Dark Stranger by Sizemore Susan

Author:Sizemore, Susan [Sizemore, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, General, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781439165805
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2009-10-27T07:00:00+00:00

26

When they were completely sated and totally exhausted, he collapsed on top of her with a muffled “Oomph.”

Even the heavy weight of him covering her was wonderful; warm and reassuring.

She held him close and ran a hand over his shaved head and down his back, thinking, Making love to this man is the only mistake I haven’t made lately.

“Oh, it’s a mistake, all right,” he answered her thought. “Not that I regret it,” he added before her heart could sink. And then he yawned loudly. And fell asleep instantly.

“Men,” Zoe complained. And smiled into the darkness.

Her man.

Her vampire?

She was embarrassed now about her initial visceral reaction to discovering his ethnicity. It had been a primal response fed by all the old myths and misconceptions bubbling up from her subconscious along with the fear that drove those myths.

Fear and fascination. She was still powerfully drawn by the fascination—

But fear?

She stroked her hand down his back, the gesture completely comfortable, completely possessive.

He’d told her he was from a Dark Star world, a pleasure planet. Now she was certain he’d meant Solsangre.

Solsangre. It was a beautiful word; it meant “Blood Star.”

Long ago the vampires, who claimed they were a human mutation, born rather than made, with supra-human powers and problems, had left the homeworld to found a colony where their own culture could thrive.

They weren’t the only ones. Many ethnic and religious groups founded separate colonies in the early days of human expansion after the Bottleneck and Second Genesis aroused the hunger to spread the species as widely as possible so that they’d never come so close to extinction again. Cultures and histories had been reclaimed and explored. The resulting diversity of human settlements made the Empire stronger in the long run, though there had certainly been bloody conflicts early on. There were good reasons for the existence of the Imperial navy and marines and a long tradition of government intervention to keep human groups from killing each other.

And with this interspecies war dragging on, Imperial forces were spread thin fighting aliens instead of peacekeeping; the stress of the outside threat was causing some of the old conflicts to bubble up again when it should have been a completely uniting force.

In the early days of the expansion the vampires had settled on a world under a very different type of star than the one Terra orbited. One where daylight cast by a giant red star did them no harm. They still needed blood, but they’d brought domesticated animals with them as a blood source. There were also plenty of normal humans who left Earth with the vampires and settled Solsangre with them.

Along with the human settlers there were also humans who traveled to Solsangre expressly to experience the erotic pleasure that vampires gave in exchange when they fed on blood.

Over the centuries, Solsangre had become not only the vampires’ feeding ground, but a world known for providing every form of entertainment and delight anyone could wish for. Because the vampires downplayed their involvement

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