“Raphael?” My mother addressed me as Caroline looked at me.
Suddenly Caroline’s face was gloriously radiant and refreshed in the moonlight as if my mother’s touch had taken away all her discomfort. Her eyes glowed with a new life, a new fire.
I struggled to fully understand the events unfolding before me. My own fear and anger threatened to consume me. The earlier conversation with my father hit me square in the face. His words flew through my head and I realized their full impact. I realized Caroline’s secret, even unknown to her possibly. If she’s a Livonian werewolf, Father, that means she’s bound to the Moon Goddess and she’s a threat to us. Do you really want the Moon Goddess showing up and blasting us to Kingdom Come or exiling us to the Land of Intolerables?
My mother’s voice turned my blood cold. “My dear husband, Asmodeus has invited a Livonian wolf into his realm and by Zeus’ law he must face the consequences. If Caroline finds her courage, you both will have your day of reckoning, Raphael. No force can stop a Livonian wolf in its true werewolf form. And you have seen only a glimpse of this jewel’s real Wolfen magic. Heaven help your father and his brothers.”
Caroline squeezed my hand and brought me back to my senses. Her amber eyes glowed and she smiled at me with an expression of confidence and defiance that I wanted to claim as my very own. But didn’t she understand? The Dark realm was not like going to a garden party.
“We’ll face challenges you can’t begin to imagine. Do you understand that, my love?”
The moment I said ‘my love’ her face changed. Tears brimmed in her eyes and spilled forth. She chewed on her bottom lip and looked back with a questioning glance at my mother, the Moon Goddess.
Orlando’s words filtered into my head and I found my courage again, the real courage to take back my life instead of going through the motions as I had done for so long. Going into battle is scary enough. Knowing you’re not going in alone, that’s key to victory.
“I want you with me, Caroline,” I announced. “Not just now, but forever. If we don’t survive the wrath of my father and his brothers, I want to do this now.”
My mother and Caroline both eased in and looked at me intently. I had their attention.
I bent down into the sand on my left knee. I held my right hand to Caroline.
She took my hand.
“Caroline, with the Moon Goddess as my witness, will you be my bride?”
Seeing Caroline’s emphatic nods as new tears of happiness streamed down her face and hearing my mother’s screams of delight as she danced around the palm trees like she was twenty-nine-years old reminded me of the one thing I had been searching my entire existence to find, that of a soul-mate, a partner, someone to share every moment of my life with, good or bad. And here she was, the woman who had inflamed my undead vampire heart, my werewolf bride who would help me rain Holy Hell down upon my father, the dark lord Asmodeus, the asshole.
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Coming Soon
Caroline and Raphael’s story continues in Day of Reckoning: My Vampire Lover Part #3.
Fanged to English Translations
The following are English translations for any words spoken in the language of the Fanged world which is very similar to modern day Italian. Each is organized by chapter.
Chapter 1 – Raphael’s Unexpected Delivery
Una bellezza come nessun altro. Così bella. Calmati. Calmatevi, mio dolce. Io non ho intenzione di permettere a nessuno di farti del male. = A beauty like no other. So beautiful. Calm yourself. Calm yourself, my sweet. I’m not going to let anyone hurt you.
Chapter 3 – Raphael’s Offer
Con la luna e le stelle, deve essere così testardo mia bellezza? Cosa c'è di qualche goccia di sangue tra amici. Siamo amici. Non siamo? = By the moon and stars, must you be so stubborn, my beauty? What's a few drops of blood among friends? We are friends. Are we not?
Chapter 4 – Caroline’s New Sense and Sensibility
Riesci a capirmi? = Can you understand me?
Sì, posso capire. = Yes, I can understand you.
Dimmi di nuovo nella tua lingua. Sei un lupo mannaro o no? = Tell me again in your language. Are you a werewolf or not?
Mia bella lupo. = My lovely wolf.
Chapter 5 – Raphael’s Declaration
Al di là, al di là, la dea della Luna, fatemelo sapere di mia madre. = To the beyond, to the beyond, Moon goddess, bring me word of my mother.
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My Vampire Lover series by Victoria Embers includes:
Conquest (My Vampire Lover Part #1)
Redemption (My Vampire Lover Part #2)
Day of Reckoning (My Vampire Lover Part #3) – Coming Soon
Conquest (My Vampire Lover Part #1)
Caroline, a werewolf and princess of the Golden realm, has discovered a new love in her vampire captor. She’s willing to risk everything, even her life, to prove to him she loves him and has forsaken all others including her family and her pack.
Redemption (My Vampire Lover Part #2)
Before Caroline, the werewolf princess, fell for her vampire lover, Raphael, she met him in the Dark realm under difficult circumstances. Raphael's father, the dark lord Asmodeus is killing off her family and presents Caroline as a pet to Raphael. Caroline has secrets of her own and wonders if the vampire willing to help her escape an enemy or friend? Realizing he must take action, Raphael works quickly to persuade the werewolf beauty who has claimed his heart to leave with him at once if he has a chance of setting her free.
Day of Reckoning (My Vampire Lover Part #3) – Coming Soon
Caroline has been granted permission by the Moon Goddess to seek revenge on Raphael's father, Lord Asmodeus. But Raphael is not about to let his werewolf beauty he loves return to the Dark realm without him. Both must assume certain roles while they plot their actions and protect one another from the dangers awaiting them as their love blossoms in the most unlikely of places.
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About the Author
Victoria Embers is a stay-at-home mom who believes good romance should make you purr while good steamy romance should make you scream, but in a good way of course. She loves embracing her obsession for vampires and werewolves and the naughty situations they find themselves in by writing steamy hot romances with a blend of paranormal romance, fantasy and erotica.
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