Strawberry-A Vampire Romance by Lena Fox

Author:Lena Fox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vampire, romance, paranormal romance, steamy, erotic
Publisher: Lena Fox
Published: 2013-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Time began to blend together. I found myself sleeping during the day more often and staying up with Owen at night. He would feed me then feed from me, coming in as a monster, and leaving as a man. I grew used to being mostly naked, like being a prisoner it was just a fact, but always found a sheet or towel to cover myself when Owen visited. Having the cuff now around my ankle instead of wrist made it a little more out of sight, out of mind. My thoughts and emotions grew so conflicted my insides were at war, those emotions spilling out, making me a teary, giggly, snappy, lustful mess. Mood change extraordinaire- that was me.

One night Owen brought me a simple but truly delicious meal of handmade ravioli filled with whole egg yolks, coated in sage and burnt butter sauce. He wandered out to the balcony, staring at the stars while I ate. When I finished, I followed him out, figuring it was his turn.

The silky white sheet I had wrapped around me trailed behind on the carpet.

Instead of biting me, Owen asked, “Do you swim?”

“Yes, I love to. Why?”

“You should go swimming then.”

He gathered me up in his arms, snapped the shackle off my ankle, and leaped to the top rail of the balcony. I started screaming, I wasn’t sure if vampires could commit suicide by falling to their death and I didn’t want to find out either. I did know I was very fragile and breakable even if he wasn’t. We took flight. Terror had me in its grip and I screamed all the way down.

His chest rumbled with laughter.

“You still do not trust me,” he said when his feet landed on the concrete below.

I was shocked that he could talk given that my arms were locked in a death grip around his neck. I could have killed him if he weren’t already dead.

“I trust you as much as a drunken frat boy, pulling stunts like that,” I snapped.

He laughed. Again it struck me how different he had become over the last week. His flashes of coldness still happened but he rarely seemed inhuman.

“Go, swim. Enjoy some exercise.” He nodded toward the water.

It was stunning, and I couldn’t resist wading slowly in. The sheet spread around me like a cloud and I let it drift away. My dark hair hung down over my breasts, covering them in the water. It felt longer than before, and I wondered how long I had been in this house, with the vampire.

The water was dark and blood warm, the moon up above sent spangles across the tiny little wavelets created by my movements. The flowers planted around the pool gave off a heavenly smell of rose and jasmine.

I swam over to the side where Owen had been sitting, watching me silently, and folded my arms on the edge.

The vitality of being immersed in water in this dreamlike setting left my philosophical.

“How do you see the world? Is it different to when you were human?” I asked.

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