by Mairsile
“I’m not sure. I think I went psychotic on Yamamuro’s escort and he dumped me here. Who cares? How is she, Vince?”
Vince shrugged. “Uh, well…”
“What? What’s wrong, damn it,” Nikki snapped, grabbing Vince by the shoulders and shaking him.
“Calm down, Niko. A lot has happened since you revived her, and I’ll let her tell you. First, how are you? Kill anybody yet?”
“I’ll kill you if you don’t tell me what’s wrong,” Nikki snapped, gripping Vince’s arm like a vice.
“Fine. If you want me to waste time telling you while Lilah stands outside, vulnerable and defenseless, then I will.”
Nikki pulled at her hair with one hand and beat her forehead with the other. “No, no, no!” An irrational wave of paranoia washed over her and she shoved Vince away so hard that he flew into solid rock.
Vince scowled and dusted himself off. Ignoring the fact his sister had just attacked him, he continued in a placid voice, “I can’t leave her out there to long, sis. But I can’t bring her in here if you’re ballistic on me.”
“I know,” Nikki said, blinking away the rage. “There’s a pit over there that I can use. It’s about 140 feet deep, so Lilah will be safe and I can talk to her without hurting her.”
“That’s a good idea, Niko,” Vince said, relieved at Nikki’s moment of clarity. “Do you need me to fly you down?”
“No, it’s okay,” Nikki said, and ran at vampire speed toward the pit.
Vince heard her hit the bottom with a thud and waited until Nikki shouted that she was all right. Then he took off at inhuman speed for Lilah.
A few minutes later, Lilah stood at the opening to the bottomless pit and squinted to see Nikki at the bottom of it. “Nikki. Are you all right?”
“Yes, I’m fine. I’m so excited to see you, Lilah. But you shouldn’t have come looking for me. It’s not safe.”
“I wish I could say I was looking for you, Nikki. But they were forcing me into seclusion until I learn how to fly.”
What the hell? I know I’m crazy but that didn’t make sense to me, Nikki thought to herself. If only I could see her.
Lilah heard her thoughts and before Vince could grab her, she jumped into the pit and managed to pull the air up under her, barely softening the blow as she hit the ground.
Shocked by the sudden smell of an unknown vampire, Nikki blinked back into senselessness and bared her fangs. “Who are you?” She reached back for her weapon, but it wasn’t there. She didn’t remember that it had been taken away from her before she was taken to Switzerland. Infuriated even more, she shoved Lilah against the rock wall.
“Nikki, stop! It’s me. It’s Lilah,” she screamed.
“Lilah, are you all right?” Vince called from above. He didn’t wait for an answer; he soared down on a stream of air. Just as he landed, Nikki lunged for Lilah’s neck. Vince grabbed his sister and pinned her arms down at her side.
“Harlot. Tell your dog to get off me or I’ll kill you both,” Nikki screamed, thrashing about to break free.
Lilah could not stop the tears from welling up, but along with the tears came a feral instinct to attack.
Nikki balled her hands into fists and snapped her fangs at her, blood trickling from her punctured lips. Her neck was exposed.
Without thinking, Lilah pounced on Nikki and sunk her fangs into her jugular.
“That’s enough, Lilah,” Vince demanded.
“No!” she growled and kept drinking, digging her fingers into Nikki’s chest.
At first it was the savage bite of a predator protecting herself, but then as Lilah drank her fill, Nikki began to moan and the sound penetrated her rage. The smell of her skin, the softness of her wavy brown hair, and the feel of her hands on her broad chest, flooded her mind with memories stronger than her bloodlust.
Even newly turned vampires instinctively know how to drink from a person’s vein. The trick that Lilah hadn’t learned yet was how not to drain the donor dry, or drink so much that she felt bloated. Nor was Lilah skilled at retracting her fangs from a vein, and as she started to pull away, she inadvertently nicked her tongue and injected Nikki with her own blood.
Nikki stood still, confused and dazed. Her unfocused eyes looked right through her.
“Whatever you just did, Lilah, keep it up,” Vince encouraged when he felt Nikki calm down.
I don’t know what I did. Lilah felt the tingle of her own blood mixing with Nikki’s and wondered at the excitement of it. Then she had an idea. “Vince, did you give her that blood that you brought down?”
“No, I dropped it when she shoved me. Maybe that’s it, piccolo. The bag’s in my satchel. Reach in and—”
“I think it’s more than that, Vince.” Then she cupped Nikki’s face in her hands, meeting her eyes. “Nikki, drink from me. Do you understand?” It’s all right, darling. Drink from me.
Nikki closed her eyes and she led her mouth to her neck. “Take from me whatever you need, my love.”
Nikki impaled her with her fangs and drank deeply, moaning with need. Vince let her go and Nikki grabbed Lilah, pressing her to her chest and wrapping her arms around her as she continued to drink. Lilah went weak in the knees, but it wasn’t from blood lost, it was from love found. All the memories of their first date, their first kiss, their falling in love, flooded her senses, and she moaned from the sheer joy of it.
Finally sated, Nikki pulled away and blinked her vision into focus. “Lilah? Vince?”
Vince held up his thumb and asked, “How many fingers am I holding up?”
“Don’t try to play me, Vinny,” Nikki replied. “You’re holding up your thumb, which I know that you don’t consider a finger, even though, technically, it is.”
“Yep, she’s back,” Vince chuckled and stepped to the side.
“Lilah, are you all right?” Nikki asked, putting her hands on her hips and pulling her close again.
Lilah nodded, caressing her cheek with her hand as tears welled up in her eyes. “I am now, darling. Everything is all right now.”
“I love you, lovely Lilah Rose,” Nikki said, wiping a tear from her cheek with her thumb.
“I love you so much, Nikki,” Lilah enthused.
Vince looked from one to the other. “Well, uh, I love you both, too. So, how about a threesome?”
Epilogue
December 31, 2016
da Polenta Villa, Zermatt, Switzerland
Lilah’s face shone bright under the multicolored fireworks exploding in the air as Nikki held her close and dipped her low, kissing her hungrily when she brought her back up.
Champagne chilled in an ice bucket as John Legend’s song, “All of Me,” filled the air. Lilah and Nikki sensually swayed to the music, as Vince, hovering just up the mountainside from the balcony, sent up another cluster of fireworks.
“Happy New Year, lovely Lilah Rose,” Nikki said, holding a flute of champagne in her hand, her other hand resting on her hip. She couldn’t seem to keep from touching her.
Lilah picked up her glass and put her hand on her cheek. She couldn’t seem to keep her hands off of her. “Happy New Year, Nikki. I love you.”
“I love you more,” she countered.
“No, I love you more,” she said.
“A toast to our love in the New Year,” Nikki said and clinked her glass with hers.
“I’ll drink to that,” she said with a fanged smile, and brought the flute to her lips. “Um, how do you drink champagne with these things?
“You are so damn cute,” Nikki laughed, and then kissed her fervently before taking her glass and setting both glasses back on the table. She looked up at Vince and nodded, then took Lilah’s hand in her and led her into the villa.
“That’s all right. I’ll just hang out up here… in the clouds,” Vince grumbled as a bird flew up and perched on his shoulder. “With the birds.” He looked down at the village in full party mode. “To hell with the birds, let’s celebrate!”
January 1
, 2017
Chechnya, Russia
Irinushka raised her glass of champagne, and hundreds of her lovers and children, followed suit. The opulent ballroom was filled to capacity with immortals, all related to Irinushka in some fashion, and humans, there to offer their life blood, although most of them weren’t aware of it.
“A toast to the New Year and to the resolutions it promises to bring,” Irinushka said with a leer.
“Here-here!”
Irinushka turned to her second-in-command and smiled. “And to the resolutions already fulfilled. My daughter will be reigning beside me very soon.”
“And her girlfriend?”
Irinushka sipped her champagne and then laughed. “Everyone needs a pet.”
The End
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Mairsile
About the Author
Mairsile has been blessed with a creative soul and adventurous heart fed by a fertile imagination. She takes her life experiences and turns them into tales of intrigue and romance, sometimes blended with historical references.
She was born in Arkansas and lives in Little Rock. Her first career was as a licensed social worker for a nursing home. She admired the lively spirit of the seniors as she created ways for them to entertain themselves and keep their minds active. After several years, she moved on to her second career which was as a video editor for a private company. She discovered the magic of editing videos into documentaries, training films, or music videos. From there she became the webmaster, videographer and photographer for a large healthcare system in Little Rock.
Throughout her varied careers, Mairsile has written many stories. Now those stories have led to her career as an author.
She began with the I Remember You series followed by her best-selling Riches to Rags series, and her latest stand-alone best seller is Breaking into Prison. All these books and much more can be found at amazon.com/author/Mairsile.
Other books by Mairsile:
Riches to Rags series:
From Riches to Rags
A bad-girl billionaire, accepts the ultimate challenge from a waitress, and gives up all her money, expensive toys, liquor, and women, to live in a run-down building, working at a barbeque restaurant. She only has to last thirty days, and suppress her growing feelings for the waitress. Just thirty days, but to a billionaire, that's a lifetime. This is a multi-first-person point of view novel. (Riches to Rags Book 1) Buy it now!
Combining Riches
Blackie and Chris set up house together in a romantic mansion by the river, where the paddlewheeler greets them in the morning, and the golden rays of the setting sun, dance on the river for them in the evening. They work on their first pay it forward case, which is more of a favor for a close friend. And Chris meets the man she hit when she was drunk. Her guilt becomes so great that Blackie is afraid that the very special Valentine’s Day she has planned for them may not happen. Book two of the Riches to Rags series. This book is a multiple person point of view. (Riches to Rags Book 2) Buy it now!
Separating Riches
When Blackie and Chris initiate their scholarship program, an unexpected call-in sends them to San Francisco to revisit Blackie's past and presents an opportunity for her first pay-it-forward case. Once they have settled into their temporary home, the City by the Bay opens itself up for a wonderful experience that is celebrated by all. But not everything is as it appears to be as the investigations progress and Blackie finds herself in a compromising situation that threatens to separate the soul mates forever. This book is a multiple person point of view. (Riches to Rags Book 3) Buy it now!
Aidan & Vicky series:
I Remember You
Aidan is tough, self-assured and suffering from amnesia. The only person who knows her heart, Vicky, can’t tell her that they were childhood lovers, even when Vicky is asked to hire her.
Vicky is the CEO of a multi-million dollar health system, being targeted by terrorists. Will Aidan get her memories back in time to stop the bombs before they destroy Vicky’s hospital? Will Vicky choose the hospital over Aidan? (Book 1 of the A&V series) Buy it now!
Remember, It’s You I Love
Aidan & Vicky are on a mission called, Operation Pink Knight, where they must enter a war zone in order to rescue Aidan’s second love, and first fiancée. It comes down to a volatile standoff between them and the enemy, and Aidan must choose which woman to save. (Book 2 of the A&V series) Buy it now!
Remember, You Love Me
Planning a wedding with her fiancée, losing herself to the sexual advances of her ex-fiancée, Aidan is torn between love and duty. Through no fault of her own, Aidan is caught up in a love triangle, and must choose which woman she will marry. But that's not Aidan's only problem. She must save her fiancée, Vicky, from a particularly nasty stalker, who as it turns out, is Aidan's own father. But how can she concentrate on just her, when she is also engaged to Samantha, who Aidan believes she left behind, during an insurgent attack in Iraq. Samantha spent a year in captivity, and the only way she could survive the horrific treatment, was to think of Aidan. (Book 3 of the A&V series) Buy it now!
Remember This Day
Life together had never been easy for Aidan and Vicky, but it just got worse as their wedding day approaches. Tornadoes threaten their magical roof top wedding, Aidan gets in a drunken fist fight behind a bar, and Vicky performs open heart surgery on a city street as buildings collapse all around her. And then if that weren’t bad enough, after a horrific experience while making love, one of them calls the wedding off. This time, their love may not be enough to see them through these disasters. (Book 4 of the A&V series) Buy it now!
Remember, It's Our Honeymoon
Their honeymoon postponed by a tornado, a crazed mad man, and a building collapsing on top of them, Aidan and Vicky are finally on their way to Ireland. Exploring the emerald island led to a lot of shopping, love making in some provocative places, and of course espionage. But life for Vicky's best friend, Joyce, wasn’t nearly as bright, when she suddenly couldn’t see the patient’s heart beating in his chest cavity. (Book 5 of the A&V series) Buy it now!
I Won't Remember You
Aidan and Vicky return from their honeymoon and prepare for trial. Aidan had been asked to testify for the offense, but Aidan’s father, Harold, has a few evil tricks up his sleeve that puts Vicky on the witness stand as well. And it’s not just Harold that causes chaos in court. Aidan’s mother suddenly appears, sending Harold over the edge.
Who will live, who will die, and who will walk through those courtroom doors next? This is not your ordinary trial. (Aidan & Vicky Book 6) Buy it now!
Generations of Women Warriors:
Generations of Women Warriors: Battle of Pea Ridge, American Civil War
First in a series chronicling the life and times of women in a family, who fought in historic battles and loved in historic times, though both could get them killed. Temi, at age 17, finds herself pregnant, in love with a girl, and staring down a cannon, in this epic tale of growing up during the Civil War. Buy it now! (Book 1 of the Warrior series)
Generations of Women Warriors: Battle of Amiens, The Great War
The next generation in the second book of the series, finds the daughter of Temi and Robin, in France during WWI, fighting for her life, as German tanks rumble toward her. Buy it now! (Book 2 of the Warrior series)
Stand-a-lone:
It Happened Over the Holidays
A chance holiday meeting, followed by a second unplanned holiday encounter, leads to a series of adventurous holidays for Bobbi and Lynsey. They find themselves drawn closer to each other with each meeting, yet dare not expose their painful secrets that could bring their fun filled holidays to an end.
Secrets that are revealed just befo
re their mission to a war zone, putting their relationship in peril. The life of a child hangs in the balance. Buy it now!
Booker James - The Case of the Blood Red Rose
Booker James is a private investigator who is having a bad year. Her girlfriend dumped her after taking all her money with her. Her beloved grandfather died. She’s living out of her rundown office, and her PI license is about to expire. The last thing she wants to see walk through her door is an upstart young lawyer, eager to hire her.
Through Booker's door, walks Kennedy Witherspoon, a novice lawyer hoping to prove herself with her first case, but she needs Booker’s help to do it.
Booker’s penchant for alcohol clouds her judgement, and she sign’s Kennedy’s contract before she learned what the case was. Someone is murdering nursing home patients. The same nursing home where Booker's ex-girlfriend just committed suicide in.
In the middle of a murder investigation, romance blooms like a garden full of roses. Buy it now!
See No Evil: Adventures in the Grand Canyon
In ten years a worldwide catastrophe no one was prepared for, will inexplicably change life as we know it. Ranger Mackenzie Mason, a Park Ranger in the Grand Canyon, has to stop a diabolical plan to kill the Major General in charge of the South Western portion of the nation under Martial Law. But she was injured by the anarchists, and it is up to Hannah Cumberland, a registered nurse at the canyon hospital, to nurse her back to health. The attraction was instant, but they had many obstacles to scale first, not the least of which was Mack’s blindness after she was attacked, and her dogged determination to save her mother, the Major General. Buy it now!
