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Vlad tookmy attention "Only one Find yourself one o alone?"

Vlad’s hawkish face was truly frightening bathed in the light from the moon "If you do not return, I will find you and you will suffer"

"Yes, of course I would expect nothing less for such a transgression," I said with great i With wild glee, I darted into the field beside the road I began to run toward the alluring scent that had caught e of the field, I turned into the forest The hs and illuminated a path forto break out of the trees into a clearing where a sin ht Fresh, young blood was in the cottage I could hear the heartbeats of the two people nestled within beckoning htly as the anticipation ofup, I freed s and let it fall free to e

Wake up!

My voice was silent, a cry into the drea uidly, I ht danced with the shadows across the white walls The trees were swaying to the uor

Come to the ! Come now!

I sensed movement within the house My eyes sharpened their focus, concentrating on the shutters

Open the ! Open it now!

Slowly, the shutters opened Standing in the darkness of his s into eyes that were heavily laden with sleep

I spread out gling to clear his muddled mind

No, no, do not be afraid Look at me Look into my eyes A loohtly on the ledge of theand stared into the darkened rooe bed dominated the room and by the lunant woman asleep under the quilts Her husband breathed heavily, leaning back against the bed, staring at me; the beautiful, ethereal creature perched in his

"Please…"

"Invite ed hi in the darkness I could see a blue haze coloring my clothes and skin

"I cannot…" the farmer protested in a whisper

I licked aze on hi man stared at me with horror and yet, with desire I could see it in the way he cast his gaze warily at his sleeping wife, then back atinaqua red tresses mesmerized hi back on the bed, he pulled the heavy quilt over him in an attempt to hide his body’s arousal

"Come…in," he finally whispered

I smiled and dropped into the roome as I slowly advanced on him When I pulled up my heavy skirts and placed one knee on the mattress, he moaned with anticipation As I crawled toward hiasped, but did notthe quilt up around his neck I reached out one hand and pulled it gently fro under breath

The faraze shifted to the woman

"Please, don’t…"

One sharp look silenced hi back the woainst the woman’s forehead, I hed and her head slumped away from me

"Now, for you," I said with a smile

The farmer sed hard as Idown on hiusted by his weakness His as heavy with child and he was hoping that I would ravish him while his wife slept It almost made me want to kill him, but I knew that soon a child would be born in the se and it would need its father I would take only what I needed

Sliding my hands over his chest, I bent doard him He strained upwards for a kiss, but I pushed his face aside with one hand, exposing his throat He wasfor my passion to overwhelm him With a soft hiss, I drew back my lips and droveblood coursing through roeaker, then tore my mouth fro hiroan drewup at ain," he whispered fervently "Take usted by his words and floated off the bed to the

He scrambled off the bed after me "Please, my lady, please I will serve you I will do as you ask I willingly give you ht hiust With one fierce thought directed into his drunken et for this wasin sleep

I leaped out of the cottage and ran into the forest I dismissed my victim’s amorous requests fro the blood withinits life into my limbs There was pure joy in the renewal that ca reat leap, I landed next to the carriage with a whoop of sheer delight

One of the gypsy guards quickly opened the carriage door for esture, I grabbed him and kissed him so hard, I felt one of his teeth crack Then I shoved hie

Vlad arrived a half-hour later Moving into the carriage, he foundto iddy Perhaps it was my prey’s own frustrated sexual desires that had seeped into h his blood, but I had never felt quite so aroused by the power of the feeding When I saw Vlad’s stern expression, I burst into peals of laughter