The Vampire...In My Dreams by Terry Spear Read Free Book Online

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    “The bite marks will disappear by tomorrow, most likely.” I was nearly sure of this because my healing capabilities were much advanced as a Prince of Darkness. Now that she had some of my blood…
    I silently groaned, exasperated with myself. How could I have let it happen?
    She reached up and touched the bite marks.
    Trying to avoid thinking of what I might have done to her, I gave her a small smile. “They look like some guy gave you a couple of good hickeys.”
    Not amused, she frowned. “Kate will be sure to ask me where I got them from.”
    “What will you say?”
    “I’m not sure. I’ll have to think on it.” Taking my hand, she kissed it. “When can I give blood to you again?”
    I groaned outwardly this time. I’d created a monster. Touching her cheek, I gazed into her beautiful blue eyes. “I take it I didn’t hurt you.”
    “It was the most exhilarating experience I’ve ever had…like a heated shower just poured over me, touching every molecule in my body, warming me from the inside out.”
    Delighted she’d enjoyed our blood bonding as much as she had, as much as I had, I squeezed her hand to reassure her that I’d felt just as alive with her touch. I sighed deeply, wanting to tell her what I’d done. “Marissa, I have to tell you—”
    “Hmmm, was it as good for you as it was for me?” She stroked my arm again, and I wanted to devour every bit of her right then and there.
    “You are truly fine.”
    Her face suddenly clouded. “Better than Lynetta?”
    A scourge of bitterness attacked my gut just thinking about that vamp. “There’s no comparison. Where you are the sugar in a sweet and sour mix, she is the tart. Where you are the warmth of the sunshine on a Florida summer day, she is the icy darkness in frigid Antarctica. You, and only you, are meant to be the one for me.”
    And now that we’d swapped blood, she had no choice. It would be forever.

Chapter 5
    MARISSA
    Kissing Dominic had been the most profound experience I’d ever had. Every fiber of my being had been on high alert, anxious about his taking my blood. But when he bit me, it was nothing more than a pricking sensation, and then oh so sweet. For once in my life, I, Marissa, ordinary witch who’d never caught a guy’s eye, was loved. Yeah, by a vampire.
    But what a vampire…Prince of Darkness, rather. Hmmm, what if I told Kate I had found my very own prince?
    Dominic smiled.
    I forgot he could read my thoughts, and immediately my face heated with embarrassment. “I guess if you’ve fed enough, it’s really time for me to get to bed. I’ve got to go to school early.”
    “Show me the way, princess of my dreams.”
    Feeling extremely tired, I led him up the stairs that seemed to grow longer with every step. A charmer, that’s what he was. I loved how he seemed to cherish me. But had he been like that before the vampire got hold of him?
    “I’ve always liked girls, if that’s what you mean. You know, the kind of guy who preferred talking to girls over fighting a guy at recess like so many of the clowns did.”
    “Ahhhh. Been a lot of girls, have there?”
    He chuckled behind me.
    After leading him down the hallway, I opened the door to the guest bedroom.
    “One too many girls,” he finally said. “The last nearly did me in. Guess I should have stuck to proving how macho I could be fighting the guys.”
    He joked as if it didn’t bother him, but I could tell from the wrinkle of his brow and soulful eyes, he hung on to a thread of a life he so longed to have back.
    “You will return to the way you were, right after we’re through with her, right?”
    “One of the other vamps hinted I’d be much better off. I assumed I’d get my regular life back.”
    Pain squeezed my heart like a symbiotic reaction. I leaned over and kissed his cheek, wondering how he had won me over in an instant. Lynetta . I could still envision her soulless eyes narrowed at me and her teeth bared. Even now, chill bumps trailed