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Her legs are crossed and swaying in the water like a fin.
Behind her are high arched windows, through which I see a silver stag standing on the terrace, rocking his massive horns back and forth as if dancing to her song. Every verse she sings is sultry and seductive, and because she’s staring right at me, it feels like she’s singing for me. She is. I know it because darkness starts closing in on my vision.
“Princess,” I say calmly even as my world spins and the vortex that is her draws me in. “Best be certain whom you’re inviting into your bed. Or, should I say, pool.”
“I’m not afraid of you,” she says.
I chuckle. “No, you wouldn’t be, would you?”
She smiles, and her eyes, the same color as the pool, crinkle at the corners. “Ledger told me you think I’m a siren.”
“Many people think you’re a siren.”
“They say that, but they don’t really mean it. Like a siren and asirenare two different things.”
“Certainly.”
“You think I’m an actual siren.” Briefly, she lifts her legs in the air and wiggles her toes. “With feet. Tell me, General, how is that possible?”
“Merfolk can walk on land.”
“Not many,” she says, “and only for a limited time. They dislike land. I love land.”
I walk to the edge of the pool and tuck my hands into my pockets, rocking back on my heels.
“You sure sing like one.”
“I was born with a singing voice.”
“And a long tail instead of legs.”
Fleur throws back her head and laughs. “My dear vampire, just because a girl knows her art of seduction, it doesn’t make her a siren.”
“My dear princess, you are either lying or hiding your true nature somehow. Your magic is that of a siren.”
“Are you saying you’re attracted to me?”
“With all my being.”
“But you walked away. More than once. You leave and you return whenever you please.”
“Except tonight. Tonight, you called me.”
She nods, biting her lip. “Sometimes, I sing when I’m bored.”
“What is it that you want?”
Fleur uncrosses her legs and scoots to the edge of the pool. Luxurious hair falls over her back, exposing her entire body. Darkness threatens my vision, shadows from the corners slithering over the floor as if she’s calling them too.
I develop tunnel vision.
The only light is her.
She practically glows.
I hiss, and her magic retreats along with the shadows that return to the corners of the dark room. She’s powerful, all right.
I start unlatching my cuff links. “If you are bored, I will send a battalion of males to entertain you.”
