Dance with Me in the Dark
Lacey held her breath as Danny took her hand in his. They were dancing across the floor in a medieval ballet of elegance. Lacey smiled as Danny's radiant brown eyes glowed against the light of the candles flickering in the room.
"Dance with me, Lacey." He growled as he bent to whisper in her ear. His tongue slowly traced the outer shell of her ear after his guttural whisper.
"I am." Lacey felt shivers run up and down her spine with lust and excitement.
"No, my love." Danny pulled her tighter to him. Her body pressed tightly to his body causing both to heat up. "Dance with me in the dark. Allow my body to make love to you. Allow me to become your first and only lover."
"What if I fear where that may take us?" Lacey ran her fingers through the hair at the nape of Danny's neck. "Because I do fear that very much."
Danny smirked slightly as he pressed his body tighter to her. "I shall be gentle. For I have never wanted as I do you."
Lacey bit her bottom lip as she glanced up and down Danny's body. "Take me, Daniel Vikram Desai. Take me as yours and yours alone."
Danny pulled Lacey down a long decorated hall inside of a cold castle. He pressed her against the cobble stone wall long enough to capture her mouth with a hunger filled kiss.
Lacey arched against Danny's body wanting to feel him against her. He pressed tighter to her before he began to rip off her clothing in a need unmatched by any other need.
"I must have you, Lacey. I must." Danny growled into her ear again. "I will show you how making love should be done."
Danny hiked up Lacey's body as he grasped her buttocks. Lacey wrapped her toned legs around Danny's waist. He carried her along the castle corridor that led to his bedroom. He pushed open the large door.
Inside the door, a servant stood hurriedly trying to ready the bedchambers. The female left quickly at seeing her master with the gorgeous female.
"Do you love me, Daniel? Do you love me as I do you?" Lacey begged as he tossed her petite body on the layers of blankets on the large bed.
"I love none but you, Lacey Porter. None but you." Danny continued to rid Lacey of her clothing as he prepared her to become his lover.
Soon his own clothes were discarded as he lowered his body to rest between her awaiting thighs. His mouth captured hers in a heated kiss. Soon, his body was melding into her body.
Lacey threw her head back as she screamed out the pleasure of the feeling of his body joining hers. Then Danny moved to her neck. He bit down into her neck. The taste of her blood quenching a thirst like had never been quenched before.
He called her name in passion as he felt her body jerk beneath him. "Lacey…Lacey…"
Lacey smiled wickedly as she felt the heat of Danny tasting her. "I am not Lacey. I am Laura."
Lacey jerked up out of her dream. Danny grabbed her by the shoulders. "Lacey, are you okay?"
Lacey found his glowing brown eyes with her own eyes. She scurried back away from Danny.
Her eyes widened in fear but she still spoke in a frightened whisper. "Am I Laura, Danny? Am I?"
Danny ran his hand through his hair as he stared at the frightened female. "I'm not sure. But to me you're not."
"Then why am I having her memories?" Lacey began to cry as she scooted farther away from Danny.
"I think only because you are her descendant. Her memories are haunting you due to me." Danny tried to explain. "I'm sorry."
Lacey sobbed as she rubbed her hands up and down her arms. "I don't want you to love me because of the past. I am not Laura or Kayliegh or any other conquest of yours."
"I don't think of you like that, Lacey." Danny moved to sit on the couch. He stared at Lacey. She scooted farther away from him. He breathed out in a pleading tone. "Don't fear me."
Danny reached for her but she still shirked away from him. However, Danny pulled Lacey onto his lap despite her fears.. She fought him as her small fists pounded against Danny's chest. He held her tighter rubbing his hands soothingly through Lacey's raven locks. She kept hitting his chest trying to wiggle from Danny's arms. Then she squirmed until she collapsed against his chest with a whimper.
"I fear you so much. I'd be a fool not to. " Lacey raked her hand over Danny's ruffled shirt. "But I'm not crying because of that fear."
"Why do you cry, my sweet angel? Why must tears stain your lovely face?" Danny pulled Lacey's face up to look at him.
"I cry for you." Lacey blinked as the tears slowed down to only small trickles over her long dark lashes. "I cry for the lonely soul that was made of you. You've tried to love all these years to only have that love stolen from you."
"I have never loved, Lacey." Danny pulled her to look at him. "I've tasted and been with many women. But not one have I loved."
"What about Laura and Kayleigh?" Lacey felt her heart fluttering harshly inside of her chest. "What about them?"
"I wanted so badly to love them, Lace." Danny whispered as if he were telling his darkest secret. "Yet, I never reached that total love one feels. I was willing to make them as myself to have them for eternity. To truly love, I'd have wanted more for them than a tortured soul for eternity."
"But then you would live forever in lonely despair." Lacey breathed in and out quickly. "Why would anyone want that life?"
"No one would." Danny licked his lips feeling his thirst for Lacey. "And I will never make an immortal due to that fact."
"Danny, a female would love you enough to be your beloved immortal." Lacey buried her head against the wetness of Danny's shirt. She felt weak and distraught. The reason for her crying finally revealed itself. "Sometimes I'm weak when it comes to you. I feel myself falling into this abyss when it comes to you. Sometimes I think I would love enough to be yours for eternity."
"Lacey, if I taste of you, the immortals may try to kill you." Danny slid his hands to Lacey's waist. He squeezed her sides slightly. "To be with you an eternity would be my dream…my fantasy. I am not Edward in Twilight, I am here. I am real. This life is difficult. I have to kill to survive. For you to be my immortal beloved, I'd have to kill to keep you alive as well. That would be an unfair burden to place upon you."
Lacey nodded in agreement. She placed her head on Danny's shoulder. Confusion pounded in her thoughts. Her head began to ache but her heart ached more. "I have to go, Danny. I can't do this."
"Please, Lacey." Danny begged. He had never begged before. With the others, it was so easy to manipulate and dominate them. With Lacey, he didn't have that power over her. IF he did, Danny would still not use it. He wanted Lacey to be his of her own free will.
"I can't." Lacey repeated as she ran down the attic stairs.