All this was something he would need to discuss with Allegra but it would probably have to wait until they heard what Fabian had to say.
Dominick walked back into the bedroom and he sat back on the bed, smiling when he saw his bellezza. Her hair was tangled all around her, some over her face, just one cheek visible through the mane. God but her hair was amazing, so long and thick, he loved it.
Gently he reached out and tried to push it back from her face without waking her. He would have to wake her eventually if she slept too much longer as he didn’t want to be late getting to Fabian’s.
As he sat watching her sleep, Allegra stirred and stretched, her eyes opening and he got to see his first glimpse of their bright greenish brown depths for the new day.
“Ti amo cara. Did you sleep well?”
She smiled and reached for him, tracing her fingers over his cobra’s tail which circled his belly button. The rest of the snake was hidden beneath the sheet he’d partially pulled over himself and they both watched when the white linen began to tent as his cock hardened from her feather light touch.
Allegra sat up and shifted until she was up close to him, curling her arms around his neck. She tossed the sheet aside and crawled into his lap and he felt her wet pussy against the head of his straining cock.
“Someone seems eager to see me.” She whispered and he grinned.
“Someone is always eager to see you cara.”
“Well that works out just nicely then, doesn’t it?” She told him just as she lowered herself, taking him deep inside her.
“Fuck yes cara.” He moaned and he gave himself to her, holding her, loving her, their bodies moving as one until finally she cried out and then he did, her name leaving his lips on a deep guttural groan as together they found their mutual release.
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They were both quiet on the drive to Fabian’s home. Dominick wasn’t sure what they would be walking in on. Whether his sire would attack her, or have vampires lying in wait to restrain her or possibly so much worse and try to kill her.
He looked over at Allegra who seemed remarkably calm, much calmer than he was feeling. “Do you know what you’re going to say cara?” He asked her.
She sighed. “I don’t know Dominick. I don’t want trouble, I just want him to leave us alone. I listened to what you told me about the connection he and I shared from so long ago and I know there is something going on since I don’t fear him and I can hurt him, but I don’t want to hurt him, I don’t want to over power him, I just want him to go away basically, is that too much to ask?”
At her words he realised they were after the same things. Maybe they could consider leaving the country for good. Would she be willing to do something like that? Even though it would mean turning her back on her friends and her editor, her whole life that she’d had before becoming vampire.
Allegra.
By the time we pulled up at Fabian’s home, I was starting to tremble with nerves and trying desperately to hide it from Dominick.
I didn’t want to worry him even more than he already was and I knew he was worried about what Fabian had planned for us. He was concerned that he could be intending to ambush us, hurt me, maybe even kill me to make sure he didn’t lose his power. Funny thing was, I had no desire for power. I had no desire to over power him, I just wanted him to leave us alone.
Dominick took my hand and led me towards the imposing steel door of Fabian’s home and like every other time, it swung open as we approached. I felt my beautiful vampire hesitate at the open door before releasing me and stepping inside.
Francesca came forward, that typical mocking smile on her face and I could almost see an easing of the tension in his body as he greeted his sister.
“Well, well brother dear and the little woman.” She smirked at me and I rolled my eyes at the drama that was all part of Fran’s act.
“Francesca, how are you?” I asked, ignoring her usual attempt to piss us all off.
“I’m doing fabulously baby sister, or is that mother? Damn, what do I call you now? You have my sire’s and my brother’s blood in you, so I’m confused.” She grinned.
“Allegra or Allie will do just fine thank you Francesca.” I said dryly.
“So how’s life treating you as a vampire? I heard there was a little problem with you and Fabian.” Francesca’s eyes locked on me but I refused to be dragged into her little games until we’d dealt with the lord of the manor first.
“How about you just take us through to see the man himself Fran? You don’t want to make me mad now do you? I presume you heard what happens when someone pisses me off?” I warned her and if it was possible for a vampire to lose colour then I think she just did.
“I was just trying to be nice.” She huffed and Dominick burst out laughing.
“You be nice little sister? Do you even know the meaning of the word? Now come on, stop sulking and lead us to Fabian.”
He grabbed my hand and raised it to his lips and Fran made some unattractive sound at his display of affection.
“Bloody hell, come on you two before you make me ill with all the romantic bull shit.” She started to walk down the long corridor of the house and we followed her.
Francesca led us into the almost round living room where Damien and Lucian reclined in chairs looking quite bored. There was no sign of Fabian but within moments of us reaching the living room, I sensed him and I turned to him as he swept into the room looking imposing and way too damned sexy in well worn soft denim jeans and a white long sleeved shirt that reminded me of a pirate’s shirt with the full sleeves. The front was nearly undone to midway down his chest and as much as the man annoyed the hell out of me, I had to concede he was an attractive bastard.
His strange pale eyes met mine and something flickered in their depths as he looked at me. “Allegra, Nick, you made it and on time I see.”
“What did you summon us here for Fabian? What do you want with Allegra? I hope you aren’t going to harm her in anyway. This is not her fault that someone from your past has decided to be vengeful and make you pay for something you did 500 years ago.”
“I’m aware of that fact Nick, but I need to know what your lady has planned for me, what she intends doing to me and I also want to see if her power can only be used against me or does it affect others?” His eyes shifted to me again.
“Well how do you intend testing that?” I asked and when he gave me that look of his with a raised brow I backed up. “Fuck Fabian, you want me to deliberately try to harm you all? I’m not interested in this. I don’t know why I can hurt you, I don’t know why it’s taken this long for Katarina or whatever her name is to come after you but I want no part of this. I don’t think you understand. I have no wish to do anything other than live my life with Dominick. Neither of us embrace whatever aspect of being vampires you all seem to want to be a part of. Our desire is to live as close to what our human lives were as possible. I don’t want to hurt you Fabian. You helped give me life.” I turned from him and began to pace around the room.
“I need you to do so though little one.” His voice was soft but firm. “Try with Damien and Lucien first.”
I stood looking at him and then them, not moving. “I can’t.” I whispered.
“I insist that you try Allegra or I will be forced to make you try.”
“Fuck you Fabian.” I snapped and my better vampire hearing didn’t miss his softly spoken yes please. So he still wanted me, despite everything he still wanted to fuck me?
Although I had no intention of ever doing as he wanted, never giving in to it, it didn’t change the fact that there was an undercurrent of sexual awareness that hummed between us.
With an impatient sigh I swung my arms at Lucian and Damien but nothing happened. So I obviously couldn’t harm them. “Attack her.” Fabian ordered and they stood advancing on me. I backed up and as they lunged at me, I threw my arms up.
“Back off, leave me alone.” I screamed and they fell back, howls of pa
in filling the room and when I looked at them, they were bleeding from fresh cuts to their arms and faces.
“Come to me little one. I need to know if you can still harm me.” Fabian’s voice reached me as I stood staring in shock at Dominick’s brothers, linked by the blood of Fabian who had turned them all.
“No Fabian, please.” I begged him but he strode towards me and reached for me, his expression determined.
“Leave…me…alone!” I screamed at him and threw my outstretched arms towards him. With an enraged howl, he too fell back, blood flowing from the wounds I’d somehow inflicted on him.
My eyes turned from him and met Francesca’s. “Oh hell no!” She yelled. “Leave me out of this. I have no doubt you can harm me too and I have no wish to see you put it into action.”
“Now it’s Dominick’s turn.” Fabian said and I turned to him in horror.
“No, I’m not going to try and hurt him. He’s done nothing to me. Don’t ask me to do this.”
“It’s ok cara. I want you to try. I need to know for myself whether you can also harm me.” His expression was so serious and I felt myself close to tears at the look on his stunning face.
Without warning he suddenly charged me and his unexpected assault worked. With lightening fast reflexes my arms came up and I tried to block his attack but nothing happened and he barreled into me, knocking me over. We both went down and he landed on top of me.
I couldn’t hurt him, fuck it but I couldn’t hurt him. The relief shot through my body and I smiled up at him, pushing one hand through his hair to brush it back from his face.
He grinned back, his eyes glowing with his love for me. “I’m so sorry cara. Are you alright?” He asked and I laughed.
“I’m better than alright. I can’t hurt you, I can’t hurt you.” I punctuated each word with a kiss to his face.
“So as I suspected Katarina’s curse does not work on those you love Allegra. However the rest of us are fair game.” Fabian said.
Dominick climbed gracefully to his feet and pulled me up with him. “Well now that you know what Allegra is capable of Fabian, what do you intend doing?”
“I’ve never been in this position before, I must confess. I guess the question is what do you intend to do little one now you know how powerful you are?”
“I want to know what you did to Katarina’s daughter Fabian, I need you to tell me the whole story of why this woman would come after you 500 years after you were responsible for the death of her daughter. We aren’t going anywhere until you do me this favour and explain it all to me.” I told him and after a moment’s silence, his eyes watchful as he studied me, he nodded.
“Very well little one. You might like to take a seat for this one. I’m working on memories from 500 years ago, so please bear with me.” He said, taking a seat on the large wing backed chair and Dominick and I sat on the lounge, watching him and waited for him to tell us his story.
Chapter Twenty Three.
Dominick.
Dominick could feel the tension in the room especially from Allegra as she sat beside him, her hand firmly held in his as they waited to hear what Fabian would tell them about his past.
Fabian was silent for a moment, apparently deep in thought, his fingers steeped on his chest as he obviously thought about the best way to begin his story.
“Like I said before, I was only a relatively young vampire, less than a hundred years old when I saw Carmella for the first time. She was beautiful, hair down to the backs of her knees, not unlike yours little one.” His eyes met Allegra’s and Dominick stiffened at the thought that his sire was comparing a young woman from 500 years ago to his bellezza.
“She was very beautiful and an innocent, untouched and vulnerable and of course I had to have her. I pursued her, I tried to win her over as a potential suitor, not as a vampire. I hadn’t even thought about mind controlling her at that point. I guess you could say I was a kinder, gentler man back then. I wanted her because I was falling in love with her or so I believed.” He paused for a few minutes as he worked towards remembering memories from so long ago.
“Of course, her Mother found out and Katarina was not happy. Carmella was only 16. Too young to be involved with anyone, too young for me, I knew it, but I wanted her.” Fabian’s eyes locked onto Allegra’s. “I wanted her so badly. She was like a fever in my blood, eating at me, burning through me, calling to me and I couldn’t walk away, I had to have her.”
Dominick watched his sire as he spoke, his eyes on Allegra and it was obvious to him that everything he was saying to describe how he’d felt about Carmella was how he felt for Allegra. He wanted her every bit as much as he’d wanted that poor girl all those years ago.
“So what happened Fabian? Obviously you went after her anyway?” Allegra prompted him.
He smiled. “Of course little one. When I want something that badly, it is hard for me to accept that I cannot have it. She was young, impressionable, I only had to tell her things that she wanted to hear, make her promises that dazzled her and made her dream of a better life outside the life she had with her Mother and the village where they lived.”
“So did you mind control her.” Allegra asked.
“Not straight away. I got her to the point where she would sneak out of her room at night and we would just kiss, hold hands, but of course that wasn’t going to be enough for me forever.” He swept a hand through his dark blonde hair before he continued.
“Eventually I got her to allow me to feed from her.” He said and Allegra looked surprised.
“So she knew you were vampire then?”
“Not right away but it was too hard to keep from her. She was 16, sweet, untouched, not only did I want to fuck her, but the sweetness of that young virginal blood of hers called to me, I had to taste her.”
“How did she react to you being vampire?”
“She seemed to put some huge romantic spin on me being vampire, like I was some kind of hero or something. She was good for a man’s ego.” He grinned.
“It started off with me drinking from her and feeding her enough blood to heal the puncture marks but then one night I decided I’d waited long enough for her. I planned to fuck her.” He sighed and paused again for a moment.
“It did not go well. She was too small for me, she was very tight and she screamed. Her screaming excited me and I couldn’t stop. I bit her, I fucked her and she just wouldn’t stop screaming and there was blood, so much blood. When I finished with her, she had fainted but I managed to get enough blood into her to heal the damage I’d done but she was terrified and was threatening to tell her Mother, she was hysterical and that was the first time I used mind control on her. I altered her thoughts so she had no memory of what had happened.”
“So you raped her?” Allegra’s voice reflected the disgust showing on her face.
“Call it what you will Allegra. She wanted to fuck at first she did. There was something not right about her. She was far too small. Such a tiny cunt. No one would have been able to fuck her. I think you forget too that I am vampire, same as you are now. You know how important sex is to us, how driven by it we are. I couldn’t have stopped with her. The blood, the smell, her screams excited me. I’m not going to apologize for what comes naturally to a vampire and our senses, our basic urges are not easily controlled.”
“So you’re saying that the word ‘no’ means nothing in the vampire world.” She challenged him again and Dominick squeezed her hand. They wanted Fabian’s story, she didn’t need to piss him off in the process.
Allegra.
The more I listened to Fabian’s story, the sicker I felt. He’d actually seemed quite reasonable at the start of his relationship with Carmella before her Mother had tried to keep them apart but once she began sneaking out to meet him that was the start of her journey down the path that would lead to her destruction.
“So how come you didn’t call it quits then Fabian, why did you go back again and again? Nothing was going to change with her
was it? If she had a problem, a physical defect, having you fuck her over and over again wasn’t going to improve the situation.”
“I wanted to leave her alone, but I couldn’t. Her beauty, her innocence kept drawing me back to her, plus her Mother’s continued efforts to keep us apart angered me. I had to show her that no one told me what to do.”
“So how did you overcome her physical problem Fabian? You continued to have sex with her didn’t you?” I asked.
“Of course little one. She was so tight and fuck but it felt so good. Do you have any idea how intense it is for a man to have a tight little cunt squeezing his cock like that while he fucks her?” His excited eyes met mine. “Of course you wouldn’t. You lack the necessary equipment.”
His words and his excitement over the memories of that time so long ago made me feel ill but I fought to keep my expression neutral and not reveal what I was thinking.
“Did she get any better or did you tear her to pieces every time you fucked her?” I asked, dreading the answer but needing to know.
“Sadly no, she never improved. I could not make sex an enjoyable experience for her and that is not my usual style little one. Judge me if you must, I see it on your face but I pride myself on making a woman come and preferably multiple times. There was nothing I could do to make it better for Carmella. I tried but she was physically too small and all I could do for her was feed her blood to heal her and mind control her. Eventually I started to alter her thoughts into believing we’d had sex and it was great so she wanted to come to me. She wanted me until the pain began. I couldn’t stop and the more we had sex, the more I had to control her mind. What no one had told me was there are limits to everything in life and even mind altering someone has limits. I had no idea I would destroy her brain and I had no idea that eventually my blood would not be effective enough to heal her completely. She was just 17 years old when she finally went mad and died not long after.”
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