bound to the moonlight

Marcus

Marcus

I purred as I watched Amy collapse back into piles of pillows with a loud groan, she looked so dam sexy I felt like I could explode from my intense desire for her. I continued to watch her she looked so beautiful despite her sleepy and clearly less than enthusiastic reaction to seeing me,

"Marcus?" she whispered,

"Are you expecting someone else?" I asked quietly, Amy groaned pushing herself up to sitting she ran her fingers roughly through her hair.

"You know maybe you should call or something rather than just dropping around whenever you feel like it would be more polite."

"But ruin our wonderful spontaneity." I said dryly feeling a scowl appearing on my face, she was in that kind of mood. I liked the soft warm mood but today she was clearly feeling prickly this happened she tended to turn more difficult the closer she drew to her shift it was like Amy loved me but her wolf wasn't proving so easy to tame. I smiled fondly. she had always been like this maybe that was the reason I had persisted for so long with her she after all had been a complete pain in my ass to keep secret but since I had become me well turning someone to your will when your a vampire is so easy its laughable but Amy she still resisted after all these years she couldn't seem to find the will to submit. Amy sighed and laid herself down on her pillows and pushed her duvet aside. I growled in my throat and approached her bed sitting down on the edge my eyes locked on hers but she wasn't looking her eyes were far away as she chewed on her lip, "So what's wrong?" I asked gently I actually wanted to know, there was something about Amy that drew an intense protective urge that otherwise didn't exist within me. Vampires are very protective of their mates but as a species we cannot be protective of others those that bond with humans especially quickly get over it as they are so delicate and anyway it's never advisable to bond with your lunch, and there was no way of getting around it we needed blood to live other animals contained a beating heart and warm blood so being near them the lure was too much.

"It's nothing," she said gently, "I mean nothing wrong I was just."

"Yes..." I said when she hesitated clearly struggling

"It's just...What do you know about Rogues?" she asked gently,

"Huh?" I said thickly lifting my eyes to lock on hers ,

"Rogues." She said twisting thoroughly uncomfortable this wasn't really the moment to address such an issue. "I mean... why are their rogues if being born rogue is a bad enough to get you killed by the pack. Why are there still rogues. Why do rogues exist out of the pack? Are there different reasons? Are there any that live you know normal lives... you know job...mortgage that sort of thing." I frowned at her,

"We talked about this baby I thought you understood."

"I...I just you haven't really told me anything and ... and I don't think wolves are supposed to be alone like this."

"Your not alone you have me," I said gently she smiled; well I knew it was a fake smile but I couldn't help the fact that it warmed my heart.

"Have you found one has one found you?" I asked my voice turning to a growl, "I'm not going to let any rogues hurt you. You know that."

"At the full moon," she said calmly though her eyes stayed averted locked on her bedspread, "I have to lie in an empty basement alone shackled to the wall in agony for three days. My body desperate to run and it's the one thing I can't so I bite and tear at myself. I dread the full moon all month; it can't be like that for all of them. They can't all be restraining themselves if their animals if they are killers. I just don't want to forever be alone I'd like to know another wolf. Just one would do, I need to know."

"Need to know what?"

"What I am, I guess all I know is what you tell me and what I guess."

"I don't lie to you."

"What do you honestly know about us, all you cared about is how you kill us."

"Baby." I said with a sigh, "I've known them little one. I've spent my whole life fighting them, you don't need to Ignorance is safe."

"Safer for me or you?" she asked, I snarled baring his fangs which were smeared with my vivid scarlet blood, angry at her perceptiveness.

"You are my responsibility." I snarled, "I'm bound to you."

"Yeah and if I die who you going to munch on."

"What you think that's it. You think it's all about blood." I Snarled at her,

"I know you like my blood; you've been drinking it since I was four years old. but no I think its compliance too it's a fun game isn't it, the ultimate challenge for you. your just waiting until I give up and let the guy who killed my family f**k me as well as drink me dry." She said this simply, her face though was unreadable as she searched my face mercilessly. "You honestly think that I'm gonna f*****g forget that."

"enough." It was one simple word but she instantly silenced and looked at me, I knew my eyes were scarlet by the fear in her eyes, yet defiance was still there burning away under her fear. I hated to use compulsion on her but I knew that if she had kept speaking that things would have got a lot worse. "You need to be scared of the rogues because you're a female so they'll just try and f*****g r**e you as soon as they find you. And of course there's the pack you meet them and they will kill you for just being alive. for them it about order and control. I know how your people are your better off alone." I said softly, "do you think that I haven't had to kill to look after you, you think none have found you. Believe me." I said breathily, "I have killed for you to protect you so many times." She bit her lip and I saw tears she wouldn't shed welling up in her beautiful dark eyes.

"I'm sorry." She whispered breathily, tears began to spill from her eyes, "why didn't you kill me?" "You know I couldn't."

"I can't live as your pet." "You are not my pet; I am bound to you, as much as you're bound to me." "You need to feed." She said in little more than a whisper, I shook my head though I was lying, Amy laid back down exposing her bare thigh, I felt the tingle that told me my fangs' were lengthening. I wish that I could refuse and be chivalrous but the one I was bound to was laying before me offering her blood and with my hunger at the level it was I was drawn to it as if by a magnetic force. I slid my fangs into her thigh and her warm rich blood flooded into me. Amy made no noise she never did but I saw her fists clench as she gripped the sheet beneath her, she hated me feeding from her it went against her wolf instinct but it bonded us together like nothing else so how could I not feed from her. I sucked on her thigh drawing the blood from her; she tasted so beautiful since the day I a first tasted her I hadn't wanted to taste anything else. I slid my cold hands gently up her outer thighs I loved the feeling of her warm skin under my cold touch. Vampires were cold, and we didn't mix with humans much feeding like most likely would kill them so I didn't feel this heat beneath my fingers in any other way. But the feel of her smooth warm skin under my fingers was just perfect. I pulled my hand from her skin and placed it into my pocket I retrieved to cool glass vial and placed it gently in Amy's hand,

"No." She squeaked but her fingers still closed around the glass. I saw her fingers tighten perceptively around the small vial as her eyes closed and she lost consciousness. My fangs receded as I gained control of myself, I pulled my fangs free and licked the blood from them her rich decadent blood filling my senses I pulled a blanket across her gently. I looked at her with a smile she was so beautiful and like this she had no snark inside her she was just beautiful. I know Amy didn't believe I loved her but I must have after all I was honestly risking death to keep her like this and I knew it. But that night in the woods the second I has fed from her I knew I could never give her up. All of my brothers who knew of her existence believed I had bled her dry long ago which would have made sense but there was something else in my feelings for this girl stupidly maybe but I did want to protect her and the longer we were together the more we shared blood the stronger this bond would become. We were permitted to bond with other Pires or even humans if you were stupid enough to try (few did- weak meat bags) but the covenant since the birth of peace between our races there was a vow that we would never feed on their blood. Oh well.