My mouth consumes his as hungrily as he kisses mine.
And then he is holding me tightly. I was not even aware of when he turned me around in his embrace. His kisses are soft on my face as he cradles it between his hands. I can feel him trembling against me as I stroke his body gently beneath his long coat.
“My darling,” I whisper against his lips. “I missed you.”
“Too many nights apart from you is enough to drive me mad,” he says with an evil twinkle in his eyes and he crushes me against him.
I can feel how much he wants me. How much he needs me. His body betrays it all. But then again, so does mine. We’re enraptured with each other and my hands glide over him. I press my cheek against his chest to hear his heart beat and his fingers slip through my hair. I want him so desperately. To feel his weight on me, his strength, his love for me as he fills me as we make love: I am drowning in my desire for him.
I become aware of you only because I am hungry. You are watching us. You and your love are staring openly. How amusing you are. Is this what you desire? Love that consumes all that you are and wraps you forever in the soul of another? Could you endure it? To love this deeply is to be a slave to the one you love. I am both master and slave to my lover. I am master of his heart and slave to his love. And he is the master of my heart and a slave to my love. We dance a waltz of passion, love, blood and death.
“You hunger,” he whispers in my ear.
“For you.”
“Ah, yes.” He laughs softly and kisses me. “And I hunger for you. But you hunger. For blood.”
“Yes.”
His mouth lightly glides over mine and he glances toward the couch. How the feel of his lips enthralls me! The beauty of his face enraptures me. But his eyes guide my gaze. “Then feed, my beloved.”
Ah, mortal. Now my attention is on you. My love smiles as my fangs descend behind my blood red lips and I feel him raise my hand to his lips to press a tender kiss to it.
Now your purpose in this night is clear, isn’t it? As you courted your would-be lover, I have been courting you.
My prey.
My beloved prey.
Your gaze is now drowning in mine. There are no secrets between us. You know what I am now. What I can give you.
Already you are afraid. This moment is always delicious. Do you truly want love that will consume your soul? I can grant it to you for a moment. For one delicious kiss.
Invite me.
And you do.
You did not even realize the moment you opened yourself to me, but now we are moving toward each other. How cliché to even think it, but you are now in my power. As the dancers writhe below, we now dance alone up here. I can feel my lover smiling. Watching me. He loves to see me hunt.
Holding my hand out to you, you come to me. Your warm fingers tangle with my cold ones as I draw you close. We sway to the music swirling around us, dance in the darkness, moving slowly. Our roles are chosen. Our moment is nearly complete. I can feel you love me. You need my touch.
Your date can only sit and gape.
It amuses me.
I twirl you around in my arms and then pull you firmly against me. You gasp and I smile. I run my fingers into your dyed hair and find it coarse and stiff. But I don’t care, I tangle my fingers in it and pull your head to the side as I press you against the wall and bare my white fangs.
The soft whimper as I bite into your scented flesh is almost as delicious as the taste of your blood. Closing my eyes, I feast.
Life: thick and red.
I tremble as the power of your living blood fills my Undead body. In this moment, you are my love and I love you passionately. We are lovers locked in a lover’s embrace, our hearts beating together as the blood fills my mouth. A perfect dance of passion is what we share.
And then your heart weakens, and I can drink no more. Your death would do nothing but fill me with emptiness and remorse as quickly as your blood has filled me with life and joy. A long lick with my tongue to heal your wound and I press you away. You fall back onto the couch with your would-be lover, who is dazed and mesmerized by the touch of my own lover.
How delicately my love wipes a drop of blood from your date’s throat and offers it to me. I lick the tip of his finger then pull him close. As you swoon against your desired one, I wrap my arms around the neck of my glorious vampire lover and we dance through the shadows.
His love and your blood fill me.
I am alive.
Do you understand now, my little mortal?
You have touched the eternal. The night. The Undead. You have given me life. I have given you yours. We have danced to the dark music. I have loved you for one brief moment and though you will remember me in a surreal, hazy memory, we were lovers.
And now I bid you farewell.
My love pulls me close and kisses me so I can taste the blood on his tongue and lips. Your blood and that of your would-be lover mingles in our mouths as we twirl around this darkened balcony. Our love overwhelms us and consumes our undead flesh. Wrapped in each other’s embrace, we kiss, we devour, and then we dance into the shadows and the world disappears as the night embraces us once more into her cold arms.
I am alive.
Final Author’s Note
I hope you have enjoyed my vampire tales of blood, love and revenge. It’s amazing how long ago some of these short stories were written, yet I love them just as much as when I first wrote them.
But they are not my only vampire tales. I am presently writing two vampire series: one a modern tale with vampires, necromancers, witches, and zombies; the other a tale of gothic horror in old world Europe.
Pretty When She Dies
by Rhiannon Frater
Amaliya wakes under the forest floor, disoriented, famished and confused. She digs out of the shallow grave and realizes she is hungry in a new, horrific, unimaginable way. Sating her great hunger, she discovers that she is now a vampire, the bloodthirsty creature of legend. She has no choice but to flee from her old life and travels across Texas.
Her new hunger spurs her to leave a wake of death and blood behind her as she struggles with her new nature. All the while, her creator is watching. He is ancient, he is powerful, and what’s worse is that he’s a necromancer. He has the power to force the dead to do his bidding. Amaliya realizes she is but a pawn in a twisted game, and her only hope for survival is to seek out one of her own kind.
But if Amaliya finds another vampire, will it mean her salvation… or her death?
Coming Soon!
The exciting second book in the trilogy
Pretty When She Kills
The Tale of the Vampire Bride
by Rhiannon Frater
All Lady Glynis Wright ever wanted was the freedom to live her life as she pleased. Unfortunately, her aristocratic parents want her to marry well and settle into a life of luxury.
When her family becomes guests to one of the most fearsome and powerful vampires of all time, Glynis finds her fate is far more terrible than an arranged marriage.
Trapped in the power of her new master, she fights for freedom, revenge against her creator, and the chance to be with the one she truly loves.
Bloody, horrific, romantic and rich in gothic atmosphere, The Tale of the Vampire Bride is sure to thrill fans of the terrible, yet romantic vampires of literary past.
Available Now!
The second book in the saga
The Vengeance of the Vampire Bride
Coming Soon!
The exciting third book in the series
The Rise of the Vampire Bride
About the Author
Rhiannon Frater is the award-winning author of over a dozen books, including the As the World Dies zombie trilogy (Tor), as well as independent works such as The Last Bastion of the Living (declared the #1 Zombie Release of 2012 by Explorations Fantasy Blog and the #1 Zombie Novel of the Decade by B&N Book Blog), and other horror novels. In 2014, her newest horror novel, The Mesmerized, will be
released by Permuted Press. Dead Spots will be published in 2015 by Tor. She was born and raised a Texan and presently lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and furry children (a.k.a pets). She loves scary movies, sci-fi and horror shows, playing video games, cooking, dyeing her hair weird colors, and shopping for Betsey Johnson purses and shoes.
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Books by Rhiannon Frater
As The World Dies Trilogy
(The First Days, Fighting to Survive, Siege)
The morning that the world ends, Katie is getting ready for court and housewife Jenni is taking care of her family. Less than two hours later, they are fleeing for their lives from a zombie horde. Thrown together by circumstance, Jenni and Katie become a powerful zombie-killing partnership…
For more information and a link to an excerpt, click here.
As The World Dies Untold Tales
(Vol 1-3)
The As The World Dies Trilogy introduced Jenni and Katie and their harrowing journey to the makeshift fort in the Texas Hill Country. But theirs is not the only tale to be told. Read nine terrifying tales of those who are forced to face the unrelenting and hungry walking dead as the world dies.
For more information and a link to an excerpt, click here.
Pretty When She Dies Trilogy
(Pretty When She Dies, Pretty When She Kills, Pretty When She Destroys)
Amaliya Vezorak always believed she was destined to live a failed life in obscurity until she was brutally murdered by an ancient vampire named The Summoner and reborn as a powerful vampire necromancer. Now it is up to her to save the world…
For more information and a link to an excerpt, click here.
The Vampire Bride Series
(The Tale of the Vampire Bride, The Vengeance of the Vampire Bride)
All Lady Glynis Wright ever wanted was the freedom to live her life as she pleased. When her family becomes guests to one of Count Vlad Dracula, Glynis finds her fate is far more terrible than an arranged marriage. Trapped in the power of her new master, she fights for freedom, revenge against her creator, and the chance to be with the one she truly loves.
For more information and a link to an excerpt, click here.
The Last Bastion of the Living: A Futuristic Zombie Series
Vanguard Maria Martinez has lived her whole life within towering walls of steel. She yearns for a life away from the overcrowded streets, rolling blackouts, and food shortages, but there is no hope for anyone as long as the Inferi Scourge howl outside the high walls. When Maria is conscripted to finally destroy the Inferi Scourge, she realizes the rewards of success are great, but she will have to sacrifice everything, possibly even her life…
For more information and a link to an excerpt, click here.
Living Dead Boy
Josh Rondell is twelve years old and known as the “living dead boy” due to his rampant love of all things zombie. When zombies invade Josh’s school can the zombie-obsessed 12-year old and his friends survive?
For more information and a link to an excerpt, click here.
In Darkness We Must Abide
Already living in the shadows due to her albinism, Vanora is just a little girl when her older brother inadvertently unleashes a terrible evil from the family crypt that changes their lives forever.
As she grows up in a world where beautiful deadly beings hunt by night, one captures her eye and her heart. Yet, can she trust the mysterious Armando? For there is a powerful entity plotting to claim her when she reaches adulthood in order to fulfill an ancient prophecy, and her enemy has enveloped her in a web of deceit, casting doubt on all she believes to be true. Soon, she will have to fight not only to save those she loves, but also for her very soul.
This serial is published in individual episodes and season compilations. For more information and a free copy of the first episode, click here.
The Midnight Spell
(by Rhiannon Frater and Kody Boye)
Two lifelong best friends ostracized in their small town – he is gay, she is a witch – cast a midnight love spell. They and their new love interests will have to battle a force of darkness which has killed in their town before and will kill again.
For more information and a link to an excerpt, click here.
Cthulhu’s Daughter and Other Horror Tales
From the depths of the darkest waters of the ocean to the eternal darkness of space, Rhiannon Frater crafts taunt tales of terror to enthrall avid readers of the genre. Each short story explores a different type of monster from the shambling undead to devourers of worlds.
For more information and to read a free story, click here.
Blood & Love and Other Vampire Tales
Award-winning author Rhiannon Frater delves deep into the vampire mythos in her new short story collection featuring the beautiful, but deadly undead. Spanning a hundred years and a diverse cast of characters, Rhiannon explores the themes of loneliness, revenge, blood and love in seven tales. How far will the bloodthirsty vampires go to find love, revenge, and family?
For more information and to read a free story, click here.
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