SweetHeat by Jan Springer Read Free Book Online

with the pale green shutters made her feel as if she belonged somewhere. She also enjoyed the sunshine beating down on her body as she jogged along the sandy beach every morning before getting ready for work.
    But her routine had all changed since meeting those two males. She found herself thinking of them way too often during waking hours. Dreaming about them every night.
    She was tired and aroused continuously. Truth was they were ruining her life. Or they would if she acted upon her lust for them. Surely that’s all it could be. Just lust. Right?
    Somehow she didn’t think so. Over the decades she’d met males—vampires and humans. Some she’d been attracted to but never like this.
    What she felt for these two vamps was intense. This blood-pounding excitement and wild desire was how she imagined she would have felt for a mate. This is how it should have been when she was younger, had she been allowed to be free and choose her own mate or mates as the case would be.
    Yes, this sexual attraction would certainly prompt her not to run had her intended mates been Zander and Caleb.
    Julie frowned, left the chocolate cock lying on the kitchen table and headed into her bedroom. Who said that she—after acquiring her freedom and independence, after becoming rich and powerful—could not have it all?
    She should have a male lover who adored her and the offspring she had always wanted. But Vampira had forced her to put aside some of dreams in order to fulfill her other dreams.
    Why had she been so naïve in thinking she couldn’t have it all? Why had she simply accepted Mati’s imposed rules and not used her friendship with the female and tried to change the rules from within?
    Heck, she knew why. She’d been so busy trying to impress her Vampira sisters in becoming rich and powerful as well as making Mati proud of her decision to accept her into the clique that she hadn’t really thought of it.
    Julie shook her head and undressed, tossing her clothing into her hamper. Padding naked across the plush white carpet to her king-sized bed, she pulled back the sheets and climbed in.
    The cool mattress came as a welcome relief to her heated back. Tonight she’d leave off the sheets too. It was way too hot for covers. Way too hot, period.
    No shower tonight. She was too tired. Besides, she couldn’t wait to meet up with her two vamp lovers in the dream world.
    Closing her eyes, Julie’s thoughts returned to Vampira again. She knew another reason she’d never confronted Mati on the issue of allowing sex with males. Because Julie had never experienced such an intense sexual attraction before. Never had a reason to fight to change the rules.
    She needn’t get upset about it. In actuality sex with the male vamps might not even be as intense. It would most likely be different. Fantasy was never as good as reality, was it?
    But how could she know? She was still a virgin. She had no experience to compare both worlds.
    She never would know either, because if she did, she would lose Vampira , her sexy dream lovers and be forced into an arranged marriage with two dominating Traditionalists. Even after all these decades she could still be forced to mate with those vamps she’d run from.
    Sighing heavily, Julie wished with all her might things could be different.
    She swore she wasn’t even asleep when they materialized at the foot of her bed. Dark lust shone brightly in their eyes and white, long fangs glistened in the moonlight, splashing into her bedroom. They gazed with appreciation at her as she lay nude splayed out on her bed.
    Zander moved first, strolling to the side of her bed. Heat swept through her like an inferno as she surveyed the washboard ripples of muscles on his tight belly, the engorged erection with a pair of swollen balls beneath and the sultry grin tilting up the sides of his lush mouth. He held out his hand. She took it and he helped her out of the bed, standing her in front of him.
    “I want you males so bad, it