Defender's Blood The Birth and The Battle (Urban Fantasy)

by A. K. Michaels

  “Well if I do get fat it’s all your fault, Mr Vampire. You’re the one that’s been making love to me every waking moment!” She joined him in laughing as they entered the diner.

  They were so wrapped up in themselves that they didn’t notice everyone had stopped what they were doing and were staring openly at them.

  Zach led Alex to a booth near the back that was empty and they sat down. Zach stretched over and took her hand on top of the table. “Okay my little hungry one – what do you fancy?” He went to hand her the menu.

  “Oh, I don’t need the menu. I’ll have the burger, well done, with all the trimmings and a piece of apple pie with chocolate ice cream and a diet cola,” Alex recited with a smile.

  “Wow, you are hungry aren’t you?”

  Alex chuckled. “Yup – plus I think I may need the food to build up my stamina too.”

  Zach was confused. “What for?”

  She did that very dirty smile of hers. “Well I may just have some plans for you tonight, Mr Vampire,” she quipped back at him. He was mortified that his arousal hit him hard and he was shuffling on the seat trying to relieve his tight jeans.

  “You’re a little minx – you did that on purpose, didn’t you?” Alex just laughed and rolled her eyes.

  The waitress came over to take their order and she kept giving them strange looks. She looked at Alex as if she had never seen her before. It was very strange. Just at that moment Zach looked around the diner, people were staring, all the people were staring.

  Shit – did they know? How? Zach’s phone rang just as Alex was beginning to notice people staring at them. What’s going on? she wondered. She didn’t like being stared at.

  “Zach here. Vlad – the strangest thing’s happening, we’re at the diner … oh … shit, how did that happen? Who was it? Right ... no, please let ME deal with her, but thanks for the info.” Zach hung up and looked at Alex.

  “Everyone knows, don’t they?” She said it as a question but she already knew the answer. Alex wanted to leave, she didn’t want everyone staring at her.

  “Yes, I’m afraid so. That was Vlad, Irina phoned him from work, the girls were talking about it and she was mad as hell, asked them how they found out,” Zach told her.

  “Who told?” Alex asked him.

  “Kate,” was all Zach replied.

  He stood up, took her hand and they left the diner. Zach was scowling at anyone who looked their way and Alex just stared straight ahead. Alex could feel the anger in Zach, he was livid.

  He helped her into the jeep and went round and got in. He took a few deep breaths and then drove – straight back to the clinic. He pulled in and they both headed inside.

  Kate was sitting at the same desk near the front door but when she saw Zach’s face she got up to go through the doors leading to the back of the clinic. “Stay right where you are! Do not make me come after you!” Zach’s voice thundered through the clinic and his tone scared even Alex.

  Kate stood where she was but had her back to them. “DAVID!” Zach roared and in less than half a minute, David ran through.

  “What is it? Alex, are you okay?” He ran over to her and looked her over.

  “It’s not me you should be worried about,” Alex told him.

  “Zach, what’s wrong? Kate, why are you standing there like that?” David asked his nurse as he noticed her standing still with her back to them.

  “Ask her what’s wrong?” Zach said through gritted teeth.

  “Kate, what’s he talking about? What’s going on?” David was clearly bewildered and hadn’t a clue what was happening.

  “I’m sorry,” Kate whimpered as she turned around.

  “For what? Kate, what did you do?” David’s tone was now sharp.

  She tried to defend her actions. “For goodness’ sake, this is a miracle, something that’s never happened before. Everyone should know about it, it’s something to be happy about!”

  “Kate – are you telling me you told people about this pregnancy?” David’s tone was incredulous.

  “I couldn’t help it, I was so excited and one friend asked why I was so hyper and I told her, and then others heard and, well, before I knew it everyone seemed to know.” She was openly crying now.

  Zach stalked over to her. His eyes were red ... he looked like he was going to rip her head off. Kate backed up until the door hit her and tried to look away. However, Zach was using his powers and his eyes were locked on hers – she couldn’t move.

  “You had no right, Kate. DO YOU HEAR ME – YOU HAD NO RIGHT!”

  Kate obviously thought she was going to die. She very nearly wet herself and cringed down until she was sitting on the floor.

  “Zach, that’s enough – calm down and come here – I need you to come to me, Zach.” Alex tried to stop the onslaught, scared his anger may boil over into violence. Alex’s voice had the calming effect she had hoped for and Zach returned to her side.

  David was shocked. “Kate, you’re suspended, go home. I will have to report this gross infringement to the Council. Your punishment will be up to them, however, I know that I won’t be able to trust you again and I will be advising them of that. You’ve let me down, you’ve let yourself down but most importantly you have let Zach and Alex down. Go, now, before I say something I will regret!”

  David’s words were stinging and Kate bolted straight past them all and out the door – crying and obviously in distress.

  David looked to Alex. “I’m so sorry, Alex, this should never have happened. I just don’t know what to say.”

  Alex was still upset. “I know it wasn’t your fault, David. Zach and I wanted time to come to terms with this ourselves before everyone else knew. It was horrid being in the diner and everyone was staring at us. I think I’ll stay in the house for a few days and let the uproar calm down.”

  Her Vampire couldn’t talk, he was still too angry, she could sense it. Alex took his hand and led him back outside.

  Alex could still feel the anger rolling off Zach. She could understand why he was angry, she was too, but not to this extent. “Zach, my Vampire, talk to me? Why are you as angry as you are?” She laid a hand on his extremely firm thigh and ran it up and down, she loved to touch him, she could never quite get enough.

  “It’s you I’m worried about Alexina, I don’t want anyone giving you any hassle or annoying you constantly asking about the twins. I knew that once the news got out that we would be living inside a bubble – it’s too extraordinary an event for us not to be. But we needed time, time to come to grips with it all ourselves. Time even to see if we could get to the bottom of what Michael said. Time to make sure you and the twins are healthy and safe. Dammit, we just needed a little time and now we won’t have that. Everyone knows and everywhere we go people will stare, or comment, and I’m not sure if my anger will be kept in check.”

  Alex could understand everything he had said. She agreed with it, but she couldn’t help but feel there was a little more to this than met the eye.

  They got back home and Zach poured himself a whisky, he needed it. “God, I wish I could have a drink too,” Alex commented.

  “Nope, my baby – not any for you for a while. Someone also told me you should cut back on your coffee?” Zach said with his eyebrow raised.

  “Please Zach, please don’t do that to me! If you make me go cold turkey with my coffee, I’m leaving!” she implored.

  “Well being the loving mate that I am, I went and got some very expensive decaf. It’s supposed to taste just like the real thing – hence the price. What do you say to us starting off slow, half decaf half full?”

  She went over to him and hugged him tight. He was so thoughtful, always thinking of her before anyone else. She still thought there was more to the episode earlier though, and she planned on getting it out of him. “Okay, that sounds like a plan to me. Now – before this all started I think I commented on being hungry. What are we going to do about that
, Mr Vampire?”

  “Shit, Alex I’m sorry, I totally forgot – food, right. I can get a delivery?” he said and fumbled for his phone.

  “That would do nicely, Zach, and don’t forget my apple pie and chocolate ice cream. I’m going to go for a quick shower. I hope the food comes quick, I really am starving.”

  Alex had a lovely shower, it was so relaxing and she was in there for a little while longer than she had planned. By the time she came out the food had been delivered and it was all plated up and sitting waiting on her.

  “Mmm that smells divine.” She sat on ‘her’ stool and tucked in. She ate every last bite and had some of Zach’s too. Good grief, if she carried on like this she would end up the size of an elephant, she thought.

  “I’d still love you,” Zach replied to her thought.

  “Well aren’t you kind, now can we go and sit on the sofa, I want to talk to you?” she asked.

  Zach loaded the plates into the dishwasher and followed her through to the living room. He sat down and she sat beside him, then moved so that her feet were up on the sofa and her head was in his lap.

  She lay staring up at him and decided to just ask what it was that was getting to him. “Zach, honey, I know something’s getting at you – won’t you tell me what it is? Maybe I can help?” His body tensed up and he looked away.

  Fear rippled in the bottom of Alex’s stomach. Shit. Maybe he doesn’t want me to be pregnant. It’s not as if it had been planned, mainly being as it was impossible for a Vampire to have kids. So maybe it’s just hitting him and he doesn’t want it.

  Zach could feel her fear and grasped a wisp of thought from her head as to why. “No my sweet little one, it’s not that, I’m totally ecstatic, truly I am. I never in my wildest dreams thought we could have kids. For you to have twins in your belly now, well I am overwhelmingly happy.”

  If not that, then what? she thought.

  Zach began “Okay – I know we’ve always said no secrets. I didn’t say anything to you because I know it will hurt, the person that said it to me ended up going through a window!”

  Alex gasped. “What? Zach, what did you do and why?” she demanded.

  “I was talking with Vlad yesterday, I stopped off on my way back from getting groceries, anyway, we were talking about the twins and one of his Guards gave a snort. Obviously I asked why and he basically said I must be stupid if I thought they were mine – Vampires can’t have kids – and that you must have been, I will put it more politely than he did, seeing someone else!”

  The colour drained from Alex’s face. Oh dear lord – Zach didn’t think she had cheated on him, did he?

  “No, Alexina, I know that you haven’t, but this dick thought he was being funny. He wasn’t laughing when he ended up on the road pulling glass from his face. He was lucky Vlad was there. I seriously was going to kill him. Though the punishment Vlad’s going to give him, well he might wish I had.” Zach stopped and Alex thought on his words.

  Once she was clear what she wanted to say she spoke. “I understand now. You think people are going to talk and some may come to the wrong conclusions? Well – let them. Zach, if they come to those conclusions there’s nothing we can do, but it won’t be anyone we truly know and love. So I’m going to say this once and once only, Mr Vampire – fuck ‘em!”

  Zach looked down into her face, she was smiling and then started laughing. He had no idea why but he joined in.

  He bent down and kissed her. “You are a truly amazing woman, Alexina. You surprise me time and time again.” He loved her so much it hurt sometimes.

  “Well I think I’m going to surprise you again, a delivery came for me earlier. I’ve been buying some stuff online.” She had a very cheeky smile on her face and he wondered what on earth she had got. “Follow me.” She got up and took his hand.

  She led them to their room and told him to close his eyes. He did so but turned up his Vampire hearing to try and get a clue as to what she had bought. He heard her take something from the wardrobe and what sounded like the lid coming off a box, then the distinct rustle of some tissue paper? He thought it might be some lingerie but he knew she could get that here so couldn’t decide what it was.

  He heard and felt her coming to stand in front of him, barely suppressing a giggle. “Open your eyes,” she laughed. He opened them slowly and the first thing he saw was a set of handcuffs.

  She held them in one hand and in the other she held a blindfold. “I repeat what I said earlier – you surprise me time and again.” His arousal was immediate and he couldn’t wait to get his clothes off. He stood and took his top off, but when he went towards his jeans she grabbed his hand.

  “Nope, from this moment I’m in charge and there are some rules. Firstly, the handcuffs – I know that you could break these in two seconds flat, however, if I have put them on you then you are not allowed to break free. Secondly, if I do anything that you don’t like, well you have the same safe word as I do – ‘Red’. Thirdly, you have got to give yourself over to me. I know you’re the one usually running things in the bedroom, Zach – tonight it’s me. Agreed?”

  His sex was so inflamed he didn’t know if he would be able to stand what Alex had in mind, but he was game for just about anything with his mate! “Yes ma’am, whatever you say goes – tonight anyway,” he replied huskily.

  She gave him such a dazzling smile that it reached somewhere deep down, she was obviously happy that Zach had agreed. “I want you to lie down in the middle of the bed and place your hands near the headboard.” He did this and she climbed on and placed his hands in the handcuffs. She then put the blindfold on and told him he wasn’t allowed to move his hands – no matter what – they were to stay there! He nodded his agreement and waited to see what she would do next.

  He felt her get off the bed and, from the sound, deduced she was undressing. He then heard another rustle of paper and wondered what it was. He felt the bed move and then felt something being run down the middle of his body from just under his throat to the top of his jeans – then down over his zipper and down to his balls.

  She pressed whatever it was into that region and a groan escaped his throat. He wished he knew what she had in her hand, he could smell what he thought was leather?

  She then undid the button and zipper on his jeans and slowly, very slowly, took them off. His boxers went immediately and when she saw him she moaned softly. Again whatever she had in her hands moved over him, she paid particular attention to his very demanding arousal. Zach was so turned on, he hoped he could last. At this moment he just wanted to rip the handcuffs off and bury himself deep within her.

  She then positioned herself between his knees and leant forward, she kissed him deeply and he thrust his hips upward, hoping she would take the hint. “Uh uh uh – you’ve to stay still or I may have to punish you,” she purred. She used what was in her hand to give a very gentle tap on his chest.

  She started down his body kissing and sucking just about every inch, it was driving him wild. When she got to his crotch she ignored it and moved further down so she could kiss up the inside of his thighs. He didn’t know if he could play the game for much longer. The urge to grab her was immense.

  After she had done both thighs she cupped him and kneaded – another moan escaped him, this time more loudly. She softly laughed and placed her mouth at the base of him, she was blowing on the area and the feeling was so intense he thought he couldn’t possibly last.

  She then did what he had wanted her to do from the start – she took him in her mouth and worked him. The need to hold her hair in his hands was huge. He loved to watch her as she did this but with the mask on he could only feel, which intensified it all the more.

  She continued until he was nearly there and then pulled away. This time the moan was in frustration. She worked her way up and then placed her knees either side of his thighs. She grabbed him, none too gently, and started to work him with her hand. She was positioned so that t
he very tip of him very nearly, but didn’t quite, enter her.

  “You’re killing me here,” he groaned. The only thing she did in response was to laugh lightly and work her hand all the more.

  She moved very slightly, his tip just managed to enter her and he let out a sigh, but she stayed in that position for a few moments more. Further still, and she still used her hand and he still was not in her fully. He tried to move his hips but she gave him a light slap. “Stay still – I’ll tell you when you can move.”

  Her voice was full of desire and he couldn’t wait for her to continue. Again she dropped a little further, he was halfway in but she stayed there and used her hand. Just when he thought he could take no more she pushed downwards onto him and she let out a very loud moan of her own. “Now Zach, now you can move,” she gasped.

  He thrust up hard and she pushed down hard, both of them were so close. She leant down and placed her neck on his mouth and his fangs came out, both nearly at their peak. He pierced her skin and took a long pull on her throat to get her blood into his mouth. A few seconds later both of them screamed in unison and Alex’s body started to shake and shiver.

  “You are amazing,” he said to her.

  “You’re not so bad yourself,” she joked back breathlessly.

  Alex moved her hands to take off the mask and cuffs. She hadn’t even taken the key out of them, trusting that he wouldn’t move. Zach blinked his eyes a few times and Alex was still astride him in the cutest little baby doll nightie. This one, however, had a space for her nipples which at this moment were protruding in his direction.

  He grabbed her and pulled her down so that he could take them in his mouth. The sight of her dressed like that had done what she had wanted, he was ready immediately for her again. This time it was Zach that took the lead and it was Alex who moaned in frustration.

  Finally after a shower, which resulted in him using the sponge in a far too sexy manner, he held her in his arms as she fell asleep. It was only then that he saw what she had used on him – it was a small leather whip.