Deceptive Changes: Kat LaMond Book 1 (45 page)

I started to say the orgasms but maybe it was the vampires.  How silly is that?  I was afraid of two vampires that I’ve had sex with and they hadn’t injured me in any way during.  “The vampires,” I whispered, my eyes downcast.  They didn’t say anything for a long while.  I looked up at them and the animal shine was back.  “Uh, guys?”

They blinked and the shining was gone.  Their eyes were just normal, well as normal as they ever were.  “You’re afraid of us?” Thorn asked.

“Mmhm.”  I nodded.  They lunged at me.  I cringed from them but they only kissed the sides of my neck and held me against them.  Their bodies against mine felt odd because they were both pressed against my legs, one on each side. 

“That’s truly honest, Katja-love.  Why are you afraid of us?”  They pulled back from me in unison and pulled me down to the floor in a seated position.  They wrapped their legs under them and I sat cross-legged.

“I don’t know much about your kind.  Vampires.  I was only given enough knowledge to take out Antreas.  After I took him ou,t I stayed away from vampires.  I didn’t want to learn about your kind.  I didn’t care to learn.”

“Hmm,” Thorn whispered.  “What would you like to know?” 

Putting me on the spot did exactly what I knew it would, blanked my mind.  “I can’t think of anything at the moment.  My mind went blank the instant you asked me.”

“I’ll tell you about vampires, Katja-love.” 

Sven nudged him and said, “I should know more than you, Thorn.” 

I rolled my eyes.  “Someone tell me about vampires?”

They looked at me.  “Okay, but it’s long…just kidding.  There’s not much to tell, Katja-love.  We were human and being a vampire doesn’t make you a bad person unless you were one before.  We drink blood but we don’t have to kill humans.  We have certain abilities, more so than others.  Sven, for instance, can fly better than I can but I can cause you to have orgasms without fully touching you.  Being a vampire allows you to be ruthless if you need to and to take a lot of damage.  We have feelings just like humans but ours are a little longer remembered.  Grudges have lasted centuries.  Wars have started over them, though, not so much nowadays.  Anything else you want to know about vampires?”

I nodded and said, “Specifically, you two.”

“What would you like to know?” 

“Why do you love me?  Why did you, Sven, leave Thorn to be with me?”  I don’t think they expected me to ask them those questions because their faces went blank and then thoughtful.

“Why do you love us?” Sven countered.

“I love you both because I just do.  I can’t explain why I love you.” 

They chuckled.  “And you expect us to explain something you cannot?”

“Yes.”  That was a double standard, I know, but I figured they’d lived longer than me so they should at least know a little about love.

“We just love you, Katja.  We can’t explain that.  I can, however, explain why I left.”  Sven pulled Thorn onto his lap and ran his fingers through his hair.  “I left because I knew you could provide a safe place for us to live.  You are, after all, the enforcer to our king.  If you can protect him, I figured you’d be able to protect us as well.”

“Yeah,” I said as I breathed a laugh.  “I generally almost get caught by bad guys who torture me or are sadistic.  I have six people that are tied to me and I throw their lives to the wind each time I’m captured.  You chose someone who could keep you safe all right,” I said sarcastically.  “If you hadn’t come to my rescue, I’d be dead right now.”

“No, Katja-love, you’d be a vampire, not dead in the forever sense.  Cyril wants to make you one of us.”  I paled.  I could feel the blood leaving my head so fast that I got dizzy.  “Didn’t you know?”  I shook my head.  “That’s why he never killed you.  He only wounded you enough to prove that he could.”

“All those attacks were just a…a what?  War game?”  They nodded slowly.  “Huh, that’s why he was never around for the actual fighting.”  They nodded again.

Thorn ran his hand along Sven’s leg making him sigh and tighten his hand in Thorn’s hair.  “You guys are really…um, sexual, aren’t you?”

Sven ran his fingers over Thorn’s lips and curled his hand around his neck.  “With each other.  We aren’t like this around people we don’t trust.” 

“I’ll make a deal with you guys.”  They looked at me expectantly.  “I want to watch Sven bring you as many times as you brought him or more and then I’ll take a stab at it.” 

“Deal.  Though, we will need blood for this to work.” 

I gulped.  “Okay,” I squeaked out. 

Thorn sat up and leaned into me, I leaned back.  “You said I could.” 

I nodded and explained.  “It’s just that…being around vampires that have wanted to kill me and all…my reflex is to move away.  I apologize.” 

They smirked and leaned into me in unison.  Their mouths fastened to my throat at the same time, their fangs slid into my skin at the same time as well.  They really have been together a long time, I thought. 

All thought vanished as they pulled me into their arms and sent me gasping and shaking against them as they turned their bite.  They pulled back and licked the blood from their lips.  “Thank you,” Sven murmured and turned to Thorn.  They pressed into me as Sven bit Thorn’s neck.  I could feel Thorn’s muscles tighten as Sven turned his bite.  Thorn cried out softly and gripped my leg.  Little pain sounds popped out of my mouth as Thorn squeezed hard enough that I heard a pop in my knee.

Sven pulled back and looked at me with concern.  Thorn loosened his hold on my leg enough for me to know that he’d torn my calf muscle.  I held my lips tight to keep from crying out in agony.  Thorn opened his wrist and pressed it to my mouth.  “I’m sorry, Katja-love.  I forget that you’re just human.”  He kissed my cheek as I took in the blood.  I choked and blood poured down my chin and onto my pj’s. 

Thorn pulled his wrist from my mouth and licked the blood from my face.  “Now, you can take the grip I’m going to put on your leg again.”  He kissed me deeply, his tongue stud brushing against my back teeth and tongue.  I groaned softly as he moved his hands over my breasts and stomach.  He pulled back and grinned at me, running his tongue stud across his lips.

Sven wasted no time in bringing Thorn again, before he had even gotten into the right position.  Thorn bucked against me and slid down my body, cradling his head on my thigh.  Sven pulled back and ran his hands along Thorn’s chest, playing with the piercing and then moving up to his neck.  Sven bent down and kissed his way from lips to nipples.  He pulled on the nipple ring with his teeth causing Thorn to moan and whisper Sven’s name. 

Sven moved his mouth from nipple ring to nipple ring and then down to his stomach, playing his hand along Thorn’s neck as he bit his stomach.  I could see Sven’s neck muscles move as he swallowed the blood and then Thorn was thrashing against me.  Sven lifted off him and I saw that he had Thorn held tightly in his hand.

Thorn opened his eyes and stared into mine.  His eyes had bled to pure gold.  “Your wrist, please?”  I absently held out my wrist.  He took it gently in his hand and bit into me.  I hissed at the first sizzle of pain before the pain was gone but not replaced.  He sucked on my wrist as Sven took him fully in his mouth and sucked.  Thorn arched his back and tightened his grip on my wrist.

I forgot that Thorn could cause orgasms, not through just his bite, but from others.  As Sven brought him, Thorn brought me.  I screamed in pleasure and pushed against the door hard enough to crack the wood.  I didn’t know if Thorn cried out or not since the blood in my veins was deafening.  Thorn let my hand go with a satisfied smile and ran his hand along Sven’s side. 

Sven smiled and licked his lips.  He moved down Thorn’s body to his calf and bit him.  He sucked for a minute and let him go.  I could tell that he was going to draw this out. 

I was right. Sven bit Thorn a few more times but only elicited small movements and whimpers from him.  He skimmed up Thorn’s body and fastened his mouth to his nipple.  Thorn bucked and screamed in pleasure as Sven sucked on him running a hand along his groin and back up.  Thorn kept thrashing about, pressing his body into mine.  He was right in saying that I would be able to take a lot more damage.  His hands held onto my legs hard enough that I heard popping and then crackles as the bones reknit.  Sven didn’t stop sucking on Thorn for a second.  He rolled his eyes up to look at me.  His dark blue eyes were flaming sapphire.  He brought Thorn again and again with just a simple movement of his mouth from one nipple to the other. 

My ribs were battered and bruised from Thorn’s thrashing but the vampire blood healed the wounds almost instantly.  I bent down and kissed Thorn softly.  His hands wrapped around my neck and pressed me tightly to his lips.  We kissed sideways.  He bit my lip and suckled on me as Sven brought him again.  He cried his pleasure into my mouth and using his power, brought me screaming my pleasure into his mouth. 

I pulled back and let out a whoosh of air, sagging against the door as the spasms slowed.  Sven pulled away from Thorn and plopped back onto the floor.  He was smiling a satisfied and lazy smile.  I looked at Thorn.  His lips were stained red with my blood and he was moaning softly.  We took a few minutes to calm down. 

Thorn slid off me and into Sven, and curled around each other, and spoke softly, too soft for me to hear even with the vampire blood in me. 

Thorn turned around, Sven spooning him, and waved me over.  I didn’t think I could move.  I shook my head.  “Please?”  I groaned and slid over to them.  I rested my head on Thorn’s arm and pressed my back against his stomach.  He sighed contentedly and curled his arm around my waist.

I fell asleep for a few minutes or hours, I couldn’t tell since I didn’t have my watch and there wasn’t a clock in the room.  They woke me with kisses.  “Katja love?”  I ‘mmm’d’ Thorn and let my eyes slide closed again.  “We need to get ready.” 

I groaned and pulled his arm around me.  “I don’t want to get up.” 

He chuckled softly and said, “We need to get ready.  We’re going to announce you as queen in a few hours.” 

I groaned and with his help I sat up.  I blinked into the darkness.  “I can’t see.”  Someone flipped the light switch.  Sven.  I sighed and got off the floor. 

“When did Todd tell you?”  I looked at them.  They were absolutely stunning.  I shook my head and blinked the sleep from my eyes, thinking I was seeing things but nope, they really were stunning.

“An hour ago.  You were so tired that we let you sleep but we need you to be awake and armed when we take you before the vampires.”  Thorn slung his arm around my shoulders and walked me out of the guest room.  I stopped and looked at the door.  It was splintered and in places broken completely.  Damn.

Thorn walked me into the bedroom and into the bathroom.  He turned on the shower and held me out of my clothes.  He ran his lips along my throat.  I wrapped my arms around him and held him to me.  His fangs slid into my skin making me sigh and press more insistently against him.  I felt his body respond as my blood flowed through his veins.  He lifted me into his arms and I wrapped my legs around his waist as he walked us into the shower.  He pressed me against the wall and slid inside me.  We moved with fire in our veins and came screaming.  He let me slide off him but kept his arms around me. 

I heard the door open and Todd called my name.  “I’m here, Todd.”  I looked over Thorn’s shoulder and waved at Todd.  He was still wearing his pj bottoms but no shirt.  My mouth dropped open at the sight of him.  I moaned softly.  What was wrong with me?  I was like some sex maniac or something. 

Todd’s smile widened as he caught me staring.  He dropped his pants and stepped into the shower.  Thorn held me against the wall for a moment more, gave me a kiss, and then stepped back.

Todd came up to me and kissed me softly.  My heart stuttered as I caught the desire in his eyes.  He lifted me and just held me against him.  I wrapped my legs around him and ran my hands along his chest, flicking my thumbs across his nipples.  He sighed and slid me onto him.  I whimpered softly as I felt him slide in and out of me.  He kissed me softly and becoming adamant as he started to move faster.  I let out little grunts of pleasure as he pushed in and out of me.

He moved his mouth from my lips and kissed along my jaw until he reached my neck.  He nibbled and sucked softly at first.  I could feel his rhythm changing.  He bit my neck hard enough for me to cry out but not in pain.  I spasmed around him.   He cried out softly against my neck as he orgasmed.  “I love you, Kat.” 

“I love you too,” I murmured.

He kissed me and let me slide off him to the floor.  He held me even as his muscles spasmed and almost didn’t hold him.  Thorn wrapped his arms around us and held on until we were able to stand without falling down.

Todd kissed me and said, “We should get ready.  I would like to introduce you as soon as possible and then come back to the house to ravish you.  Maybe even try what Thorn and Sven did earlier.”  He flicked his eyes to Thorn and a smile spread across their lips. 

My stomach and other areas tightened at the prospect of seeing them together.  I suppose I should be worried about my morals but they were so far gone now that I was just enjoying exactly what turned me on instead of listening to some dumb voice that said, ‘this is wrong.’ 

We washed up and quickly toweled off, changed, and got ready.  Todd had brought in clothes for me.  I was wearing a see-through camisole with a black bra, tight black jeans without undies.  When I asked he smiled and said that he just wanted easy access.  I laughed and walked out of the room. 

I didn’t know if they had taken the weapons from the old house or not.  I found Charles in the kitchen with Beatrice and Nadja.  “Charles?”

“Yes, mistress?” 

I sighed.  I was never going to get him to call me anything but ‘mistress.’  “Where are the weapons?”

“They are in the other guest room.”  His eyebrows went up to indicate that it wasn’t in the room that I helped destroy. 

I turned on my heel and walked into the other room.  Sure enough all the weapons were stacked neatly on shelves and in cabinets.  I grabbed my guns and a whole stock of knives, hiding them all over my body.

I walked out and got whistles from my men, all five of them.  Sven sauntered over to me and hugged me.  He whispered, “You look dangerously sexy, Katja.”  I chuckled and then giggled as he brushed his lips along my neck.  I patted his arm and he let me go.

I looked at my men.  They were dressed similarly in tight blue jeans, dark t-shirts, and suit coats hung loose.  I could see that Todd, Trace, and Erick were armed, at least I could see the guns.  Thorn and Sven were without weapons but no less stunning.  Thorn was wearing dark blue jeans, a black shirt with a pinstriped suit coat.  Sven was wearing dark jeans, a blue shirt that made his blue eyes sparkle, and a black suit coat.

All five of them came up to me.  I stepped back reflexively and held out my hand.  Sven took it in his and pulled me to them.  We hugged, all six of us, and then started out the door.  I didn’t know how we were all going to fit into one vehicle. 

I saw the new truck as we stepped outside.  It was a Dodge Durango in dark blue, nearly the color of Sven’s eyes.  Todd got in on the driver’s side with Trace riding shotgun.  Thorn loaded into the very back and Erick, Sven and I got into the middle.  I was sitting between the emerald and the sapphire.  They held my hands as Thorn ran his hands through my hair.  He leaned into me and whispered, “Katja-love?” 

I turned in my seat to look at him.  “Yeah, Thorn?”

“Please don’t get killed.”  He wasn’t kidding either. 

“I’ll try not to, Thorn.”  My heart went into my throat at the thought of dying and leaving them to whatever their fates would be.  He kissed my lips gently.  His brown eyes were gold at the moment.  “Are your eyes naturally brown or do you just mimic the color?”

“They were brown in my human life but my vampire eyes are actually gold.  Do you like them?”

“I do,” I breathed.  He let the glamour go and his eyes were the color of gold filaments.  I let out a soft sigh as I looked into his eyes.  “They’re beautiful.”

“Thank you, Katja-love.”  He sat back in his seat and changed his eyes back to brown.  I turned back in my seat and got kisses from Sven and Erick.  I held their hands to keep from fidgeting.

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We arrived at the warehouse where Todd had been introduced as king.  My heart fluttered in my chest as we walked into the building.  It was decided that the two vampires would escort me in with Trace and Erick at our backs and Todd leading.  We walked onto the stage and my heart went into my throat as I spotted Cyril.  Sven and Thorn tightened their grip on my hands which were wound around their arms.  I took deep breaths to calm my heart but that didn’t really work.

Todd stepped forward and spoke clearly to the crowd.  “I’d like to introduce your queen.”  He held out his hand to me.  Sven and Thorn walked me to Todd and handed me over.  It took everything not to look back at them.  “This is Katja.  You may know her as my ‘enforcer.’  She is now both my enforcer and my queen.  I give you Queen Katja.”

The vampires loyal to us bowed gracefully.  There wasn’t a whole lot that were loyal to us, about thirty percent of the vampires in the warehouse bowed.  My heart rate sped up as I surveyed the crowd.  Cyril smirked at me and ran his hand along his groin.  I averted my eyes and turned to Todd.  His teeth were clenched.  He had seen Cyril’s gesture.  “I’d like to introduce her personal guards.  Sven and Thorn.”  They approached us and stood on my left.  “Her other guards, Erick and Trace.”  They came and stood on my right side.

“My royal guard,” he turned and held out his hand.  The man I’d seen at the club came up on stage.  I watched his spun-silver hair glide along his shoulders and caught his eyes, they were silver and nearly the same shade as his hair. 

He was dressed in the same dark jeans, a blood red shirt that glinted off his hair and colored it red as the light played along his shirt, with a dark suit coat.  He walked up and stood on Todd’s left.  I was on the right side of Todd.

“I introduce my queen and our royal guards.”  He made a movement with his hand and those loyal to us bowed again.

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When the ceremony was complete, everyone on stage turned.   I was guided off stage by my men, followed closely by Todd and the silver haired vampire. 

We stayed in the eaves of the stage and watched the vampires leave.  Cyril was one of the last to leave.  He kept looking back and running a finger along his lips.  I cringed and huddled against my men.  I had an odd sense that Cyril could see me.

When the warehouse was empty we went back on stage.  “Kat, I’d like to introduce Haven.”  He came over to me and kneeled. 

“Uh, hi.”  I looked at Todd.  He gave me the ‘up’ motion with his hand.  “Oh.  Please.  Stand.”  Haven stood up and bowed his head.  “Please.  If you’re really Todd’s guard, then call me Kat or Katja.”  He nodded but didn’t say anything.  Was he a mute?  That was a ridiculous thought.

“Haven has agreed to become Thorn and Sven’s master.”  I looked at Haven.  The blood red shirt played along his skin, giving it a pink tinge.  “Thorn and Sven need to blood oath to Haven.  First, Haven will blood oath to me and you.”  I cringed.  I didn’t know this vampire.  For all I knew he was one of the bad guys.  “Kat,” Todd chided me.  My lips parted as I looked at him.  How did he know what I was thinking?  “I know you, babe.”  He smiled softly then turned to Haven.

“Will you blood oath to us?”  Haven nodded.  I wondered how you blood oathed to someone.  I suppose I was about to find out. 

Haven turned into Todd and lifted his wrist to his mouth and bit Todd.  A few swallows later and Haven moved his mouth from Todd’s wrist and kissed him softly.  My mouth fell open and I inhaled sharply. 

Sven and Thorn nudged me.  I snapped my mouth closed.  He was going to kiss me?  I didn’t know him.  Not that I’d never had a vampire that I didn’t know kiss me.  Unfortunately, it’s happened a lot more frequently than I’m comfortable.

Haven moved from Todd and bowed gracefully.  Todd nodded and looked at me.  He mouthed, ‘it’ll be okay’.  I bit my lip and nodded.  Haven came over to me.  I held up my hand.  “Before you bite me, can you speak?”

“Yes, my queen.” 

I rolled my eyes.  “Just Kat or Katja, will be fine, Haven.”

“As you wish.”  He bowed and then started forward. 

I flinched from him and pushed against Sven and Thorn’s bodies.  They were like iron walls keeping me from fleeing.  “Before you kiss me…”  Todd groaned softly and rolled his eyes.  I turned more fully to Todd.  “You may know him, Todd, but I have no idea who he is.  For all I know, he could be a bad guy in disguise.”  That statement sounded ridiculous even to me.  “Okay, maybe not a bad guy but he will still be kissing me, correct?”  Todd nodded.  “Then I deserve to know a little about him.”

“What would you like to know…Katja?”

“Are you going to harm us?”  He shook his head and his silver hair flared around his head catching the red from his shirt and looking like spun rubies.  “Hmm.  Well, I suppose even if you were going to harm us, you wouldn’t tell us.  Let’s get this over with.”

Haven walked slowly to me.  He stopped a foot in front of me and waited.  I looked into his silver eyes and gasped.  They had turned an ice blue, like a Husky.  I stepped back involuntarily.  A small smile spread across his lips.  “I apologize for startling you, Katja.  This is my true eye color.”  I nodded and reclaimed that backward step.  I cringed but held my hand up.  He took my hand in his gently and ran his thumb across the meaty part of my palm.  I sucked in a shallow breath.  He calmly lifted my hand to his mouth and bit me.  He stayed on my wrist longer than Todd’s. 

I was wondering if something was wrong but then he let my wrist go.  His eyes were silver again.  He closed the gap and wrapped his arms around my back.  I could feel the muscles bunching as he pulled me closer.  Haven pushed his tongue into my mouth and kissed me with more passion than I expected.  His arms tightened ever so slightly on my back, then abruptly let me go, with a surprised look on his face. 

I tried to breath past my heartbeat.  Sven and Thorn pulled me back and against them.  Haven bowed and then moved back to Todd’s side. 

“You guys are next.”  Todd motioned for Sven and Thorn to come forward.  Trace and Erick came over and took over guard duty.  I watched from the safety of Trace and Erick’s arms. 

Sven and Thorn walked up to Haven, bowed from the waist, and grabbed a wrist.  They bit Haven at the same time.  Haven pulled in a breath and closed his eyes.  I could feel my skin prickle, as though lightening just struck nearby.  My vampires continued to suck on Haven’s wrists until my ears popped and the skin prickling feeling faded.  I rubbed my arms and found Trace and Erick doing the same.

Sven kissed Haven, wrapping his arms around the silver haired vampire and pressing his body tightly to him.  Sven broke the kiss and bowed his head.  Thorn licked his lips and stepped up to Haven.  They embraced.  When Thorn stuck his tongue in Haven’s mouth, Haven tightened his arms around Thorn for a moment and then relaxed.  They parted.  Thorn bowed his head, and then went to stand beside Sven.