Moving slowly, so as not to scare her, Logan caressed her soft flesh and a moan of pleasure came from her lips. Feeling daring, Sophia undid the buttons of the white cotton blouse that was part of her school uniform, giving him easier access to her breasts. She hadn’t worn a bra that night, in hopes that their making-out might lead to this.
Logan delicately put his lips to her exposed flesh, kissing her breasts as he cupped and massaged them. It was the most incredible sensation Sophia had ever experienced, and thrills of sexual excitement pulsed through her body. Her breathing quickened and soft moans of pleasure escaped her lips. When he brought his mouth to her dark pink nipples and suckled her there, the pleasure was so intense, she gasped and threw back her head, arching her back and panting.
She became aware of a wetness growing between her legs and her panties grew sticky with it. Something deep inside her, that she’d never felt before, yearned to have him enter her, and she began to spread her thighs.
Suddenly, the alarm on her watch began to beep, breaking the magical spell of the moment. She had an important test at school the next day and had set the alarm as a way to make sure she got enough sleep. Now she almost regretted doing so, although she still realized it was for the best.
“I have to go,” she said regretfully, pulling herself slowly away from Logan’s embrace and buttoning her blouse closed again.
“Please, just stay a little longer,” Logan pleaded
“I can’t. I have an exam tomorrow, and I really need to get my sleep. You might be fine to stay up till dawn every night, but I just can’t do it anymore. I’m going home to sleep, and I’m not going to come here tomorrow night. If you want to see me, meet me in the afternoon, after my last class of the day. We can have a picnic in the park and enjoy the sunshine. It will be a nice change from all this meeting in the dark and hiding indoors all the time.”
Sophia was smiling, excited about her idea, but Logan looked oddly concerned. “I’m sorry, but I can’t do that. I want to see you, but it has to be after sunset. We can have a picnic under the moonlight, instead.”
“Why?” Sophia asked, her enthusiastic smile turning into an annoyed frown. Sleep deprivation was making her impatient and easily aggravated. “I come here all the time, but you never meet me anywhere or go places with me. Are you ashamed to be seen with me?”
“No, not at all! I couldn’t be more proud of you, and it’s an honor that you allow me to be your boyfriend. I just can’t meet you during the day.”
Sophia’s nerves were frayed from exhaustion, and she refused to be placated. She stormed to the front door in a furry.
“That’s what you always say! You’re happy to have me come here to your house so we can make out, but anytime I suggest we go someplace, you refuse! I’m not some cheap call girl who will show up at your door, so you can take advantage of her! I’m never come back here again! If you want to be my boyfriend and have a real relationship with me, it has to be on equal terms! You have to come to me, out in the real world! I’m not going hide with you, locked away in this castle, any longer! Goodbye!”
“Sophia, wait!” Logan called after her, but it was too late. She slammed the door behind her and ran into the street, sobbing with her broken heart.
Logan hesitated, torn between his heart and his fears. If he didn’t want to lose Sophia, he would have to reveal his secret to her. Of course, once she knew the truth about him, he might lose her anyway. It was a risk he’d been aware of from the very beginning, even though he’d told himself he kept the secret as a way to protect her from the dangers knowing the truth might place her in.
Logan loved Sophia too much not to try and make things work between them. Her life was in danger now anyway, just because she’d been in his company for so long. There could be denying they were in a relationship, and his enemies knew that. Telling her the truth now was the best way to keep her safe, for at least then she would have a fighting chance. Whether or not she could accept him for what he was, once he told her, was completely up to her. In his heart, Logan thought he knew what her reaction would be.
Chapter Three
Sophia was blinded by her tears as she ran down the sidewalk. She knew she had over-reacted, but staying every night that week had left her utterly exhausted and overly emotional. She didn’t really want to break up with Logan, she loved him, but something was definitely going to have to change between them if they were going to continue this relationship. She hoped desperately that he would chase after her and they could form a compromise together. When she heard the sound of male footsteps behind her, she smiled, hoping it was him. When she turned around, however, she got a nasty surprise.
It wasn’t Logan behind her at all, but a gang of six large men. She recognized them as being the troublemakers who frequented the bars near the university campus. It was obvious they had been drinking as they laughed and joked with each other. They were often rowdy and rude, harassing girls as they walked down the sidewalk. Sophia knew she wouldn’t be able to outpace them, so she stepped to the side, pretending to adjust her jacket, hoping they would pass her by.
The plan nearly worked, as the gang strolled by, but then the last one in the group stopped and turned around to look her up and down crudely.
“Hey, sweet thing! What are you doing out all alone on a night like tonight? Are you looking for a little action?” he called out to her.
The rest of the gang took notice, and they all joined him, encircling her on the sidewalk.
“I’m just joining my friends. In fact, I’m late and they’ll be looking for me if I don’t get there soon, so I’d better hurry,” Sophia said in a trembling voice, but the lie sounded weak even to her and she knew they wouldn’t believe it.
“You don’t need to join your friends. You’ve got plenty of friends right here,” the gang member said.
One of his buddies stepped closer and caressed Sophia’s hair. “Yeah, we’re real friendly. Why don’t you come be friends with us tonight?”
The other members of the gang followed suit, closing in on her in a tight circle, grabbing at her hair, clothes and body.
“No! Let me go! Leave me alone!” she screamed, as two of them grabbed her by the arms, dragged her into the nearby alley and pinned her down onto the ground. She struggled with all her might, but they were too strong. She realized with terror that they were going to rape her.
Suddenly, there was a flash of movement. The gang members were thrown away from her, flung powerfully into alley walls and out into the street by a force too quick to be seen by the human eye.
“What the hell is going on?” the lead gang member shouted, his eyes wide with fear.
The moving blur came to a stop in front of him, revealing the form of Logan Longfellow. Sophia gasped and stared in shock and wonder.
Logan faced off to the man, casually appraising him with the air of someone who had all the time in the world. His light blond hair flowed softly in the breeze and his deathly pale skin looked white as snow in the moonlight. His muscles rippled, and he reminded her of a cat preparing to kill a mouse it was toying with. His pale blue eyes looked deadly, and a smile of delight curled the corners of his lips.
“What are you?” the gang member gasped, sensing his opponent wasn’t fully human.
“I’m her boyfriend, so I suggest you treat this lady with respect.” Logan reached out with lightening quick speed, grasped the man by the neck and lifted him clean off the ground as if he weighed no more than a doll. “In fact, I recommend you treat all ladies with respect. No one wants to be looked at as if they were nothing but a piece of meat.”
Logan toyed with the man, holding his throat close to his teeth, which had suddenly become razor-sharp fangs. Logan opened his mouth as if to take a bite of the man’s throat and said ominously, “Raw meat to be devoured by sharp teeth!”
“No!” cried the man, openly sobbing now. “Don’t drink my blood! Don’t kill me!”
Logan opened his hand and dropped the
man, as if disgusted by him. “I won’t today, but next time I see you harassing a lady, I will.”
He watched as all the members of gang ran off into the distance, completely terrified. Then he turned to Sophia and helped her to her feet. He held her gently in his arms. “Are you all right? I had to come after you to tell you why I behaved the way I did. I’m not ashamed to be with you. I want to have a real relationship with you, but I’ve been keeping a secret. Now you know what it is. I hope you can still love me, because I love you more than anything in the world. If you want me to leave you alone now that you know the truth, I will. I’m hoping, however, that you can still find a way to love me.”
Sophia pulled away from his embrace and stared deeply into his face. She looked at him, with thoughtful eyes, examining his sharp fangs, ferocious eyes, and heaving muscles. He was beautiful. He didn’t look like monster to her, although she understood now that he truly was a vampire. To her, he still looked like Logan, the man she had fallen in love with.
In answer to his questioning eyes, she simply wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him, long and slow and deep. Logan’s heart swelled as he felt all the love she felt for him in her passionate kiss and knew that he hadn’t lost her.
They walked arm-in-arm back to his castle then, and he answered all her questions about being a vampire. How had he become one, where did he get blood to survive? The questions went on and on, and as the evening came to an end, there was just one last thing she needed to know.
“So, if vampires are drawn to drink the blood of virgins, will you really be able to resist drinking mine if we stay together?”
“I have so far, although I must admit it can be difficult. There are times when I’ve really struggled to keep my composure, but I’ve always succeeded. I love you too much to lose control and bite you. My love for you overcomes my lust for virgin blood.”
“That hardly seems fair to you,” Sophia said with compassion. “You’ll always be suffering, battling your natural instincts to drink my blood whenever we’re together.”
Logan shrugged, trying to make light of the situation. “Being with you is worth it.”
“Would it be less difficult for you if I wasn’t a virgin?” she asked with a coy smile.
“Actually, it would ease my discomfort a lot. The blood of a virgin is what vampires crave the most, it’s like an addiction. I would never ask you sacrifice your purity for me though.”
“What if it’s not a sacrifice? What if I give it freely to you, as a gift?”
Logan smiled and kissed her tenderly on the lips. Just then, the clocked chimed, reminding them both that dawn was approaching.
“Tomorrow night,” Sophia promised, kissing him goodbye and heading for the door. “I’ll meet you here right after the sun sets and give myself to you, not because I have to, but because I want to. Ever since we first kissed, I knew that you were the man I wanted to make love to for the first time. Tomorrow night will be that night.”
Chapter Four
Sophia’s heart was pounding as the sun slowly set below the horizon. She’d done miserably on her exams at school that morning, but she didn’t care. Tonight was the night she would give her virginity to the man she loved.
In the end, she decided not to go to her last two classes of the day, so she could go home and prepare. She took a nice long nap, so she was refreshed and not tired. Then she took a bath, washed her hair, and got dressed in a special outfit she’d bought just for the occasion.
Her roommate Michelle showed up just as she ready to leave, looking flustered and worried.
“Here you are! I’ve been looking all over campus for you!” Michelle cried. Her expression of relief quickly turned into one of annoyance. “What’s going on with you? You’re never home at night any more, you sleep through most of your classes, and now today you didn’t even show up for two of them! You used to be so motivated to get your degree in Societal History so you could work at the Institute. Now it’s like you don’t even care about graduating! Are you hooked on drugs or something?”
Sophia laughed gently, feeling touched by her roommate’s concern. She wrapped her arm around her friend’s shoulder and said reassuringly, “No, I’m not addicted to drugs. I’ve met someone. I always thought I’d be alone all my life; but it’s finally happened to me. I’m in love!”
Instead of sharing her happiness, Michelle looked more worried than before. “Who is this guy? Is he a student here? Do I know him?”
“No, he’s an older man. I’m certain you’ve never met him, but trust me when I tell you he’s very nice. He’s everything I’ve ever wanted in a man; tender, caring, intelligent, funny.”
“If he’s so great, why haven’t you brought him to introduce him to me? Why are you always gone, staying out until dawn every night?”
“It’s complicated,” Sophia said, not knowing what to say to her friend that wouldn’t expose Logan’s secret. She needed to talk to him about it. She knew she could trust Michelle not to reveal anything she told her confidence, but she couldn’t just tell Logan’s secret to others without his permission first. Suddenly, she realized it was already dark outside, and she was late for the most important date of her life. “You’ll just have to believe me when I tell you that Logan Longfellow is a really good man. I’ll explain everything to you later. Right now, I’m late and I have to go.”
“Wait!” Michelle said. “Isn’t Longfellow the name of that creepy castle you’ve been researching all semester? Don’t tell you’ve gotten into a relationship with someone who lives there! Rumors say those people are evil! Stay far away from him! I’m just telling you this for your own good!”
Sophia brushed aside her friend’s impassioned plea with a light laugh. “Oh, Michelle, don’t tell me you buy into those rumors too. Logan Longfellow isn’t evil and nothing can stop me from meeting him.”
“Well, he may not be evil, but he’s definitely hiding something or I’d have met him by now. Don’t go to him tonight. Tell him you’re staying here until he comes over and meets your friends first. If he has nothing to hide, he won’t have any objection.”
Sophia shook her head. “It’s more complicated than that. I can’t explain right now, but I’ll tell you everything tomorrow. I promise. Now I have to go, I’m late!”
Sophia ran out the door with her long coat wrapped tightly around her. She was so excited to meet with Logan; she didn’t even notice Michelle following behind her as she went.
Sophia finally arrived at Logan’s castle an hour after the sun had set, and he opened the door for her with a relieved expression on his face.
“I thought perhaps you had changed your mind,” Logan said as he let her inside.
“No, I just wanted to make you wait a little bit for me,” Sophia teased, not wanting to ruin their evening by talking about Michelle’s suspicions yet.
“I’ve been waiting for you for hundreds of years,” Logan said, kissing her passionately on the lips. “After I became a vampire, I never thought I’d be able to experience love with a woman, and now here you are, making all my dreams come true.”
The heartfelt words brought tears of emotion to Sophia’s eyes, for she had thought she’d never find love either. It was as if they were made for each other.
Slowly, she removed her long coat, letting it slip from her shoulders and fall to the ground. Underneath the coat, she wore nothing but a pale pink teddy, which hugged her curves just right, accentuating her full breasts and narrow waist. She had on matching pink panties made of delicate lace and white thigh-high stockings held up by garters. Pink high heels completed the outfit, which was the perfect blend of innocence and lust.
“Wow! You look delicious enough to eat!” Logan said, with his eyes wide and an obvious erection protruding within his slacks.
He advanced upon her slowly and took her into his embrace and carried her to his bed, kissing her on the lips as he did so. He laid her softly onto the mattress and gently nibbled on her earlobe, making he
r sigh with delight. Then he kissed a trail down her long neck, to her chest and peeled the teddy from her body. She moaned and sighed with pleasure as he lavished all his attention upon her breasts; caressing, fondling, and suckling them with pure devotion. Her nipples puckered under his expert touch, and she ran her fingers through his hair, pressing him firmly to herself.
It didn’t take long before she was panting and felt that moisture growing between her legs. Sensing the time was right, Logan kissed his way down to her panties and gently pulled them off her hips. She was nervous at first, but when his lips came in contact with her most delicate folds, her fears were quickly wiped away by the exquisite pleasure.
Sophia had never felt anything so incredibly wonderful in her entire life. Waves of pleasure flooded through her body, and soon she felt the need to arch her pelvis, searching for him to enter her.
When he knew she was ready, Logan stopped pleasuring her with his lips and moved up to lie beside her, so they were face to face. He kissed her then, tenderly and deeply, making her forget any traces of nervousness in his loving embrace. When he entered her, she was so wet and ready for him that it didn’t even hurt and they moved together as one. She clutched at his back and wrapped her legs around his waist as her first orgasm overtook her. It was a sensation unlike anything she’d ever experienced, and she knew that she loved him now more than ever.
Logan felt the same way. Sophia was so sweet, so delicate, and so delicious. He’d never loved a woman as much as he loved her, and he knew that he could never hurt her or let anyone one else ever cause her any harm. He would devote the rest of his life to keeping her safe and happy, no matter what it took.
He orgasmed deep inside her and then they lay together in the bed, cuddling until she fell asleep.
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