Forbidden Alliance: A Werewolf's Tale (Forbidden Alliance Trilogy) (44 page)

Deep breaths.
Deep breaths.

“Go for a walk,” I
whispered, my attention
up the stairs
.

“Why?” d’Artagnan laughed
.
“You don’t want us to hear you cry like a
bitch
when she breaks up with you?
Who in their right mind
would want to be with a vampire
? Let alone, a
vampire whose sister just tried to eat her?
It
’
s rather funny if you think about it.”

Steffen punched him in the arm, smashing him
into
the wall.
“Outside,
D
,” he
strongly
suggested
, gripping on
to the back of d’Artagnan’s neck.
“Don’t let her say no,
Tanis. I
f you love her, make sure she knows that you do.
Every relationship has issues and obstacles to overcome.”
He forced a smiled and escor
ted my arsehole brother outside
with Romeo.

I
had
to talk to her
and try
to explain
…what
,
I wasn’t entirely sure.
How
would one
explain to someone, with
sound reason, why
their
sister just tried to kill them
…tried to eat them?
There
wasn’t
one.
The only thing I
could
do
was
brace myself for the slap, or possible punch and knee to the bollocks, and apologize as she
ran
out the door screaming that she hate
d
me and never want
ed
to see me again.

That would be
what a sane person would
have done
.

I knocked on my bedroom door but she couldn’t hear me over the ster
eo
.
Joss Stone, one of my favorite
s
of
that
decad
e, was playing
and the shower was running.

Nervou
s,
I headed
to
the ba
throom and knocked on the door
.

A
gain
, there was
no answer.

Either she
was
deaf or
dead
…I was hoping for deaf.

“
Miss Jay Dee?
” I
called out as I popped
my head in the bathroom.

“Hey, how was your day?”
Jay Dee
cheerfully
aske
d; s
he sounded completely normal.

“Er…good, until the last half hour
,
then it kind of went to shite
,” I admitted. “
Are you
well
?”

She opened the showe
r door and popped her head out
.
“You mean aside from the fact that your sister tried to eat me and your brother had to give me CPR, and I’m pretty confident that the rat bastard grabbed my boobs a lot more than needed, yeah I’m fine.”

No.
This
is not
right.
She must be in shock.
After all, she was hunted down like some kind of animal, almost became m
e
sister’s mid-day snack, drowned, died for
a few minutes, got felt up by m
e
brother…yes, she is in shock.

“
Miss Jay Dee
,
we need to talk.”

She gave me a look. “I thought we agreed that formalities were only to be used when in public.”

I nodded.

She dramatically sighed
.
“
Oh I see.”

“I
was praying that you would
,” I whispered.

“We can talk but only
if you come here
first
,” she said, sounding irritated at me.

“What
?
” I asked
and backed up against the wall
, instinctively putting my hands over my bollocks in case she was going to play foot to balls with my boys.

“Ar
e you scared of me?” she asked
, then
nervously
chewed on her bottom
lip
, waiting for my answer
.

I
snorted.

O
f a
ll the things to think and say
…
maybe she is nutter after all
.

“Why would I be scared of you?
” I demanded. “
You should be scared of me
! O
f me family, of what we are and who we are!”
That was it, I
completely
I lost it.
“
Me
sister tried to kill you
!
Yet
you
do not
seem too terribly upset about it.
You seem more
narked
that me brother saved you, which I admit
I am narked about it as well
...
not that he saved y
ou but that he had to save you
..
.
Do you have absolutely no cognizance of the danger I put you in, by simply being what I am?
!
”

Now I was
yelling
like a daft arsehole.

“Because of
me you could have been killed,
” I reminded her. “Killed
because
I am
a
bloody
vampire
!
Does your need for self-preservation not exist at all?
You need to stay away from me,
Miss
Jay Dee
. I am
not good for you.
You deserve better, you deserve to be safe, and as long as
you are
with me, and as long as I love you,
you are
going to be in constant danger!”

Through
t
he water dripping from her hair
, and
rolling down her face, I could see the tears.

“So
that’s it then?” she whispered
, sounding more disappointed in
me
than anyone ever had
.

No
.

Y
es
.

S
ure
…
maybe
.

I
really do not
want to be
lieve m
e
own
bollocks
.

“So it seems,” I whispered, and with those words, my heart felt as if it were breaking in my chest.

Jay Dee nodded.
“
That sucks.
Can
I
at least
have a kiss goodbye?” she
asked and
batted her lon
g,
black lashes at me
, and a small smile pulled at the corners of her full lips
.

What can a snog hurt?
My heart, my soul, my reason for happiness….not a lot
.

“
Of course
,” I reluctantly agreed and closed the distance between us, not registering that she was in the shower, naked, and that a simple snog could cause
a
major problem to arise.

I stood in front of her,
minding to maintain eye contact
, and the warmth from her body, her very presence, consumed my senses and my body felt many degrees warmer all of a sudden.

“I’m sorry that yo
u feel that way,” she whispered
and wrapped
her arms around my neck
before pulling her fingers
up into my hair.
“You see, I was under the impression that you liked me, like really liked
me, and even possibly loved me
…especially considering you just said that as long as you love me blah, blah, blah…I couldn’t really hear the rest
over
my breaking heart.
”

Her large black eyes
worked
over my face many times.

“
Tanis,
I’m not very good at this type of thing.
You have to remember, I’ve only kissed one person, and I’ve only
loved
one person.
And to think of him just giving up like that, simply because his sister tried to turn me into an all-you-can-eat-Jay-Dee-buffet, and your brother t
ried to play grab ass, again
… Tanis,
none of that matters to me.
You
’
re all that matters.
”

Softly she brushed her lips against mine,
and
the heat and intensity pulsating under their velvety soft surface made my head swim and my body scream for me to touch her, feel her, hold her, taste her, experience her in ways
I’ve never known before
.

So of course,
I started to push her away
.

Jay Dee pulled me to her mouth and the kiss deepened, and I
couldn’t deny my heart
any longer
. M
y arms wrapped around her naked
form
, and she pulled me in
to
the shower with her.

“I love you,” she whispered against my lips, and it made me want her that much more.
“Age, species…crazy siblings,
money grubbing whore wife,
none of that matters as long as we have each other. And if you are willing…if you can love me despite all of my pack and tribe drama, I can easily overlook your vampiric and family drama.”

“You are completely nutter,” I whispered against her lips. “But I have waited more than three hundred years to hear those words.”

Passionately we kissed
. My
hands
worked
over her
wet body
, committing each curve to memory.
She pulled my shirt over my head, dropping it to the shower floor,
before her
lips
started
working down my neck and across my shoulder.
Her fingers traced over
the planes of
chest
and stomach, each caress
left a
hot
,
searing sensation under my skin.
Jay Dee
unfastened my belt
while
she
kissed
down my chest and stomach,
teasingly
biting the front of my hip.

My hands knotted in her hair.
“
Do not…
please
,
stop
,” I softly growled through clenched teeth.

“Sorry,” she whispered, her breath caress
ed
my skin and
caused
my body to shiver with desire.
“I
…
I
…
I’m sorry,” she
stammered.
“I didn’t mean to, I mean I thought…I’m sorry.”

She
quickly
stood and started for the shower door, but I grabbed her hand and pulled her into me
with such
force that her body
smashed
into mine, causing my
trousers
to drop aro
und my ankles
. Her
firm breasts pressed against my chest
more and more with each labored breath that left her swollen lips. Every
inch of her body
was
pressed against mine
, and never had I felt more love
d
and complete then I did at that moment.

Never did I image that we would be standing in my shower, she completely naked and me barely clothed and with an erection that there was no denying. It
was nice, lovely
even
,
and
mind numbingly erotic
…

I
needed
more.

My eyes
worked over
her face many times
. H
er expression pained me yet excited, enticed, plea
sed, and warmed me all at once
:
confusion, regret, love, sadness, anticipation, pleasure
, fear
of rejection
…