ROMANCE WITH ALIEN: Gifts of Darkover (A SciFi Alien Romance Collection) (Fantasy Anthologies & Collections) by Kathleen Edwards Read Free Book Online Page A

antique bed, mike couldn’t help but stay awake and watch her sleep. The lovemaking was incredible and needless to say, it made him think about settling down with this gorgeous woman who was laying in his bed without a doubt. But the problem still remained to be the same – she was human and he was a vampire.
     
    He had told her all about his days in the army, which was true to some extent since he was an arms dealer who also took part in the war as an engineer. The only thing that was wrong was the timing. The plain truth was that he was in the army about five hundred years ago before he got attacked by some supernatural who instead of killing him, made sure that they had turned him. And for a very long time, he didn’t understand why they killed everyone else and decided to spare him.
     
    But with time, he decided to accept the fact that he had been spared and move on. But then it was at that point that Joyce woke up to that concerned look on his face. Mike tried to hide it but it was too darn late, she had already spotted it and therefore mike was left with no other choice but to look for an excuse.
     
    “You look like you have something you want to tell me.” Joyce groaned with a sheepish smile on her face. All the incredible sex had left her all tired and groggy, but feeling incredibly satisfied either way.
     
    Mike paused for a moment, he thought that maybe it wasn’t very wise for him to make that confession that early in their relationship. But at the end of the day, it seemed as though the most important thing was to ensure that everything was out in the open. Within the short time that they had known each other, mike grew to love her and for that, he didn’t want to lose her because of withholding things from her.
     
    He knew that he could pretty much lose her by telling the truth but he knew better to do so than to keep her with lies. Because in his long life, mike had known the truth to always find ways of coming out one way or the other. And so mike made a point of closing her eyes, breathing in and out for a while and then decided to spill the beans once and for all.
     
     
    “I am a vampire.”
     
     

 
     
    -Acceptance-
     
     
     
    “Are you a vampire?”
    “Yes, I am a vampire. But I am a good one. I would never do a damn thing to hurt you and you know that. I just wanted to get this one out of the way so that we can forge our way forward without any secrets.”
     
    Then there was this incredibly long stretch of silence as they both let the moment sink in. it was at that moment that mike had to start preparing the possibility of losing the girl that he was starting to develop feelings for permanently. And he also knew that if at all he was getting to lose her, then there was absolutely nothing he was going to do about it.
     
    That was the worst thing about the whole thing, not being able to do a damn thing at all. Once he had already spoken something that he had been hiding for many decades, he was supposed to feel as though a burden had been lifted from his shoulders. But now the funniest thing happened. Instead of feeling as though a burden had been lifted from his shoulders, all he felt as though something heavy had been added to the burden that he was already feeling.
     
    Mike then made a point of glancing at her and she was still dead silent, not uttering a damn word. Mike could read her feelings, and at that moment, he just wasn’t sure about how she wanted to react because she wasn’t showing anything that he could end up picking up.
     
    But by the mere fact that she wasn’t as scared as the average human would be when they were told that they had just shagged a real life vampire, mike decided to give himself a benefit of a doubt, at least for a moment or two. But as the silence stretched even further, mike started getting a little bit more anxious than normal and for a moment, it seemed as though he just had to ask her whatever the heck was going on in her pretty little