PART 3
"You've been watching that chick all night, Connor." Tyber said to him. "is that all you're going to do?"
"At the moment it is. I like to know what I'm getting myself into." Connor said, not taking he eyes off Chloe.
"When it looks like her, I don't blame you." Tyber said appreciatively.
"Hey," Connor said. "I've got her, not you, keep away."
Tyber held up his hands, laughing. "Hey, point taken. So what are you going to do about it, because unless I'm mistaken, that's a guy going towards her."
Connor spun around to see some guy walking up to Chloe. He shrugged, trying to sound indifferent. "Why should I care?"
Tyber laughed, with great amusement. "You shouldn't, but you've been watching her all night. Admit it man, you want her."
"What if I do?" Connor challenged.
"If you do, go and get her. The other guy's vermin for Christs sake. You'd be able to get rid of his easy."
Connor didn't hear the last part because he was already on his way towards Chloe. He didn't know what was drawing him to her, but he wasn't going to fight it. At the pace he was going, he reached Chloe before the vermin boy. When he reached her, Connor turned to the other guy and gave him a hard look. The vermin took the hint and went the other direction.
"Hey," He said turning back to Chloe. "Enjoying the party?
Chloe raised her eyebrows, she had seen how quickly he had been coming towards her, and she didn't know why. "It's okay,"
"Okay?" Connor asked sounding hurt. "That it? Okay? Well I can see that you have no part sense what so ever. The party's great."
"I do have part sense," Chloe said ready to defend herself. Then she realised that Connor was right. The party was great; everyone seemed to be having a good time. Even I am, Chloe thought to herself. "Sorry I didn't mean that before. The party's great."
Connor grinned engagingly. "Glad you're enjoying yourself. You do have some part sense after all."
Chloe laughed and that started the all night conversation that they had. She was enjoying herself so much that she didn't even notice when everyone began to leave, or when they were the only one's left.
Chloe yawned and looked at her watch. It was 4:00 in the morning. "Oh my god!" She said jumping up. "I have to go. Where's Sienna?"
"In the house I think." Connor said, pleased with himself that he had gotten Chloe to forget about everything for a while. "She's probably talking with Christian. And that's probably not all."
"Yeah," Chloe laughed, "knowing Sienna she's probably jumped him or something."
"And I thought my brother was bad. Come on, we'd better get there before something happens. If it hasn't already happened."
They walked inside, into the lounge room and there was Sienna and Christian, lying down on the couch, making out. "Told you." Chloe said softly, then louder, "Sienna your mother's home."
It really was funny to see how fast Sienna jumped up from the couch and started fixing her top. She spun around to Chloe and glared when she realised that she wasn't at home and her mother wouldn't have come here. "That wasn't funny Chloe."
"Yes it was." Chloe responded calmly. "But come on it's four in the morning. We've got to go."
"Okay, okay, I'm coming. Bye Christian, see you at school." She said leaning down to give him a long, deep kiss. Christian placed his hands on hers and pulled her down on his lap to deepen the kiss. It went on for a long time and didn't seem to be ending anytime soon.
"God, I'm going to be here forever." Chloe moaned. "Come on Sienna. We have to go now." Sienna just waved Chloe away and motioned 'just a few more minutes'.
"You two can stay here for the night." Connor said, an idea forming in his mind. "It's not like we don't have enough room."
Sienna raised her head at what Connor said. "Yeah, well do that." She said answering for her and Chloe.
"Are you it's okay?" Chloe said, a bit relieved, because hadn't wanted to drive home. "Wait a minute, we don't have anything to sleep in."
"Don't worry," Connor said, waving his arm. "We have plenty of stuff for you to choose from."
"Great," Sienna said jumping up from Christian's lap. "Christian can show me to my room." She grabbed his hand and began to run up the stairs.
"If that's not all he shows her." Chloe said dryly, she turned and smiled at Connor. "Thanks for the offer. We really appreciate it."
"I'm sure Sienna does." Connor laughed. "Come on, I'll show you to your room." He led her up the stairs and down a long corridor, to one of the bedrooms, Chloe assumed. "Here's your room." Connor said opening some doors and walking in. "The bathrooms there, and you should find some clothes in those draws. Do you need anything else?"
"No thanks, I'm fine." Chloe said in awe. The bedroom, like the whole house was beautiful.
"I take it you like the room." Connor said shutting the door and leaning against it.
"It's beautiful." Chloe said. "Your parents have good taste."
"Glad you think so." Connor said moving towards her. "Everything's perfect."
"Yes it is." Connor said to himself, watching Chloe's profile in the moonlight. He reached her side and turned her around to face him. When they were face-to-face Connor lowered his lips to Chloe's.
Chloe was a bit shocked a first, but was soon kissing him back. A nice pink haze was beginning to form in her mind. She realised that she could see into Connor's mind. ~What's happening? ~ She asked him, not understanding what was going on.
~Shit. ~ Connor said softly in her mind. ~Oh God. This can't happen to me. It can't ~
~What is it? ~ Chloe asked shocked. What if it was something bad, that could hurt them.
~It's the damn soulmate connection. ~ Connor said into her mind before pulling away, both mentally and physically, but not letting go of her entirely. "This can't be happening." He moaned. "Not to me. These things don't happen to me."
"What is the soulmate connection?" Chloe asked, a bit breathless from his kiss.
Connor saw Chloe's chest rising and falling with each breath she took, and almost lost control again. He decided to answer her question instead, to try and get his mind off her body. "It's the notion that there's one person for you in the world, and you're going to be with them forever."
"And what's so bad about that?" Chloe asked wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling his lips towards hers. "I don't think that's a bad thing. In fact, I think it's great." She pulled his lips towards hers and kissed him for all she was worth.
Connor moaned and wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her closer to him. ~ We really shouldn't be doing this. ~ Connor said into her mind even as he lead her to the bed.
~ I don't care. Besides aren't I meant to be the one to say that? ~ Chloe said falling back onto the bed and pulling Connor down on top of her. ~ I'm just going by feelings here. And they're good ones too. ~
~ Want me to she you how good they can get? ~ Connor whispered seductively into her mind.
~ Yep. ~ Chloe said laughing. And Connor showed her how good the soulmate connection could be.
* * * * *
Chloe woke with
Connor's arms wrapped around her middle. She smiled, remembering what had happened the night before. Four times, she thought wryly. She now knew how much sexual stamina
vampires had. That was another thing
she found out. That Connor and his
family were vampires, lamia actually. She hadn't believed him at first, but now she had two fresh bite marks
to prove that he was right. One was on
her neck, the other… she blushed at bit, was just above her breast. She felt Connor stir slightly at her back
and kiss her shoulder softly. "Hey," she said turning to face him. "How are you feeling?" She kissed him sweetly on the lips.
He kissed her back
and it was a little while before he answered her. "I'm surprised I can move after the workout you gave me last
night. It would have killed any lesser man."
"Me?" Chloe squealed. "I'm not the one who kept whispering, 'just one more time
baby, you can do it'. No sir, that was
you."
"Really?" Connor raised his eyebrows. "Then who was the one who kept moaning,
'more Connor, more'?"
Chloe blushed. "That must have been your imagination." She jumped at the sudden banging at the door.
"Chloe!" Sienna yelled, "I know you're in there. Put on some blankets or something because I'm coming in." She did just that. Sienna threw open the door and walked calmly into the room as if she was on a morning stroll. "Sooooo," she said eyeing Chloe with a knowing eye. "Did you two have fun last night?"
Chloe noticed the bite marks on Sienna's neck and raised her eyebrows. "Probably about as much as you did." She touched the marks on Sienna's neck and laughed. "Actually I think we had more fun than you did."
"That's not true." Christian said from the doorway. "But anyway, hate to interrupt but Connor there are some people downstairs what want to talk to you."
Connor nodded and started to get up until he noticed that Sienna hadn't moved, she was in fact looking very interested. "Are you going to leave?"
"Oh, don't worry," Sienna, said waving her arm carelessly. "Chloe's just going to tell me everything later. You don't have to worry about me." Christian shook his head and lead Sienna out of the room who yelled back at Chloe, "We'll talk later."
"She's strange," Connor said to Chloe who currently had her head buried under the covers. "What's wrong?" He asked lifting the covers to look at Chloe, who was currently bright red. "What are you embarrassed about?"
"Sienna," Chloe muttered as she watched Connor put on some sweat pants and t-shirt. "She can be so embarrassing sometimes."
"Don't worry about her," Connor said kissing her forehead. "Come downstairs when you're ready. I'll probably be a while, so make yourself comfortable." He left the room, closing the door behind him.
Chloe lay back in the bed, surprised at what she had done. She wasn't the type to just go and jump into some guy's bed. But they were soulmates that was what probably made her act the way she did. "Well I'd better get up." She said to herself. "Because whether you like it or not, your going to have to deal with Sienna sooner than later." So she got out of bed and dressed in last night's clothes. "How the hell am I supposed to find my way around this maze?" Chloe just decided to walk around until she found someone else.
That was sooner than she thought. Well, she heard voices and recognised one of them as Connor's so she decided to go and ask him for help. She was about to go inside when she heard that they were talking about her.
"Chloe," a voice said. "That's her name isn't it? Anyway I take it you got some last night considering that she's still here."
"Yeah I did Tyber." Connor said sounding smug. "Upset because you didn't get any? Too bad, maybe next time."
"She was good though wasn't she?" Tyber asked intrigued.
"One of the best. With a little training though, she could be the best." Connor laughed. "You should have seen her man, she was so responsive to me, I could have gotten her to bark if I wanted to. And her blood! God! Never tasted anything like it before. That was good shit."
"So what'd you do this time? Conversation, then suggest she stay overnight because it's too late for her to so home, and then touch her hand and oh my god! You're soulmates! Is that what you did?" Tyber asked.
Connor laughed harshly. "You know me so well. They fall for it every time."
Chloe was standing outside the door, still listening. Tear ran unchecked down her face. She couldn't believe it; everything that had just happened to her wasn't real. Connor had made it all up in some sort of scheme to get her into bed. It hurt so much; it felt like someone had ripped out half of her heart and now there was only half left. She turned away from the door and ran down the hall. One thing was for certain; she was never going to trust man like him again. And she was going to find a way to destroy all men like him. Connor said he was from the Night World, and from his mind she got the impression that that was the bad side. If she could find the good side, he could ask for their help in destroying Connor.
Because face it, that's what love and betrayal is.