I sighed and kept walking. It was a cool night in the city and I loved the cool breeze that smelt of the sea just a few miles away. It brought Goosebumps over my welcoming flesh. I closed my eyes and savored the invisible fingers caressing all over my body. I sighed with pleasure this time and kept walking down the sidewalk.
I then heard footsteps behind me and I studied them. I tended to always do this whenever I was alone. I studied how everything sounded in a new city. I picked up the habit whenever I was a little girl.
The footsteps belonged to a person with great confidence, always sure of himself, and . . . cocky. Hmm... . Definitely a male. I smiled despite myself and warned myself of this unseen man.
He smiled to himself. He was closing in on his prey. He hadn't had this much fun for half a century stalking his prey. This female mortal was a fighter and pure. Why he wasn't sure. Most of the women this age were not so pure and innocent.
Every time he started to pursue them, they flung themselves at his feet or they would be so scared they would do anything to please him. They weren't so bad; he kind of liked the begging and screaming. But this one was different. She was so much different than the others. He was pleased, she didn't even throw herself at him whenever he pinned her with his gaze in the club.
The music was deafening in the room but all he heard was her breathing and the crash of her blood flowing in her veins. She was with her friends at the time drinking a soda. Her brown hair was long and full hanging down her back. Her body was lean with all the right curves that all men desire. Her lips were begging to be kissed and sucked. Her eyes beckoned you to the shadows with her.
She wore tight jeans that enhanced her long legs and a red tank-top that clung to her small full breasts. He guessed that they were in between a B and a C cup. Oh god how he wanted her there, but he contained himself. He never had a mortal that heated his veins like this for a century. She splashed desire in his veins just by him looking at her. By the end of this night she was going to be his.
She then looked over his way, where he was hiding in the shadows and locked eyes with his. He never had that happened before either. A mortal finding him in the shadows, but oh how he loved it. A thrill that he never knew, and she wasn't afraid of him, or throwing herself at his feet. She merely looked him over and he saw a heat in her eyes that he couldn't describe and then she turned away to speak to her friends. God, how he wanted to take her then, but he wouldn't allow himself to. It wasn't the time yet.
He shook himself out of the little memory and quickened his step to catch up to her but she herself quickened her step as well. He was definitely going to have fun with this one.
I heard him fastening his pace and warning sounds rang out in my head. I had to get rid of this guy. I walked a little faster and knew if he did the same thing again that I had to confront him. My blood boiled in my veins as I held down my anger.
The steps grew faster with my own and I whirled around to attack him. But the thing was nobody was there. My brows furrowed in confusion and I asked warily, "Hello? Anybody there?" I took a step forward to look beyond the alleyway, but I saw nothing.
I growled and tried to stop my paranoid mind. I turned back around grumbling to myself whenever I stepped into somebody. Before I could catch myself his hand shot out and grabbed my arm to steady me.
Once I had my balance again I shot him a warning glance. I slowed my racing heart and looked him straight in the eyes. And boy were they a beautiful dark blue. I caught myself from staring at him. He had dark brown hair that it was almost black. He was the man hiding in the shadows in club that I was just in! He was also lean and muscular and tall. Damn, it seems like he just walked out of one of my dreams. I didn't notice that in the club.
I cleared my throat and said, "Do you always try to scare people on the streets?" My voice laced with anger and amusement sounded a little husky from the adrenaline stilling running through my veins. And I smiled to tell him that I was just joking.
She was teasing him! Another wonder that had never happened before. He smiled himself, keeping his fangs at bay so he would not scare her. But he didn't succeed very well for she asked him, "Are those real?" She eyed his teeth more closely and he stopped smiling.
"No. Don't do that. I was only checking them out." I paused. "I've been thinking about getting my own done too. May I please check them out?" I was intrigued. I heard about the operation done that you can do that to your canine teeth but I've never met anybody that had done it before.
He opened his mouth and I leaned in closer to look at them. They looked real enough. I even touched one with my finger and blood suddenly appeared on the tip of my finger. Damn, they were sharp.
"Wow . . ." I looked at my finger in surprise and stuck it in my mouth before it could bleed anymore and started to suck on it. But then my bloodlust appeared suddenly and I wanted so much more. Damn!
He saw the blood on her finger and wanted to drag her small finger inside his mouth so he could suck on it himself. The bloodlust almost overcame him but somehow he held it down. He watched her though.
A new light came into her eyes then and he knew it to be bloodlust and lust itself. But she held it well. She pulled her finger out reluctantly and said in a husky whisper, "I got to go." She then slipped past him on her way to her apartment. But he wasn't going to let her go that easily.
"What's the matter?" He asked coyly.
She whipped around and her eyes glowed angrily at him. He wanted so bad to drag her into his arms and take her, but he wouldn't. She then continued her way. He smiled, he always liked a chase.
I breathed deeply trying to keep a grip on my control, but still my mouth watered to taste my blood once more. I grunted trying to get it out of my mind, but I wasn't succeeding. I opened my tightly closed eyes and almost ran into him again. A lust so unexpected washed over me and all I wanted to do was run my fingers in his hair and kiss him. Damn my thoughts!
"Don't you have some place to be right now?" I growled angrily at him and continued my way to my apartment.
He chuckled to himself and asked her back, "I never got your name?"
"Why should I give it?" She called back angrily.
God how he loved this! Stubborn to her bones and he couldn't get enough of her. He read her thoughts easily and saw she did want him but denied herself the pleasure. He smiled once more. He then saw in her mind a memory. A memory of her.
She was confronting the night's sky, yelling a poem that had suddenly sprang upon her. She was pleading for a vampire to come take her away. Even if it did kill her she said she would be satisfied. She did believe in them! But none had ever come and taken her wish. Well, tonight she shall have it.
Once more he flew in front of her but she didn't even notice. A second later she registered his presence again. She looked back from where she fled and then back at him. "What are you?" She whispered but he heard her perfectly.
"The man of your dreams." He said back. Her eyes were locked with his, and she showed that she was not afraid.
"Get real." She growled. She stood her ground as if ready to attack.
Such pride and stubbornness, he had to give her that. He would take his sweet time draining her. "So what is your name, cherie?" He asked once more.
"Raven." She said mildly, holding back her anger. She also had great control over herself, which he admired. He also would love to break it for her.
"Such a pretty name. Mine is Jesse Trace. Pleased to meet you." He greeted her, and he knew she was scared but didn't show it. He read it in her mind.
She held her chin high and said, "Go suck a cock."
His eyebrow shot up from her cuss. "Go to hell." He said evenly. God, how he loved playing with her. He wondered how her blood would taste. He groaned for she was in reach but he still did not make his move.
She grinned but her eyes were cold. "I've already been there. Tried to seduce the devil into giving it to me, but once he found out my plans, we had break-up sex and then kicked me out. I don't think he wants me back there again."
He grinned; she was still playing with him. How he wanted her blood, her very life! Once he took her, he wanted her to beg for him. He grinned wickedly and started to make his move.
I glared at him, and then saw he was gone. The hair on my neck stood, and I whirled about and planted a fist in his chest. Air whooshed out of his lungs and he staggered back with disbelief in his eyes. I grinned and readied myself for his next attack.
He charged at me, and I was thrown back against a brick wall. I grimaced for it hurt like a bitch. His breath fell on my neck and I started to struggle. I then felt his fangs bite into my neck.