Scent of a Vampire

CHAPTER 26



When I got close, I heard soft music playing and when the dock came into view I stopped, stunned at the scene before me. Roberto stood beside a candle lit table holding a bunch of wildflowers. He was dressed in tailored black trousers and a crisp white shirt with the top three buttons undone, giving me a glimpse of his smooth chest. His black hair was still damp and combed back.

When I looked at him I swear I couldnt breathe. When he saw me, he smiled and his smile was as bright as the moonlight shining down through the few clouds. He started to walk towards me; God, even his walk was sexy. I was paralyzed on the steps leading down to the dock and I still couldnt breathe. When he reached me, he took my hand in his, "Cara..you look beautiful. Would you care to join me for dinner?"

"Ummm, yeah, ummm, sure." I stammered. He led me down the last few steps and I was proud of the fact I only stumbled once. When we got to the table I saw there was champagne, and the table was set as if we were at a five star restaurant.

"I thought we were going to train?" I asked him.

"We are my love, but first we must eat, no?" he set the flowers down and came over to pull out my chair. I sat and he went over to the champagne and filled first my glass and then his own.

He held up his glass for a toast so I held mine up, "To Olivia, a vivacious, beautiful woman whom I hope will always be willing to share her life with me."

We clinked our glasses together and he looked like he was waiting for me to say something. My mind was blank! I had nothing. He had appeared before me tonight as an amazing Roman god and I lost all of my senses. "Ummm, to Roberto, who..." I burst into tears.

Roberto put his glass down and came over to kneel



214 by my side. "Olivia, are you all right?" He asked with concern in his voice.

Between my ugly sobbing I managed to say "You...are....so....handsome....sexy...and you....look like...a God...and I lost my breath....when I saw you...."

Roberto hugged me hard and chuckled, "That was the most wonderful toast anyone has ever given me."

He reached in his pocket and got out a handkerchief and wiped my tears away. He got up and sat down again.

"Roberto, can I ask you something?"

"Of course Cara, you can ask me anything."

"How is it that I am supposed to be this prophesized Sensay when I cant even be cool and collected when I am with you? I mean we are contemplating me becoming a sort of double agent to spy on the Guardians and I dont think I can do it. You just saw me fall apart in front of you, just because you are too handsome."

His eyebrows rose. "Too handsome?"

"Im serious Roberto. I dont think I am what everyone believes me to be."

"First Piccolina, you are a newborn to your powers. No one comes into their abilities right away. When I first got mine, I used to run into trees." He chuckled.

"You did not." I said.

"Yes I did. You know how we can run fast? Well, you need to learn how to control your movements when youre going that fast. I often found myself unconscious under a tree. But I learned to control my movement and use my sonar to navigate."

"Will you show me how to control myself?"

Roberto looked amused, "I will to a point. I will not teach you to control yourself in our bed my love."

I sucked in a breath when he mentioned our bed. Having him say that meant we had a relationship; we were a couple. Before I could stop myself I went over to him and sat on his lap and kissed him.



215 He wrapped his arms around me we kissed until we were both out of breath.

Reluctantly, Roberto pulled back "As much as I would like to make love to you, you need to eat something and start your training."

As we sat down to eat, I asked him how he had managed to do all of this.

"Believe it or not Janel helped me plan it. She went to the store while we were out and set everything up."

"Where is she anyway? I looked everywhere for her tonight."

"She went out to dinner with Andy."

"Andy?? Hmmm, interesting. I thought she was going after Mark."

"Well she ended up with Andy." Roberto said stiffly and I wondered how much he had to do with the match up. Then I remembered to ask him about what Cristoforo had meant about the council. Roberto seemed a little reluctant to talk about it but I reminded him he had promised to tell me.

"The council he was referring to is a council of evolved beings. I sit on the council and am expected to follow the rules more so than anyone else."

"And because of me youre not, Im not a vampire." I said softly.

"I dont care Olivia. Im not giving you up. I will resign from the council. You are all that matters to me."

"I cant let you sacrifice everything for me."

"But without you there is nothing. I dont care about the council." Roberto declared.

I didnt know what to say. I was moved by his admission and also a little frightened. Roberto sometimes could be a very intense vampire. As a matter of fact, most of the vampires Ive met have been rather intense creatures, all of them except Alex. I was hit with a wave of sadness. I missed Alex and his easy banter, and his quick smile.



216 Roberto must have sensed my sadness. "Do not worry Piccolina, it will work out. I wont let anyone come between us."

I didnt correct his assumption. How was I going to explain I had been thinking of Alex and not of his dilemma?

I decided to change the subject, "Are we going to begin training?"

Roberto chuckled "My little Sensay is not very patient is she?"

"No," I admitted. "I dont have a lot of patience. Im sorry."

"No need to apologize. But that is your first lesson."

"Patience?"

"Yes Piccolina, close your eyes."

I closed my eyes as he ordered. He continued. "I want you to concentrate of the sound of a bee buzzing."

I heard a bee buzzing nearby and quickly opened my eyes and stood up, "Where is it?"

Roberto answered with amusement, "The bee is not close to you and I wont let it hurt you. But you need to sit down and close your eyes."

I looked around suspiciously, but sat back down and closed my eyes again. Once more he continued, "Do you hear the buzzing Olivia?"

I concentrated on the sound again and heard the bees buzzing. I nodded yes to Roberto.

"Clear your mind of everything, but the sound of the bee. Can you follow the bees flight?"

I concentrated on the bee and pictured in my mind the path the bee was on. It was circling a flowering bush looking for a spot that had the most nectar. It veered right and dipped low and landed on a flower. I could hear the bees tongue lapping at the nectar.

"Oh my God, Roberto! That was so cool. I could



217 actually hear the bee eating."

Roberto smiled at me, "You are very good at this. You are a natural I believe. It took me a long time to learn how to control volume. Lets try something else. Do you still hear the bee?"

"Yeah." I replied.

"Well, now I want you to try and silence the noise from the bee. Use your mind to turn it off." Roberto urged.

I concentrated once more on the bee. It had taken all of the nectar from the flower and was moving towards another one. I let my mind think about silence. It was difficult at first. I had to clear my mind and think of silence as a tangible thing. I imagined with my eyes closed that everything stopped and there was nothing but silence. Still with my eyes closed, I smiled at the total silence. I really could do this. This was amazing. I wished I would have had this ability when I was in school and had to listen to a boring lecture. I opened my eyes and saw Roberto smiling at me. And then he opened his mouth and started talking. Only I didnt hear anything. I jumped up suddenly and my chair overturned but it made no sound. Roberto swiftly came over to me and grabbed my arms. I think he was shouting but I didnt hear anything. I was in a full panic. Roberto grabbed my head between his hands. And then he kissed me. It surprisingly was a soft kiss, followed by a nibble of my lips, and then he started sucking on my bottom lip. He slipped his tongue into my mouth and parried with my tongue and when he started to suck on my tongue I heard myself moan. At the sound I pulled away from Roberto, "I couldnt hear anything Roberto, nothing, it was like I went deaf. It was frightening." I shuddered.

Roberto took my shaking hands in his, "Im sorry Piccolina, if I knew there was even a chance of you being at that kind of ability level I would have warned you about being careful of going too far. I have never heard of a novice who could do what you just did. You are powerful



218 Olivia, more powerful than I would have guessed. I dont have a lot of experience with a Sensays abilities, so maybe this is normal. I dont know. Ill admit I am out of my territory here. It may not be the wisest thing for me to be training you. Something could go wrong. I dont want to end up hurting you."

"But I want you to train me. If you dont train me then who will?"

"You need to train with your people." Roberto said kindly.

"My people?? I dont know what youre talking about. I dont have any people. My people were my parents and they are dead." I was on the brink of having a hissy fit.

"Cara, it will be okay. When I say your people, I mean your clan. Your tribe."

"What are you talking about? I dont have a tribe. Or a clan."

"Did your parents ever talk about your Native American ancestors?"

I thought back to when I was little and we would travel every summer to the Adirondack Mountains my parents loved so much.

I remember there were a few times my parents told me we were going to take an extra long holiday and visit some special people. We would have to go on a boat to get there, which I thought was great fun. I remember my parents saying we were going to an Island. I also remember having parties there, in my later years I always thought back on these times as the times that we hung out with my parents hippie friends because when I was older I recognized the parties more as rituals than a party. There would be chanting and some dancing but I couldnt remember much else. I figure they were worshiping Mother Earth or some sort of new age stuff like that.

Now remembering all of that, I told Roberto, "I do remember going to the Adirondack Mountains every



219 summer and some of the times we would visit an island where my parents would hold some sort of ritual. Do you think this is where ,,my people are?"

Roberto looked thoughtful, "The Adirondacks? It could be possible you visited an island in the Thousand Islands. They are in that vicinity, which is not too far from here. I will put some people on it to see if we can dig up any information."

I looked at Roberto, "Do you really think I may have some relatives around?"

"Im not sure Piccolina, but I think we should at least check into it."

At my sigh he said, "I think we have trained enough tonight. Why dont we go back to the house and relax awhile. I want to make sure everything is prepared for our trip."

We walked back up to the house arm in arm. My mind was in chaos with everything. There was a possibility I may have relatives out there. And then there was tonights training. That was just bizarre and frightening. I wondered when things settled down if I could take a vacation from being a Sensay for a couple of weeks.

When we got back to the house it seemed like there was a party going on. All of the lights were lit and music playing. Uh oh. Reggae music? That means Janel was drinking and most likely making everyone in her immediate vicinity drink too.

The sight that greeted me though was beyond anything I could have expected. I could see from Robertos shocked expression he had probably never before entered his home and seen such a display.

Mark and Andy were holding a long curtain rod on either side while Cristoforo was doing his best to bend far back to limbo underneath it. Janel and Juan were cheering him on with what looked like pina coladas in their hands. The heavy drapes that had been hanging in the living room



220 were on the floor. We hadnt been noticed yet when they all started shouting, "How low can you go?"

I laughed and looked at Roberto but the laughter died on my lips when I saw Robertos fierce scowl.

"I think theyre just blowing off a little steam." I tried to reason.

"They all look drunk. Not one of them would be any good if there was a security breach right now." Roberto said with disgust.

He cleared his throat rather loudly. When that had no effect on the partiers he simply shouted the word, "STOP!" Everyone in the room turned to stare. The only people who looked abashed were Mark and Andy. Cristoforo just cursed when he fell to the floor and Juan laughed while Janel hiccupped.

"I think weve had enough festivities for the evening. We have a very important mission to prepare for if youve all forgotten." Roberto leveled at them.

At those words, even Cristoforo looked slightly ashamed at the thought of having forgotten about Alexs plight.

Janel looked like she was going to be sick. I went over to her and pushed the hair out of her eyes. "Are you okay sweetie?" I asked her.

"Ummm, yeah. Nooooo, I dont feel so good." She replied.

I glanced over at Roberto, "While you finish up your business here, Ill take Janel up to her room."

I looked at him standing there, still looking really, really good in his crisp white shirt, which he now had the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. I stared at his strong arms and felt the now familiar shiver go through me. He stared back at me with his eyes blazing. I could actually see his nostrils flaring at the scent of my arousal.

"Hurry, and take care of her. I will quickly finish my business here and meet you in our room."



221 I all but drug Janel to her room. I helped her undress and get into her pajamas and tucked her in. As I prepared to leave I heard Janel murmur, "Its funny you know, we always thought I was the stronger one. Now its all about you, isnt it?"

I felt hurt by her remarks. Was that how I had been acting? Tomorrow I needed to talk to Janel about this. For now I forced my mind from those depressing thoughts and hurried down the hall to Robertos room. I had hoped that I beat him back because I wanted to change quickly. I hurriedly got out the black lace lingerie that Roberto had shown great interest in and then decided what the hell? I got out the black leather halter-top, mini skirt, and thigh high boots. I wanted to see if I could rock Robertos world tonight.

I got dressed and almost changed my mind when I saw myself in the mirror. I had wanted to feel like a bad girl, but instead felt like I was playing dress up.

I sat down on the bed and tried to get myself into bad girl mode but how did one do that, I wondered? I laid myself fully on the bed and decided to just concentrate on Roberto. I thought about how his muscular thighs looked in those tight black pants tonight. And how soft his lips felt when he had kissed and nibbled me earlier. I easily became aroused. I found myself squirming on the bed and bent one leg up until my booted foot was flat on the bed. I let my leg fall to the side. I let out a small moan as I ran my fingers lightly over my mound. I was startled out of my lust- induced haze by the sound of a low growl. I bolted upright on the bed to see Roberto standing just inside the doorway with his eyes blazing. "Dio Santo Olivia! Dont stop!"

He didnt move a muscle as I lay back on the bed. I suddenly felt powerful. I had this potent vampire in my thrall. I was having no trouble now playing the bad girl, because I was the bad girl and I intended to take full advantage of the moment. I locked my eyes with his and



222 swept my hand over my half covered breasts making my nipples harden and pucker, and trailed it softly across my stomach, and then down between my spread thighs. I heard Roberto suck in his breath. I kept eye contact as I pulled my skirt up and bared my black lace thong. I went to pull it down when Roberto growled low and with vampire speed jumped onto the bed on his hands and knees before me.

"No, It will be as I promised Cara, I will rip them off with my fangs." His head tilted backwards and when he was once again looking at me his fangs were out and he had the look of a dangerous predator. The hair on the back of my neck stood up in response, at the same time my excitement rose. I felt reckless and wild, almost primal in my need. Roberto growled and ran his tongue up the inside of my thigh. My body came off the bed as I tried to move closer to him. I felt his sharp fangs graze my skin slightly as he took hold of the black lace and with a feral growl ripped them from my body. The action caused a frenzy of heat between the two of us. I barely recall Roberto ripping off his clothes. I had half taken mine off and then gave up. Roberto gasped when I grabbed his cock and guided it inside me. I was so wet and slick and ready for him that he effortlessly slid in.

"Dio, Olivia, you are so tight it feels so good. Our muscles feel like a vise around my cock." he groaned.

I wrapped my legs around him and he started pumping into me so fast and furious that I heard his balls slap against me.

"Ohhh my God Roberto! Harder, please, harder!" I begged. Roberto grabbed my legs and flung them over his shoulders and began thrusting even harder against me.

My orgasm began to build deep inside of me and when Roberto reached up and tugged roughly at my nipples, the intense pleasure threw me over the edge and I screamed with my release. I came in wave after wave of erotic pulsations, I felt Robertos stream of hot seed



223 shooting into me, as he too screamed with his release. It seemed neither of us had the strength to move much as Roberto slid out of me and gathered me in his arms and rolled us onto our sides. I was asleep in seconds. And for the second night in a row, I dreamt of the silver wolf.

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