Passion After Dark by J.a Melville Page A

that Cassie was home already as her car was parked in the garage so I pulled in alongside of her little Corolla and watched thr ough my rear vision mirror as Dominick’s black Audi pulled up behind me.
    Well he was at my house and now I had to somehow explain him to Cassie. I had to quiz him before we went inside so I knew what to say since something just told me, some kind of intui tion that I could never reveal what he was to anyone.
    The reality was, who would believe me anyway? Plus something about Dominick had me under some kind of spell with him. I was so drawn to him, so taken by him, almost in love with him already and for a brief moment I got it, I got why the women in the movies fell for the vampires. I understood why Bella loved Edward as intensely as she did in the Twilight saga, why Buffy had fallen for Angel. There was something about them that was magnetic. They were ridiculously good looking, they had an aura about them that made it almost impossible to refuse them or turn away.
    “ You’ve been sucked in by the blood sucker and turned into a sucker.” I said and grinned at my stupid comment but the reality was, it was true. “You had me at bella donna.” I whispered before climbing out of my car and turning to face Dominick as he approached me, those mesmerizing eyes focused on me as he moved with a grace that had me spell bound watching him and I had to consciously stop myself from letting my mouth fall open and the drool to start flowing which wouldn’t be such a cool look. I didn’t get it or understand why this gorgeous creature could possibly want me. Why he looked at me like I was the most beautiful thing he’d ever laid eyes on?
    “ So are you ready to meet my house mate?” I asked him trying to appear far more relaxed than I was feeling.
    “ Relax cara.” His cool lips brushed my cheek. “I can hear your heart pounding and I can hear the blood coursing through your veins. Relax. I won’t bite.” He grinned, flashing those white teeth of his. “Much.”
    Something about his comment and the humour in those eyes of his worked and I found myself grinning at him like a fool. “ That’s kind of creepy that you can hear my blood pumping through my veins Dominick. You can’t hear my thoughts I hope?”
    “ No cara, I’m a vampire, not a mind reader but I can feel the tension so please relax. If you aren’t sure about this, I can go but I really hope that you tell me I can stay.”
    “ I don’t want you to go.” I whispered and another one of those heart stopping smiles lit up his face.
    “ I’m very pleased to hear that cara, now take me inside and let me meet that loud house mate of yours.”
    I laughed at his description of Cassie. “ Loud? Why do you call her loud?”
    “ That’s the name I gave her the night of the club. She interrupted when I was trying to get to know you with her abrasive voice demanding to know where you’d been and I felt it best to leave at that point.”
    At his words I silently groaned. Cassie had driven him off? She had given me so much grief about making him up, hallucinating his existence and yet she had inadvertently scared him off? Well if a vampire could be scared off which apparently they could.
    “ So why did you wait until today to see me again?” I couldn’t help asking.
    She watched as he hung his head. “ I got sick and I was forbidden by my sire to see you for 5 days Allegra. As vampires we have to maintain our privacy, keep what we are a secret and I broke the rules. I followed you to your home after the club and I spent the night on your roof watching you sleep and other things.” He gave her that sexy, knowing smile. “I took a huge risk of being seen and Fabian was not pleased plus I hadn’t fed because I’d wanted you. If we don’t feed we get sick and weak very quickly and I hadn’t fed for two days.”
    I stared at him trying to digest what he was saying. “ Fabian, who is Fabian?” I asked.
    “ Fabian is my sire cara.