My Midnight Moonlight Valentine (My Midnight Moonlight Valentine 1)
I bit my lip and squeezed his hands tightly. “How much fun you’ve had here in America, and here, I thought you came for me.”
“Are you jealous?” he questioned, his eyebrow raised, pulling me from them and onto the dance floor. His body pressed against mine. He lifted me slightly so that I could step on his feet. “Of women I do not remember? That I do not desire?”
“I’m just curious,” I shot back as he did all the work, spinning me all around. I did my best to watch the others, so I could learn how to do it myself. “You came here for one woman, and you indulged.”
“I do not know what I thought of at the time.” He frowned. “But I know, had the woman I sought gave me an expectation date for her appearance, maybe I could have held on and indulged only in her.”
I glared, but he kissed the side of my face whispered, “I am not perfect, and vampires can get lonely, crazy, and despondent, too. Thank God, you found me, or who knows how long I would have had to deal with the sound of that laughter. It is as if cats were being boiled alive.”
I giggled when I saw the look on their faces.
“Ahhh…much better.”
He was such a freaking player!
Chapter 16
“How are you fairing at your first ball? You’ve picked up the dancing very quickly.” Taelon spun us around in the middle of the dance floor.
“Thanks, but hardly; however, that is the easiest thing to focus on instead of feeling like I’m caught between a vampire inquisition and the vampire diaries.” I made sure to
shuffle my feet the right way. I was determined to get at least the first few steps right. “I can hear them all talking about me. Some have even come right out to ask me what I did to win him over. Like I cast some magical spell on him.”
“You have captured the attention, desire, and heart of the most eligible vampire in society, and you think no one will talk?” he mocked, spinning me around. He glanced over his shoulder when I came back to him. “I can feel his gaze burning a hole in my back right now.”
“I don’t like being caged up.” I looked over his shoulder to see Theseus watching us even as he danced with Lucy, who was even smaller next to him. It was odd that he and Taelon were almost the same height and build, and yet, Taelon seemed the only one perfectly matched for Lucy.
“Lucy tells me you spent most of your time in a lab or your home. How is that not a cage?” he questioned.
Good point.
“Let me clarify. I don’t like to be controlled then. He’s had fun with women, the least he can do is stand by and be silent as I dance with other people. He has no right to ban me from touching or even speaking to any other man.”
“So, in order for him not to control you, you are using me to control him?” he mused and then sniggered at my expression.
“This makes me a hypocrite, doesn’t it?”
“Yes.” He nodded. “But I’m sure he’s enjoying that you’re jealous.”
“I am not.”
He gave me a look.
“Really, I’m not.”
“Okay.” The way he said that made me think he didn’t believe me. “If it were me, personally, I’d be a little jealous to know my mate had slept all over the—”
“All?” I growled.
And he laughed. “No, but does it matter if you’re not jealous?”
“I’m not liking you right now.”
“Fine, let me give you some insight, young one,” he replied.
“Please.”
“You are not fond of the idea that he had other women when he came here looking for you, correct?” he asked, and I made a face and looked down to make sure to watch my feet; I wasn’t stepping on his like I had done with Theseus. “Many people want to know who their mates are, but it’s hard, especially if they are human. What if they haven’t been born? What if they are married and in love with someone else? What if they have already passed? Knowing gets harder to bear with each day you do not meet them. You start to wonder if you will ever meet them. You start to want to forget them so you can move on. Don’t you know hope is the worst thing that came out of Pandora’s Box.”