her neck softly again, this time opening my mouth to bite her. The first taste of her sweet warm blood caused me to moan instantly. I sucked. I sucked some more.

Her blood was delicious.

Essence started taking deep breaths. The bite made tears come to her eyes, yet she was moaning, so I moved in and out of her while I sucked. As soon as I stopped myself from drinking too much, I gazed at her while her blood oozed from the sides of my mouth.

I bit my own wrist and my blood dripped onto the
floor. I put my bloody wrist up to her mouth so she could drink my blood. Her eyes were wide as she stared up at me in disbelief. Her chest heaved up and down while she breathed hard and she drank me.

“Relax,” I said easily and calmly, keeping myself inside of her.

When I thrust my hips into her, I could feel her orgasm coming, so I rocked inside of her deeper, faster, and then harder. Her body went through this tremendous quake until she couldn't take it anymore.

Once she came, I sucked every bit of blood from her. She died in my arms. I kept my eyes on her and within minutes, her eyes opened back up. She moved her hands to her neck to feel the spot I'd bitten. My blood was healing her so quickly it was as if it had never taken place.

“Where's Colette?” she shrieked.

“She's one of us… She brought you to me.”

“What does that mean?”

“It means that you are mine for an eternity.”

“For an eternity?”

“Yes.”

“Is that what you want from me?” she asked with a deep frown on her beautiful face.

“That's what I
need
from you.”

I kissed her from her chin down to the center of her belly button. I spread her legs wider as I buried myself between her thighs to distract her from the pain. As she had another orgasm, her fangs
emerged.

“S
o, how are things with your new bride, Legend?” I asked with a chuckle, while counting the money from the front door after we closed for the night.

“Azura…” Legend looked at me irritated as he loosened up his tie.

One thing about Legend was that he could outdress anyone. His fashion sense was dope and on another level, custom-made mostly. I would never spend the kind of money he did on clothes and I was a woman who loved clothes. His love for fashion showed in everything he put on. He did all of that flossing with his cash to impress women.

All of that was over now. I couldn't help but laugh on the inside that he'd decided to give up his whorish-ass ways for a woman he hardly even knew. What an idiot. I didn't believe for one second that he'd bit Chantal by accident.

“I'm taking it one day at a time,” he answered.

“I must say, you're doing better than I thought you would. Having any urges to be in someone else's bed yet?”

“Nope,” he replied and then shouted across the room, “Hey, Onyx, are there any more bottles of vodka upstairs? We're running low.”

“We have plenty up there,” Onyx replied as he walked over to the bar. “Hey, Azura, hook me up with Soleil.”

I frowned as if he were crazy.
“I don't think so.”

“Aw, come on,” Onyx answered.

“I'm so serious. No.”

“Azura, please.”

“Why can't any of you keep your dick in your pants and leave the staff alone? Mother and Father should make a rule that you can't go around sleeping with the help.”

“That rule would constantly be broken, so they wouldn't dare.”

Legend laughed with Rain.

“Pay me and then I might hook you up,” I stated.

“Come on, I'm your brother. A hookup never involves monetary rewards.”

“On what planet? I refuse to hook your ass up for free… Plus, I don't even think she's checking for you like that...I think she has her eyes set on Rain.”

“Rain?” Onyx scowled.

Rain shrugged and brandished that cocky smile of his.

All three of my brothers attracted different types of women and they didn't fight over chicks; there were plenty of women not to.

“That's my observation. Soleil couldn't keep her eyes off Rain all night.”

“Well, shit, that's because Rain bartends shirtless. If I stood at the door with my shirt off and shit, she would be staring at me, too.” Onyx smirked.

“You're such a hater,” Rain said.

I laughed.

Onyx rolled his eyes.

Onyx wasn't as confident as Legend and Rain. He never had been. I think the long scar on the left side of his face made him insecure. The imperfection ran through his eyebrow to his cheekbone, but it didn't alter his appearance. It made his self-confidence
a little lower.

Onyx begged, “Please do this for me. Soleil is so fine that I'll drink her bathwater.”

“You would drink her dirty-ass bathwater?” Legend asked, scowling. “She's pretty, but you've lost your mind.”

“I would and she has ass for days.”

I loved these types of conversations with my brothers. I flipped my long hair off my shoulder and asked, “Onyx, if you had a choice between work and big-booty Soleil, which one would you choose?”

“Come on, Azura,” Onyx answered. “You can't make me choose like that. That's not fair.”

“It is fair. Our club is family owned and family comes first. Mother and Father don't stand for any foolishness and you know that.”

“I respect our parents,” Onyx replied. “But, Soleil might make me break all the rules. She's that fine.”

Legend, Rain, and I laughed at him. I took the glasses out of the dishwasher and stacked them.

I
fluttered my eyelashes and my eyes opened. I stared up at the ceiling before sitting up. I was back in the dorm, lying in my bed, with a massive hangover that threatened to keep me there. I tried to swallow, but my throat was so dry that my own saliva wasn't helping to keep it moist. I rubbed my neck and felt a thin necklace with some sort of charm. Where did it come from?

“Bonsoir,”
Colette sang as she entered our room with a brown paper bag of things from the store.

I frowned deeply, stared out of the open window into the night, and inhaled the smell of the dank air after a rainstorm. “It isn't morning? I thought it was morning. You mean to tell me it's still after dark. I must've partied excessively hard. I hardly remember a thing.”

“You're still deliriously tired… You've slept a whole day.”

“Are you kidding me?”

“No, not kidding.”

“It's the strangest thing. I don't remember coming home and I feel like I've been sleeping forever. The last thing I remember is sitting at the bar drinking...and then…”

Colette came closer to me.
“What
and
who
do you remember?”

Thinking for a moment, I tried to recollect the night in the Red Light District and everything was a terrible blur. “…Nothing… and…nobody… Where did I get this necklace from?”

“Are you hungry? You should be starving by now. I can whip you up something to eat…chicken fettuccini, garlic bread, and a salad…”

The thought of cooked food made me nauseous instantly. “No,” I replied quickly. “I'm starving, but I don't want that.”

“What do you want?”

I held my head. “I feel so strange…”

“Here, lie back down,” Colette instructed, coming to my bedside. She adjusted the pillow and I relaxed against it. “You need to rest.”

She took a thermal coffee mug from her purse and opened it. Suddenly, a pungent smell engulfed my nostrils. Whatever was in the mug smelled delicious and my mouth began to water.

“What is that? It smells so good.” I licked my dry lips, feeling myself grow anxious to drink what she had.

“Relax. I'm going to give you what you
need
.”

Colette poured a red thickened liquid into an empty cup on the nightstand.

I tried to sit straight up to take the cup from her quickly, but she pushed me back down on the bed. “You have to drink this slowly, Mademoiselle.”

“Okay, please give it to me already.”

Colette guided the cup to my lips, slowly tilting the cup. The first taste of the warm liquid made me close my eyes. It was so good that I couldn't help myself as I drank faster and faster until it was all gone.

“Thank you. What is that? Is there any more?”

Colette smiled and replied, “Shhhh… Get some rest.”

As if there was some sort of sleeping agent in the drink, I fell back into a deep sleep. Honey-brown eyes and a precedent grin welcomed me to the land of slumber.