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“My league backs me,” Vlad threw in.
“I don’t care anything about this league business.” Caitlin finished eating the delicious orange-flavored duck. She folded her arms. “I’m not interested in seeing you anymore, Vlad. I really cared for you at one time, but then I discovered we really didn’t mean anything to each other. I can see how controlling you are. You never bothered to see me when I really could have used your kindness. And now…” She hmpfed. “Now, all you can say is you claim me. Why? Because I have a new boyfriend.”
“You have a mate,” Levka corrected her.
She looked up at him and saw the turmoil in his dark eyes. “Right.” She said to Vlad. “I have a mate.” Without another word, she glanced at Levka’s plate and seeing he was done, she reached for his hand. “Ready to dance, my mate?”
His mouth lifted, and she smiled, then pulled him from his seat to dance in the theater, hoping that Vlad would get the hint and drop dead.
“Do you dance as well as Stasio?” Caitlin asked, as she pulled Levka into the theater where a waltz was playing.
“Better.” Levka grinned when she smiled up at him.
“Well, I have to warn you I don’t. So you’d better watch your feet.”
He walked her up onto the stage and pulled her close. “You will dance like an angel, I have no doubt.”
The way he moved her across the floor, she felt like an angel, gliding, effortless, like a slip of fresh air. She’d never danced with a guy who could move so elegantly.
“Yeah,” she said sighing, her head resting against his chest. “You’re even better.”
“You have caught me, and now I can’t let you go.”
“Good. I could dance with you like this forever.”
No matter how much Levka told himself he didn’t want her, he knew it was a lie. He wanted her for now and all eternity. Sensing Vlad’s presence in the theater, Levka noticed him dancing with Lynne, quickly closing the gap between them.
“When we reach Grenada tomorrow, I’ve got a sight-seeing trip. Will you come with me?” Caitlin asked.
“If the weather permits. I’ve heard some of the water excursions have been cancelled.”
“I’m afraid I’m not brave enough to try one of those yet.”
Vlad and Lynne moved closer to them. Levka tried to pivot away, but Vlad followed him step for step until he was close enough for them to hear.
Vlad’s eyes bored into Levka’s. “I wish to dance with Caitlin.”
Lynne gave an unladylike snort, but everyone ignored her. Caitlin tightened her grip on Levka, but he gave her a reassuring squeeze and a small satisfied smile. “Yes, I’m sure you do.”
“Let’s trade, shall we?”
Glancing at Lynne, Levka noted Vlad had quickly hypnotized her with his vampiric charm. Again, Levka couldn’t help smiling. “I don’t need to force my mate to dance with me. Why don’t you move along?”
Vlad bowed his head slightly, then swept Lynne across the floor.
“I can’t believe he’s being so gentlemanly about it,” Caitlin said.
“Believe me, under that cool exterior, he’s the devil.”
She sighed deeply. “I believe it.”
For some time they danced in silence. Levka listened to the beat of her heart, felt the blood pulsing in her wrists, calling to him to take his fill. Already he’d had to clamp down on his teeth to fight the urge to extend them. Only when facing danger, did he have so little control.
“I…I have a question, Levka,” Caitlin said.
“Hmm?” He kissed her forehead and smelled the heavenly scent of peach fragrance in her hair, the silk strands tickling his nose.
“It’s about Dylan.”
