Vampire Next Door by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Format: epub
Published: 2010-02-13T07:21:55+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

SEDUCING THE VAMPIRE NEXT DOOR

The sun set in a fireball of blazing crimson. And with the dying sun, the August heat finally gave up and relinquished its hold on the day. Tori sat on her back porch and stared at the romantic sunset.

Summer, she thought with a sigh. A time of long hot days and steamy nights. A time for a summer fling. Problem was the object of her potential fling seemed perpetually obtuse.

Her gaze flew to the brick wall of the neighboring house. She frowned. Not only was her neighbor a little dense when it came to affairs of the heart. He was also technically...well...dead.

And that was only the beginning of the problem, she thought. Though Rudi was plenty neighborly, he'd even saved her life a couple of times, romantically he didn't seem to know she existed. And it didn't help that her mom repeatedly asked how Mr. Alexandrov was--like she was interested. The situation was intolerable ... to use one of Rudi's words.

Well, if Mr. Alexandrov thought she was going to be the next door neighborly equivalent of a little sister he had a surprise coming. Fortifying herself with another sip of chilled Chardonnay, Tori prepared to seduce her next door neighbor.

Like an athlete preparing for the Olympics she'd planned for this night. She wore a flame-red and very revealing sundress. It showed what she had to offer well enough, she thought. One couldn't be too subtle with Rudi.

Tori stuffed the rest of the bottle of wine back into the ice bucket and stood up. "Here's to nothing," she said aloud, surveying the scene. She'd washed the patio furniture and placed a pot of red geraniums on the table. Her mother's silver ice bucket stood between the two chairs. Mercifully she hadn't asked why Tori wanted to borrow it. Two wine glasses waited on the table. Tiny tea lights in red candleholders glowed with a brilliance to replace the lost sun. Her patio looked like a scene out of a decorating magazine, alluring and romantic. All she needed now was a man.

She glanced back at the neighboring yard, where she hoped Rudi would soon be appearing. Rudi kept his garden in far better shape than hers, even though he never saw it in the daytime. Even from her patio she could smell the heavy perfume of his roses. His obsession with fine things and beauty left her feeling like she lacked something essential. Something other women instinctively knew that eluded her.

But none of that mattered tonight. Because in a few short moments she intended to have what she wanted. Rudi.

A sluggish August breeze blew through her backyard. In one of Rudi's fruit trees she heard the squeak of a robin retiring for the night. Nothing else stirred on Rudi's property. Perhaps he intended to sleep late this evening?

Well, she could wait. She worked in management. She knew how to plan a project and how to execute it. Rudi was a project like any other, she reassured herself. An unpredictable, maddening project, yet one that could, with a little imagination, be managed.

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