A/N Another chapter, I am on a roll. Let me know what you think cause i love feeling the love. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Enjoy!

I went inside through the back employee entrance and found the back hall deserted. I slipped into Eric's office to set down my bag, then I followed Eric's void to where it was downstairs.

I walked down the stairs and stopped on a landing about halfway down. I looked around and this basement was more like a dungeon, and I should have been nervous or had horrible thoughts coming to mind, but my mind went a whole different direction, especially when I saw Eric come into the room from a hidden door. He looked up at me when he saw that I was standing there and as I looked at him any doubts that I had about him vanished, but I still needed to ask him if he knew what I was.

I heard his fangs click down as he looked at me and I wanted to run down the rest of the stairs and jump on him, but that would have to wait. "Hi Eric. I need to talk to you for a minute, it's important."

He ran up to me at vamp speed and was in front of me before I even realized that he had even moved. He lifted me into his arms and carried me into the secret room he had just exited from. He pushed me up against the closed door and immediately his lips were on mine. This was not what I had in mind when I came down here, but I wasn't about to fight him right away either.

I felt his hands slide down my waist and he lifted me up to get me closer to him. I couldn't stop myself from locking my legs around his waist and burying my fingers in his hair to keep him close. This was distracting me from what I had come down her to talk to him about, but he was just too irresistible.

When I felt his hands sliding under my dress and cupping my ass I knew that I had to put a stop to this, for now anyway. "Eric please, we need to talk." He moved his lips down to my neck and I could feel his fangs scraping along my skin. He was not playing fair, so I just blurted out what I needed to ask. "Eric, do you know that I'm part fairy?"

That was enough to snap him out of it. He set me down, but he didn't move away from me. He leaned in closer and inhaled deeply. Goosebumps covered my arms and a shiver went down my spine at that sensation. He pulled back and looked me in the eye. "You don't smell like a fairy?"

"What do I smell like?"

"You smell sweeter than a human, but not anywhere near as intoxication as a fairy smells."

"So you didn't know?"

"No I didn't know Sookie. How did you find this out?"

"From my Gran." I couldn't stop the tears that ran down my face as I told him everything that I had learned from my Gran today, that my whole life had been a total lie. "Now I have a grandfather named Fintan out there somewhere that I don't even know and I find out that I'm like crack to the vampires. I just don't know…" I was cut off by Eric pulling me close and attacking my mouth with his. I knew that I was rambling and this was the perfect way to get me to shut up.

He pulled away when he could tell that I needed to breath and cupped my face in his hands. "Everything is going to be all right Lover. You have been through so much in such a short amount of time. What can I do to help you feel better?"

"Will you just hold me for a few minutes until we have to get to work?"

He sat down on the bed and pulled me down onto his lap with his arms around me. "Lover, you don't have to work tonight if you are not up to it after what you've learned today."

"No, I want to work. It will help me to take my mind off of everything for a little while." I cuddled up as close to Eric as I could get for a few minutes until I realized I had something else that I needed to talk to him about and I might as well just get it over with. "Eric?"

"Yes Lover?"

"What is a blood bond?" I felt him tense up before he spoke.

"Where did you hear about that Sookie?"

I didn't know if Nessa wanted me to tell Eric about her, so I decided to keep this as vague as possible. "I have a friend who told me about it. She told me that if we bond it will help to keep me safe. What is it and what do we have to do?"

"It requires us to mutually exchange blood three times. After the third time we will be connected and will be able to feel each others emotions. We would also be able to influence each others emotions to some extent as well."

"Like you could force me to feel something that I didn't want to feel?"

"That's possible with some bonded couples, but I would never do that to you, I don't think that I could do that to you. Let's say for example that you were anxious about something, I could send you calmness through the bond to help you."

"Is there anything else?"

"By taking my blood you will feel different."

"What do you mean?"

"Vampire blood has healing properties to it. You would feel stronger and healthier than normal. You will also have an increased libido and would become more attracted to me by having my blood in you."

I smiled at that. "I really don't think that's possible. I already think that you're the sexiest man in the world. And everything else doesn't sound so bad. I think that bonding would be a good idea."

"Sookie, I want you to know the whole truth about bonding. Most vampires only bond to humans to be able to control them like a Renfield, but that wouldn't be how we would be. I care about you, probably more than I should, but I want you to think long and hard before you make a decision about us bonding before we do it."

"Do you not want to bond with me?"

He set me down on the bed and knelt in front of me. "I didn't say that, but Sookie if we do this I don't want you to have any regrets. I want us to do this because we want to, not because we are doing it to protect you or because someone else says that we have to do it. Okay?"

"Okay I guess."

"Sookie, I care for you very deeply. Whether you realize it or not you are already engrained yourself into my life and my heart and I like it. You are the sunlight to my dark world and I will do anything to keep you safe. I would bond to you right now and never let you go." I couldn't stop the fresh wave of tears that slid down my cheeks. "Please lover don't cry. It breaks my heart seeing you in tears."

"I'm sorry, I can't help it. I'm just so happy right now." I threw my arms around his neck and kissed him pouring every ounce of love and affection I had for him into it. I wanted to do more than kiss him right now, but I forced myself to pull away from him again knowing that we both had to get to work. "We really need to go upstairs now."

"I'm the boss, we can stay down her all night if we so choose to."

"As tempting as that is, I would like to earn my paycheck with old fashioned hard work."

"As you wish Lover." He stood up and took my hand as he led me upstairs.

I went with him into his office to get my purse so that I could fix my make-up. I sat on the couch and decided as I did that that I would also open my mouth and stick my foot in it. "Are you coming home tonight Eric?" The second the words were out of my mouth I wanted to pull them back in.

I looked over at Eric expecting to see anger or annoyance, but I saw that sexy smirk instead. "I think that that can be arranged Lover."

I smiled as I put my make-up back into my bag. "That would make me very happy." I stood up and walked over to his desk. "Would you mind if I kept my purse in you desk?"

"Usually you would have a locker, but I think that it would be better to keep it in my desk. We wouldn't want the wrong person going through it and finding out where you're staying now." He opened up his bottom desk drawer which I gladly accepted. I dropped my bag in there, gave him one last kiss on the lips, then went out front to get to work.

The rest of the night seemed to fly by. Belinda was very helpful in getting me accustomed to everything and Fangtasia was constantly busy. It was much easier here than at Merlotte's since there was no food to serve. Some of the customers tried to get a little grabby with me, but a growl and a glare from Eric set them all in their place.

By closing time I was several hundred dollars richer and I was happy to report that me feet felt as good as they had when I first put my shoes on earlier. I was going to have to pay Amelia another visit and clear her out of shoes.

I'd finished up my closing duties and had headed back to get my purse from Eric's office. I was hoping to see him, but he seemed to have disappeared. I knew that he hadn't left yet, so I decided to wait for him in his office.

I'd barely stepped inside when I heard the door close and lock behind me. Two very strong arms slid around my waist from behind and pulled me close to a very hard body. "How was your first night Lover?"

"Very good, thank you. It's a lot easier than Merlotte's and the tips here are a heck of a lot better too."

"Yes, the clientele here is very generous." He pressed his lips to the sensitive spot of my neck behind my ear and I was very close to melting against him. I was still charged up from work and with all of the sexual tension that had been in the club tonight I was feeling extremely aroused tonight. I wanted him to take me home and ravish me Viking style, but it wasn't time for that to happen yet.

While I had been lost in my thoughts I didn't notice that Eric had moved his hands down my body and was slowly pulling my dress up. His hands were on my bare hips and I couldn't stop the moan from escaping my lips, but I still begrudgingly pushed his hands away and my dress back down. "Eric we have to stop." There was no conviction in my voice, but I did try.

I turned in his arms and looked up at him. I could see the lust in his eyes as he gently pushed my back until I was up against his desk. "When will you finally yield to me my Sookie?" He reached up and traced his fingertips down my neck and I couldn't stop myself from trembling against his cool touch. "I know that you want me and I could show you pleasures that you've never even imagined."

This man had to be the devil with the amount of temptation that he was offering me. I was ready to rip both of our clothes off and let him fuck me right here, but this was not how that was going to happen. "Maybe now isn't a good time to be thinking about sex. What about my vision and Bill Compton? Did you find him?" I could tell that he was debating whether or not to tell me. "Eric, just say what you need to say, please."

He took a step away from me that I didn't care for, but I let him go. "My best trackers found him in a safe house just over the Arkansas border. It seems as if he's been spending quite a bit of time there in the past few weeks. It would also seem that he has been having quite a few dealings with the King of Arkansas, Peter Threadgill as well."

This was not good. Now not just one, but at least two vampire monarchs knew about me and what I could do. Did this mean that he was going to be coming for me too? How could Eric fight not one, but two states worth of vampires that wanted me? I would die if anything were to ever happen to Eric.

My concentration slipped as these thoughts ran through my mind and my shields that had been holding up better than ever all nigh crumbled into nothing. The few minds that were still here bombarded me and I couldn't handle it. My head started to spin and everything went black.