Chapter 2: Claire

I lay on the hard stone floors of the lab slowly dying while blood pooled and coated the floor as the gun shot to my stomach bleed out. Reaching out through the haze I covered the bleeding spot with my hands and tried to stop the bleeding but all I managed to do was cry out at the feeling of the pain shooting up from my stomach, god getting shot hurt like a son of a bitch!

"Severs you right bitch!" Shane slurred and I heard him stumble away.

Silent tears began to make their way down my face, I was going to die and no one would know happened to me or that it had been my abusive boyfriend who had to kill me in cold blood. I laid there as my body starting to feel the all too familiar side effects of blood loss when I felt it a tug and the air sing with power as someone opened a portal.

"Myrnin? Where are the bloody hell you? Have you been feeding messily again?" Oliver called.

'Great…just great. Of all the people who I got to see just before I died it had to be Oliver.' I thought to myself.

"He isn't here Oliver." I managed to choke out weakly.

Oliver appeared before me looking…concerned.

"Help me." I whimpered as the world began to grow dimmer around the edges of my vision.

"Blood hell…Claire the only way I can help you now is…if I turn you." He said and gently picked my head up to rest against his thigh.

I didn't want to be a vampire…but I didn't want to die either.

"Do it."

Oliver quickly pulled up his sleeve and using his fangs ripped open his arm enough so that blood began to well up and drip onto the floor, and moving my head back enough so that I won't choke, Oliver pressed his wrist to my mouth. Opening my mouth and began to suck on his blood in hard pulls, using my teeth to keep the wound from closing, vampire blood didn't taste like human blood, it was sweeter…richer more powerful in a way.

Whimpering when Oliver pulled his wrist away from my mouth, I felt Oliver's breath on my neck and his fangs brush the other side of my neck then his fangs were sinking into my neck and I let out one loud scream of pain just as the world went black.

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OLIVER

'Dear god she tastes so good.' I thought to myself as I drained what little blood was still inside Claire's body, the change had started and his mate would be safe.

'Wait…Mate? When in the hell had that happened'

All those time Claire had walked into his shop, all those times he had seen her around town and not once had he ever felt the mating pull towards her…until four months ago.

He remembered now the feelings of possession he had every time he had walked her to her car and had known she was going back to her boyfriend, remembered all too clearly the feeling of desire he had every time she had bent over to pick something up or wore a top with a low cut.

His mate…. he had waited for her for almost five hundred years and here she was now, bleeding out from a gunshot wound. He would hunt and killed the one who had dared to harm his mate and sliding my fangs out of her delicate skin and pulled her so that she was resting in my lap, brushing back her hair from her pale face I watched as change set in.

Her hair became darker, her skin paler, her heart began to beat faster and faster…then finally stop.

Claire's eyes flickered then opened to reveal two red orbs.

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CLAIRE

My throat burned with thirst as I swallowed hard trying to ease it. Oliver must have noticed because the next thing I knew I was hosted up into his arms and Oliver began to make his way into the kitchen area, putting me down on one of the counters Oliver began to rummage through the fridge until he found the bottles of blood Myrnin kept there. Opening one he handed one to me and I wrinkled my nose at the smell of cold blood, I wanted something hotter…fresher.

Oliver didn't wait for me to take it, but instead gripped the back of my neck and made me look at him.

"Drink this, for now, I'll get you something better later." He said and nodding I took the bottle and drank the cold blood.

I grimaced at the taste but my throat stopped hurting.

"That taste like shit," I said after I finished off the bottle, and placed it to the side, Oliver grinned at me and I narrowed my eyes at him in irritation.

"What are you smiling about?" I demand with an eyebrow raised.

I watched as he moved with the grace of a big hunting cat on the prowl until he was standing right in front of me, his big body boxing me in, as he leads down to my ear

"Because you're mine" he whispered seductively to me.

I felt my face heat up and my panties go damp with need, I watched as Oliver took in a deep breath and realized he could smell my arousal, blushing even harder and glanced away, god talk about embracing.

"WHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?"

Twisting around I saw Myrnin standing in the doorway of the kitchen looking more pissed off than I had ever seen him, as he marched into the room and shoved Oliver away from me.

"What have you done Oliver?" He demanded and stood in front of me.

Oliver snarled, his eyes turning to a pissed off vampire red as he faced off with Myrnin.

"I Just saving my mate's live you fool, because you were too incompetent to do so" Oliver hissed. ""Did you try to kill her in one of your insane plots of yours?"

Myrnin stood there looking shocked by Oliver's statement and only just seemed to notice that I was now a vampire because he blinked and turned to give his back to Oliver so he could look me up and down, from slightly normal eyes to my blood-stained lab coat and shirt.

One second, Myrnin was there staring at me with shock the next he was flying across the room. Oliver snarled and bounded after him and cursing I hopped off the counter and raced into the next room where the two males were fighting, I paused in the doorway and watched at the two punch and kick at each other and noted that before it would have looked like to blurs moving against one another but now I could easily see the fight for what it was.

Two very pissed off vampire males fighting full force.

"I would never harm my mate, Oliver." Myrnin snarled as he threw a punch that Oliver blocked.

Oliver hissed at him and did a roundhouse kick that connected to Myrnin's ribs, sending him flying back.

"Oh, so I just found her bleeding out for nothing?"

Myrnin launched himself at Oliver tackling him to the ground and began to punch Oliver over and over again, Oliver reached up and gripping Myrnin by the throat dug his sharp nails into his neck hard enough to draw blood.

I stared mesmerized at the blood that ran down Myrnin's throat, it smelled so good and without thought, I through myself at Myrnin which caused him to roll off Oliver and straddling his waist I leaned down and ran my tongue up and down his throat cleaning up the blood.

I moaned at the taste of Myrnin's blood and began to rock my hips against the bulge I could feel growing inside his jeans, Myrnin went still for a moment then shivered in pleasure before pulling my face up so that he could press a kiss to my lips.

I kissed him back and putting more pressure and passion into the kiss, I felt his tongue slide along my bottom lip and moaned giving his access into my mouth, our tongue meeting and beginning to dance together in a sensual dance.

I moaned louder into the kiss when I felt Oliver come up behind me and begin to suck and kiss my neck just the way I liked it, then his hands came up to massage my breast lovingly causing me to buck harder against Myrnin.

"What is going on here?"

Pulling back from the kiss I saw Amelie and her ever percent guards staring at us.

Pulling away from the two male vampires I stood and feeling my face heat up, I glared at Amelie as I desperately tried to stop the need coursing through my body long enough to get some answers.

"What in the hell is going on," I demanded and mentally wished that my voice wasn't so breathless.

"That is what I'd like to know," Amelie said and glanced and Myrnin then Oliver with a raised brow.

"Tell me old friends what has happened here today?"

Oliver glared venomously at Myrnin as he moved to stand behind me, and wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me back so that I was pressed against him.

"That fool tried to kill my mate, I demand his head on a pike." Oliver hissed.

Myrnin shot up to his feet, his eyes flashing red as his fangs slid down as she snarled.

"I did not! I would never harm my little Claire!" He hissed his fist clenched at his sides.

Jerking out of Oliver's hold, I turned to put both men in my sight and glared at them both.

"Myrnin didn't do this…Shane did." I said as memories of Shane pulling the trigger flashed through my mind.

Oliver and Myrnin both let out a roar of rage, their eyes turning fully blood red and their fangs snapping down with the force of their rage.

"I WILL DESTROY HIM." Myrnin snarled and moved to stand in front of me and gently cupping my face, Myrnin made me look at him.

"Did he do anything else? He demanded. "Did he hurt?"

I cringed away from his touch and once again jerked out of his hold and moved to put one of the lab tables between us.

"It doesn't matter…" I started but was cut off by Oliver's snarling.

"It does matter! You belong to me; you are mine to protect!"

I stared at them in shock, part of me was thrilled to have the two men I had fantasised about night after night, standing before me wanting me but the other more rational part of me thought to be too good to be true. Turing to face the only sane person in the room I saw that Amelie was sitting there, watching the show we were putting on with an expression of both shock and amusement.

"Can you please tell me what in the hell is going on?" I begged.

Amelie smiled kindly at me, her normally storm cloud gray eyes glinting with amusement.

"Why it is quite simple little Claire, when Myrnin took your blood it created a bond between the two of you and when Oliver turned you the bond that normally would have led to a mating shifted to include him. Now that you are a vampire that bond has been activated… as of right now you are Oliver's and Myrnin's mate."

I stared at her in shock, I knew that mating among the vampires was considered a very serious matter, and for a vampire to have a mate was a really rare thing.

"But... I can't be." I said.

Who would want to be mated to someone like me?

"Oh but you are child, don't know if I should congregate you or if I should pity you? Having two mate's id difficult enough but ones such as Oliver and Myrnin would drive a person to insanity." Amelie said and glanced nervously at both men.

I moved sideways so that I keep everyone in my sight and saw the Oliver and Myrnin were starting at me hungrily, I felt my face heat up and pressed my thighs together to try and stop the ache that was now pulsing in between my legs.

"I believe I shall take my leave, and allow you three to complete your bond." She said and rising gracefully stood and left, her two guards following behind without a sound.