My Love Forever (The Night Movers Vampire Series Book 1) (10 page)

“What do you mean dad. I think it’s sweet that he’s driving us.” I wasn’t sure what dad was getting at.

“Oh you’ll find out soon enough. These ladies nights out are legendary. They make us men look like choirboys and from what Josh said the poor driver has his work cut out getting them all home safe.”

“Well I’m sure he will cope,” I said laughing. I saw Alex pull up in the minibus so I kissed mum and dad goodnight and went outside.

Alex got out of the vehicle and stood still when he saw me, his mouth gaping open.

“I brought and overnight bag with me Alex so should I just put it in the front with you?” I questioned as I strode towards him.

He hurried forward and took my bag and placed it in the front passenger seat before turning to take my hand and helping me up into the vehicle. He watched me buckle my seatbelt without saying a word to me.

“Is everything ok Alex?” I asked getting a little worried that I had offended him in some way. “You did say you wanted me to stay with you tonight when you called me last night?” I had begun to think his silence meant he had changed his mind.

He closed the door to my side and went round to the driver’s side. After he had got in and buckled up he finally turned to me and let out a deep breath.

“Julia,” his voice sounded husky but controlled. “You look absolutely stunning tonight. You are a beautiful woman anyway but to see you now, like this, I just want to take you back to my place and make love to you all night. I wanted to kiss you when I saw you just now but was afraid if I did I wouldn’t be able to stop and I don’t think that would have gone down well with your parents.”

“I’m not beautiful Alex,” I said with a laugh, “but I appreciate you giving my confidence a boost, and let me tell you, in those black Jeans and t shirt you look even more gorgeous than you normally do, so we make a good pair tonight.”

Alex took my hand and kissed it before saying, “we make a good pair always Julia, not just tonight.”

Maggie was our first pick up and she came out looking perfectly groomed as usual. She was going on for sixty now but didn’t look a day over forty. She was always so well put together and tonight was no exception. She wore a black and red bodycon dress with black high heeled boots and a black jacket. She was just gorgeous and I could only wish to look that good at her age.

Next was a lady called Moira who Maggie informed me worked in the canteen on Friday’s. She was at least seventy, with pure white hair, sparkly blue eyes and was really quite sweet. She promised to make me some cupcakes to celebrate my first week at work.

Next we picked up Gina, and Alex was absolutely gobsmacked when he saw her. I had met her in the hairdressers earlier and seen her transformation from shoulder length strawberry blond hair to a baby blond short style cut into the neck at the back but with a little length on top. She wore a black pencil skirt with a vibrant pink blouse that showed off her ample cleavage, and super high black stilettos that made her legs look long and lean. She looked stunning, but blushed from head to toe when everyone in the minibus told her so.

I asked her what her husband had thought about her new style and colour but she said he hadn’t noticed, although she said her son and daughter said she looked great, and at least ten years younger.

Gina had said to me that her husband wasn’t a bad man but I didn’t necessarily agree with that. Even if they were friends and not lovers he should have noticed such a drastic change in her appearance. She said she had lost over twenty six pounds in weight over the last three months by going to the gym and doing kick boxing. Well I think maybe she should be kick boxing him out the door.

Next came Maggie’s niece Keeley who was a very pretty blond with blue eyes and a model figure.

She wore black skinny jeans with white chiffon top and Cami and the same super high heels that Gina wore, but to be honest this girl could have worn a black sack and still looked stunning. She said her daughter was staying with her ex’s parents this evening so she should get drunk tonight if she wanted to.

Moira and Maggie both gave a cheer and Gina held her bag while she got buckled in.

Just then an Adonis of a man came out of Keeley’s house and asked Alex if he could hitch a lift in to town with us. He was really good looking and tall with lots of muscle, and If I hadn’t got my own sexy guy sat at the side of me I may have been drooling just then. His name was Daniel and I found out he was Keeley’s twin brother. He kissed Maggie on the cheek and told Moira she was looking stunning tonight. Moira blushed and promised him cupcakes next week. Then he turned to Gina, did a double take and said, “Bloody hell Gina you look as sexy fuck tonight, oops sorry aunty Mags and Moira, but Gina, you really do look good.” Gina kissed him on the cheek and said, “Thanks Dan, you’ve just made my night by saying that.”

Maggie introduced us, telling him that I was starting in the office on Monday night and that I was George Browns daughter.

It turned out that my dad was Daniels supervisor at work and he proceeded to tell me funny stories about their time on the loading yard.

There were three other women, Jean, Ami and Joanne, who were meeting us in town as they had been to a party for the new women’s underwear and sex toy chain Silk & Tickle.

Maggie started talking about a new vibrator they had advertised called ‘The Big Boy’ which had seven different speeds and came with free tingle lube. Daniel shouted no aunt Mags you can’t talk about stuff like that in front of me, and he covered his ears up shouting la la.

Alex just shook his head and seemed to shrink in to his seat and I laughed so hard I cried. I could tell already this was going to be one hell of a night out.

Julia

Julia looked like a goddess tonight. I told her earlier that she looked beautiful but she didn’t believe me. I was already thinking of the ways I was going to prove that to her later. If I hadn’t seen how much Julia was looking forward to this night out then I would have turned the minibus around and took her straight home, if I could last that long. There were many places in our little village of Barrowfield where I could pull in and take her right there and then in the vehicle without anyone seeing us. We could have had sex facing the beautiful Pennines in South Yorkshire, but I was a gentleman and kept my hands to myself.

The journey to Rothley became really awkward when it was revealed that some of the ladies from the canteen had gone to one those sex toy parties. Maggie of all people started going on about a new vibrator that came with free lube, and I wanted to disappear. I had worked with the woman nearly every day for over thirty years and she was like family for god’s sake. So I did not need to hear her talk about sex toys of any sort and if I wasn’t driving I would have put my hands over my ears like Dan.

Gina looked so different you wouldn’t think it was her. I can’t wait until Nik sees her later at the Red Lion. I heard her tell Julia that her husband hadn’t noticed her new look. I think she should dump the ignorant prick and get someone who really appreciates her.

I dropped them all off at a bar called Pip’s and arranged to pick them up in about two hours outside a pub called The Station. I grabbed Julia for a quick kiss before she left which attracted wolf whistles from Dan and Moira, although it didn’t seem to bother her.

I watched her walk into the pub arm in arm with Gina and couldn’t help but send thanks to whichever god had seen fit to make her mine.

Just then I had a feeling I was being watched. I turned around but even with my perfect immortal vision I could see no one. I also couldn’t sense if it had been human or vampire but there was something vaguely familiar about them.

Turning a full 360 degrees I tried again to see what had brought this uneasy feeling my way but I could see nothing.

I tried to pass it off as my over protectiveness regarding Julia but I had been on this earth too long to dismiss something like this.

I pulled out my mobile phone as I got in the minibus and called Josh.

As always he answered in the first two rings.

“No Alex I’m not swapping driving duties with you tonight, not even if you gave me a million pounds and your share in the company.”

“Calm down Josh I’m not going to rope you into the designated driver nightmare I’ve got going on, but listen I’ve just dropped them in Rothley and I got the strangest feeling I was being watched. It’s really set me on edge for some reason, as I sense they are familiar, but I can’t sense whether they were human or vampire but if I was to guess I would say vampire as they were gone before I could find them.”

“There aren’t any other vamps about other than us and the Russians at the moment.”

“Nik and Sergei are here with me and Gregor is visiting with Freya over in Aldbrough. Finn isn’t coming over until January, but I’m sure you would be able to sense if it was him anyway.”

“It definitely wasn’t Finn, or Patrick even. Just put some feelers out and see what you can pick up. If we have an unknown Vamp in our town we are going to need to be aware.”

“Leave it with me Alex and I’ll get back to you if I find anything. Are you coming back here until you head back to pick them up?”

“Yeah, but I’m going to have a look around here first, just in case I can find anything. I will see you in about twenty minutes.”

“Alex don’t let the ladies catch you. They might think you are keeping an eye on them and that would make them angry. Maggie is scary when she’s angry.”

“Maggie’s fucking scary when she’s describing a new seven speed vibrator called ‘The Big Boy’.”

“No fucking way Alex, that’s just wrong.”
“Yep, and she said it comes with tingly lube too.” I laughed.

“I don’t want to hear anymore so I’m hanging up.”
I heard the dial tone and I laughed again.

After searching around for another ten minutes without success I went straight back find Josh, Nik and Sergei.

Josh

Alex arrived at my cottage about twenty minutes after I had hung up the phone, and I could tell he wasn’t the same guy that had left here earlier tonight to go to Julia and the rest of the ladies from work.

Since his night with Julia, he had a real spring to his step, sort of like he had a purpose in life, but now he was subdued and I knew that whatever had occurred tonight had really got to him.

“Did you pick up any trace of who was watching you,” I asked already knowing the answer due to his behaviour just now. He was pacing the floor and tapping his lip with his thumb, obviously trying to make sense of what had occurred.

“I picked up nothing, but I do think it was a vampire. The speed in which they disappeared ruled out human. The odd thing was I sensed a familiarity but for the life of me I can’t place them.”

“Perhaps you are sensing danger all around because of your female. This Julia I am hearing of, maybe you worry she is going to leave you for sexy Russian vampire named Sergei,” said the irritating Russian.

“Fuck off Sergei,” replied Alex.

Now wasn’t the time to rile Alex up. He was strung too tight.

“Have you had any blood recently? If there is some sort of threat out there you need to make sure you are alert and firing on all cylinders, so it might be best if you had a bag of blood before you picked them up.”

“The last blood I had was Julia’s,” he replied, a smile now appearing on his face.

Good. I don’t like seeing my best friend and brother so on edge.

In truth I was really happy that Alex was finally finding his special someone. His mate, and I wished him all the luck in the world at this time. As far as I was concerned I owed this man my life, and if there was a threat out there I would do my best to make that threat disappear.

“Josh told us about Maggie’s cock talk,” said Nik.

“It was more vibrator talk,” Alex replied.

“Fake or not it’s still cock talk and I’ve got to say it doesn’t bode well for you if they’ve started it before the drinks are flowing.”

“Well you and Sergei are going to the Red Lion later so you must want to hear it. Oh and Nik wait until you see Gina.”

“Why, what she done?”

“I’m not going to say too much, just that she looks really different, and she had Dan Saunders nearly tripping over his tongue on the minibus.”

“She wouldn’t fucking look at Dan, not when she sees me anyway.” Nik joked. But Nik was easy to read and I could see he was itching to get to Gina.

“We should go now to see my Gina,” said Sergei.

He thought the world of Gina and they tended to have lots of playful banter and heated discussions, which drove everyone mad. Nik and Sergei were great friends and Nik knew that Sergei would never make a move on Gina, so he allowed him to be near her. I don’t think that would happen with anyone else.

“They have another hour before I pick them up and bring them back to Barrowfield. Have you let the staff at the Red Lion know they are going in tonight?“  Alex asked.

“Yes they know they are coming in.”

I owned the Red Lion and several other small businesses around Barrowfield and Rothley. If it was left up to me I would buy the whole place, but we were still expanding Night Movers, and I was happy just to purchase the odd home or business every now and again.

The Pub was doing really well considering that a lot went out of business during the recession. Tonight there was a disco with karaoke and we had a live band every Saturday. The pub was also known for its afterhours lock ins, but this tended to happen less and less over the years. I trusted my staff to decide when to do it. No one in the village knew I owned the pub, just a few of the bar staff, as well as Alex, Nik and Gina and I wanted to keep it that way.