"What the fuck? What the fuck does that mean? Are you like a giant hairy dog? Or do you look like Lon Chaney?"He rubbed my arms. "I'm not quite sure. It's only happened twice, and I wasn't near a mirror. Sometimes I feel like a wolf but still like a man and other times…I don't feel like me at all. I hunt like a wolf." His eyes looked distant as he stared at some spot beyond me. "We were in a pack. We chased down small animals. I wasn't skilled enough to drop big game like the others.""Others? Please tell me everything. How did this happen?" I couldn't even form all of the questions I had.He led us to the bed, and we sat facing each other. As he held my hands, I could feel this current coming from his body, something I didn't recognize and hadn't felt in anyone else."When I left here I had a vague idea of other supernatural beings from what Mara told me," he said, his eyes blazing with excitement. "She told me of some legends: demons, lycans, witches, fairies, even trolls. I kne
"What did they look like?" I asked, totally absorbed in his story."They all look different. Some looked like big hairy humans with wolf heads and talons. The older ones looked like oversized wolves with human-like bodies. And then every variation in between."I shuddered. They sounded so ugly, and Paul was so beautiful. How could he want to look like a deformed wolf?"What do you mean that they're powerful?" I asked."We're faster, even when not transformed. I hear everything. My sense of smell is just like my sense of taste, and taste is like touch. I can run fast, jump high. I can break trees with just a swing of my fist." He laughed. "It's frigging great!" I closed my eyes. "Oh, Kim, baby. You'll see. It's not a bad thing for a Werewolf to have your back.""How did they change you?""They told me that it takes a bite from a transformed Lycan to infect a human. Turns out it takes a lot of bites. The first month I didn't change. I had to go through the whole thing again. I
He rolled his eyes, but not as if he was angry. "The sun will be coming up in a bit. Tell me about what happened when you got home. I know it didn't end in Spain.""Yeah, you're right." I told him about how my Council had bombarded me and about Esmeralda's murder."As long as Athena's alive," Paul said, "then she'll always be a danger to you. Trouble has a way of always finding you. You're right. I did come back in the nick of time."I smiled. Not that he could do anything to solve the Athena problem, but it felt good to have him to bounce my ideas off of.I stood and kissed his forehead. "I'm going to bed before the sun rises and catches me unexpectedly."Paul stood and pulled me to him. "I missed you, too, Kim.""It's good to have you home."He smiled at me. "Like old times. Blue balls and all."I gasped and then laughed. Knowing that my lust could flare with little urging, I hurried out of the room and down the stairs. We had talked all night.It really was like old times.
Mara looked at me as I dropped my teeth."Did you want to?" Mara gestured to Paul and stepped away from me. "Paul, you haven't donated in a while. I think you need it more than …" Mara's eyes grew wide and she looked from me to Paul "Dear Lord, your creature. Kim, your creature is Paul's Werewolf!""Oh my God!" Tyler exclaimed. "That's exactly what it is!"Paul rubbed his hair back. "We talked about that yesterday." He shook his head. "But how could that be possible?""If they were bound," Monica said, "maybe Paul's being changed could somehow transfer to Kim if he didn't block it. But Paul is human. Humans don't bond. They just turn.""We need Julie for this," Kat said.I concentrated on her. Julie didn't wait for me to ask. She just appeared."Sorry to bother you, Julie," I said. "I know we're supposed to get together later tonight, but we have a situation."Julie eyed Paul. She wore black leather pants, combat boots, and an anime T-shirt. Her usually pixy cut hair was spiked
I found the girls in the kitchen."Are you okay?" Mara asked.I nodded. "I think I hurt his feelings.""I think … you'll have plenty of time to make it up to him," Julie said.I smiled, we all giggled, and I felt a bit better. Kat had some fashion books, and we went through them picking out our favorites for her to order. We giggled a lot when we got to the men's fashions, and I picked out some boxer briefs for Paul. I didn't want to make the same mistakes his ex-girlfriend Amanda had made by thinking for him, dressing him, and decorating his place. He had been gone for a while, and I figured he'd appreciate a new wardrobe until he could go shopping for himself. I couldn't help wondering whether he was paying a visit to Amanda. I felt sick at the thought so I put it out of my mind. Why would he be visiting another woman after finding out he was essentially married to me? I was only being stupid.I took a feeding from Mara then Kat and I told the ladies about the new house. "Wo
So that I wouldn't appear predatory, I pressed my body against him. He seemed hesitant, but he put his hand loosely on my waist. His body was so tightly wound, like he would snap."I'm just going to lick you, okay?" He nodded.I kissed his neck lightly and let the sticky blood paint my lips. I could feel Paul shudder from need, not an intent to leap on me again.I licked him long and slow, and Paul grew hard in seconds. His hands slipped up my side, and his thumbs favored my nipples until I squirmed against him. I pressed my tongue into the puncture and waited for him to push me away again. Instead he rotated his hips against me. His hand moved up to grip the back of my head and gently pulled it back. He licked and kissed and nipped at my neck until I couldn't contain the groans coming from my throat.He undid my pants, gripped me to him, and carried me to the bed. He pushed me back with kisses until he covered me. His hard penis pressed against my thigh, and as I reached down to
Carmine was charging Letrelle with trespassing. Trespassing was considered a serious infraction since territory is what supports a Master and his liege. A Master's flunkies would often be sent to steal resources like customers, business ideas, or human servants. That's why a Master had to request permission to enter another Master's territory, and many times it was granted but with stipulations.To bring the complaint to the territory meant that there was an impending battle. Battles were bad because they definitely brought human attention—which caused the rest of us to scramble to keep it clear of the media. Vampires have created some of the most interesting false stories in history including the Bloods and the Crips. In hindsight, that should have been obvious. The two rival Vampire families enlist their humans to do their dirty work. Other examples would be the Mob, the San Andreas Fault, fourteen hurricanes, the battle at the O.K. Corral, and the Salem Witch trials. All of these w
"Are we through here?" Letrelle said in a tight voice."Kim, let me kick his ass," Paul said in my head. "He's been nothing but disrespectful to you, and I'm not going to allow it in my presence." I had to stare at Paul. "But you haven't turned yet without the full moon.""Trust me, baby." More from a sense of curiosity than a need to put Letrelle in his place, I decided to see what Paul was about."Okay, take care of your business."Paul smiled and cracked his knuckles."One quick thing." Paul addressed Letrelle."What?" Letrelle said. Paul leaped over my desk as if he had springs in his feet. He moved almost as fast as I could. Letrelle came to his feet in time to catch Paul in his arms. They hit the floor with Paul on top. He growled, and it wasn't a human sound. The ladies and I leaped to our feet to watch. Carmine had moved out of his chair and was standing at some distance watching the interaction with the rest of us.Paul had our complete attention. He wasn't a Were