Chapter 33

Anna´s eyes widened at the feeling of his lips on hers. He was doing it again! And he probably didn´t even notice! But she was tired of struggling. So she just let Dracula do what he wanted to, without responding. The temptation to do so was big though.

After a while she wasn´t the only one anymore, who was tired. The princess felt a strong grip on both of her shoulders, that pressed her down on the bed.

Still his mouth hadn´t left hers. By then she couldn´t resist anymore. It was just impossible. Slowly her tongue found his while Anna´s arms wrapped around his neck on their own. It felt so good. And the fact that she wasn´t to do anything like this made her enjoy it even more.

The realization came after a few minutes. The two of them had only parted to take a quick breath but had hurried afterwards to continue kissing.

Anna pushed him off of her. He had gotten too heavy anyway. With an angry growl coming from the vampire he sat up and watched her get off the bed.

"What was now wrong?", Dracula asked as if he really didn´t know. She just wiped the forming tears from her eyes.

Then she turned back to him. "What was now wrong", she imitated him. "You know all too well what´s wrong so don´t play stupid with me!" Anna stamped her foot in anger, a thing she thought was ridiculous.

Dracula had no intention of walking over to her but instead another plan formed in his head. His princess was too much in rage to really pay attention to what he was going to tell her so he just tried.

"You don´t have to kiss me anymore as long as you don´t like to. But only if you take the deal I´m going to offer you", he made a pause to let her think but went on before she could reply: "You know just as I do that we both need to breathe. We´ll now kiss again and who breaks the kiss is the loser. When you win you get three wishes free and when I win I´ll give you three wishes."

He smiled to himself as he saw that she didn´t get the meaning of the deal. But he wanted her to get these wishes to make her more willing for games afterwards.

So the winner gets three wishes, Anna thought. Why not try it? At least she wouldn´t be forced into kisses again.

Anna walked back to the bed and took a few deep breaths. Without another word she did as he had done so many times before. They kissed passionately, but careful not to waste much oxygen on it. Dracula read her thoughts while kissing and would have liked to laugh out loud.

She repeated his words in her mind over and over and he already wondered why she didn´t need to breathe.

Suddenly as he opened his eyes after a longer time he saw how pale she looked. That was when she broke away from him and coughed. Dracula shook his head. This woman would kill herself to win only one of his games.

"Your wishes Anna...", he reminded her as she had stopped coughing and spent the next half minute catching her breath. Anna looked up at him.

Once more the vampire smirked. "Don´t look at me as if you´d seen a ghost! I said if I lose I´ll give you three wishes. So, your first one is?"

Still she stared at him dumbly. Of course he was right but... she just didn´t get the true meaning. Anna decided not to protest against his offer and asked shyly. "If you wouldn´t mind maybe I could... choose your next victim from my village?"