AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“Will there be a next time? I thought you didn’t go out much.”
“Some things are changing around here, and I want to get out and be around my breed more often.”
“Is that the only reason?”
“Maybe, but that’s not a topic of conversation that I want to have over the phone.”
His laugh was husky, “You know we have better conversations over the phone than we do in person.”
“I wouldn’t say that. I think our in-person conversations are pretty damn good.”
“I saw the picture of you kissing Josh, is that something I need to worry about?”
I frowned, I didn’t want Hugh to worry, but then again, why not? Hugh would never be anything to me, he nevercouldbe anything to me. “You know Josh protects me, Hugh. Once in a while we kiss in public to show people why he is around me. It helps explain him being there.”
“But he hides your presence. You told me that earlier.”
“Yes, he does.” I gnawed on my bottom lip, maybe I shouldn’t have told him that. Especially with who he is. Or maybe that was the kind of information that would help keep him on my side. It wasn’t a secret that Josh could protect me that way. You could see us, but not feel us, and our breed quickly picked up on that.
“I have to admit, that it made me a little jealous seeing you kissing him.”
“It meant nothing, Hugh.” I replied and hesitated, “Hugh, you might not know this about our breed, but we don’t look at sex the same way humans do. It’s not unusually for one of us to have multiple relationships.”
“I am aware of that. Do you have multiple relationships going on right now, Kristin?” He asked.
“At the moment? No.” I exhaled, “But that doesn’t mean that tomorrow I won’t.”
“So, you’re saying that what we share isn’t anything special.”
“I didn’t say that. I like you Hugh, you know that. What we are doing, what you are to me, is a human consort. Someone who gives me pleasure and usually blood. You can never be anything more to me. You do understand that, right?”
“Yeah, I get that.” He said a bit gruffly as if he were disappointed. “Doesn’t mean that I like it.”
“Are you trying to tell me that if there were a chance for us to be something more, you’d want that?”
He was quiet for a moment, “Yes, I think I would. I don’t know why, but something tells me that we would be good together, that we would be right together. There is this incredible pull that I get from you, Kristin. I don’t much understand it, but I feel it.”
I frowned. “I appreciate you saying that, Hugh, and maybe I do feel the same way. I can’t quite explain it either, but it can’t be more than it is between us. I can’t ask you to be my consort, it wouldn’t be fair to you.”
“Why not?”
I laughed, “Look, why don’t we discuss this later? Would you be available tonight?”
“Actually, I have to go out of town for a couple of days, but when I get back. Let’s discuss this, shall we?”
“Okay, then when you get back.”
We got off the phone after that and I went up to my apartment. Did I want to take Hugh on as more than he was? Did I want to bond to him in that way, to make him officially my human consort? Many people of my kind did that. Especially after the international counsel ruled that turning humans was not acceptable—especially females.
Yes, there were quite a few of them around now, but we had ruled it illegal to change any more. It was too dangerous to have a bunch of human-turned vampires around. Not only did it water down our bloodlines, but it created problems. Especially when the turned were women.
My mind shifted to my old friend Olivia. We had been the best of friends before I learned of this world, and she had been turned by my sister to get my attention, and my help. We had learned a great many things then about the abilities of female turned. The fact that they could control elements, might have been a good thing, but there were many downfalls to them.
Originally, it was thought that they would lose their humanity once turned and become raging monsters. We had learned that if they mated shortly after turning with the ones that they were bound to, that they would retain more of their humanity. Olivia had, for a while at least.
Several years after she turned, we noticed that she had more of a taste for blood, more of a need to kill. Although once human, and a police officer that swore to protect, she hadn’t batted an eye to drain a human of his blood or make him a puppet for her once she was turned. Gabriel, her mate, and once a very close friend to me, had said that she would most likely change again, but that he could control her. I had serious doubts about that.
I’d finally had to tell her that she needed to leave. That she could no longer stay at my side because I couldn’t keep covering up her destruction. It had torn our friendship to shreds, and the relationship that I had with Gabriel had become strained. To the point that we no longer spoke. I didn’t even have any idea where they currently were, or if they were sided with us. For all I knew, they could be dead.
