The Vampire's Resolve (Fatal Allure Book 6) by Martha Woods

Author:Martha Woods [Woods, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

“Um, hi,” I say. “You’re awake. Was Alexis here?”

He shakes his head slowly. “No, not today.”

“So you know she’s been here?”

He shrugs. “Vaguely. I’m…not sure what was real and what wasn’t. I feel like I heard snippets of conversations here and there. Some very vivid. I…experienced things. I think I might have been dreaming sometimes. I don’t know.”

I feel heat rise in my cheeks as I think of the vivid sex dream I had last night.

“Are you okay, Amy?” he asks.

My mouth falls open. “Am I okay?” I ask. “You’re the one who was injured, semi-comatose.”

He looks around at the evidence of my obsession with this case, then back at me. “I feel like I have been so selfish. I’ve been thinking about myself, protecting my own feelings and myself. I think I’ve been careless with your feelings, with you.”

“No,” I say. “No. That’s not true at all. If anything, I have been distant. I haven’t really opened myself up. I don’t know if I can ever be…good…for someone. You know?”

“We both come with baggage,” he says. “Mine are my biases. I have grown up hating creatures, all creatures. Vampires, werewolves…they were only things to be killed. And you shoved all of my shit into my face by loving him, by trusting him.”

“Him. You mean Vincent.” It’s not a question. “I didn’t mean to shove it, or him, into your face. I didn’t mean to hurt you. I would never purposely do that.”

“I know,” he says. “And it doesn’t matter. Not anymore. I love you. I know you love me, and I will take whatever you can give me. And if you need to love him, too, then I will learn to live with that. I just want to be with you.”

A lump forms in my throat and though I try to swallow it away, it grows until the tears well in my eyes and overflow onto my cheeks. “Damon,” I choke out. “I am so sorry. I’m so sorry for making you feel like you have to fight for the scraps. Like you always have to compete with him. I’m sorry.”

He reaches out and we hold hands across the table. He meets my eyes. “Amy, it wasn’t you. You gave me what you could. I just couldn’t accept that you could love him, too. But I don’t care about that anymore. Love him if you must. I mean…you are bonded to him and maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe it means that you’re protected. He will never let someone hurt you, if he can help it. I can’t hate him for that.”

“I don’t deserve you,” I say. I clear my throat. “Alexis, she’s…she’s into you. Maybe you should…”

“Amy,” he says. “No. She’s not…I don’t feel that way about her. I love you. I want you. Even if I have to share you.”

I sniffle for a while, finally saying, “I had this really vivid dream last night. That we talked and made love…”

He smiles at this. “I remember it. I came back because of it.

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