She pummeled him and pushed and pummeled some more until she had him up against the wall of the alley as she cried and unloaded all of her angst and frustration on him.
He deserved no less.
When she pushed and he wouldn’t give, the brick at his back, she finally fell on his chest and bawled in heaving sobs. He pulled her into a tight hug, and whispered against her ear, “It’s gonna be okay. You're alive and healthy. You have your pack. Nothing has changed. Be happy you’re alive.”
She looked up into his eyes, searching for something, for a sign that she could somehow live with this situation. “She killed herself Aaron, because we took him from her. She couldn’t stand to live without Jamison. Is that what it’s like? Is that how I will die?”
“Shush. You’re not going to die, and neither am I. Nothing has changed, I am still the Aaron you love to hate. You’re still Katya, a nasty Russian mercenary who smells like wet dog to me, but I like you anyway.”
“But everything has changed!”
“Like what? Ivan’s still a drunk, Urvashi's still a bitch, and Michelle is still a little bit psycho – okay, a lot psycho. What’s changed?”
“Me. You changed me. You did something. Dammit Aaron, I don’t want to be with you. I don't want to love you! Why did you make me love you? How could you be so cruel?”
Aaron suspected that it would take several centuries of living before he had a clue about understanding women. All this time he thought Katya hated his guts. If not for the brick wall at his back, he would have fallen over with the shock of her confession.
“I don’t know, Katya. But I am not your enemy. I don’t want to hurt you. And honestly … I want you in my life. I understand you feel this need for me, for my bite, I get it, but I doubt it’s love, Katya.”
“You don’t understand. That’s what Dmitri did to Kristina, and now you’ve done it to me. Kristina betrayed us, my own niece, she betrayed me for that fucking leech, Dmitri. She loves the bastard, like I love you, like Laura loved Jamison. Don’t you get it? Vampires don’t love bloodslaves. Who can love a sniveling, needy pet? Vampires own bloodslaves, body and soul.”
Though he knew she was mostly right, Aaron also knew that he cared for Katya. He cared what happened to her. He cared how she felt. He cared about all those little details that don’t really matter to anyone else, those little things that only matter when you love someone.
“I didn’t come to argue with you. I came to tell you I am here for you, if you need me, whenever you need me. You can count on me. You can trust me. Love or no love, I can be a part of your life, if you let me.”
“You already have Urvashi and the psycho. They take fucking turns with you! How am I supposed to deal with that? I don’t want to love a bloody manwhore vampire! I don’t want to share.”
“I don’t want to share you either, but we don’t always have that choice in life.” He flipped her around with her face to the wall, his front to her back. He moved so fast she barely caught herself with her hands. Lightning fast he unzipped her jacket to run his hands over her smooth stomach and down to the fly of her jeans. His fingers tore through the buttons, and in a second her beautiful white thighs were bared to the knees.
He nipped at her neck as his fingers found her hot and wet, and oh so ready for him.
She looked left and right down the alley to check for bystanders. It was all clear. “Damn you, Aaron, do it now!” She growled low and heavy, the wolf rumbling its need in her throat.
A second later he freed his aching erection and sheathed himself inside her tight, slick, heat, bending her over into the wall. He hit all the way home inside her, and wrapped his hand around her mound, stroking that sensitive, juicy bud. She groaned with a sexy little growl and shoved her ass up hard against him to seat his cock that extra little bit.
Though he had tried to ignore the truth, tried to deny it, he had known from the moment he first made love to her. Buried in Katya, feeling her tight glove squeezing him with her orgasm, Aaron knew now, that this was the moment of truth between them.
“I’m sorry, Katya, I am so sorry. But we don’t always get to choose who we love. You didn’t choose me, and I didn’t choose you.” Aaron poured his release into her along with his love and life energy, when he spoke the words, “Vitae essentia est amor.”
The essence of life is love.
THE END
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THE NIGHTLIFE: NEW YORK
Vampires, strippers, escorts, night clubs, pimps & dirty cops – the Nightlife New York is never boring. Aaron Pilan’s life is forever changed when he’s shot trying to rescue a drop-dead gorgeous woman on the streets of New York. Aaron is thrust into the shocking world of vampiric slavery when Michelle shares her blood to save his life.
Michelle's existence as a solitary vampire is also altered when she accepts this naive young man into her life. Bound by her blood, Aaron is subject to her authority. He walks a tightrope of strictly controlled feeding regiments & intense sexual adventures while catering to the neurotic control-freak tendencies of his new master. She vows to eliminate him if he proves too difficult to control.
This story is bold & evocative infusing blood, sex, love & turmoil in an urban drama about two vampires battling evil outside & within themselves.
★★★★★ “If you like your vampires vicious & bloody & your erotica with a plot, this is the book for you.”
★★★★★ “Luedke brings his main characters to life, both incredibly flawed & powerfully charismatic, with a wonderful writing style, in this unique twist on the Vampire.”
★★★★★ “This is unlike any vampire tale I have ever read, and is as far removed from Bram Stoker's Dracula, as New York is from Transylvania. Travis Luedke has fashioned a compelling tale of love, passion, violence & steamy hot sex, set against the backdrop of the Big Apple.”
THE NIGHTLIFE: LAS VEGAS
Vampires, Aaron Pilan and his master Michelle, live by one rule – no bloodslaves. EVER. Aaron breaks that rule when he meets Anastasia. All Anastasia wants is to be loved and cherished, but the predatory men she’s attracted to bring her only pain and abuse. Escaping one train-wreck relationship for another, she finds happiness with Aaron and Michelle as a bloodslave, a 'pet'. When Aaron uses his telepathy to win thousands at the gambling tables, he attracts the deadly attention of the Colombian Cartel and Aaron and Michelle are 'disappeared'. Addicted to the bite of her vampire lovers, Ana is desperate to find them. But, Las Vegas isn't ready for vampires mixing heroin, sex and vengeance. Ana is trapped in the spiraling chaos.
Find out what happens in the second novel of the Nightlife Series.
★★★★★ "Go grab a copy before this much fun is declared illegal."
★★★★★ "Mr. Luedke once again showcasing his considerable talent for crafting erotic, action-packed, supernatural thrillers that leave the reader saying "Wow!"
★★★★★ "A no-holds-barred, easy-to-read romp that mixes fantasy, suspense, horror and erotica, and does it well."
THE NIGHTLIFE: PARIS
Vampire master Michelle, and her slave, Aaron Pilan, flee to Paris, leaving behind the slaughter in Las Vegas. Aaron made the costly mistake of taking a bloodslave, and then married her. The tragedy of his wife's death has driven a rift between them and Michelle is desperate to heal the breach.
Struggling with his predatory alter ego, Aaron is fractious, rebelling against his master. He desires another bloodslave, and that Michelle cannot allow. She opens her heart and soul to Aaron and he relives, through her memories, her dark, gritty tale of survival in the savagery of WWII Paris under the German occupation. Michelle's staggering revelations are deeply disturbing. The con
frontation of master versus slave comes full circle as the couple faces death and separation.
And they are not alone in Paris. An investigator has followed them from Vegas seeking the unique gifts of Michelle’s blood. He’s watching and waiting for the opportunity to make his move against them.
Find out what happens in the third novel of the Nightlife Series.
★★★★★ “I was screaming at one point, crying, at another. It was an emotional roller coaster of a book.”
★★★★★ “This segment of Michelle and Aaron's tale is dark and graphic, but with mesmerizing descriptions and a morbidly compelling storyline, I felt this was the best of The Nightlife Series by far.”
★★★★★ “Decidedly darker and somewhat disturbing, THE NIGHTLIFE: PARIS takes the series for a turn towards the dark side and I loved every minute of it!”
BLOOD SLAVE
Her mother named her Esperanza Salvación – Hope for Salvation. But when a girl works as an escort for Colombian cartel in the ghettos of Spanish Harlem...there wasn’t much hope, or salvation.
Hope’s telepathic ability keeps her a step ahead of ruin, but her unusual gift attracts the attention of a psychotic vampire bitch. Trapped in a Manhattan penthouse with the psycho, she thought she was dead meat.
Her survival lies in the hands of Vampire Master Enrique. He seems to respect her, perhaps even care. As a measure of protection, he makes her his personal Bloodslave. Helplessly addicted to his bite, Enrique rules her every moment. As always, Hope must adapt to survive.
Swept into the decadent nightlife of Manhattan's elite, she falls in love with Enrique and prays someday he may grow to love her, too. But is it simply a relationship of convenience? Is she nothing more than a concubine desperate to satisfy his nightly demands for blood and sex?
And forever in the background is the fear that one day the cartel boss she abandoned will hunt her down to collect on old debts.
★★★★★ “Fast paced, no holds-barred, gripping, gut-wrenching, soul-ripping and most definitely tear-inducing. Perfection!”
★★★★★ “Travis Luedke writes amazing characters and amazing stories and unbelievable passion flawlessly. After reading this book I was left in shock.”
★★★★★ “You know when you see a violent or bloody scene in a movie and you cover your eyes for a couple of seconds until it has past? I caught myself doing that with this book, then I realized that the lines were not going to go away until I read them.”
THE NIGHTLIFE SERIES OMNIBUS (Books 1-4)
The Nightlife Series is violent, sexy, and occasionally violently sexy.
Vampires, strippers, escorts, night clubs, pimps & dirty cops – the Nightlife Series is never boring.
Can decadence, corruption and prostitution go hand in hand with self-control? Over-indulgence, illegal activity and vampires lurk in darkness when night falls on the city.
The Nightlife Series explores the sexy, dangerous misadventures of vampires and an interesting assortment of wickedly corrupt men and women of the night. Gangs, pimps, prostitutes, cartel, mafia, drug dealers, addicts, alcoholics, all those wonderfully colorful people you find rubbing elbows in the back alleys, night clubs, and strip joints.
These creatures inhabit a world of constant blood, sex, and arousal. The act of feeding is highly erotic, victims often experience multiple orgasms. A vampire’s bite is the most powerful drug imaginable, ecstasy, euphoria, and an ever-present potential for addiction. Lethally violent predators, they can cut through flesh like a hot knife through butter. They slip through the nightlife quietly, unobtrusively, until cornered. Then it gets ugly, people die.
The Nightlife Series includes:
THE NIGHTLIFE NEW YORK
THE NIGHTLIFE LAS VEGAS
THE NIGHTLIFE PARIS
BLOOD SLAVE
These wicked, pulse-pounding novels drag readers breathless through one cataclysmic event after another....bite into your copy today!
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YA PARANORMAL ROMANCE/THRILLER
THE SHEPHERD
Skate punks, kleptomaniacs, clairvoyant visions and reincarnation...
...THE SHEPHERD is unlike any other Young Adult novel you have ever read.
Mike Evans here. Sixteen year old skate punk squatting in a white-trash trailer park with my loser drunk Dad. Seems I lost most of my friends when Dad lost our home in foreclosure. Only Anita stuck by me. Worse, I keep having strange clairvoyant visions of things that always come true.
Then I almost ran over Nadia in my Geo. A passing truck finished the job – left a crumpled heap of skin and bone on the road. I fixed her. Me.
Now this fourteen year old girl won’t leave me alone. I sorta let her sneak in my window when she needs a place to crash.
I have a double life: daytime at school, Anita, skating, and then my nights with Nadia. She's my secret friend, gives me money and listens to my problems when nobody else will.
My world is spinning out of control. Old friends have turned enemy, my grisly visions of death won’t quit, and Anita’s intentions make my head spin. Even with all that, I’ve got bigger stuff to worry about.
Nadia’s hiding something.
˃˃˃ “I could not put this book down. All I keep thinking about is what could possibly happen next. I felt as if I was back in high school with them!”
˃˃˃ “It's almost a love triangle of epic proportions or so you think....Travis blew me away with this book, I never saw what was coming.”
˃˃˃ “Amazing, I loved Mike and Anita. The characters that I didn’t feel could redeem themselves did in ways I never thought possible. I loved the ending and so not what I thought would happen. I love the element of surprise.”
Sharp, witty, dark and gritty, The Shepherd is the must read YA paranormal thriller of 2013. Get your copy now!
Travis Luedke is a husband, father, and author of Urban Fantasy Thriller, Paranormal Romance, Contemporary Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, and Sci-fi. He is currently catching a third degree sunburn in San Antonio, Texas, and loving every minute of it.
As the author of the Nightlife Series novels, Travis lives very vicariously through his writings. He invites you to enjoy his macabre flights of fancy, but be warned: The Nightlife Series is violent, sexy, and occasionally violently sexy.
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