The Vampire and The Virgin by Rebecca Royce

Author:Rebecca Royce [Royce, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rebecca Royce
Published: 2018-04-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

He never called. He never sent roses again—although she wasn’t surprised about that, considering she had told him not to. For Essence, it was like Alec had never existed at all. Her body felt tight, as though her brain was fuzzy. What had she done that night in the park to make him not interested anymore?

She rubbed her eyes. Maybe it was what she hadn’t done. The whole virginity thing. She had no idea how to either seduce a man or how to respond to what might or might not be advances. She’d probably done something terribly wrong.

Essence grabbed her bag. She needed coffee and massive amounts of it, fast.

Over the last few weeks, whenever she was outside she had the strangest feeling that she was being followed. There was never a moment when she could put her finger on why, just like she had an itch on the back on her neck, as though someone watched her, someone followed. But when she’d turn around, there would be no one there.

Inside, she was fine—yet the second she ventured out into the world outside four walls, that feeling would start again.

The coffee place around the corner had a line. She stood in it patiently. If someone stalked her, they would be bored out of their mind watching her buy her daily dose of caffeine and quietly obsess over a guy she’d had two dates with three weeks earlier. This spoke to how completely ridiculous she was. Who had so little experience with men that the one guy who dated them exactly twice wrecked them for weeks?

She ordered her coffee and stepped back onto the street. Her neck itched. Someone watched her. She sighed. This was Manhattan. There were hundreds of people around at all times. At any given moment, someone could be staring at her.

Essence sipped her coffee. It was bitter, which matched her mood. This was why she never dated. She wasn’t smart when it came to…

She never saw the taxi coming when it plowed into her.

She never felt a thing.

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Alec woke up slowly, as he had nearly every day since becoming a vampire. Another night, endless darkness alone in the vast wasteland of the universe that would never again have color in it. He swung the blanket off his body. Although his body stopped all function during most of the day light hours, he insisted on sleeping on the best sheets and blankets.

His monster was close tonight. He’d have to feed a lot and it even might behoove him to leave

his town and go stalk someone in a park somewhere. He wouldn’t kill, but, he might play a bit. Giving the monster that much might silence the blood lust.

The phone rang, which jarred him. No one had phoned since Essence called last night . He hadn’t exactly felt like talking to anyone. In fact, he could go years without actually needing to converse.

Holding back the monster and feeding was a full time job. What had he been thinking,

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