CHAPTER NINE
*ERICA*
Bitten
We drove back to Dan's house after dropping Kerry off at the hotel. Thank fuck I am out of that cut throat situation. Never in my life do I want to witness that again!
We are standing in Dan's beautiful ornate kitchen, he insisted or should I say demanded I eat something. It's painted pastel blue with a cream kitchen and black granite worktops. It houses a stunningly huge 12 seat Italian carved dining table.
The lights are low and it feels very romantic.
He must think I'm upset or something because he asks, full of affection, "are you ok Chocolate? You can be yourself with me Erica and you can tell me anything." He waits for me to answer and because I don't, he continues. "I also want to apologise for my behaviour with Kerry. It was only a joke on my behalf."
"I'm ok now. I'm glad I ran into you. I needed this to take my mind off things and don't worry about Kerry, she will cool off." You hope! My subconscious snaps.
"Well I can assure you I'll take your mind off everything but me sweetheart, tonight is only the beginning."
What does that mean? I think to myself completely confused by his cryptic comment.
While we leave his kitchen, Dan asks me, completely out of context, "what is it with you and strange men? They seem to come at you from every direction! I think I'll have to keep my eyes on you at all times and break a few more hands if the men in this world don't learn that you are mine!"
"Okay your masculinity is well noted." I tell him and I lean over to kiss his cheek laughing.
I walk in the huge drawing room after him and it's absolutely breathtaking. It houses a piano, another dining table and one large ornate sofa. I can't see the windows because the curtains are closed but they stretch from the ceiling to the floor. Dan stops dead in the middle of his drawing room and is completely silent. I admire the art work for a few minutes and then he grabs my attention. "You look divine Chocolate but your clothes would look a lot better on the floor." He utters in a low voice with his back turned to me.
I'm feeling spontaneous and I have no idea where my confidence comes from.
I start stripping by firstly taking down my hair, slowly, and then I asked, "shall I take my top or jeans off first?"
He slowly turns around and faces me with a devilish look.
"I'm glad we are coming to the understanding that you tell me before you do something Erica." He urges with absolutely no expression on his face and he looks dark.
All I can think is, I want this man, now, inside me.
"Take your jeans off and leave your underwear on." He demands'.
I slide them off slowly while grazing my skin with my thumb nail, it hurts but I welcome the pain. I need to feel something.
Dan turns away from me and I panic for a few seconds but I notice he sits down on the huge ornate sofa to watch the show I am performing.
He then picks up a remote and turns on the stereo.
The music is not my usual taste, he's playing a classic piano song like he did the first time we had sex and it is definitely Dan.
He is so elegant and absolutely oozes money, class and old charm.
"What's this song?" I ask because I actually like it after a while.
"Adagio - Bach. Do you like it?" He questions with hope that I do.
"Actually I do." I answer in a low voice while softly running my hands over my body for him.
"I'll teach you to play the piano one day Erica." He promises.
I love his words for the future. Most men run screaming at such things, but not him, he has all the answers.
I feel so different with him, not strong but still not weak. I almost feel like a different person. I know I have let a dark person seduce me but I can't help the feelings I have for him. I have never felt the need for a person before but now I know I have to have him in my life, whatever it costs me.
"Shall I take my top off?" I ask because I can't wait for him any longer.
"Yes and take off your bra Erica. I want to see all of you, but keep your knickers on."
Fuck I'm getting hot and I'm feeling embarrassed. Dan has not taken his eyes off me!
Before I even realise it, Dan has rushed towards me in the speed of light and stopped dead in front of me.
We are nose to nose and he is standing statue still. He must feel the same as I do and not able to wait any longer for one another.
We just stare at each other for a few seconds.
I feel close to him right now and I speak before I even register what I'm saying.
"I know what you are Dan and I'm not afraid of you."
He licks his lips as he stares at me and his eyes glaze over. He then rushes me back to the wall and we hit it with a hard thud.
All I can hear is his rugged breaths.
He's holding my face in one hand and he starts kissing me hard, so hard he's made my lip bleed.
He slowly feels his way down the middle of my body, ignoring my breasts.
Every now and then he pinches the skin on the inside of my legs and the pain makes me jump. It's not too hard, nor does it mark me, it's just the initial shock of the pain I guess that makes me jump. He then flicks the exact spot he pinched and within seconds and with every flick, I get this shock feeling deep within my sex. I welcome the feeling but with every flick, I feel like I'm being drawn deeper into the darkness.
Every time I squeal at his pinch, he growls. I know he enjoys the sounds I make, he told me as much.
He's then starts rubbing my sex through my knickers while kissing me and I am way to horny, I must literally been dripping!
I thrash my hands through his hair and kiss him as hard as he's kissing me.
I start stripping him, ripping his shirt off and I hear every button fall to the floor.
I want him naked with me, so we can touch skin to skin.
He keeps kissing me as I remove his clothes and I'm lost in him.
"Erica I need to have every inch of you." He whispers between kisses and in puffs of breath.
I unzip his jeans and get the urge to pleasure him with my mouth. Kerry is always talking about how much she loves going down south, so it can't be that hard.
I kneel on the floor, pull his jeans and underwear off in one swift motion and look up at him. He is panting so fast, barley able to catch his breath.
He lightly runs his fingers over the front of my face and I lean in, aiming to put him in my mouth.
He grabs my shoulders and roughly pulls me to face level.
"What do you think you are doing Erica?" He asks and he sounds angry! Ok, this is confusing!
"I need to have every inch of you too Dan." I plead.
He puts his hand lightly around the front of my neck, stroking me and kisses my nose.
"Erica, you don't have to do that. It is not enjoyable for woman, well most of them anyway. I know you are inexperienced, so we can try out other things later, when you feel ready, for you, not for me. We have endless amounts of time to grow with each other."
I don't say anything, I'm frozen by his words.
He runs his index finger and thumb over my eyes, motioning for me to close them and all of a sudden, his hands are no longer touching my body.
My eyes involuntary shoot open. What is he doing?
In that moment, he starts ripping my knickers from each side while they are still on me and he slowly slides them through my legs and I can feel them slide slick across my sex.
Shit I think I'm going to orgasm! I feel so sensitive and my body bucks towards him.
He pushes and holds me back against the wall and I once again close my eyes to try and maintain some control over my body.
"Look at me Erica, I want to see into your soul at your most vulnerable state. I want you to give your body to me completely and I want you to trust me with anything I do to you. Do you trust me?"
"I do." I answer breathlessly.
I look at his chest. I can finally see his tattoo at my eye level.
I see it, clear as day and I run my fingers over it, desperate to know what it means.
It's just numbers, no letters, pictures or prints. The numbers are, 1807199422072012.
"What are these numbers Dan?" I ask in a whisper.
"They came to me in a dream Chocolate. The dream felt so... genuinely good with no evil. An innocent green eyed young girl kept telling me these numbers, over and over, so I had the numbers tattooed into my skin, the way they are tattooed into my mind by her voice."
I love how he's telling me one of his dreams, like he's letting himself connect with me, all the while his stare burns into my eyes.
I feel pain for him by the way he said the word Good and Pure,he sounded like it was acid on his tongue.
I think that's the dark side of him, I think he believes he's not good.
"You know you are a good person don't you Dan?" I ask loud and clear for him to hear me.
He doesn't answer me, he throws my knickers and falls slowly to the floor, turning so he has his back to the wall and pulling me down with him and positioning me on top of him.
I push him inside me, I can't wait any longer. I need to feel him and I start to move.
Dan grabs my hair and holds it with my neck. "Tell me when you are going to cum Erica and I want to see your beautiful face, so look at me." He demands.
"I will Dan." I answer in a low voice.
He's pulling my hair and it's a little painful but I'm so intoxicated by him, I use his grip as a balance and I start to go harder as I can feel myself building to an orgasm with that deep tingling feeling I get from him and here it is!
"Dan ahhh." I scream with enjoyment.
He grabs me and pulls me so close and holds me tight. I can't move an inch and he stops me from fucking him.
"Jesus I was right there Dan." I say pleading with him.
I move my head to the side so I can look at him. Then I see his eyes turn Red and Golden, bouncing from colour to colour and I see his fangs.
His face changes. He has gone pale white with blood red lips and he looks like a cat. I'm so shocked by the site of him, he looks so... beautiful. I don't try to move or say anything. I don't even know if I'm scared, he did tell me to trust him.
"Your beautiful." I whisper, wanting him to know I trust him but he bites me hard on my shoulder and I was not expecting him to do that!
"Fuck ahhh, what are you doing?" I shout.
I try to wriggle, hoping I can free myself but I can't move to save my life.
In mumbles he tells me, "trust that your body was made for me Erica and enjoy me having you this way, this is right for us. I will give you feelings that you never knew existed and I will give them to you tonight."
He holds me firm and waits for a reply. I stare at him for a few seconds and I feel compelled by him and now I want this.
I nod and he starts fucking me, hard, with pure passion, and I feel sick by the feeling that I'm actually enjoying this. I'm enjoying him having me this way.
I have never felt anything like this.
He is fucking me and feeding on me and it feels way to good.
This is so wrong of me to think these things are ok.
I can feel him sucking my blood out of my body. He sucks hard and fast and I'm getting light headed, maybe because I'm losing too much blood but that thought soon goes out of my mind as I feel more sensitive to everything. I can feel every movement between our slick skin, hear every groan he makes and I know I can hear Dan's heart beating.
We are literally dripping in sweat and my blood. It is disgusting that I find this exciting, this is just so wrong.
Dan grabs my neck with his other hand and pushes his thumb hard into my carotid artery the other side to where he is feeding.
I know I'm going to pass out soon but still my orgasm builds and I feel light thrills and thunder rush through me.
Here it is, "ahhh! I'm going to cum Dan, please." I scream.
"Cum with me Erica, now!" Dan whispers his command in my ear while still feeding on me and that tips me over the edge.
I get an explosion of feelings, orgasm's, love, anger, hate! This is so wrong but so right.
Dan stops feeding on me and thrashes his head back into the wall so hard it breaks the wooden panel and he's roaring my name. "Ah Erica!" He growls!
He looks and sounds like an animal.
He then forces me to kiss him. I try to resist but for some reason I can't manage it. I can taste my blood in his mouth but I don't care as I watch him cum hard and long and it feels so good that it's me who is giving him all this pleasure.
I find my release with him again, orgasms coming one after the other, building higher and higher and my entire body feels full of electric currents.
I then collapse on top of him because I can no longer take anymore of him or my orgasms.
He's holding me and stroking my hair while I try to catch my breath.
"You are sinful Erica, I am completely compelled by you and obsessed with you." Is the last thing I hear Dan say before I pass out.
Dan makes me stir from my sleep as he carries me up to his bedroom and he lays me in his bed. We are both still naked.
"Come here Erica." He orders as he gets something out of the dresser.
I lean over to him by the bed, I'm so sleepy.
He starts putting a plaster over my shoulder where he bit me. He then kisses me on my forehead, gets in bed and pulls me over to him so he can spoon cuddle me.
We don't discuss the sex or the fact I definitely know he's a Vampire.
"Don't go to sleep yet Erica, I want us to talk." He whispers, so we stay up mostly talking about me.
I tell him about my parents' going missing, my struggles trying to get over them and I tell him about Lucian, minus the Vampire bit.
"Erica I know you are sad because of the loss of your parents' but you will be happy again one day, I promise." He tells me so full of sorrow and sadness.
"I feel happy with you, I feel like a different person and I've needed this Dan."
"I can't make you happy Erica." He tells me while closing his eyes.
"Why do you seem as though your dark Dan? Like you think you're not good? Why do you think you can't make me happy?" I sound like I'm on the brink of tears.
"Don't be sad for me Erica, I don't deserve it."
"Why?" I shout.
"Because I'm not good. You are good and innocent and I shouldn't be selfish and keep having you but, I am selfish, that's why you are still here with me. Go to sleep Erica."
I can tell he doesn't want to talk anymore, so I don't press him any further, I know he won't open up any more. I just wish he wouldn't feel that way about himself.
I must of told him my life's story and the fact he hasn't sent me off in a taxi tells me all I need to know about him, he is definitely for me, I now know for sure and I don't care what people think. I love him.
The next morning I wake up in a gorgeous ornate four poster bed. I couldn't really see his room last night, it was too dark.
Damn this is comfortable.
The bedroom is huge! Really high ceilings, gorgeous art work on the walls. This is so grand, I couldn't put it in words how unreal this room is and I think Dan must be loaded with this house and his car. He will be happy when he realises I'm loaded too and not after his money.
"Morning Chocolate." Dan smiles at me as he strolls in his room without a care in the world. "Yes, I am a lucky man. You are absolutely gorgeous, even in the morning and you are glowing Erica." Dan sings, acting his age for once. I laugh my head off, he's so funny.
"Did you sleep well Chocolate?" He asks.
"This is the best night's sleep I've had in a long while Dan, I'm not sure if it's your mind blowing sex or feeling really comfortable with you."
"I'll go with the sex Chocolate, it's a safe bet." He climbs on top of me and holds my face firm in his hands, "are you hungry?"
"For you Dan, always." I laugh as I try to take his top off.
He grabs my hand quickly and stops me, gets up and closes the curtains.
"Ok, maybe I'm not horny anymore!" I mutter and pull a sad face.
"Come, eat, you must be famished Erica."
God his old English gets me every time, I absolutely love his accent.
I mimic his mood and reply, "right, I'm going to get in the shower if that's ok Dan? Then I'll come have breakfast, I am a bit hungry."
"Very good Chocolate, the shower is through there." He points to the only door in his bedroom, "and I'll be in the garden out the back. What would you like to eat? Continental or old English?"
"I'll have a bacon sandwich Dan thanks, I'm easy."
"Only for me I hope, for your sake Erica." He threatens with an alarming look carved into his gorgeous face and he doesn't let me answer, he just walks out the door.
His threat makes my tummy go all tight.
I try to put his strange mood and words out of my head and get up. Within no time at all, I'm cleaned up with my make up on, luckily I carry it with me all time in my bag otherwise I'd die if I woke up somewhere and couldn't put my face on.
As I walk down stairs, I hear people talking in the next room and I hear my name! It's not Dan, who the hell is it?
A woman says - "She is not the girl from The Prophecy Sebastian, her name is Erica Werewood,"
"Oh really, well you might like to know a conversation I overheard from Erica's brother yesterday LaTessa." Sebastian replies.
"Go on brother,"
"Erica comes from a cursed blood line. They was once blocked from using their supernatural abilities so someone could use their blood in another curse and the only way they could access their powers was to take another humans life." Sebastian tells LaTessa with sarcasm in his voice.
"I killed that entire blood line brother?" LaTessa urges and sounds worried.
"Erica's mother is a witch and Erica's brother was once a werewolf, now he is a Vampire. Erica must also be something supernatural."
"Brother, she cannot be, Dan would of told us."
While listening to them, I try to urge closer so I can hear a little better but I knock a vase off a column in the hall and interrupt them, shit! Not only have I broken something that probably costs a fortune but now I won't get to hear what else they have to say!
They both appear right in front of me.
"Hello, You must be Erica. I am LaTessa and this is my brother Sebastian. It's nice to finally meet you." LaTessa looks all curious and they both have old English accents like Dan which makes me curious.
Sebastian is gorgeous, olive skinned, very tall, dressed in an amazing expensive suit. Short brown hair with big brown eyes and a chiselled face.
LaTessa is quite tall too. Long blonde hair and brown eyes. She looks like an angel.
Finally I gather my thoughts. "Hi, it's nice to meet you both too. I'm so sorry I knocked the vase over, I can pay for it." I tell them sweetly.
"Not to worry love." Sebastian says with a hard face.
"Are you Dan's family or friends?" I ask curious.
"Dan?" LaTessa asks me while looking at Sebastian, "he is a very old friend Erica, are you going down to have breakfast with Dan?"
She obviously doesn't want me prying into their business. "Yes he is waiting for me." I reply.
"We will join you if that is ok Erica?" Sebastian asks.
"Yes of course." I feel really awkward that they are asking to join me and Dan for breakfast when it's clearly their house. I know it's their house because there are pictures of Dan, Sebastian and LaTessa everywhere.
We all walk downstairs and out the back in silence and I'm grateful when we finally catch up with Dan.
We are all eating breakfast and making small talk when Sebastian asks how me and Dan met. Dan tells them how I ran into him and Sebastian is intrigued, I can tell. He starts asking me where I come from, who my parents' are, do I have siblings, and that's what gets me because he already knows I have a brother, I heard him telling LaTessa.
Saved by the phone, Lucian is calling me, "sorry I have to take this, do you mind if I go into the house?"
"Of course Erica." Dan tells me.
I quickly walk into the house and answer, "Lucian?"
"Erica thank god you answered. I thought you was going to ignore me, are you ok?"
"Yes I'm fine, listen I can't talk right now but I'll be at my hotel in about an hour, can you come and meet me please, it's urgent?"
"Yes I'm already here Erica,"
"Okay see you soon." I hang up before he gets to say anything else.
I now know Sebastian and LaTessa must be Vampires, Dan is and I also worry they have really good hearing that you see in Vampire films.
God I feel like a dick for even thinking these things.
I walk back out to the garden and tell them, "guys I have to go, that was my brother and I need to catch up with him. I hope I'll meet you both again?" I say to Sebastian and LaTessa.
"Oh you can definitely count on it Erica." Sebastian promises me, which is bizarre.
"It was nice meeting you." LaTessa says to me all the while staring at Sebastian, no doubt scolding him for the strange promise he made me.
"I'll see you out Chocolate." Dan tells me while rising from the table.
Why does he have to call me my pet name in front of his friends! I'm mortified!
"Do you need me to drive you back love?" He asks.
"Shit I forgot you drove last night. Only if I'm not putting you out Dan, I don't mind getting a taxi?"
"Taxi, your definitely an English girl aren't you, Americans' call taxi's, cabs." He laughs giving me an affectionate smile. I laugh with him and he ushers me out the door, into the car and we are heading back to my hotel.
When we arrive, I thank Dan for giving me a lift with a long kiss, he taste so good, I never want to stop at a kiss.
"I know it's only been a few days but I feel like I have known you for a lifetime Erica and I hope this will lead to something more between us?"
I'm so star struck by what he is telling me I just say, "of course."
Of course? Of course? Oh what the fuck is going on with me, I should be all gooey in his arms, begging such a god like man to love me! I scream in my head.
He holds my face in one hand and tells me, "I want to see you tonight, so make it happen Chocolate, text me the time, place and I'll come get you okay?"
"Ok gorgeous, it's a date." I tell him with a light giggle and a smile as I get out the car and let him get on with his day.