The Born Vampire series: A Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance (The Complete Series, NSFW Edition)

by Elizabeth Dunlap

  He kissed me again, and folded us into his safe embrace. “I will come back to you. I promise.” I looked up at him, noticed the angles of his face, the round curve of his cheekbones, his long black eyelashes, and the small laugh lines around his eyes. Details that would stay with me, no matter what.

  “Kick all their asses,” I told him.

  I was determined to never let Kitty out of my arms and wore her strapped to my chest everywhere I went. Yes. Even to the toilet. Balthazar didn’t enjoy being kept from her, so he started following us everywhere.

  He couldn’t go incorporeal anymore. Whenever he did that before, he was really going to the Bicus homeland and just reappearing on Earth wherever he wanted, and that wasn’t possible after being banished. It goes without saying that he had no patience for travel. Walking around the house was tedious and he whined constantly. I was very close to kicking him right in the dick.

  Marie and I were working on recruiting humans in the city to be turned. We were always very careful about selecting potential vampires, but we didn’t have that kind of time now.

  ‘Are you down on your luck? Do you need money? Are you comfortable with needles? Donate your services to the local science emporium for three months. You won’t regret it. Spots are limited, apply today.’

  “Marie,” I said as I looked at her idea for the recruitment flyer. It looked like a chalkboard wedding invitation, with six different fonts adorning it, and little ribbon graphics. “This is awful, and you should feel shame.”

  She snatched it back with a pout. “It took me an hour to make this. Besides, it’s not like you made something.” She had me there.

  “Fine. We’ll use it. Also, a science emporium?”

  “The humans have plenty of ideas what this castle is. I chose one.” Oh, Marie, I might’ve misjudged you. Maybe. She looked down at Kitty sleeping against my chest. “She really is precious. It’s good that you’re exposing everyone to her. They can all get used to having a… what was she called again?”

  “Vipyre. And you’re not afraid of her?”

  Marie shrugged, tossing her blonde hair back. “She’s a baby. Not only was she born with control like the rest of us, she can be taught to respect our kind, and only feed when given permission. I don’t see why she can’t be like any other baby vampire.” Except that she wasn’t. “I’ll make some copies.” She left, and the only thing I could hear was Balthazar slurping on his Pad Thai noodles.

  “She’s kind. Kind but wrong,” he smacked.

  “You believe Kitty can never be accepted by vampires.”

  “She isn’t a vampire. You’re margarine, and she’s butter. Both are spread over bread, but honey, they are not the same.”

  “Lovely. You’re becoming cynical. And speaking of which, now that I have you alone, it’s time we talked.” I set my work down and came to sit across from him by the fire.

  “Talked about what? I’m eating.” To answer, I snapped my fingers to get his attention and pulled my necklace out from under my shirt. “Fuck,” he swore and put his bowl down. “You. That.” He motioned with his finger. “How much do you know?”

  “I’m going to go with ‘everything.’”

  “So you know I loved your grandmother, and when I refused to put a vampire in her belly, she betrayed me. She found another incubus to give her a vampire child, and low and behold, she discovers she’s already pregnant from one of her human lovers. After consulting a vampire seer, she drank human blood to keep both babies alive, and gave birth to twins, one of which was, pardon me, your psycho ass mother?”

  Holy shit. Dumbfounded, I tried to not look surprised. “Umm. Okay. ‘Almost everything’ then.”

  “Fuck. You weren’t supposed to know any of that. The Countess would stab my cock if she were here. Sorry, my love,” he threw to the universe. “Gods above, I miss that woman. I spent every day with her when she was imprisoned, until she drew her last breath. She died for her fucking selfish daughter. No offense.”

  “I can assure you, I have no great love for Anastasia Bathory.” I kissed Kitty’s head to hide my sadness. I’d be lying if I said my mother’s approval didn’t matter to me. How long would it take, I wondered, for me to not care like I used to?

  He leaned forward to take my hand. “I’m glad there are no more secrets between us, pet.” The look on his beautiful face made me feel warm all over. As if he could feel it too, he squeezed my fingers and let go. “If you’d like to hate me for never telling you about your family, please do. I don’t mind.”

  “Don’t be ridiculous. Now that I know, I have to keep it secret too, so really it’s no different. I can think of much better things to hate you for.” I fluttered my eyelashes with a grin. Of course I didn’t hate him. For the moment. Mostly because he’d stop complaining about having to walk.

  Someone knocked at the door and opened it as I stood up. Arthur entered, sidestepping Glenda and motioning for me to come with him. Kitty yawned, grabbing a strand of my curls, but she didn’t wake up when we reached the kitchen. Toni and Cameron had turned the large kitchen counter into a laboratory.

  “Oh, it’s you,” Toni said in disappointment when she saw me. What did I do to deserve the wrath of a succubus? Maybe she thought I was hotter than her. Or she just wanted my body.

  Cameron was happy to see me, at least. “Lisbeth! We invented something.” A crowd of little bottles with blue liquid inside sat on the counter next to a bowl with tiny red capsules. Toni was busy filling more bottles with liquid from a cauldron. Yes. She had a fucking cauldron. “It’s vials of vampire blood,” Cameron explained, picking up one of the capsules. “I know the tradition is supposed to be drinking from an actual vampire, but this will make turning a large group much easier. They just take the pill, and voila. They’re turned.” It made a meaningful ceremony into a pill pop. Changing with the times, I suppose. And one step closer to victory.

  20. New recruits

  That was one of the longest days of my life. I could hardly believe that only that morning, I’d been curled up in bed with Knight, and the only thing I cared about was never getting dressed again.

  Weary and drained, I shuffled up the stairs in the early morning and almost fell asleep before I could get my door opened. Oh. The door was fixed. When did that happen?

  All of the corpses were gone, that was good, and the blood had been cleaned up. Almost every inch of the pale vanilla carpet was now a pale shade of pink from the stains. I wasn’t looking forward to getting it replaced. My furniture was trashed, my birds… were gone? Of course they were. How could they not be with what had happened in there. My bedroom was mostly untouched, however, so that was a plus.

  When I walked in, the bedroom smelled like cherries and mint, and the bathroom door was open. Knight stood by the sink holding a fresh towel, looking like he’d just gotten out of the bath himself. The tub was full of hot water with the soapy suds of a bath bomb.

  “Have you been in here cleaning this whole time?” I asked him in wonderment. He’d disappeared at least five hours before, but I’d assumed he’d gone to bed.

  “No talking, only undressing,” he ordered, and I’ll admit, even as tired as I was, that brought a shiver up my spine. He checked behind me to see if we were alone. “Where’s Kitty?”

  “She fell asleep in my office, Balthazar is with her.” Knight took a ragged sigh and looked down at me with desire. He nodded towards the tub, so I slipped out of my jumper and handed it to him. My skin was covered in crusted blood. It was in my hair, under my fingernails. I slid into the hot soapy water and moaned out loud.

  “Sssh. Stop making sexy noises,” Knight complained. He knelt by the tub and soaped up a sponge. I tried to take it, but he started cleaning me himself. The sponge wiped away all the grime and stress. After my skin was done, he lathered up some shampoo and cleaned my long curls. The head massage made me even more sleepy, and I dunked my head underwater to rinse it off.

  Most amazing bath ever.

  My head
back above water, I leaned my cheek against the side of the tub. I was so sleepy, I couldn’t keep my eyes open. Every attempt to open them again failed, and I drifted off to sleep in the tub.

  It’s not the best way to wake up, remembering where you were when you fell asleep and knowing you’re in a different place. I panicked and had to remember how to breathe at first, then I noticed the familiar things around me and knew that Knight had taken me out of the tub and put me into bed. I looked for him and smelled him in the living room. He’d dressed me in a robe that had come undone. I tied it and took stock of myself in the mirror. My curls were utter chaos from drying while I slept. I twisted them into a bun on the top of my head and put on a dress.

  When I finally emerged, I found Knight and Balthazar laying on the stained carpet beside Kitty. I almost ran to pick her up so she wouldn’t be playing on blood stains, but they’d laid out a large blanket for her. Knight’s idea, I had no doubt.

  “Hey, you,” he greeted when he saw me. “I put out a blanket for her. I figured she might try to lick the carpet.” I smiled at him. He really knew me. “What? Did you want her to lick the carpet?”

  “Not particularly. Has she fed yet?”

  Balthazar picked her up and handed her to me. “Not yet,” he answered. “Everyone else is still asleep. It was quite a long day yesterday.” Judging by the sun, I’d slept half the day away already.

  Kitty gently beat her fist on my blouse, demanding food. I pet her curls and slid the shoulder of my blouse down until the top of my breast was exposed. She latched onto the skin with gusto and drank until she fell asleep against me. I pulled her little fangs away, kissed her, and walked to place her in her crib.

  “Do regular vampire babies breastfeed?” Knight asked when I’d come back.

  “They do. She doesn’t. I tried, but she preferred biting into me, so she gets one feeding a day of my blood, and baby bottles the rest of the time. Speaking of which,” I pointed to Balthazar, “you’ll need to know how to do that. I’m not going to raise our daughter by myself.”

  “I will learn everything,” he promised. “I hope you don’t mind if I move into one of the spare rooms?” I assured him it was fine, so he disappeared into one. I smelled Merrick and Cameron in one of the others.

  Since we were as alone as we were going to be, I approached Knight with an apologetic grin. “I’m sorry I fell asleep last night.”

  He slowly moved his hands up my arms. “I’m only sorry I waited so long to try and kiss you. You were asleep when I made my move.”

  My finger trailed up his chest and I very much wished he wasn’t wearing a shirt. “I’m sure I’m lucid enough now. How about you try again?”

  He picked me up caveman style, slinging me over his shoulder, and walked into our bedroom, kicking the door closed behind him. Dumping me on the bed in a heap, he took a step back and pulled his shirt over his head, then unzipped his pants and let them fall to his ankles. I sat up on my elbows, appreciating the little strip show.

  “Keep it up, I’m liking this,” I said, licking my lips at the sight of his toned body. Eyeing me with a very sexy grin, he pulled his underwear down and straightened, putting his hands on his hips so I could stare at him.

  “Drink that shit in,” he teased with a smile. I reciprocated the show by pulling my thong off and throwing it at his face before I slipped my dress over my head in one movement. I curled a finger at him, urging him to join me on the bed, but just as he dived at me, I rolled to the side and he flopped belly first onto the mattress. “That was dirty, woman. C’mere.” He grabbed at me, but I pressed at him so he’d roll onto his back, and then I straddled his hips with my legs, pressing my center right on his hardened arousal. A hiss slipped between his teeth as I slowwwly rocked forward on him and his hands gripped my hips tightly enough to leave a bruise if I was human. “It’s my turn, sexy,” he warned, almost trying to lift me up.

  I shook my head and my curls fell around my naked breasts. “There are no turns. If I want to ride your cock, then I’m going to. Got a problem with that?”

  His head dropped to the mattress and he closed his eyes in defeat. “Every time I think I have you figured out, you— shit, Christ, fuck!” I interrupted his talking by lifting my ass up just enough to slide his entire length inside me, all the way to his balls. His fists buried into the sheet and I knew he was going to tear them before we were finished. Luckily, I didn’t mind. We’d be breaking things for many years to come.

  “Where’s that control you had our first time?” I purred, thrusting my hips back and forth on his cock, getting a rhythm going that felt amazing at this angle.

  He shook his head and his hair swirled around the sheets. “Nope, gone. Gone. You touch me like that and I don’t even remember what control is. Is that a food? It better be food.”

  “Stop talking,” I ordered smoothly with another twist of my hips. Groaning, he gripped the sheets tighter and thrust his hips up into me when I lifted myself slightly. Using only my own strength, as his hands were busy ripping into the bed, I pressed my palms against his firm stomach and rode up and down his shaft. Setting my own pace meant I was hitting all the right spots and the extra lubrication coming from me made his cock slide out with ease.

  As hazy as I was with pleasure, a thought came to me. Could I push into his mind and connect us even further? What would that feel like? I went for it, and slipped into his mind easily, probably because he was so relaxed, or maybe I’d gotten better at it. Everything running from him to me was incoherent babbles that basically translated to, “fuck this feels good.” Trying not to giggle, I probed further, and then…

  My body washed over with phantom sensations that my brain couldn’t process, and when I lifted off of Knight’s groin again, I felt tingles running down his cock. His cock. I could feel it as if it was my own, and fuck, my pussy really was tight.

  “Oh my god, my cock feels unreal inside my pussy,” Knight moaned, so lost he didn’t immediately realize what he was saying. When he did, his eyes popped open and he sat up, taking me with him. “What are you doing? You’re in my head, I can feel everything.”

  “I don’t know, I was just experimenting, and I guess I pushed too far.” He shifted and we groaned collectively at the feelings the other felt from it. Then a gleam came to his eyes and he reached his head down to take one rosy nipple between his teeth, clamping down on it for dear life, and we both gasped and moaned from the pleasure that ran straight from my nipple to my clit. Not to be outdone, I reached between our bodies and I rubbed at said clit, rocking my hips forward in his lap. Feeling the sensations of two people was making me rise to a climax much faster than normal, so much so that it took only a few flicks of my nub before I was teetering over and falling into the abyss. I was shooting inside my pussy while it pulsed rapidly in climax, and I hardly knew where my pleasure ended and Knight’s began. I was pulsing, he was shaking, I was biting my nipple, he was rubbing his clit.

  We broke apart onto the mattress and our bodies flopped, boneless, onto our stomachs. My face pressed against the sheet and I didn’t have the strength to move. The connection between us faded back until we were in our own heads again.

  “Fucking,” Knight heaved, taking deep measured breaths that did nothing to slow down his rapid heartbeat.

  “Christ,” I finished for him.

  “I’d say never do that again, but god that was the best thing I’ve ever felt.”

  Raising my head, I rested my cheek on the mattress to see his raggedly breathing form. “I am so glad we don’t have anything to do today. I’m going to need eight hours of sleep after that.” I lifted a tired hand and wiped a shank of black hair from his eyes and he gave me a weak smile.

  “You should come with a warning label.” We laughed into the bed and I found enough strength to move closer to him and kiss him on his moist lips.

  We awoke the next morning, fully rested after our mental sex encounter, ready to begin our plan of attack. We got dressed, grabbed Ki
tty, and went downstairs. I went to my office to begin my work on getting volunteers while Knight joined the Hunters in the bigger drawing-room to work on their plan.

  Marie’s flyers had surprisingly turned up good results, but it was probably because we were offering a lot of money to the humans. We had at least one hundred from the town that wanted to offer their bodies up for science (‘science’ wink), and that was after Marie had narrowed the volunteers down to ones that would end up stronger vampires or had combat skills. Most of them were men, some women, and all skilled warriors prepared to help us defend our species.

  We needed to evacuate the town, claiming the one hundred recruits had been infected with a deadly virus that would spread if the town’s occupants didn’t leave. After that, the volunteers would be moved into one of the correctional facilities. It was the only building we knew could contain the newly turned and had the space.

  I arrived in town with as many vampires as possible after the humans had been evacuated. Marie was wearing a fake CDC contamination outfit, as were a few others that had come along to assist. She took off her helmet and smiled at me, then finger waved to Kitty who was strapped to my chest.

  “That was fun. The humans are on their way out, we have the Lycans helping with that. The volunteers are at the prison.”

  Neat and tidy. That was Marie.

  I reached out to high five her. “Best assistant ever,” I praised. She looked surprised, and high fived me, her wide smile bright and happy, a look I’d never seen on her. “Come on, assistant. The real work is starting.”

  We led dozens of vampires to the prison. Every window had been covered to protect the newly turned before they could take the potions Toni had made. Olivier was there overseeing everything, and Cameron was helping pass out the little pills he’d made as another vampire came behind him passing out some of the blood we’d stolen from the town hospital. The humans stood crowded inside one of the cafeterias, each holding a pill and a pack of blood. I came to stand in front of them.