The first thing Anna noticed when she came through was the feeling of cold fingers stroking her belly. When she opened her eyes she saw the blackhaired man. He was sitting at her side and she appeared to be laying on her back on a sofa. The nightdress up over her breasts, her whole body naked to his touch.
Her movements must have betrayed her, because he looked up and she fell in awe again with his spellbinding green eyes.
"You fainted sweet girl. But do not worry you are completely healed. Look for yourself. All feels normal. But you lost so much blood, the anemia is making you faint. I will carry you to your bed again."
He lifted her up in his arms and started to walk her back to her bedroom in the tower. When the passed the front door a chorus of howling was heard. He used one hand to pull open the heavy front door and said to the wolves: "You guys feel neglected? You can come in and bring her to bed."
The animals pushed themselves past them. Tails were wagging. "Mistress" she heard voices in her head. "Yes, yes, we can come inside."
The man and his wolves started to climb the stairs.
"I hear the wolves in my head," she whispered. "I am so ill I am hallucinating."
He put her down in the bed again, covering her up with the blankets. One of the wolves jumped on the bed and put his head on her belly. The others just dropped like dead on the carpet near the bed.
The man stoked her face with his cold hand. "You will be fine love. You just need to sleep a lot to recover. Do not worry that you can hear my wolves talk. It is the vampire semen that bonded with you and found roots in your womb."
Scared she tried to sit up but the heaviness of the wolf and her weakness prevented it. "What are you telling me? Am I pregnant with your child? Or am I turning into a vampire?"
The green eyes seemed to hypnotise her. "Sleep love. I do not know either. You are the first human I slept with in ages and the first who I did not turn afterwards by letting her drink my blood. I am an undead. I do not think I can create life. But you and me we bonded inside you and that gives you some of my vampire powers." Enthralled by his eyes she fell asleep again.
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The next couple of days an old gypsy woman came to her with food and bathed her. She would sleep days on end with the wolves curled up against her in the big bed, begging her over the leftovers of her meal. Sometimes in the clouds of her dreams she would notice the vampire looking at her. When her nightmares of bullets and a big moon in a dark night would have her screaming, she would wake for a second to find his arms wrapped around her. The days passed in a haze. Her body grew stronger again.
One day she woke up and she felt like her old her again. She was lucid and not sleepwalking. From downstairs beautiful gypsy music made it's way up to her towerchamber. A violin wailing a solo. Like in a fairytale the music seemed to call on her. She noticed the wolves had gone off somewhere. So like all those days ago she climbed out of her bed and started to walk downstairs to hear the music more clearly.
On the landing she saw that the big hallway was filled with people dancing. Men and women in formal cloths of days gone by mixed with people wearing folk clothing. Some clearly gypsies. Were the other vampires? She bent down over the railing to drink in the mixture of colours and fabric. The music whirling up towards her.
