Forbidden Alliance: A Werewolf's Tale (Forbidden Alliance Trilogy) (13 page)

When Jay Dee stepped out of the loo to join me, a smile consumed my face and my heart raced.
That type of reaction to a human, to anyone for that matter, wasn’t normal and it should have terrified me.
Change for vampires, especially physical change…being a vampire had not
hing to do with it; change for narked
, cynical arseholes like
myself
was never good.
I hadn’t smiled in years, centuries it felt like, and I hadn’t laughed like
that
in longer than I could remember, and yet each I was doing without thought or question, without second guessing why I was happy…why I deserved to be happy and feel
and experience the most simplistic of emotions
, and I loved it.
I hadn’t realized how much my closed off,
narked
at the world, cynical pessimistic nature had taken from me…had kept me from.

“Are you
positive
you are not going to get in a barney
, Miss Jay Dee
?” I asked, opening the door for her, offering her my hand but she didn’t take it.

Bloody, stubborn self-sufficient bird!

Jay Dee chewed on her little finger while she waited for me to join her,
her eyes following my every move. Sadly,
I had to take my time because it was stimulating in a
ll the wrong ways at the moment, and I hadn’t a ta
ble to hide my arousal under
.

A soft, almost perverse purr rolled from between her lips when I joined her and I visibly shivered, and my eyes fought to roll in the back of my head.

She is the bloody devil!

“If you mean trouble, not likely.
But can I use your phone?”
Jay Dee
asked and it was in front of her before she finished asking.
“That vampire speed is so damn cool!” she giggled, dialing
the
mobile
.

Now
I
have
her number
!

“Hey Jarvis,” she whispered.

“Where in the hell are you?” Jarvis demanded, his voice echoing throughout the interio
r of the car, causing the phone’s
reception to break up slightly.

“Bellingham,” Jay Dee groaned and rolled
her eyes.
“I lost track of time at dinner, but we’re on our way back now.
Will you tell Mom and Dad
that I’m sorry I’m late and it was totally an accident?
Pretty please?” she pouted, making a face and I
snorted
at her theatrics.

“Dude, Dad is freaking out!
One of those
goddamn suckheads are
missing.”

“So?” she huffed.
“Not about Dad but about the vampire.
Who cares if one is missing or dropping way too much money on
overly
priced Italian food.
Big deal.”

I smiled; she was such a naughty
thing
.

Jarvis ignored her.
“You know how the pack is!
They’re hell bent
that
he’s on a murderous rampage!
Are you okay?
You didn’t see any suckheads did you?
You know that suckheads have an appetite for hot, blonde virgins in the moonlight and you fit into that first victim in a vampire flick mold pretty damn well, Sis.”

“I do
not!” she shot back, her cheeks flushing a delicious shade of red.

Murderous rampage?
What in bloody hell…wait, she’s a virgin?
I like the sound of that way more than I should.

“And don’t worry about the missing vampire,” Jay Dee said, pulling me from the outl
andish and very perverted images
that were suddenly
flooding my mind, “the only thing he killed was a butt load of Italian food and like six bottles of wine.”

I rolled my eyes, turning
the car around
and headed towards the highway
.

I should give her a bloody spanking for that.

There was a moment of silence on the line.

“Sis, who in the hell are you with?” Jarvis choked.

“Tanis.”

“Please, oh God, please tell me he’s some new kid who has an expiration date of less than a century!” he pleaded, whined and pouted all at the same time.

I thought Jarvis was her brother, not her sister!
What a whiny bird.

Jay Dee roared with laughter and it made me smile; I loved her laugh.
It
wa
s so carefree and womanly like the rest of her, but it was youthful and filled with
an
innocence and sense of adventure for life that was admirable and addictive.
I envied it because I wanted that in my l
augh as well, but I was
well aware that just being in the presence of the woman, of the source of the unbridled innocence and wonder, was more than I deserved so I wouldn’t allow it to make me
narked
or bitter.

“This isn’t funny, young lady!” Jarvis snapped, suddenly
turning
from her brother to her sister
,
and now her father.

“Yup, it is
,” she
said, making
a silly popping sound emphasizing the P.
“I will be home soon, and don’t worry, he doesn’t want to
suck my blood
,” she said
the latter
sounding like The Count from Sesame Street.
I was waiting for her to go ‘One vampire, ha ha ha.
Two vampires, ha ha ha.’
That’s one of Steffen’s daft jokes
when he’s all to pot
.

“Dad is going to kill you,” Jarvis said, pronouncing each word deliberately so nothing was lost in translation.

Jay Dee closed her eyes and twirled a lock of
her
white blonde
hair around her fingers, her lips twisting into a delicate, sexy, unconsciously seductive pout and my hands were once again shaking with longing.

I peeked down at my crotch and silently berated myself.

You are over three hundred years old and you can’t control your prick around this
bird
? What is your problem?!

I didn’
t have an answer, but
thankfully Jay Dee was too distracted by her rambling, infantile brother to notice my distress and arousal.

“No he won’t,” she finally said
, pulling my attention
.
“If he wants to be mad at me, tell him to consider it
an
early birthday present.
See you soon, Bro.”
She hung up the mobile and handed it to me.
“Thanks and sorry about that, I know your super hearing picked all that up.”

“Do not worry about it,
Miss Jay Dee.
I have heard worse, and I do not have super hearing…it was just rather difficult to ignore a man
who
speaks that loudly on the phone and in such a heightened level of
feminine
hysterics.
Early birthday present?” I asked, changing the subject.

“Yeah,
they marked my
birthday
as the day I joined
the Lhaq'temish
and pack...it’s on
Friday,” she said with a shrug.
“And you better not have super hearing,” she mumbled the last part u
nder her breath so I ignored it.
I was too irritated at
the stubborn woman for keeping
her birthdate
from me.
In all fairness, it didn’t come up in conversation, but still.

“Allow me to ask you this,” I said when I pulled
onto the highway
, “if you could have anything in the world that
brass...money
could buy, what would it be?
There are no restrictions, however it has to be purchasable or within reason.
Asking for immortality is not within reason,” I quickly added; that
was all I didn’t need, a teenager
asking for me to bite her so we
could
spend eternity hating each other.

Jay Dee sighed and looked out the side window.
And after five miles
of silence
she answered, “A really nice digital camera and laptop for my brother.
That way he can
capture
all of the amazing and unimaginable things he’s seeing in Europe.
And hopefully he wouldn’t be an asscrack and would email me pictures so I can experience them with him…in a sense.”

Bugger.
I should have seen that one coming.

Yes, I should have.
It fit into her personality perfectly, and a part of me would have been disappointed if she
hadn’t
said
something irritatingly humble like wanting something for her daft brother.
But at the same time, I had to press it to make sure that she was real.
People…human, vampire, werewolf, witch, it didn’t matter…like her didn’t exist. That
I knew of.
Secretly, I kept waiting for
the mirage effect to fade away, revealing
the ugly reality
,
and that’d be
when
I found
out that she wasn’t an amazing, beautiful, humble, caring, considerate and empathetic creature, and
instead
she was really a
boring, mundane
demon in guise, and was solely on this earth to taunt me with false hope for the future
,
and
to teasingly wave potential happiness in front of me but just out of reach.

“You may have anything in the world, anything at all, and you want something for someone else for
your
birthday?” I asked the obvious.

Please be real.
Please be real.

Jay Dee lolled her head to the side and smirked; the look on her face made it more than apparent that I had just asked the daftest question in the world, and honestly, I might have, but inside I was smiling like a nipper with their first nudie mag.

“Miss Jay Dee, in
all of my many
years of life
, I do not think that I have ever met anyone like you,” I admitted before I could stop myself and she gave me an amused look.
“It is frustrating
yet
mildly refreshing,” I quickly added the latter and she made a face which made me chuckle.

“Glad I could be of service,” she dryly said.
“When’s your birthday?”

Bugger.
I walked into that one.

“It was harder to keep track of that type of thing when I was born, since we used sundials and hourglasses in the year of Our Lord.
However, if I had to venture a guess, it was in the early spring.
Me brother sends flowers in the spring to celebrate me birthday.
He says it is because when I was a nipper I would pick flowers and put them in me flowing golden locks, and would spin around in a petticoat and panniers.”
I laughed, he was such a prick.

“That is a very disturbing mental picture,” Jay Dee said in a level voice.

I shrugge
d, trying to keep from laughing
.
“Sometime in March most likely,” I finally told
her since she wasn’t finding me nearly as amusing as I was finding myself
at that moment
.
“Why do you ask?”

Jay Dee ignored my question and asked one of her own; I hated it when she did that.
“Same question.
If you could have anything that money can or can’t buy, what would it be?” she asked
then
chewed on her little finger, looking at me with those large, onyx eyes, her long black lashes appeared to be waving at me as she batted them in a slow, torturous, almost methodical manner.

The woman was a
bloody demon and didn’t even know it!

“I’m waiting,” she playfully sang, resting her head on my shoulder and looked up at me, a
soft,
beautiful smile filled her face, making her appear angelic and delicate, but the mischief
dancing
in her deep
dark
eyes told the truth; she was anything but.

To be honest,
I liked her head on my shoulder.
It felt right…if there was a sense or feeling
which
should have accompanied
the action
, it would have been
that
.
Having Jay Dee touching me, teasing me, talking to me, hell, just spending time with me
,
felt right.
And I like it way more than was
appropriate, especially considering she was human and I was a vampire, she was young and I was old, she was a virgin and I
was not
, but most importantly, she was innocent and I was anything but.