The Vampires Pet

Chapter 17: Fake date

When Kane left, Amdis came and quietly spoke to me. “Francesca is still willing to travel and visit you for sessions, if you are ok with it, she wants to see you tomorrow.”

“Ok,” I nodded. I had slowly gotten used to Francesca, I think part of why I was ok to be alone with her now was because she had shared with me some of her own s****l trauma she had experienced, I think it helped build a sense of trust and understanding.

I asked Michelle if it was ok to have a bath and when she said yes, I went up and ran one. I was turning the taps off when my phone pinged with a message. Opening it up, I saw a number I didn’t know, but the picture let me know it was Kane. He was topless and holy c.rap was he hot.

He was sat on the edge of a bed leaning forward and grinning at the camera, all his perfect and well defined muscles were on display, his arms bulged with muscle and his toned stomach had a perfectly outlined six pack. There was a message under the picture saying, ‘thought I’d try and entice you to come on that date with me next Saturday x’

I was so busy staring at it, I didn’t hear Amdis come up behind me, Pfft who was I kidding, he was as silent as the dead (no pun intended) even If I’d been alert I wouldn’t have heard him.

“Is that Kane?” He asked, looking over my shoulder. I jumped so hard I dropped the phone and quickly bent to pick up.

“Sheesh! Don’t creep up on me like that!”

“My apologies, I just wanted to make sure you are ok.”

“I am.”

“So you are going on that date with Kane?” He asked.

He kept his voice cold and emotionless, I couldn’t tell what he was thinking.

I shrugged, “I don’t know yet, maybe.”

“You can do better than Kane.”

I looked at him. “Kane is nice.”

“He is also still a sociopath.”

“He wouldn’t hurt me.”

“No, but he can be volatile with others and very callous at times.”

“I’ll be fine.”

“My pet, you are extremely sensitive, if he were to say something about you bluntly like he so often does with people, it would upset you.”

“You don’t need to worry about me and my love life,” I muttered.

For a second I felt through our bond his frustration and annoyance, but he simply said, “very well,” and left me alone.

I bathed in peace and looked at Kane’s photo again, he really was a sexy guy, but I had this heavy feeling on my heart thinking of dating him, he wasn’t Amdis, and Amdis was who I really wanted, Amdis was sexy, beautiful, perfect in every way, he was such a gentleman too, and it was laughable to believe that a beautiful vampire like him would ever be interested in someone like me, even Kane was a shock, and I was sure it was only because he found out I was a virgin, I didn’t believe he truly wanted me for me.

I wasn’t even sure I could be intimate with a man, therapy had helped me a lot and most of my issues were about female vampires, but I still grew nervous about anything s****l, the only reason I had been fine during my heat was because Amdis was such a gentleman about it and I both trusted and felt safe with him.

When I went to bed that night I heard Michelle clearly having a good time with Amdis again and thought, screw it, I’m going on that date with Kane.

In the morning Amdis knocked my door and asked, “Rochelle, are you ok?”

I opened the door and gave him a dead pan expression. “I’m fine, but please make Michelle be more quiet when you’re having s**x with her.”

He rose an eyebrow and clearing his throat he replied, “my apologies, I had no idea you could hear anything.”

“Of course I can, she’s loud, and my room is right next to hers.”

“I am sorry, I shall not be intimate with her while you are in the house.”

“I didn’t say you couldn’t be intimate, just be quiet.”

“I shall refrain from intimacy with her, I do not want any awkwardness between us.”

He didn’t wait for my answer and started walking down the stairs. “Your breakfast is ready!” He called up.

I ate my breakfast, and then he wanted us to train. There wasn’t as much space in Michelle’s house, so we used her back garden.

Amdis was very professional and tough with his training, so working with him for weeks had made me a pretty good fighter at this point, I hadn’t had a real fight, but hopefully it worked in a real one. He finally deemed me good enough to move on to using a sword like I had wanted, and I was super excited about it.

He gave me a wooden one to practice with, which wasn’t as exciting, but it was understandable he didn’t want me accidentally stabbing myself or him.

He taught me how to block another sword, attack and how to move back while doing so as well. Then he taught me some simple moves like how to jab with a sword and s***h at someone. He looked proud when he saw I picked it all up much faster than I had the hand to hand fighting.

I decided to be a little silly and when he next slashed at me with his own wooden sword I blocked it and used the momentum to move to the side, get behind him and place my sword against his neck. I was expecting him to probably scold me for messing around and not taking it seriously, but he laughed and said, “very well done my pet, you are a natural with a sword.”

Grinning, I said, “maybe I was a swordsman or something cool like a knight in my past life.”

Smiling, he replied, “I think you may be right.”

He ruffled my hair playfully and said, “we will train again tomorrow and I will show you how to use it on a supernatural.”

I don’t think I’d ever seen him show this much personality to me before, but I liked it a lot.

Besides training and therapy, not much else happened during the week. When Saturday came, I got ready for my date with Kane, I dressed similar to how I had before with the whole seductive and elegant look, my hair up, the only difference was I wore a black dress instead of a red one. I added tights because of my scars, even Kane hadn’t seen them. I pulled on a thin black cardigan to hide my arms and had used makeup to hide the ones on my chest and neck, they weren’t invisible, but they were barely noticeable.

When I went downstairs, Amdis looked me over silently while Michelle squealed, “you look so hot!”

“Thanks,” I smiled, blushing.

“So you’re actually going on this date?” Amdis asked.

“Yeah.”

“I really don’t like the thought of you going out.”

“I’ll be safe with Kane.”

“That’s the only reason I’m even allowing this, but I still don’t like it.”

“I’ll be fine,” I smiled at him, but he didn’t smile back.

Michelle hugged his arm and grinned up at him, “cheer up handsome, you’re starting to sound a little jealous.”

“I am not jealous, I am still her bodyguard and danger is still out there.”

She patted his arm as if she didn’t believe him and he gently shrugged her off in annoyance, that wasn’t like Amdis, he was always polite, but right now, I could feel he was somewhat angry.

He walked away and Michelle whispered, “don’t worry about him, go and have fun.”

I felt almost guilty going on the date, I think part of it was because Amdis was the one I truly wanted, and part of it was the bond making me feel like I was being disloyal to my master.

The door knocked and I went and answered it.

Kane was stood there, looking very handsome in jeans and a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up. His golden blonde lion coloured hair was a sexy tousled mess. “Hey beautiful,” he grinned.

“It really is weird how you can flip a switch from cold and detached to charming and grinning,” I teased.

“I’m charming only for you, babe.”

I smiled happily, it felt really nice to have a hot guy flirting with me and wanting to take me on a date. I stepped outside, closing the door behind me and when I turned around, he was holding a single rose out to me.

I took it and smiled. “This is so cute and romantic.”

I swear he blushed a little when I said that, and he mumbled, “yeah, well, I figured you like that sort of thing.”

“I do,” I grinned.

He took me to dinner in a nice restaurant and I watched in surprise when the waiter brought over Kane’s food, the steak was so bloody and raw I wondered if they’d even cooked it.

Kane noticed me staring at it and laughed, “I have to eat raw meat, obviously in a restaurant I can only have it so raw, keeps the lion happy.”

I almost forgot he was a werelion. While we ate, he asked, “so do you still like Amdis?”

I hesitated, but then nodded.

“I think he might like you too,” he said.

I almost choked on my food when he said that. “What?” I asked.

He shrugged, “you want to know the real reason I asked you out?”

“No, but tell me anyway,” I said nervously.

“I do like you and I do want a girlfriend, but I would rather she be a wereanimal like me. I would love to f***k you, but I’m guessing that’s not going to happen?”

“Definitely not!” I snapped.

He smiled and said, “thought I’d try, anyway, I know you really like Amdis, I thought I’d try and help you out, take you out, see if I could help make him jealous, but after the other night I definitely know he was already jealous.”

“No he wasn’t,” I mumbled.

“Babe, he was more upset about you going on a date with me than he was that I was f.ucking around with his girlfriend.”

“He’s just protective of me.”

“Nope, I know men, he was jealous.”

I shrugged, and he said, “I mean it, I bet if you were to go back after this date and ask him out he would say yes.”

“No way,” I laughed.

“Yes way, why don’t we make it a challenge, you ask him out and if he says no then I will do whatever you want or ask of me, but if he says yes, then you give me whatever I want or ask of you.”

“No way, I know what you’d ask for.”

He laughed and answered, “I promise I won’t ask to take your virginity or anything.”

“I’m too scared to ask, he will just say no.”

“You don’t know that.”

“Yes I do, he already told me he never wants to settle down or fall in love.”

“You’re asking him on a date, babe, not to marry him and have his babies.”

I giggled at that and then asked, “can vampires have babies?”

“No idea,” he grinned.

“I’m not sure I can do it.”

“The worst that can happen is he says no.”

“Exactly, that will be so embarrassing.”

“But at least you’ll know, and you can move on and find someone without the whole ‘what if’ hanging over you.”

He had a point, but I didn’t think I could be brave enough to ask him to his face and said as much to Kane.

“Do you have his number?” He asked.

I shook my head no.

“Ok, well, Michelle is only sleeping with him and dating him casually, right? Get her to ask him for you, or write him a letter.”

“I’ll try,” I said.

He nodded and we carried on eating. I was a little hurt Kane only wanted to sleep with me, I had suspected as much but still. I wasn’t too upset though, it was nice he wanted to help me with Amdis and I appreciated him being honest.

When he dropped me home, he stopped me from opening the car door and said, “can I have a kiss?”

I gave him a dirty look, and he said, “just a kiss, I know you belong to a vampire, so I won’t try anything too steamy, promise.”

I leaned over and let him kiss me on the lips, he was a good kisser, and then I jumped when Amdis opened my door and said, “ok, come on, time to go inside.”

Kane looked up at him and said, “dude, you aren’t her father.”

“No, I am her bodyguard and it is late. Go home Kane.”

Kane rolled his eyes but started his car up and drove off.