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"He wakes before me," I said half to myself. "I've noticed that." "Well, he gave me permission to stay here, although I'm not going to." Paul grasped my hand and led me into the front room. "These rooms are a bit much for me." He sprawled out on the cushions, and I sat across from him.He watched me for a moment. "I think the fancy clothes are great, but you really look good in jeans and a T-shirt." I smiled shyly. "Thanks. You look ... equally good in a towel." He studied one of the cushions. It seemed we were both making an effort not to relive the night before."Amanda and I broke up," he said."Oh, Paul. I hope it's not because of me because I didn't want to disrupt your life.""No." He shook his head. "She came to my apartment last night and found your pajamas, and then she saw my bloody T-shirt. I never did clean that mess up off the floor, and there was blood all over the place apparently. It scared her, and she tried calling me on my cell and at work. The job said t
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He straightened up. "I've been thinking about this a lot. Tony told you that you can shield yourself, hide your glow after feeding and cloak yourself so that you can't be read. It's something they do intuitively. But I think it's something you should be able to teach yourself. Then maybe when you feed, you won't feel everything so strongly." He shrugged. "Not that I mind for myself, but since I have to share you, I've been thinking about self-meditation techniques that might help.""I think I understand. How would it work?""After I'd made my first million, I was under quite a bit of stress.""You're first million?" I said."Well, yeah." He at least had the nerve to look sheepish when he said it. "I started to meditate. I even spoke to a guru. He taught me that if you can make your mind blank, then you can build whatever ideas or concepts into it. You said that Tony told you that feeding wasn't about sex unless you chose it to be.""Yeah. But Alexis said that I had more succubae i
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Paul and I glanced at each other."He was a sadistic bastard," Monica said.Mara had tears in her eyes now, too. "He was unnecessarily cruel.""You mean that Vampires can take human donors and mistreat them and nobody's accountable for it?" I was shocked."No," Karen said. "If a Vampire mistreats a human, then that human is supposed to be able to report back to the territorial leader ... which was Johan. Since he was a Council member, we really had no recourse.""Damn," I said."That's another reason that it's important for you to take control," Karen said. "There are a number of things that are not right within his territory. So far, though,"—Karen smiled—"you've already killed two of them."Each of the ladies nodded. Tony made it seem so benign. I was outraged that humans were being mistreated by Vampires!"She's not angry with you," Paul said. "No, not at you," I said, being careful to calm my features. I must have gone all hissy- faced. "Look," I said, "I need to feed. No
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With an effort I pressed the tip of my tongue over the wounds in her neck until the blood stopped coming.I looked at Paul as I released her. He helped Monica to sit on the cushions. I had taken much more from her, and her eyes looked glazed. "How are you holding up?" he asked. "I think it's working. I feel a little ..." I couldn't describe it. Not horny but excited, but not anything like what usually happened. Of course I was cutting the feedings down to only a minute or two.Karen came to me anxiously. She took off her jacket and draped it carefully over the chaise. She swept her hair over her shoulder and closed her eyes.Because I was already feeling heated, I pictured the wall even before I touched her. In my mind Karen placed her hand on one side of the wall. I placed my hands on the other. We both pushed against it, but it wouldn't budge. I lowered my head and fed. Now it wasn't about satisfying my hunger. Now I fed to fill myself. I tried to picture the white wall once
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I liked it, The house had everything that I would normally love. There were gardens and a Rookwood floor in the solarium. It was a traditional home versus Tony's modern mansion, but it was way too big. There was like twenty-two rooms! Yeah, I should have been hoo-ha! But I still couldn't help feeling that there was no reason why this should all come to me. It didn't seem real. So when Monica told me my liquid assets were fifteen-point something, something million, she might as well have said, "You have a gazillion trillion dollars in the bank." It was too overwhelming to think about."Tony was here," she said after showing me the fifth guest bedroom. This time I did a better job of hiding my reaction. "Why?"She looked at me in confusion. "You two are an item, aren't you? I thought ... at the Council meeting he said you were under his protection."I looked at her. "It didn't mean anything more than that.""Oh. He was angry and took away the pills that Johan had been feeding us. P
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Paul was always there for me.He was the one I could count on with the important as well as mundane things. Paul was the one who made me laugh. And even though he didn't have any otherworldly power, he never hesitated to stand by my side to protect me. Let's face it—Paul looked awesome in a towel.I felt elated that I had come to terms with my feelings. I still felt something for Tony, but it was clouded with distrust. It wasn't that he kept secrets from me. I felt that this Vampire was too much of a mystery for me. Paul felt safe. I smiled, stood, and thought about him—his taste, his smell, his looks. I recalled his quiet cries as he came against me, and then I clearly had his link in my grasp. If he still wanted me, I would be his.I sped to his home. When I felt overcome with the sounds of the outside world, I found I could push the voices into the background and eventually ignore them. It was Paul's technique that helped me. Later, we could practice with my teeth.I found mysel
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I shrugged, ignoring the innuendo. "Where is my comb, brush, makeup, perfume?" I asked, anxiously opening up drawers. I could see how Paul might not have remembered to bring those things, but how in the hell didn't the ladies know to send me my personal care products? Maybe it was because I looked like such a grunge the first time they'd seen me. Never mind. Tony was sitting on the edge of the bed watching me. I grabbed his hand. "Take me to Tige."With a nod he stood, and then the sickening movement began. When it stopped, I wasn't surprised to be in the Council house. Of course Tige would be here. It was the place I hated most of all.We were in the lower levels, but I had never seen this room. It was fairly small, and there was a man sitting in a chair outside of a small shiny door. I knew that the man was a human. His smell reminded me of Paul and Mei Wah, and he, too, was someone's donor.Tony held me back. He pointed to the door. "That is silver. Jonathan is going to open
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"Alexis?" He raised his eyebrow.I told him briefly about my relationship with Alexis. Tige frowned. "What?" I asked."Having a close personal relationship with an Elder is a double-edged sword." Alexis had implied the same thing. "Why?""Alexis was a human for thirty years," Tige said. "Not much more than that. He's been Neratomay for twelve hundred years. I don't think he's capable of understanding human emotions anymore. Alexis is moved by nothing more than what amuses him. You having his attention only means that you will be his plaything when he desires it." I let my mind remember the way Alexis had held my face in the palms of his hands ... "Plaything? What do you mean?""His pet. He has had a number of pets."You can be my pet ... What the fuck did that mean? He'd also said that I could be his lover, but he was trying to figure things out in his head. I understood Tige's words but felt they didn't match Alexis'. I didn't want to know about this pet thing, and I didn
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