mother told her was naughty and had to be left untouched. Well, it was a dream, so he could touch her there. And, oh, god, it was like nothing she had ever experienced. He was moving down, down, slipping her loose fitting pajama bottoms lower, lower, until his tongue touched her…there…no, that wasn’t right. No, she should stop the dream, stop the dream kidnapper…he couldn’t, he couldn’t…oh, he was…no, she wouldn’t stop him…
Her body jumped, spasmed hard, the waves of pleasure slamming her back against the soft mattress, arching toward the sky. She’d never…not in real life, but the dream…wow…
She moaned as she opened her eyes, the dream still fresh…vivid…seemed so real…
Her sheet was wadded up beside her and she reached out a hand to push it aside…and felt something else…an arm…
Her eyes shot wide then and saw him, laying beside her, his smiling face just inches from hers. Was this still the dream? He couldn’t be here, she’d left, he didn’t know where she was. No, she was home, she was safe, that night over… And she had just dreamed him there. She closed her eyes and rolled out of bed, faced it while tugging her pajama bottoms back into place, and reopened them. Oh, no… He was still there, fully dressed, laying full length across her dusty rose satin sheets.
She couldn’t deal with it. It made what she had just felt…what he had just done to her…real. She closed her eyes again, whispering to herself…”he’s not really here…”
And opened them again.
“Yes, he is,” the vision said. Oh, hell…
Park was fully awake now, and backed away.
“How the hell did you get here?”
Bas rolled out of her bed on the other side and strolled slowly around. She continued to back as he approached her.
“Not easily, since you stranded me in that shithole of a hotel. But I’m resourceful. Caught a ride in a moving house. I own about thirty cars, but I have never really bothered to learn to drive. I guess I’m going to have to change that. Would you teach me?”
“No! How did you get in here? How did you even find me?!”
“Well, I think we’ve already established your alarms and locks don’t stop a vampire. And honey, I told you, you belong to me now. I can find you anywhere on this earth at any time. You’re kind of slow getting that.”
She turned away, pushing open the balcony doors and going out. She felt like she was going to hyperventilate, maybe the fresh air would help. It usually did. But he followed her. The crashing waves had always calmed her when her past revisited her.
“Park, I am not here to fuck up your life. I’m sorry, but that has sort of already happened. You are not safe here.” He turned her toward him, his hands gently on her face again.
“We have to go. I have a fortress in Vancouver where I can regroup and figure out how to fix this. If I can get Shanks and his Sire, you should be safe to come back here and finish out your normal human life to it’s inevitable looming end. Okay?”
She was silent, her eyes still closed. Why did she love his hands on her so much?
“Park?”
Slowly, she opened her eyes and looked at him. “Did you…” She stopped. Then said, “Did you…”
He nodded his head with a smile. “Oh, I did. And you were very responsive. I don’t get this…you are a sensual woman, why does the idea of sex upset you?”
“It’s dirty…wrong…especially for me.”
Bas shook his head, his thumbs caressing her cheeks, aware they were moist now. She was really upset that he’d pleasured her?
“That’s not true. Who told you this…wait, you mentioned your mother once before. Did she teach you sex was dirty?”
Park felt so ashamed, but she nodded. “Not for everyone. Just for me. She told me I was filthy and I should never do that.”
Bas was shocked. And they called vampires brutal. Humans