Immortal's Eden by Lori Perry

the wall.
    "What the hell is going on?" She swiped her tangled hair from her face then pressed her palms to the wall at her sides demanding an explanation. Orlando stepped forward.
    "Don't." Michael growled, his lip curling back to reveal glistening white fangs. Fangs? She now knew she had gone completely insane. Flashes of her dream mingled with reality, she was dizzy and swore she'd been drugged. One second she was in the warehouse and the next her hotel room; with a snarling vampire.
    "Danielle…" Michael stepped around the end of the bed toward her, palms out.
    "Stay the hell away from me." She lifted a shaky hand to stay him. "You can explain this shit from there."
    "I need to show you Danielle. You wouldn't believe my explanation."
    "The hell you do! What kind of sick shit are you guys into? Tell me what the hell is going on!" She was trapped in some horror/psychological flick, and she'd be damned if she would be the bimbo on the floor, scooting along on her ass to get away from the monsters.
    "I'm a vampire Danielle, and you are my mate." A hysterical laugh came burbling up.
    "A vampire? And what are you," She looked at Orlando, "are you a vampire too?"
    He exchanged a worried glance with Michael. "Werewolf."
    "Ah, I see. Of course you are." She scrubbed her face with her hands then pushed away from the wall and straightened her T-shirt. Getting caught up in their bullshit was not about to happen. "I need to go, keep the bounty. I don't give a crap anymore."
    "It's not about a bounty Danielle. We are what we say we are." Orlando moved to stand behind Michael. "You need to trust us."
    "Oh! Well, since you say so…" What a bunch of freaks. She rushed to the door, wrapping her palm around the handle then paused. "Ok, if you're a vampire, prove it." She spun slowly to face him then leaned against the door, keeping her hand on the lever.
    "We don't have the time to play show-and-tell; she'll see when you take us to Diviana." Orlando spoke as if Danielle weren't there, which really pissed her off.
    "What is Diviana?"
    "She deserves to know." Finally, Cassie joined their conversation.
    "I'm still here people." Michael turned to reply but Danielle cut him off. "So how did you become a vampire?" She kept her voice laden with sarcasm.
    "It was," He paused reflectively, "probably how you’d imagine it." Skirting around the question was irritating beyond measure, especially when she really wanted to know the answer.
    "Does sunlight kill you?" She tried a different approach; that was an easy enough question to answer.
    "It depends." Damn it!
    "Is there anything you can answer definitively?"
    "I am a vampire, and I need to protect you, get you somewhere safe; now." He stepped closer to her.
    "Protect me from what?" The only thing she knew for sure was that she didn't know anything. Her world had been turned upside down; everything she was certain of hours ago had been blown out the window. As she waited for him to respond, she soaked in his appearance from head to toe; the contrast of his black hair against pale skin, sharp white fangs, strength to destroy six men alone. And then there were her dreams, where he was the immortal star.
    "There are others of my kind that want to take you from me. Please Danielle, let me protect you." He broke the silence.
    "I'm not going anywhere until you start talking, vamp ." She eyed him again from head to toe, making sure he saw the disbelief on her face. "Or perhaps you wolfy; would you like to hurry things along by enlightening me?" She almost wanted to tap her foot impatiently as the so-called immortals exchanged glances, probably contemplating what to do with her body now that she could identify them in a line-up.
    "Danielle," Cassie said calmly as she stepped around her puffed up boyfriend, "I promise you, they are telling the truth and we really need to get out of here." As the three inched closer to her, survival mode clicked in her mind and she pressed the door handle then spun as she