I had been traveling for two weeks now and the symptoms hadn't gone away at all. The herbs caused constant mild nausea, so I didn't always eat very much. I did drink and then I had headaches and fatigue, but I didn't want to sleep because I knew I couldn't sleep without nightmares I was walking down the streets of Key West and I saw a real estate company as I passed by. I just went to look at the objects in the window and wasn't paying attention to my surroundings when suddenly arms wrapped around me and a voice next to my ear whispered " Are you going to be that naughty, my future wife? Buy a house without your future husband?" Damon. I just about fell into a heap because now at least I had someone for a moment. Damon noticed this and turned me to face him, accidentally touching one of the deep puncture wounds that hadn't yet closed. I gasped in pain. Damon furrowed his eyebrows and looked at me hard. He said, in a voice that wouldn't take no argument, "What the hell, baby, is wrong with you? You're pale, skinny, shaking and I could have sworn that wrapping my arms around you was a great relief. Start telling me." I leaned against Damon. I was so tired and I knew he was probably going to accuse me of murder too, which I was actually guilty of. I didn't know anything about anything. I didn't actually know how to judge when someone could or couldn't be saved. I had convinced myself, more or less, that Adam was absolutely right.

I said " Please, just give me a moment to enjoy it. Please. Because when I tell you, you'll know what a murderer I am and you'll reject me like Adam and Samuel. I'll get better eventually, believe me." Damon gave me a steady look and directed me to sit in his car. He got into the driver's seat and turned to me and said. "I've said time and time again I'm old, now start telling me, you can't surprise me, and well, start telling me and we'll see from there." I sighed for a moment, closed my eyes, and collected myself. And I told you everything. The look on Damon's face said it all. I saw his eyes squint and his mouth tighten, how he squeezed his rattle harder. I got ready for the sermon.

Damon looked at me and said " Baby, I ain't mad at you. Listen, just listen for a minute. I've dealt with witches and what they did to Ben can't really be undone and the victim can't live with it because he has no will of his own, period. You did exactly the right thing. You heard me. Exactly right. Now we're going to go to one house, it's my house here in Key West, and I'm going to put you up and see you all right, Mimi because you're really not all right. Then we go to the registry office and we get married and then we fly to Romania for our vampire wedding, that's right, it's all set up now, and when I just announce we're coming they, baby, happen. If even after that Adam doesn't want to talk to you or anything. We have each other. Always and forever. And Mimi forever is a very long time. Remember that. " Damon started the car and I pulled my seatbelt. We drove for 45 minutes until we came to the driveway of a large mansion.

Damon got out of the car and came to my side. I had just finished unbuckling my seat belt when he was already lifting me into his arms, I whimpered again. Damon put me down and said " Can you walk, I don't want to hurt you when I don't know your injuries. This was supposed to be your wedding present but you get it up front now, baby. I bought this quite recently." I didn't know what to say. I walked in and wondered and admired the grand lobby and the grand staircase, the perfect ceilings. Everything. The mansion was fully decorated and perfect came to my mind. Damon led me into one of the downstairs rooms with a slight frown. He sat me down on the bed and said "I haven't done a medbay yet, I wasn't prepared, but first I'll check you out and then I'll get the supplies. I have a pretty good selection here but I haven't bought any devices. Strip, everything off. Don't worry, I'm in doctor mode now" Damon had this bad problem with my nudity these days. He couldn't keep his hands off me. But if he's in doctor mode, so be it. I started to undress slowly because the bandages I had put on my wounds were always sticking to them, so I got some more. I got my clothes off. Damon came over to me and started to go over me carefully, feeling me through. He didn't touch the bandages yet.

Eventually, he motioned me to the bed and I sat down. He came in front of me and squatted down, then he said "Those bandages hurt, they're stuck and even though I know you'd tolerate me taking them off just like that, I won't. Now I'm going to get some medicines. A painkiller and a sedative, you'll probably fall asleep but that's okay because those wounds need a bit more treatment now. Then we need to figure out how to get those herbs out of your system. Now throwing up won't help because they're not in your stomach, but what we'll probably do is I'll eat you empty many times at first and it won't be fun, but then you'll eat me, and let's see if I can turn you around so that in this blood drinking, human blood cleanses, there's no food. In which case I or the rest of the pack would be your blood source when you need it. Now never mind what Bran has been ranting about Mirella and how your vampire side is good to be about non-existent. It's not good to be non-existent because it's part of you. But now, lady, I'm gonna go get some supplies and we're gonna treat those wounds first. I'll have to cut quite a lot of them but I'll see if I can get them to heal with my own blood. There's nothing to worry about now. Wait there." Fine wait then, because I knew that when Damon is really in doctor mode, he is ruthless as such, that he will treat me just as he sees fit and could even break my neck if I started arguing back. I was so tired, the herbs seemed stronger than I ever thought I would be. I had always sort of thought that they too would disappear from the body all by themselves, not apparently.

Damon soon came in with a big sports bag which he put on the end of the bed and started digging out bandages and medicines and needles and drip bags. I was tired, and exhausted but seeing all that made my panic flare up again and I started getting ready to run away. Damon noticed this and as if in passing jabbed an injection into my upper arm and said " Now I don't recommend you go anywhere because you won't get far. Sorry about the surprise attack, I was supposed to give you that first but I was left looking through these supplies. Well, go ahead and lie down, it'll work soon. Look at the tooth substances. It's got two dental materials so you know what my teeth do. " I sat still anyway and looked at what Damon was actually fishing out of the bag. I was getting even more tired and soon I noticed that Damon was already helping me lie down on the bed, and pulling the blanket over me. He stroked my hair long enough for me to fall asleep. I always felt something and tried to move. Then came another injection in my arm and soon I felt nothing at all.

When I woke up, I had a bloodlust and it was strong, but something heavy was lying on top of me and I couldn't move. Damon said " Oh you're awake. I've eaten you dry 22 times already, I'm still going. I know you're already bloodthirsty but let's keep going. He sank his teeth into my neck and started to drink, I could feel how quickly and efficiently he drained me, not that I was having a terrible time with the blood now. I always woke up for a moment just to feel the teeth on my neck. By the end, I was ravenously hungry and had already made several attempts to drink from Damon. He noticed and said " Come on. Soon, baby, soon you will and you will have to drink from me and lots of it. Many times. I'll always drink you dry. It will take time but your bloodlust will be preserved when I drink you dry. I'll know when you're ready." He continued many times. Then he came closer and released my hand. I grabbed his head and slammed my teeth in and started to drink. Damon's blood is strong, it tastes of power. Previously I hadn't been able to take it when sipping sometimes during sex but now I felt like I was drinking by the litres. Then I stopped. Then in a flash, he grabbed my hands and drank me dry. We did this probably 20-30 times until I drank 22 liters of Damon at once. My first attempt had been 8 decilitres. Then Damon got off me. I felt great. Strong. I could feel the herbs to some extent but it didn't matter. Mirella, miraculously, was still asleep in her coffin in my head.

Damon said "Now then, step two, let's go to the sauna. So you drink three liters of human blood and we go into the sauna, and you start sweating those herbs off. The human blood will help you with that. So this is where it starts, you drink from me or other supernaturals. Okay?" I nodded. We went to the spa which was actually downstairs and it was gorgeous. First I had to drink three liters of human blood, which now tasted very diluted and insignificant. Then we went into the bath and it was hot as hell. Soon I started to smell different herbs and I started to get itchy, I touched my skin casually and found that I was emitting a green sludge. Yikes. I took a shower every now and then to rinse, everything even my hair.

Damon had cut it short before we went to the sauna and now I understood why. My hair was about green. It should have been blonde, but with the herb pushing out everywhere, even my scalp, I was pretty greenish in the head. After the third wash, I was content to rinse because I knew it would soon be in the same condition. Eventually, the green stopped pushing and I was exhausted. For all the good feelings I'd gotten from Damon's blood, I'd sweated beautifully in the sauna. I washed myself thoroughly one last time and Damon came up behind me and bit me on the neck, growing my hair up to my ass. Then he took the scissors and cut the greenish tops off. My hair was dark red with bushy curls.

Then Damon came again and wrapped himself around me from behind in a very specific way. His hands found my breasts and nipples and I felt his hard cock against my back. I groaned, he pressed me against the wall trapping my hands with his own and spread my thighs with his leg, and pushed into me from behind with one hard thrust. He was rough and dominant. His huge cock moved inside me like a giant piston and I felt the climax approaching.

He took me to the top and fucked relentlessly through it. And again. It wasn't until the fourth time that he came to the top with me and exploded inside me. I felt his thick, warm, nourishing nectar of love flood inside me and begin to fill me. I could feel the heat spreading inside me and my orgasm seemed to never end. Damon sunk his teeth into my neck and ate naughtily so that I exploded again and felt my pussy milking the huge cock inside me. Heat spread all over my stomach and Damon rubbed his hand over his nectar inside me. Finally, the flood stopped and Damon pulled out of me, still hard. I asked wearily "Doesn't that ever go down?" Damon kissed me and said "No, not with you, it won't fall, baby. Come on let's go get some food and drink." I pulled on my bathrobe but I had something else on my mind besides eating, I was pretty well filled and I was not even that thirsty. I wrapped my arms around Damon and said " Are you really hungry, how about we find the master bedroom of this house and sanctify it?"

Damon smiled and said "Listen, baby, first we're getting married before we sanctify any more rooms. Now we're going to go eat and drink, then we're going to get dressed and go to the registry office, then after that, I don't know yet. We might as well sanctify this place a little before we go to Romania. It's a pretty special ritual then, baby. We'll spend the wedding night in the presence of witnesses, you'll be made a virgin again by a spell. Then there are some nice vampire rituals. You know. But don't worry. It'll be fine. Now we'll go eat and get dressed and soon we'll be married. Mimi salvatore. I like it, baby, and I like it a lot." We then went to the kitchen to eat and surprisingly Damon was able to stuff me with food. By the time we had stuffed ourselves, I was actually quite sleepy. We went into one of the bedrooms and Damon handed me a nightie and said "I think you need a good night's sleep first, don't worry baby, I'll be right next to you. Then in the morning, we'll be ready." I went to bed contentedly and Damon came in and held me tightly against him. I fell asleep in five minutes.