Hi! Well, sorry that so long ... Chapter 10 should be very romantic, but I was in depressive state and I'm not a romantic person actually ... still ... enjoy!
Chapter 10
Friends or more?
"Forgive me, Ki, I've just ruined your life!" – pleaded Van Helsing, holding her while they were lying on the floor … naked.
"Forget, Gabriel, it should happen," – she answered calmly, caressing his face. They spent a crazy night together, moaning, kissing … having sex. As for the hunter, it was his first night with woman.
"That Fellan … what did he mean about your mother?"
"Hmm, painful theme for me. You see, my mother was married to Rudi Moon – a thoroughbred werewolf, my brother Lovell's father, but she met a human and soon gave birth to me. Of course my father was murdered. That's the whole story …"
He gave her a gentle kiss.
"Who was the murderer?"
"Our common familiar. Selina Cale."
"I can't believe it!"
"It's true. Sel was one of numerous murderers, who work on the Council. I didn't know her close that time. But some vampires told that she has always striven to be the first. That's why she's so …"
"Bossy?"
"Yeah … you love her, don't you?"
She caught him. Gabriel didn't know what to say not to offend her.
"Of course not! I'm just … a-a, she wants to kill me, I must know her well to win this battle …"
Kiara kissed him again, mostly jokingly.
"You can't lie, that's Selina's prerogative."
"Forget about her, O.K.? We're alone now."
"Ye-es …" – she moaned, while he was kissing her bare chest and abdomen.
Feelings and emotions were fighting inside him. Was it right to mate with Ki? He was betraying his love to Selin, but how marvelous and uncontrollable were the passion … and sense of girl's body beneath him.
"So, what's the meaning of this?" – asked Selina Cale, staring at Dracula with deep interest. He invited her to the restaurant without explaining the cause. They were finishing the second bottle of Bordeaux and count didn't say a word. He was calm and thoughtful and his dark eyes never left girl's face. Sel understood that something important happened, and put on that short black dress she wore when they met on the acceptance two years ago.
"Vla-ad …"
"Hmm, Miss Cale, do you know what I felt when first saw you – bleeding badly and deathly white?"
"That I'm a self-cooked dish?"
"No …" – he took her tiny hand in his and kissed gently. "I felt that if I won't save that beautiful lady, eternity costs nothing. And, Miss Cale, will you marry me?" – he put a small box on the table and kept breathing, waiting for an answer. Selin snorted in the goblet with wine and started laughing hysterically.
"Great joke! I love it, Vlad, it was really good! Exclusive Romanian humor?"
"I'm not joking, Sel."
Smile left her face. Vampiress looked into his eyes, searching for some traces of lie, but how clear they were!
"That's ridicules! And against the rules! The marriage of two turned vampires is an absurd!"
Vladislaus stopped her with hand.
"Forget about the Council! I'm asking you!"
"Oh, count … Why me? I can't bear alive children. You'd better choose Maya …" – she said sadly with bitterness in her voice.
"But I love you, Sel. Only you … at least think about it …"
His voice was so pleading still his face was calm … Who could say 'no'!
'What am I doing?' – she thought, while opening the box and putting on a beautiful ring with complex composition: a rose made of black diamonds cross the rose made of rubies; and then showed her hand to the count.
"Looking good, how do you think?"
"Sel … you made me the happiest man in the world!"
"And you – me. I want to spend my years with you, Vladislaus …"
"You're my one and only …"