Chapter Two
Present Day
Lorena awoke and sat bolt upright in the bed. The sheets crinkled under her and her hair was pasted to her by sweat. The full moon was still bright and high in the night sky. She looked beside her in the king sized bed and saw that Micheal was still deep in slumber. She tried to slow her rapidly beating heart.
It's just a dream she told herself.
Ghostly quiet, she climbed out of the white satin sheets and walked to the French doors that led out onto a spacious balcony that looked out to the rolling hills, streams, and even the mountains in the distance. The night was far too dark to see them now but Lorena could hear the bubbling of the stream some miles away. As she looked out the glass of the French doors her reflection looked back at her. Her electric ice blue eyes stared intently at her. Her ink black hair that hung to the middle of her back was plastered to her and her body was slick with sweat and made her nightgown stick to her lean, lithe form. She couldn't help but hate her body. After all she wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her beauty. Every where she went, men watched her with hunger. Her body was perfect in every way, as though sculpted by a man. She let her thoughts roam and was startled when Micheal wrapped his arms around her thin waist.
"I didn't mean to wake you." She said, turning to him.
He shook his head and smiled at her.
"You didn't my love. I haven't been able to sleep. What is wrong Lorena love?"
His eyes, dark golden yellow, shined in the moonlight and his black hair fell across his eyes giving him a disheveled look. His body was toned like hers, lean and muscular. Sometimes it was easy to forget what they were and believe they were a normal couple.
"I had another memory." She spoke it quietly as though speaking it any louder would bring the terrible memory back.
"You vampires have a habit of that." He was messing with her, trying to make her smile. It worked.
"Yea well your half vampire so, you do too." Lorena couldn't help but smile as she said it.
Micheal mocked offense.
"Hey I'm half werewolf as well, so it's not as bad, but you" He made a disgusted face.
Lorena`s musical laugh filled the room. Micheal interrupted any further laughter of hers with a passionate kiss.