"For a half werewolf mutant you're surprisingly quiet." Eli teased. He sat at the small table in the corner of the room with his eyes glued to his laptop screen.
"I try to tame my inner beast." She mocked. Sitting up against the headboard she flashed Eli a sarcastic smile. "For a vampire you're on your Facebook an awful lot." She said flipping through some channels.
He laughed. "I wish."
She just sat there for a moment the remote still in her hand as she studied him. He was pretty of course, as most vampires are. Perfectly equipped with a strong jaw, relatively full lips, and dark blue eyes; well, not to mention sandy light-brown hair that just begged to be touched.
Ugh, he was attractive. Why did he have to be so attractive?
Suddenly, someone knocked on the door and Kadence jumped. Reality had slipped away as she had been studying him, lost in her own thoughts. With a quick head shake she slid off the bed and was nearly on her feet.
"I don't think so, sit back down." He pointed back to her original spot.
With a sound of discontent she sat back down, which was a feat considering she rarely ever did what she was told.
Eli strolled to the door with a small smile still playing on his lips. He knew she had been staring at him the entire time. It made him feel a little better that she was able to get a little enjoyment out of looking at him, as he did looking at her.
Stepping back he opened the door.
Annabeth and Collin stood in front of him. Yet, another sly smile played on his lips. It was always interesting to see the weakness of a powerful vampire, in Collin's case it was this beautiful, yet defenseless human. He couldn't even imagine the possessiveness he was experiencing right now.
"Well don't just stand there." Eli chuckled. "Come on in." He showed them in and closed the door.
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"Where are we going?" Emma finally spoke out as Alec closed the stairwell door behind them.
"To the gym," He answered simply as he graceful trotted down the stairs. He wasn't all that excited to go down there and that was unusual for him. The Elites, training, and Collin's orders had been the only thing he had lived for, well at least for the last twenty years.
"Oh." She muttered quietly. All that she knew was that they were going down there to meet 'the Elites', whatever the hell that was.
The stairs seemed to be endless as Emma began to feel the burn. She mostly kept her eyes on the ground, except for the small glances as Alec's butt. She was beginning to come to grips with the way he seemed to make her feel. She was a perfectly healthy warm-blooded female; shame at checking him out was fading quickly.
Within minutes they finale came to a door, thank god. The door opened to another long hallway, then to her relief double doors to their final destination. The gym of all vampire gyms.
Alec pushed the black double doors open and he entered the room like he owned the place, while Emma followed behind. This place couldn't even be described as a room. It was bigger than any gym she'd ever seen in her life.
The entire place was floored with those blue cushion mats and the walls were ROCK CLIMBING walls! At a second glance even the ceiling was covered in multicolored footholds. All the way at the end of this place was what looked to be basketball courts, boxing rings, and a jungle of long sliver beams that went all the way into the roof.
Emma self-consciously crossed her arms as they strode farther into the work-out room. Everywhere she looked was a deviously attractive shirtless vampire. There was one in the corner doing pull-ups impossibly fast, one denting a gigantic steel beam with nothing but his bare fists, and a bunch sparing in those boxing rings.
"Alec." The man doing pull-ups stopped and did a perfect back-flip from the bar and strolled over to them.
"Landon." Alec nodded. Ah, Landon he hated that annoying bastard.
"Who's this?" He nodded toward Emma.
Alec reached behind him and pulled her from behind him. "This is Collin's new mate's sister, Emma." It nearly annoyed him that she unconsciously slinked behind him when she felt threatened. He was the last person that she needed to be looking to for safety. Oh, how Collin just seemed to know how to put the completely wrong people into jobs.
The man smiled at her flashing fangs that were even larger than Alec's. "I'm Landon of course." He continued smiling make her knees weak. "How did such a pretty young thing get involved with a vampire like Alec?"
Alec laughed. "I've been assigned as her bodyguard." How humorous that still was to him.
Emma just stood there eyes a little wider than usual with her arms crossed, still half behind Alec and inching more behind him every second. An idiot could see she wasn't getting the best of vibes from Landon. Yet, he could care less. He took a step toward her, but before he could complete it Alec's arm was out to stop him.
Even if bodyguard was the completely wrong occupation for him his vampire took to protecting the weak easier than he had expected.
"I wasn't gonna bite her for damns sake." Landon laughed. "I was just getting a closer smell." He took a step back." She doesn't smell like you're just her 'bodyguard'."
"I'm here to protect her, cut and dry. I'm sorry if you got excited thinking that maybe I was going to step down from my position." Alec smiled. Across the room "oooo's" filled the silence.
Landon turned and walked back to the pull up bar as the rest of the guys in the gym starting filing in front of them.
"This is Emma." Alec introduced her to the rest of the men. "If you touch her, I'll kill you." He smiled. "So, let's begin." Alec grabbed Emma by her elbow and brought her over to wear the boxing rings were against the wall. Then, he began calling out who would spar who; "Landon and Liam, Chris and Talen, JD and Todd, Alex and Austin, and me and Big." He smiled at the last pair.
