Dark Desire – Chapter 24
At nine o'clock in the morning, Katy lay naked beside a sleeping vamp; she was beginning to understand the torture that Eric went through as he lay beside her for the last two and a half weeks. Her whole body was extremely aroused and aching to have him inside her. Her skin was super sensitive and set ablaze each time he casually brushed against her in his sleep.
She felt devastated and hurt, but she tried to tell herself that she was probably being unreasonable. Earlier, Eric had to know to know how badly she wanted him to kiss her, but he didn't. He just fell asleep, leaving her with a slow burning, but steadily building fire. It was hell laying here beside him; she felt like every nerve ending was alive with need for him. If he was human, she would have done her best to wake him up by any means she could, and have her way with him. But he was vampire, and she would have to endure the torture until sundown. She sighed heavily
"Why didn't he kiss me? He should have kissed me. One kiss; was that too much to expect?" she glumly told herself. Katy was in the midst of a big pity party. She felt sorry for herself, and she was getting worse by the minute.
Before the day claimed him, Katy had assured Eric that her blood bond still existed; it was waiting only to be awakened. Although a part of her was consumed with the fear that her bond may never be awakened, she still wanted him to make love to her. Except for the time she was without her memory, she never needed the blood bond to desire Eric. Now, especially after this morning, she needed his touch to assure her that he still wanted her that way too.
She loved Eric with her whole heart and soul, and for two months, she had been part of something that was bigger than either of them. The blood bond they shared was synergistic; it enhanced them; it made them more; it connected them in a way she never thought possible. He completed her, just as he made her feel she completed him. They had become a part of each other; they were as close as two separate beings could be without sharing the same body. She needed and wanted that connection, but she could live without it if she had to. Could Eric share eternity with her without a blood bond? At this moment, she just didn't know.
Last month, Katy told Eric of Judith's belief that two vampires could not stay together for very long unless one was an enthralled slave to the other. She firmly told Eric that she did not believe that. Katy felt that true love alone was enough to bind two vampires if they were willing.
Eric said he also believed that their love was enough too, but even as he said it, Katy felt through their bond that he was lying to her. She knew that In his heart, Eric actually believed it was only the strength of their shared blood bond, formed before her turning, that would keep them together forever.
Katy remembered the night the Magister and Nan Flanagan came to the palace with that disgusting pervert, Gaetano Califano. The Magister had wanted Eric to turn her over to Califano because it was thought that she had some knowledge of his sex trade business. The kind of business that supported her father, Richard and his father's sick proclivities.
She didn't know anything of course, but that didn't matter. At this delicate stage of human/vampire relations, any human who was even suspected of potentially having knowledge of such terrible things about a vampire was considered a risk. If what they knew got out, it could bring the whole vampire community down. Years of work toward equality with humans would be lost. As such, that human was a risk to all vampires and could not be allowed to live.
Katy had defused the situation when she told the Magister that she wanted Eric to turn her after they were married and promised a very large donation after her turning. Eric did not turn her on their wedding night because of the vicous attack that almost killed her and left her with amnesia when she finally awoke. The Magister was not a patient vamp. He wanted that donation badly. Also it was bound to get out that she had gotten her memories back, so the clock was ticking.
Even so, Katy believed that because the return of her memories did not automatically reawaken the blood bond she had with Eric, he would be reluctant to turn her for fear of eventually losing her. Eric had been devastated for months by the loss of his first love, Sookie Stackhouse. He sank into a deep depression. Katy knew that he did not want to go through that kind of pain again.
Katy would not consider having another vamp turn her. Having an intimate maker/child bond, which almost always included sex, with another vampire when she was committed to Eric was too loathsome to even contemplate. Even without the sex, she could not accept being bound to any vamp, other than Eric, as her sire. As a result, she knew the Magister would soon call for her execution to protect the kindred from scandal. It wasn't personal; it was his job.
Worse yet, even though there was not enough proof to condemn Eric to death for killing other vampires, she knew that Eric would die anyway trying to protect her. For both their sakes, Katy believed that reawakening her blood bond was as necessary to their future happiness together as oxygen was to her mortal life right now.
Katy's mind left those morbid thoughts behind as Eric stirred in the bed beside her; his bare, strongly muscled hips brushed up against her side as rolled to the other side facing away from her. The desire to run her hands down his taut butt and slide her hand up between his legs to touch his testicles was overwhelming. It made her breath come in short little gasps, so she slid over, creating an empty space between them.
Eric had once told her that vampires didn't dream. That had made her laugh when he said that. She had often lain awake beside him many days while he moved sensually and talked in his sleep, making love to her in his mind. "If you weren't dreaming, what were you doing?" she had asked him, but he had no answer. Katy reveled in those moments, but Eric didn't believe her when she teasingly informed him about them.
"Impossible! Vampires don't dream. I don't remember ever having a dream!" he insisted.
Looking longingly at the body of the man she loved, Katy made her decision: if she couldn't have him, she was going to give him one hell of a wet dream. Maybe that would relieve some of the sexual tension she now felt. She tuned on her side and scooted closer until she was cupping his backside with her body. She put one long, slender leg over his and slid her arm around his naked chest, touching his bare skin with her hand. Eric murmured something in his sleep.
Grazing his nipple with her fingernails, she felt it harden. Impulsively, she stuck out her tongue and begun to trace his right shoulder blade as she ran her hand down the hard muscles of his abdomen. God, how she loved the feel and the taste of him.
Drawing her hand back, she spit several times into her palm and made a fist. She moved that fist down his belly until she found his flaccid manhood. Opening her hand, she encircled his flesh with her damp hand and began to stroke up and down. His penis sprang alive instantly in her hand. Eric cupped his big hand over hers and held it there as she moved hers slowly up and down and over the sensitive tip. He groaned and clasped her hand tighter.
"Oh yes, my love!" she whispered to him.
With her lips moving against his back, Katy could could feel ripples of pleasure under his skin. Eric mumbled her name again and uttered words both in English and in his native tongue. Katy had heard all of those words many times before when they were making love.
After a minute or two, he rolled back to face her, pulled her naked body close to him and moved his own naked thigh high up in between hers so that her now wet sex made contact with the hard muscles of his upper leg. His fully erect shaft lay high against her stomach almost touching her breasts. Katy made a little tunnel with her hand and placed it around his shaft, caputuring it against her stomach. She was breathing hard by now. With his arms behind her back, holding her close, Eric began to undulate his long body, sliding his penis up and down against the bare skin of her belly and stomach through the tunnel of her still damp hand. He jerked a little and softly murmured his words of love.
With her other hand Katy found her clit and rubbed herself, moaning softly as lust flashed through her body like lightening. Eric was still sound asleep, but the vamp, who insisted he never dreamed, was definitely having a very erotic dream now and enjoying it very much, too. His lips smiled happily over his extended fangs as he softly, but clearly continued to talk in his sleep, mumbling her name.
She moved a little higher, slipped his hardened erection inside her wet channel, wrapped her arms around him, moved her leg high onto his hip and began to undulate with him. Within mere moments, Katy's breath was coming in harsh gasps, she was starting to shudder and sweat as sweet tension coiled tightly in her lower stomach. She began to moan loudly against his chest. It took Eric a few more seconds to wake up and realize what they were doing; it wasn't even ten o'clock in the morning.
"Can't keep your hands off me, can you, my wife?" he laughed sleepily as he pulled her under him and began to rock to an ageless rhythm. As he sank deeper into her with each stroke, Katy had a difficult time catching her breath.
As he moved within her, Eric felt wild and frantic in his frenzied lust for Katy, but he held himself back. It was such a strain on him, his whole body shook with the effort. He desperately wanted to bite her over and over, drink her sweet, wonderful blood, and fuck her so hard she lost all conscious thought of everybody and everything, but him. He was afraid to let himself go. He was sure that if he did as his vampire instincts urged, he would hurt her, possibly kill her, by being too rough.
For a few minutes their lovemaking was was deliberately slow and tender, but Katy had other ideas. She wanted him fast and hard, so she bit him hard on the shoulder. Her action caught Eric by surprise, and his orgasm fairly exploded into her as Katy greedily sucked his blood. Katy moved her head to the side in a timeless invitation. "Bite me," she pleaded.
Eric did not need a second invitation; he bit down on the artery in her throat and drew hard against the two small openings made by his large fangs. Katy screamed with pleasure and convulsed hard into her own orgasm. Reaching a second, even greater climax, Eric arched his spine, reared back and growled deeply. The sound seemed to rumble on and on through his chest as he spewed his essence into her. His climax seemed endless, pumping out in wave after shuddering wave while the walls of her vagina greedily clamped and pulsated strongly around him, milking his shaft even more. "Ahhhh!...Gods! Katy, my lover! Please, help me!" he groaned as his body shuddered violently in her arms.
In the low lamp light, Katy could see Eric's lips were drawn back and his fangs were bared in a grimace with the strain of his long orgasm. His mouth was covered with her blood. That excited Katy in a way she couldn't even begin to describe.
"Don't stop!" she begged. Eric complied. He moved downward and struck as fast as a cobra. He bit down hard into the femoral artery on her upper thigh and began to suck, moaning and growling even more deeply as he did. Katy keened out in a long low howl as every nerve ending in her body burst into a wonderful flame.
She began to lose it as her mind began to thrum. The powerful yet exquisitely erotic sensations that Eric's mouth made as he sucked and drank deeply of her blood were almost too much to endure. Katy felt light headed; she felt like swooning. She felt as if her skin would explode from pleasure. She felt as if her heart would burst with joy.
After a minute, Katy felt a strong pressure in her mind. She felt as if something cracked and then burst, leaving a wide open channel to her soul. For a few seconds, her mind felt empty, but it felt so good at the same time.
Without warning, Eric's feelings exploded through the channel in her mind like an atomic bomb. The iron wall that stopped her from feeling her blood bond completely dissolved and then was gone. Eric's passions and emotions were strong, deep and so primal that Katy gasped from their intensity. His love and raw need for her filled her up completely. They both knew in the same instant that she felt him again. Katy's heart and mind began to sing; Eric's heart and mind joined in that song.
Afterward, Eric rocked her back in forth in his arms, "You've come back to me, Katy! You've finally come back!" he crooned over and over.
Eric's body was bone weary; the day pulled at him, but his mind was active. He was too happy and too excited to go back to sleep. Katy began to tell him about her memories of their formal wedding in New Orleans. Her words began to calm him as he stroked her back and her arms.
After Eric had fallen asleep after dawn on New Years Day, Katy moved herself to the adjoining bedroom. She didn't want him to see her as she got ready for the formal wedding later that night. She didn't want him to see her wedding dress until she walked down the grand stairway at La Maisson's.
Eric had known about her decision to sleep in the next bedroom and protested this for days. He complained loudly that he didn't sleep well without her in bed beside him.
"Don't be such a baby, Eric." she teased. "It's bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the wedding."
"But we are already married, my wife," he complained petulantly that morning.
Katy stubbornly insisted on having her way. She woke up around three in the afternoon on New Years Day at the sound of a knock on her door.
"Come in," she called and Sookie Compton walked into her temporary bedroom. She was carrying the gown and shoes that she planned to wear that night.
Katy had asked both Judith and Sookie to act as her Matrons of Honor for this wedding. It was a task that both Sookie and Judith Vardamon looked forward to. Sookie was truly happy for Eric and her new friend, Katy Dumont, now officially Katy Northman.
After sharing a big breakfast, Sookie helped Katy with her hair and makeup. Katy was sitting before the mirror on her dressing table when Judith walked into her bedroom after sundown. Katy was clad only in a lacy ivory bra and matching panties. Ivory silk hose, encased her slim legs and ended high up on her firm thighs. She didn't need garters to hold them up, but she wore them for tradition anyway. Judith was already fully dressed in the gorgeous blue designer gown they had both picked out together.
Sookie got dressed in her own designer gown of the same color, but different style, as Judith helped Katy's into her wedding dress and took care of the finishing touches for both Katy and Sookie's toilette.
Since Katy had been married once before, she chose not to wear a veil for this wedding. Her hair was arranged simply in a french twist, held in place by several diamond studded hairpins.
Judith lent Katy a pair of diamond earrings that matched the beautiful diamond necklace Eric had bought for her a week before. Sookie gave Katy a pair of delicate blue lace garters that looked sexy against her toned thighs and ivory silk hose.
After she was dressed, Katy turned to her two attendants, "You both look so beautiful," she said as she handed them each a small box. Inside each box was an exquisite twenty four carat gold bracelet inlaid with pearls, sapphires and diamonds that elegantly spelled out the name of each woman. Each bracelet was different, Katy had them designed especially with each woman in mind. Since the sapphires matched the dresses they were wearing, Katy helped each of them slip the bracelet around their wrist.
In the master bedroom, Pam helped Eric dress for the wedding. Eric had asked Pam to stand up for him as his Best Woman; he told her that he never considered anyone else. Pam was not an emotional vamp, so she never let him know that she cried after he asked her; she felt proud and honored.
Eric was dressed in a dove gray tuxedo and a blue cumberbund that matched the color of Pam's elegant dress. It was the same color blue as Judith and Sookie's gowns, but cut into a style that flattered her own small, buxom figure.
For some reason, Eric was as nervous as a cat tonight. He fumbled with his bow tie so much that Pam had to tie it for him and help him get into his cumberbund. She laughed delightedly at her maker as his hands shook so bad, he couldn't clasp his platinum and diamond Rolex watch around his wrist
"What are you so nervous about, Eric? You are already married, remember?" she teased him.
"I know, but this one is the one that is important to Katy. For her, this is the "real' marriage ceremony. I don't want to mess this up," he said. Then he ranted as he couldn't find his dress shoes.
Pam sneaked into the bedroom next door and asked Katy if she knew where Eric's shoes were. "I think he put them in my closet. He said he wouldn't forget them, if he put them there." Katy laughed happily as she told Pam where to find them.
"Men!" Pam snorted as she turned to go.
"Wait a minute, Pam." Katy said to her. "I know it's not usual for the bride to give the Best Man, or Best Woman in this case, a gift, but I want you to have this." Katy gave her a small box. It contained a bracelet similar to what she gave Judith and Sookie; Pam's name was spelled out in the gemstones. She helped Pam put her bracelet on too.
"I am glad you are marrying Eric, Katy. I am so happy that you will let him turn you. You are good for him; he needs you. I am happy to be your sibling," Pam said as she hugged the human woman that she hated so violently just a few short weeks ago.
Kate hugged her back. "Don't let Eric out of the bedroom for at least ten more minutes, please, Pam. Judith, Sookie and I have to get into the limo before he opens the door. I don't want him to see my gown until I come down the stairs at La Maisson's," she told the small blonde vamp conspiratorially.
Sookie had come close, so Pam gave her a big hug too. The two women had been close friends once before and would be again, hopefully. For the past couple of weeks, they each had been sending out tentative feelers to the other, trying hard to rebuild that relationship.
"You look beautiful too, Sookie. I never told you how glad I am now that you are with Bill. I wanted you so much for Eric, but seeing Eric and Katy together made me finally realize that you and he were not meant for each other. Bill is your destiny, just as Katy is Eric's, I firmly believe that now," Pam softly told her friend. Her words were from the heart, and they meant a lot to Sookie; she held Pam a little tighter when she hugged her back.
Forty five minutes later, Judith, Sookie and Katy stood in a small room off the landing of the grand staircase at La Maisson's. Daniel walked up and folded Katy's hand over his arm and began to walk with her to the head of the staircase.
Since she had no family left, Katy had asked Daniel to give her away. In the two months she had known Daniel and Judith, they had become her best friends. Daniel was thrilled with her request.
Katy was shaking inside as the wedding march began to play. Sookie, followed by Judith began to walk elegantly down the white carpeted stairs, each holding a bouquet of blue flowers.
"Ready?" Daniel smilingly asked Kate. She nodded, and the two of them followed.
As she moved slowly down each step, Katy caught Eric's eyes as he looked up at her. He was smiling at her; the love that so clearly shown on his face, made her heart speed up till she thought it would burst with her own love for him. In no time at all, Daniel handed her off to Eric, and she was standing beside him, facing the minister who was to perform the ceremony.
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here in the sight of God …... " Katy held her breath as the minister recited the old fashioned wedding rites. She held her breath again when he stated "If anyone here knows any reason why these two should not be wed, let them speak now, or forever hold their peace..."
It was only when the minister pronounced them husband and wife, that Katy felt well and truly married. She gave a big whooping yell of joy before Eric grabbed her and kissed her deeply to the cheers of the invited guests.
While more than five hundred invited guests entertained themselves in the huge reception ballroom, Katy and Eric and their attendants stayed and posed for pictures for what seemed like an eternity. Finally, they moved into the ballroom to join their guests.
For their first dance as Mr. and Mrs Eric Northman, they danced to "Love is the Foundation." For the second dance, Eric turned Katy over to Danie, and he danced with Pam. The couple danced every dance after that with the invited guests. Katy had to try hard to hide her revulsion when the Magister took her in his arms for a waltz. "I'll see you two young lovers later," he leered at her.
Katy drank lots of champagne and managed to get some food down while Eric and the other vamps sipped on Royal Blue. The evening was hectic, but they managed to spend a little time at each table as a professional vamp photographer followed them, recording their every move.
The wedding reception was still going strong when Eric and Katy left La Maisson's in his limo at midnight. They planned to have a few hours to themselves before the vampire ceremony at the palace at four. Eric had rented the hall till dawn, and the food, liquor and blood would flow freely till then. It looked like many of the guests planned to take full advantage of that fact. Most of the guests did not see the bridal couple as they quietly slipped out a back door.
Only Pam, Daniel, Judith, Bill, Sookie and the vamp guards were supposed to know that Eric and Katy planned to slip out early. Katy was laughing happily as she and Eric walked in the back door of the palace. The palace seemed unusually empty, and that suited the two of them just fine. They didn't want an audience for what they planned to do.
"I have to pee bad. I'll meet you upstairs in a minute, Mr. Northman," she told Eric as she rushed to the bathroom on the first floor.
"I'll be waiting, Mrs. Northman," he laughed as he flew up the stairs to the master bedroom.
Katy had finished her business and washed her hands. A piece of the paper towel had caught in the clasp of her diamond bracelet and she was looking down trying to dislodge it when she heard the bathroom door open behind her. She barely had a chance to look up before Tiffany and Ralph attacked. Then the pain began.
As she lay in Eric's arms now, a fresh memory of the pain she endured and the terrrible fear and heartache Eric endured for these past two and a half terrible weeks, exploded inside Katy's mind and made her tremble with hatred and fury.
'I'm glad you killed those bastards," she told Eric again. She snuggled up against him. They both fell into a peaceful sleep.