The Vampire and the Virgin by Rebecca Royce

Author:Rebecca Royce [Royce, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-944060-59-6
Publisher: After Glows Publishing

The second set of roses arrived at her desk the next day while she worked on a brief. This time, the delivery person was less chatty. He dumped the roses onto the side of her computer and walked away.

Essence looked left and right. It felt like every woman in the whole office stared at her. She stood up and tried to pretend her cheeks weren’t bright red. A dozen roses yesterday and now a dozen today. She pulled out the card and wasn’t surprised when it wasn’t signed.

The quote said quite enough.

“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”

― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

Thank you for reminding me of this…

She breathed in to bring in the scent of the blood red roses. They were beautiful and romantic. And he’d once again quoted L’Engle to her. She shook her head. Why was he spending so much time on her?

When you do things you really do them over the top.

Once again she heard the woman’s voice. Only, she was at work, and she didn’t have time to be crazy right now. She sat back down at her computer. The roses were lovely and they seemed like they belonged to someone other than her. She couldn’t put her finger on exactly why she had that ridiculous thought.

Once was okay. Twice was a theme. And she wasn’t a roses girl.

Maybe he didn’t realize that. They’d had a very expensive dinner the night before. Perhaps he’d come to think that was the kind of thing she needed all the time. But, she didn’t and, at this point, she had no idea how to even process two dozen roses in two days.

She stared at her computer screen. The words seemed to blend together like she didn’t know how to read. Who cared about property law when there was Alec and his grand gestures? She stared down at her phone. Lunch seemed like a really good idea or at least a walk around the block.

The problem was, she decided as she exited the building, she could easily be swept away by him. She could close her eyes, and he could be a perfect kind of prince. Even though such a thing didn’t exist in real life.

Blood and sex.

Where had that thought come from?

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