~~~~~Chapter 7: Revelation ~~~~~~
So, I know it has been a while since I have updated BUT I have been working on re-VAMPING the last two chapters to exclude all the fun stuff, or at least tone it down. So here is the beginning of the end. I do hope you enjoy, and please review if you would.
"A strip club?" I asked as we pulled up to Barely Elegant. There was a billboard for it right across the street from our hotel.
"Not quite, just follow my lead" Emmett said, as he opened the car door for me.
He gave the valet his keys and just as he was about to ask for money, two other vampires appeared. They were male and female, looked like they were turned in their early 20s. The male was tall, about two inches taller than me and had honey brown hair that flailed in every direction around his head.
Almost like Edward.
The woman was shorter than he was, she had long black hair and piercing red eyes. She was much chubbier than the male who was about average weight. They held hands as they walked up to us.
"It's ok Francis, these are my VIP guests" the male nodded to the valet.
"Bella, this is Jaymes and his mate Jessie." Emmett introduced us.
I shook Jessie's hand first. It was soft, but hesitant. She seemed to be almost angry or jealous of me.
"Bella" Jaymes whispered to me.
"How did you know my name?" I asked.
"I didn't, bella is Italian for beautiful." He smiled.
"Oh" I said as I awkwardly took his hand.
Just as I was shaking his hand I was hit with hundreds of scenes in my head. At first I was human and I met Jaymes in some huge building, I was on a laptop, it almost seemed like a school, a college maybe? Then he and I went out to eat, twice. The first time it was at an Asian restaurant, the other time we went to a burger place. Then I saw he and I at a small, cluttered apartment eating pizza and drinking beer. The next few scenes hit me so rapidly I stopped breathing for a few minutes. He and I were in this crowded apartment making love, taking showers together, I cooked for him, he was helping me solve a math problem, he crawled into bed and held me and we fell asleep next to each other, we made love everywhere in his apartment; on the couch, in his bed, in the shower and finally I was driving in a black Honda Element and watching him drive realizing that I was in love with him.
Once the visions left I shook my head and stared at Emmett. He only smiled at me.
"Come in, and welcome to our den" Jessie said. She was very soft spoken, but she led us into the strip club.
Emmett looked at me "He's a pretty creepy guy."
The strip club was very dimly lit and there were three stages. In the middle of the room there were stairs that led to an upper level, the VIP area the sign pointed out for me.
"Pick anyone you like, and have a good time" Jaymes said before he joined hands with Jessie and walked away.
"What the hell was that?" I asked Emmett
"He's a creep. His power is memory manipulation. He gives you these memories to make you feel comfortable around him. The first time I met him he showed he and I out hunting in Forks."
"How did you find this out?" I wondered.
"He did the same thing to me, shook my hand when I first met him and the day that I left L.A. he did it again, erasing all the memories."
I nodded, and scanned the room, my vampire vision adjusting to the dimly lit club. There was a pole in the middle of the club, a main stage, a VIP area in the upper level of the club and booths behind us. I shuddered to think about what went on there.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, here she is…Candy" the announcer cooed from behind the bar.
Coming onto the main stage was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, and smelled. She was about 5'11" and she had long black hair. She wasn't thin, but she wasn't fat, she was about average weight.
Her scent was very hard to describe.
It was like cinnamon buns and brownies and all of my favorite foods when I was human combined into one tantalizing scent. Her blood literally sang to me. I looked at Emmett.
"Whoa, Bells, your eyes just darkened. Smell someone you like?"
I nodded and glared at Candy. We sat down and the waitress asked us if we wanted anything, Emmett nodded a polite no thank you. I was entranced with Candy, the thrumming of her pulse singing to me as she danced faster and faster.
When she was finished dancing, she walked around the rooms to see if anyone wanted a private show in the VIP area. Emmett beckoned her over.
"Can my wife and I join you upstairs in the VIP area?"
I twisted the fake silver ring that he had bought for me on my finger. It felt so cold against my skin, because it wasn't the ring that I had been wearing for the last fifteen years.
" Sorry, the booths only have room for two."
He handed her three hundred dollars, and walked up behind me.
"Have a good time, I will be waiting at the hotel," he whispered in my ear.
I was shaky as I followed her up to the VIP booth. I sat in the red leather seat and she closed the curtain.
"Do you really want a dance, or do you want to feed from me?"
I wasn't sure how she knew that I was vampire, or that I really cared; I grabbed her waist and pulled her onto my lap so she was straddling me. She brushed her hair away from the right side of her neck. I felt her pulse thrumming behind her neck; it was like a drum, singing to me from all the way inside her. I licked my lips.
The last fifteen years, I had been good. I restrained myself to strengthen my bond with Edward and the Cullens in general.
But now he was gone, and the Cullens were almost two states away. No one was looking for me, no one was worried. It was my time to do something that I hadn't done in fifteen years, to lift myself free from my restraints. I slowly traced my lips up and down her neck, giving her goose bumps and without restrain or hesitation I sank my teeth into her delicate neck.