A/N I am so sorry about the long wait for this update, my mom has been in the hospital and real life has just been crazy, but everything is looking good now. I have already started the next chapter since this one is a little short and hopefully it won't take so long for the next update. Enjoy and leave me some review love!

Eric may be a thousand years old and a bad ass vampire sheriff, but he wasn't afraid to let and have fun with me. We were splashing and chasing each other around the pool. After the emotional roller coaster I'd been on today, it felt good to smile and have fun and not be glowing.

I knew deep down inside that we needed to cherish this moments while we had them. Things were going to change soon and not just everything with these mystery powers inside of me, but with all of the vampires that that loud mouth Compton had told about me. They were coming for me and that terrified me more than anything right now, but it was my safety that I was worried about. Who would these maniacs hurt or abduct to get to me? My Gran, Jason, my friends at Merlotte's, Eric?

Just the thought of something or someone hurting my Eric set off something primal and primitive deep inside of me. Eric was my lover, the love of my life and my mate. I would not be able to go on without him and I would stop at nothing to protect what was mine.

In that moment the playfulness that we'd been enjoying quickly turned into something primal and fueled by lust. The need to mark my mate with my scent and have him do the same to me in return was overpowering me. I needed, no we both needed this.

I swam up to Eric and wrapped myself tightly around him. "Eric?"

"Yes my lover?"

"If I asked you to do something for me, would you do it?"

"I will do anything for you, you just need to say the word."

I couldn't stop the smile that spread across my face. "Good because right now I need you to bite me and fuck me and rub yourself all over me. I want you to mark me in every way possible."

"My Love, you have had a long and trying day, I think that you need to rest now. I don't want you to get rundown and make yourself unwell."

"I feel better now than I ever have and I want everyone to know that I'm yours and you are mine. Please Baby, I need you to do this." I rubbed myself harder against him and I could feel his resolve slowly crumbling. With one last look into my eyes and a push of lust from me into our bond he was quick to run us both out of the pool and into the house.

Neither of us cared that we were dripping water everywhere, we just needed this connection and apparently we needed to establish it in every room of the house. We fucked on the counter in the kitchen, against the wall in the hallway, on the dining room table that I didn't even really understand was there, but didn't have the time or patience to ask about. We fucked on the sofa in the living room, in front of the unlit fireplace, on the stairs, in the upstairs hallway and finally in the light-tight bedroom.

It had taken us over two hours to get upstairs and I should have felt exhausted as we collapsed onto the bed, but instead I felt exhilarated. Eric's every touch and kiss just made me feel so alive and full of energy. Our connection was flowing strong and steady between us and it just made me want him all the more again.

Eric was lying on his back beside me and I couldn't stop myself from moving to straddle his beautiful, naked body. He smiled up at me and I could see that he wanted me again too, but I could feel the sun pulling to take my love away from me and I didn't like it. "Lover, you should get some rest now. The sun is coming up and I'll be dead for the day."

I leaned down and ran my hands up and down his beautiful chest. "I don't want you to die for the day." I pressed down against him so that he could feel how much I really didn't want him to die for the day even after all the times we had already fucked all over the house. "I'm not done with you yet."

"You are insatiable Lover. I'll be ready and willing for you to continue ravishing my at sunset."

"That's the best that I'm going to get, huh?"

"I'm afraid so." I could see that he was fading fast, so I quickly leaned down and kissed his perfect lips. "I love you."

"I love you too." And with that he was down for the day. I slid off of him and curled up next to him as close as I could get. I didn't feel tired, but I decided that I should rest anyway for nightfall.

Surprisingly it didn't take long for me to fall asleep, but that didn't last long. I was suddenly in the living room in my own house with Nessa. "Oh Nessa!" I couldn't stop from throwing myself into her arms. It had been too long since I'd seen her last in my dreams and right now I needed her more than ever. "I'm so glad that you are here. I have so many questions and I am so confused. Something is happening to me. I'm changing and I'm so frightened. I want to be brave for Eric, but I just don't know how to be brave right now."

Nessa reached up and took my face in her hands and gently hushed me and tried to get me to calm down. "Hush now, my little fairy, everything is going to be just fine. I know that you are confused now and have many questions and I will try to help you as much as I can in the coming weeks, but right now there is something that you must take care of right away."

"What is it?"

"Every monarch that Compton has told about you as also given him their blood. Normally all of the different blood would override each other, but he seems to have a special control over his blood to keep from doing that. He allowed himself to be captured so that they would know where to come and find you. They paid him handsomely for the opportunity, but none of them knows about the others. He wants them to come after you and take each other out in the process."

"What? Why would he want them to do that?"

"Because those are his orders. His maker commanded him to do this just as her maker commanded her."

"I still don't understand."

"Bill's grandsire is the oldest vampire in America. He's been king for over a hundred years, but he wants more than that now."

"Who is this vampire?"

"He's over 3000 years old, he's the king of Mississippi and his name is Russell Edgington."

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