Chapter 75

I met Jim and he really was a very pleasant man. I listened into him and there was no remorse towards us only towards continuing to let his sister's brother stay involved in his business. Well that explained a lot. The next several days went by and there were workmen in and out of the house about 10 hours a day. The windows were done in four days. The opaque glass was over every window including the doors. For the windows in the house each one had a slide in into the wall where the glass panels completely disappeared, then pulled out and sealed into place where not a drop of sunlight came through. The doors were a door on top of a door, to open the opaque glass off of the normal door I just flipped a couple of latches and they swung open. I had a feeling this job cost more then what they had bid us. On the last day of the job before Jim left I handed him an envelope with the check Eric had cut to him in the amount of the bid. "Jim, thank you for the great job. I am sorry you got screwed on this deal. You know you can only take care of people that don't take responsibility for themselves for so long." I knew this from personal experience with Jason. "I included a little something extra in there for you. Take your wife someplace nice or do whatever you need to with it, but don't let Gus take a part of it. I made it out to you not the company." I had given him an extra five percent of the bill. I figured it was the least I could do since it was me that got him into this spot anyway.
I woke Eric up early. I was sitting on the couch with all the glass down urging him to get up. It was still at least two hours before he would normally be waking up. It took me about 20 minutes to really get him awake he finally came up to be with me. He looked at the windows, he was pleased with the job. "Did you give Jim the check?"
"Yes, and out of my personal account I gave him a check for an extra 5%. Made out to him to do with what he wanted."
"That was very generous of you. This is great timing, Drake will be here in three days."
"I wanted to talk to you about that. Where will Drake sleep? I can give him the master bedroom and bathroom, we will just need to bring more of our clothes downstairs."
"I think that is a great idea, he should be very comfortable in there."
"I will have Maria change out the linens when she is here on Sunday. I may go buy a new devout set for the bed."
"Whatever you feel comfortable with, Lover." Eric's cell rang just moments after sunset. He looked at it, "It's Victor." I sighed heavily. "Northman." He listened intently and I could feel through our bond what he had to tell me was not going to make me happy.
"What, what crappy news do you have to tell me?"
"You really aren't going to be happy. The King has decided to have the ball on August 5th. He will have the Ball at Sophie-Anne's entertainment home, the one where she killed her King."
"Great Eric, that's just fucking great. I guess we won't be going on a honeymoon. At least he is allowing us to be married first."
"We will go on a honeymoon. We will just have to post pone it for a few days. I assure you we will go on a honeymoon."
It was great to have a couple of extra hours with Eric I was hoping it would become a habit for him I would feel bad about waking him up every day. He looked at me cocked his head to one side, "So how about a wedding update?"
"Really you want details?" I was bubbling.
"Of course, it makes you happy so I want to know."
"Actually everything is pretty much done. Really the only thing left is picking a band. I thought maybe we would just use the one from our engagement party."
"Have you heard others?"
"Yes, but I like none of them any better or worse. They are all what they are, wedding bands."
"Then I think they will be fine. How are the improvements to the land coming? Has Jason got everything under control with his own construction going at his own house?" He was concerned Jason was going to flake out on me.
"The electricity was supposed to be finished a couple of days ago. The poles have been set but some emergency had them delay putting in the junctions. The electrician that is going to put in the boxes that hold the outlets and hardwire the lights on the bridge is just waiting on the electric company to put in the junctions. Jason had left me a message when he found out the delay. I do need to call him and follow up."
"I am glad to hear he is coming through for you on this. It's about time he stepped up and became the older sibling."
"I really think Justine has been good for him. Speaking of I wonder how their project is going. I need to go see sometime soon."
"Would you like to go after dark tonight before we go to work.?"
"You wouldn't mind?"
"Of course I don't mind." He gave me a genuine smile that I felt all the way through me.
"Let me call Justine and make sure they don't have plans." They didn't so it was a date.
Eric stood up and scooped me into his arms carrying me upstairs and put us both in the tub. "We should enjoy our tub while we can, Drake will be here in a few days." He looked at me and pulled me in for a tender kiss.
"True, at least we still have our private shower in our room."
"Lover, you call this our home, your room, you have the possessive speech correct but other than your clothes and toiletries you haven't personalized anything. Why?"
"Honestly," I was feeling a little embarrassed, "I have never decorated before. You already have beautiful furniture here and I have just never decorated so I don't know what to add. The only other time I haven't lived in a family home was the short time I lived in that duplex while my kitchen was rebuilt after the fire."
"I had never thought of that and that is nothing to be embarrassed about."
"I do want to put up engagement and wedding pictures and hopefully honeymoon pictures."
"Lover, we will have a honeymoon I promise." He grabbed one of the clips I kept in a holder on the tub and piled my hair up and clipped it. He lathered up a loofa with a lightly scented body wash, Summer Rain, and began washing me. His touch the hot water and the jets in the tub going full blast, I was in Heaven. "I don't know about Heaven, but I wouldn't want to be anywhere else."
I turned to look at him, "Eric you have been doing that a lot lately."
"What?" He was completely confused.
"Reading my mind."
"No I am not. We share thoughts we've known that for a while." He was looking at me like I was nuts.
"We know we can project thoughts. You are commenting on thoughts I am not projecting to you. Maybe with as much of my blood as you have and only mine you are taking on more characteristics then just waking up during the sun and thinking food smells good."
"Maybe you are projecting without realizing it." Eric wasn't ready to think that he could read my mind at will or by accident.
"Maybe." I smiled and let him go back to pampering me. "Sweetie I've been meaning to ask you something. If you agree we may not have time before Drake comes but we could make plans."
He cut me off, "You're rambling, what is it." He had turned me around and put me at the other end of the tub and was exfoliating and massaging my feet. It felt 100 times better than any pedicure I had ever paid for.
"I thought maybe we could go out on a double date with Melissa and Shane. You know bowling, miniature golf a movie, something fun. Human couples do this quite regularly."
"I wouldn't mind, I need to talk to the policeman about security for the wedding so we should do it soon."
Business wasn't what I had in mind but whatever. "Drake will be here in just a few days how about I see if Shane is off on Saturday and then we can end the evening at Fangtasia or out dancing someplace else?" He nodded his head in agreement. "I'll call Melissa on the way to Bon Temps tonight." When Eric was sure he had thoroughly cleaned and exfoliated every part of me he stuck us in the shower. He washed my hair and as he washed his I washed him. I was beginning to worry a little about Eric not being sexual aroused by us bathing and showering together then I realized the sun was still up and he wasn't used to being up in any capacity at this time, so I didn't push. He dried me off and me him and we shared a few very intimate kisses. It was still half an hour before sunset. I went to my closet to get dressed and when I came back out Eric was asleep across the bed. I went and finished getting ready. I had put on a blue jean skirt with the dyed crease marks on it and a fuchsia sleeveless button down top with a whit tank under it and a cute pair of white sandals. I pulled my hair into a ponytail in the middle of the back of my head, twisted it and clipped it up so you could just see a spray of the ends over the top of my head. I put on some mascara and lip-gloss and I was ready. Eric was waking back up and I stood at the edge of the bed watching my beautiful Viking come back to life.
"Lover, I'm sorry. I did not intend to go back to sleep." He was feeling really badly, I could feel it.
"Don't be sorry. How many times have fallen asleep on you? Besides, it's not like you have adapted yourself to being up before the sun sets."
"You look lovely. Did we just spend an hour together naked and we touched every part of each other's body and we did not make love?"
"That's right. I think the rest of you wasn't ready to wake up either."
"I'm awake now." He gave a wiggle of his eyebrows and a sexy smile.
"Nope, I am already dressed and ready. Besides we are expected at my brothers."
"Have it your way." He smiled at me again. I bit my bottom lip as I watched his bare perfect ass walk across the room and slip into a pair of silver gray silk boxers. He turned around and saw the lustful look on my face, "you still sure about that decision."
"No." With his vampire speed he was in front of me pulling me into him and kissing me with great passion. "Fuck it my brother can wait." No more did I have the words out of my mouth Eric bent me over the side of the bed and slid my panties down to my knees. He had learned that I didn't like to mess my makeup or hair after I had gotten ready. He slip the tip of his cock into me and I actually quivered with pleasure. "Relax Lover or you are going to have us both coming before we get started." I gave a little squeeze of my muscles around his cock and then relaxed them. But I received a hiss in response to my muscle flex. He pushed the rest of the way in slowly. In and out a few more times at the slow pace to make sure we both had ourselves under control but I knew I wouldn't last long. He picked up the pace and I met every inward thrust he made with a backward push into him. We picked up our pace with each movement we both grew closer to our explosion. I grasped the comforter in my hands and I arched my back and as his balls slapped into my clit I screamed his name and with a deep growl from him we reached our end together. He kissed the back of my neck as he withdrew from me. I went to the bathroom to clean up while he got dressed.
As we were driving out of town I called Melissa, "Eric was wondering if you two were available to go out on Saturday."
"Shane has to work but I bet he can switch his schedule. Let me call him now and I will give you a call back soon."
As we pulled up in the driveway of my brother's house I didn't even recognize it. They were adding on to the back and building up and they added a porch all the way down the front of the house. The inside was a disaster. They were going to move the kitchen to the new part of the house The old kitchen and old dining area were going to be transformed into an open area for dining and entertaining. The old living room and the front two bedroom would be turned into a new open living area with a huge TV and surround sound. The old master bedroom would be turned into a in home gym. Upstairs would have the new Master bedroom and bathroom plus three more bedrooms and two more bathrooms. Off the back of the kitchen would be a room that would house all of Justine's witch paraphernalia. The laundry room would stay in the basement with newly updated everything. "Wow, it's going to look great. How long before it's completed?
"We have at least three more months of construction." Jason gave a big sigh, "but it's so going to be worth it. You won't even know this was mom and dads house when it's all done."
"It'll be great Jason. It's going to be beautiful."
"Hey Eric, you want a True Blood I stopped and got some on my way home. Sis, you want something?"
"Yes, thanks Jason, that would be nice." Eric gave a simple nod.
"I'll take a glass of tea. So Justine, how are you liking Bon Temps?"
"It's a fun little town. I'm thinking about teaching I need something to keep me busy."
"Teaching?"
"Oh, yeah, I have my primary school teaching degree. But then again, I thought about maybe Natasha and I could open I a daycare."
"Is Natasha a teacher too? No she has a business degree."
"Oh, well then I guess y'all would have everything covered. She could manage the office end and you could be the director."
"We have been talking about it, but I want to get the construction job here finished first before starting another one."
Jason walked in with our drinks, "Hey sis, the electrician will be out to the property tomorrow. I didn't get that too hot did I?"
"No, it's fine, thank you." Eric replied. We stayed and talked a while. When we left Eric asked if I wanted to go out to the bridge. But I wasn't ready to see my dad just yet. I was still feeling pretty raw, no hard feelings, just disappointed. As we were driving into Shreveport Melissa called back and we were on for Saturday night.
"What will we be doing on this date?"
"I thought we could go play miniature golf and go bowling and dancing."
"Miniature golf?"
"You've never played? Have you ever bowled?"
"No, I have never played miniature golf. I have bowled in the 1970's."
"It will be fun." I was really looking forward to the evening.