The Vampire Executioner (A necromancer romance novel)

Chapter 14: A date

Esmeralda

He had sobered up a little with the fresh air by the time we were back, and I wondered if he’d still be as friendly now.

“Where do you want me?” He asked, as he looked around the room. I want you on my bed, I thought, but didn’t dare say it.

My home was nothing special, I’d left the walls white and simply decorated with black shelves and black frames to hang up and littered the shelves with cute fake plants and some ornaments.

The rooms had all the same beige Lino flooring throughout and while the rest of the home looked like a grown adults, my bedroom did not with the Disney cartoon bed covers and the big pile of teddies I’d collected over the years I’d been free to live alone.

I quickly went to shut my bedroom door, so he wouldn’t see, but it was too late, he had come up behind me and looked over my shoulder into my room.

“You have some kind of daddy’s little princess fantasy going on in here?” He joked.

I don’t know why, I really don’t, but I teasingly replied, “yes daddy, I hope you don’t mind”

I cringed the second the words left my mouth, why on earth would I flirt with him, he hated me, and I’d done nothing but humiliate myself.

He looked down at me with a raised eyebrow and stepped into my personal space so that my back was up against the wall.

He leaned one forearm against the wall so that I was blocked in. “You want me to be your daddy?” He murmured seductively.

I couldn’t decide whether he was still drunk or playing a trick on me to see how I’d react.

I don’t think I’d ever soaked my panties as much as I did just then, and I could barely whisper the next words. “Yes.”

“You should be really careful saying things like that to a man Esmeralda, especially if he knows you’re a virgin, there’s nothing hotter than a horny virgin telling you she wants to call you daddy while you take her virginity…if you’re into that whole submissive and dominant stuff that is.”

He pressed himself against me and I thought I might faint, I was starting to understand why people loved flirting so much.

“I’m guessing you’re not the type to enjoy one night of s**x though, are you?”

He moved away from me and I sighed in disappointment, making him laugh softly.

He was right, and it was very gentlemanly of him to respect that and not push my boundaries.

He turned serious and checked all the windows and doors, making sure they were locked, it wouldn’t stop a vampire from getting inside, and they didn’t need to be invited in either whether you were living or dead, but it would make noise and alert us if someone tried to get in.

While he did that, I took the time to calm my breathing and my aching loins and got him a pillow and blanket for the sofa .

When I came back with them, he looked at me and frowned, “uh, the point of me guarding you is to stay awake, but thankyou.” He took the blanket and pillow from my hands and placed them on the arm of the sofa.

He sat down in the single chair and told me to go to sleep, so I made my way to my room feeling like I wouldn’t get any sleep after having him so close against me and whispering seductive things into my ear.

I woke in my bed still alive and was pretty shocked that no one had tried to come kill me or at the very least bring me back to the queen for questioning and punishment.

I thought about it, and then I thought about the attack last night, I didn’t think it had been on the queen’s orders the more I thought on it, I had felt the terror as she talked about the executioner and I had seen terror in her eyes, they were terrified of Lucan or in their mind, the executioner because he was too powerful, it would require a lot of planning and last night had seemed like some amateur attack as if they were going up against just another normal vampire hunter.

I made my way into the living room and found Lucan asleep on the sofa, so much for bodyguard material, but then again, he had been drunk. I smiled to myself and watched him sleep.

He really was truly beautiful to look at, and I hadn’t realized how long I’d been watching him for until he opened his eyes and looked at me. He looked confused and then pulled his phone from his pocket and checked the time.

“S.hit!” He jumped up off the sofa and stopped for a second to ask me, “is it ok to use your restroom?”

I barely finished nodding before he was rushing in there to wash his face and sort his hair out, if the noises were any indication.

He came back out, and I assume he must have had chewing gum in his pockets because he was chewing one now as he opened the front door to leave the house.

I followed him out, knowing we were both a little late for work.

He didn’t speak to me on the way, but it wasn’t a hostile silence like before and at one point he even smiled at me.

When we walked through the door of the building, Dana was already there with her arms folded and grinning like a Cheshire Cat seeing us walk in together.

Lucan spotted her look straight away and said before she even spoke, “wipe the smirk off your face, Esmeralda is still a virgin. Nothing happened.”

He made his way into his office, and she came over to me and whispered, “is he telling the truth?”

I nodded shyly and answered, “there was one weird moment though, he pressed up against me and mentioned about me calling him daddy—“

She cut me off, “stop, go back to the beginning, I want all the details.”

So I told her everything that had happened and by the end of it she was grinning again.

“You really like him don’t you,” she said it more as a statement than a question.

I didn’t feel the need to hide it from Dana, she was one of those people you felt like you could talk to about anything. I nodded my head yes and blushed hard.

“Eeek! Yes! I knew it, this is great. I’ll help try and get you two together.”

I snorted at that, “he doesn’t even like me, actually he hates my guts, probably dreams every night about my guts on the end of his stake.”

“Oh shush, he doesn’t hate you…anymore, after last night he knows he can trust you now. Besides, by the sound of last night it wasn’t his wooden stake he was dreaming was inside you.” She winked, and I blushed even harder, even I knew what she meant by that statement, especially as I’d been trying to learn more about the slang words of s**x and everything since Dana’s interrogation.

“Do you want me to stop sleeping with him whenever one of us is horny?” She asked.

“Oh god, Dana, no, I can’t tell you guys what you can and cannot do with one another, he’s single and free to sleep with whoever he wants.”

“I’m gonna take that as a yes.”

“But—“

“No buts, he’s all yours, as long as he doesn’t find some random woman instead of me, but I promise I won’t touch him from now on.”

“I really don’t need you to do that,” I said.

“I know, but I’m doing it anyway, besides, it’s kind of weird to have s**x with him now I know my friend has a hot thing for him, that wouldn’t be cool of me to sabotage your chances of wooing him if I’m constantly f.ucking him.”

Lucan chose that moment to walk into the room. “Whatever you ladies are whispering about can wait, open up the place.”

He spoke in a no-nonsense tone and sounded scary enough that even Dana jumped off the table where she had been sitting and unlocked the doors, putting the open sign on display without a word or joke to be heard.

The day went pretty quietly, so we didn’t have all that much to do, which left Dana with plenty of time to talk to me about how she would try and get me and Lucan together, she asked what flowers I liked, so she could hint at him, which I vehemently begged her not to do.

She mentioned different dates we could go on and if I wanted her to ask him to ask me out, which I again made very clear I did not want, how embarrassing.

In the end she had us all train in the hall again, and I knew the moment she partnered me with Lucan that it was going to be bad somehow. It was.

She had Lucan pin me to the floor, similar to what he had done before when it had been just me and him, but I made absolutely sure not to do the same embarrassing grinding moves I had done before, so Dana had us get up and then have him pin me against the wall.

I tried to escape, but couldn’t, when I did manage to break my wrists free I couldn’t budge him an inch, so I tried to slide down and crawl between his legs.

I almost made it before he grabbed me from behind and pinned me onto my back, and ended up doing some move that meant he was straddling my neck with his crotch in my face, and me completely helpless and unable to do anything.

He clearly didn’t think anything of it and smirked until he saw Dana’s grinning face.

He glared angrily at her and climbed off me. “I f.ucking knew it, I knew you only wanted us to come train, so you could try and make me f***k Esmeralda, you think making us do positions that look s****l in some way is going to make us f***k or something. Quit it.”

He walked out on us, and Dana held a hand up to me silently and quickly ran after him. I could hear them outside thanks to my vampire hearing and didn’t need to follow.

“Why are you so annoyed? She’s not that bad is she, hell she saved your besties life last night, so you know we can trust her.”

“Doesn’t matter, if I wanted to f***k her, then I’d try and f***k her without your help. If I’m horny, I’m quite happy coming to you at the moment.”

“Not any more Lucan, we should stop doing that, we use each other to satisfy our needs and then that means we don’t bother meeting real potential lovers or partners because of it.”

I could just about see outside the window as he stepped in close to her and laid his hands on either side of her waist.

“You really don’t want to have s**x with me anymore? Because I’m kind of horny right now if you wanted to come back to mine.” He leaned in to kiss her, but she turned her head so he got her cheek instead.

“You don’t need me, besides, what’s the harm in dating someone?“

He sighed in frustration and stepped away from her. “She’s not just someone Dana, she’s a vampire.”

“But a cute virgin vampire.” I saw her wink at him, he shook his head and rolled his eyes at her, then he turned his head and looked at me through the glass window.

I quickly looked away and pretended to be busy messing with my hair or something, even though I knew it was too late, he had already seen me watching them.

I didn’t look up, but I could have killed Dana when I heard her next words.

“Why don’t you just ask Esmeralda out on a date and get to know her, she really is lovely and probably closer to a time like yours with all that proper spoken English s.hit and gentlemanly ways. She really likes you, but don’t say I told you that, or she’ll kill me.”

“No thanks,” he snorted.

“I’m serious Lucan, just try, one date and see how you feel, what’s the worst that can happen? You don’t feel anything and don’t enjoy it, so what, you don’t have to go on a second date. I know you and her were getting along last night.”

“I was drunk,” he replied.

“Stop being stubborn and just go on one date with her, if it isn’t for you, then maybe you’ll gain a friend in her instead. Give it a go and stop wasting your life away. If you do it, then I’ll start dating too, properly, no more one-night stands.”

He was quiet for a moment, and I hadn’t realized he had walked back in until I jumped out of my skin to the sound of his voice right behind me.

“I’m guessing you heard some of that, so do you want to go on a date with me because if we don’t, she will just go on and on about it until we do.”

I hated the idea of him feeling pressured into going on a date with me and didn’t want his pity.

“No, that’s ok we don’t need to do that,” I made it sound as nonchalant as I could.

“She really will just bang on about it every single day. She did it before with some girl I liked, didn’t leave me alone for like a whole year until I finally just asked the girl out to shut her up.”

“Did the date go well?” I asked.

“No, she found the whole gentlemanly gestures extremely offensive, all I got at the end of the date was a hard s.lap when I accidentally opened the car door for her a second time after she’d already told me not to do it after the first time. I genuinely forgot.”

I laughed and quickly covered my mouth with my hand, “I’m so sorry, it’s just Dana mentioned it to me and that she has to s.lap you now from time to time for memorie’s sake or something.”

“Yeah or something. She’s never let me forget, b.itch,” he said it lightheartedly and added, “so, the date, want to do it?”

“Ok,” I blushed.

“I suppose I should ask now what your preference is with dates. Do you like the more modern way of things or the old-fashioned way?”

I laughed and answered, “I love the old-fashioned and more gentlemanly way of things…if that’s ok.”

“Of course, it’s more my time anyway.”

I wanted to ask him about what time he was from, but thought I should save it for the date, so we would have more to talk about. I wasn’t very good at small talk or any talk so this gave me something to ask him about himself.

“Where’s Dana?” I asked instead.

“Ditched us of course, thinks if we are left alone we’ll somehow end up n***d and writhing on the mat or something.”

He made a dead pan expression and I laughed and blushed.

“Shall we?” He gestured, and stretched out his hand, indicating for me to leave first.