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Authors: Eve Newton
The Other Switch (The Forever Series, Book 7.5): The Forever series, Book 7.5 (8 page)
I stare at him blankly. He’s worried about protection? Should I tell him I already set the wards the second I walked into the suite?
“Liv?” he asks me, as I continue to remain silent, trying to figure out if on some level he knows what I am. I realize I am being ridiculous, but I don’t know what he is asking me. I shake my head because I am pretty sure that I don’t have what he wants. All I’ve got is the clothes on my back, well, the floor, and the fake documents. “Oh,” he says disappointedly and moves away from me.
“Wait,” I say, pulling him back. “Where are you going?”
“To get some,” he says as if I am a bit dense. “We can’t do it without.”
“Why not?” I ask as the penny finally drops and I realize what he is talking about. “I am suitably protected.”
“Uh, I dunno,” he says. “It’s, you know.” He runs his hands through his hair.
I sit up and take his face in mine. “Cole, I am healthy and protected,” I say. “Are you?”
“Yes,” he says.
“Then I want you right now. I want to feel you inside me,” I say to him.
“Oh god, I want to feel you too, Liv. You are so wet and so warm, I just want to slide myself inside you and damn the consequences,” he says desperately, as I climb onto his lap.
“No consequences,” I mutter as I kiss him. “Just take me.” I rub myself over him and he groans in pleasure.
“Oh yes,” he says as I tilt my hips again and this time he doesn’t hesitate. He pushes me down roughly and turns us over. “Oh god, yes,” he says and kisses me as he moves in and out of me. “I’ll pull out,” he mutters almost to himself as he speeds up
.
I sigh to myself. He really has an issue with this. If only I could tell him that I am a Vampire. No babies--well, at least of the human-crossbreed variety--and no diseases. At the very least I suppose I could tell him I am already pregnant, but that probably wouldn’t go down well either before I turn him and make him mine. An idea starts to form in my head and I roll us over and take over. He grabs my hips and I pound away at him, bringing us both to the brink. I can hear his heart beating rapidly and I want to feed. I am starving and I can smell his AB Negative blood pumping through his veins. He is close, I know it and I take his hands off my hips and push them above his head, holding them in place. I come around him, causing his own orgasm to burst out of him. He struggles against me briefly as he groans in ecstasy and I let him go. He pulls out of me, hands on my hips, and deposits me next to him. “Liv,” he says breathlessly as I snuggle into him. “Fuck, that was amazing.”
“I know,” I say with a smile against his chest. “I want to do it again.” I look up at him and he stares down at me. “Easy and eager? I did luck out with you, didn’t I?” he asks as he pushes me over. “This time we do it my way.” He takes his time with me, setting my body ablaze with his kisses and touches and when the time comes to enter me there is no hesitation.
My eyes flutter open as I feel his hand running up and down my back. I will the Dragon to stay still but She loves to be caressed and I know She wants him to run his hand over Her back. I turn over quickly in case She decides to show off for him, and smile into his perfect blue eyes. “Hi,” I whisper.
“Hey,” he smirks. “That is incredible work.”
I smile and I am about to thank him when he rolls over and gets out of bed. “Where are you going?” I ask as he reaches for his pants.
“Uh, I had better get going. Early morning,” he explains evasively.
I sit up suddenly. I may be new to this whole modern-day relationship thing, but I know when I am being blown off. “You’re leaving?” Whatever happened to Other Cole’s declaration “I have loved you from the second I laid eyes on you, Liv”?
“Uh, yeah. I had a great time,” he says as he starts to get dressed.
Well, I think, affronted, this was not going to plan. Who knew he was such a cad? Then again, I didn’t exactly have a plan. I came here unprepared and the whole “seduce you until you love me,” while well executed, was a pretty lame move now that I think about it. “Cole,” I say, getting up and sauntering over to him. His eyes roam over my body and it’s a start. “Stay, please. I’m not finished with you yet,” I add seductively and his lips part as he watches me run my tongue over my lips.
“Oh, you don’t make it easy for a guy, do you?” he says, running his hand through his hair. “Look,” he says eventually, “I have a girlfriend. This night was amazing, but that’s all it was. Sex.”
I look at the bed where he is pointing and think
, he has a girlfriend
? The jerk.
Okay, I am not one to judge, I am standing here not only married to someone else, but also pregnant with someone else’s baby, but still. I was not expecting this to be so difficult.
“A girlfriend,” I say slowly, trying to think on my feet. Well, that goes a long way to explaining why he was so concerned about being protected. But I have to get him to stay and short of pouncing on him and biting him until I feed him my own blood, I would really rather he knew first and decided for himself he wanted it.
He shrugs as if it is no big deal and continues to get dressed. “I’d like to see you again,” he says as he tucks his shirt into his pants. “You know,” he shrugs again.
Oh, charming. He is asking to see me again for a sex date. Fan-bloody-tastic. I guess I have two options here: give up on him and find someone else to turn or give him no choice in the matter. I decide on the latter, as I am running out of time now and I don’t have enough of it to find someone else. Besides, I want
him
. I drop my fangs and advance on him. His horror is evident as he sees my Shift and he backs up, shaking his head.
“Shit,” he says. “Shit, it’s you!”
I stop dead in my tracks, then lunge forward to catch him as he promptly passes out.
I pace fretfully, wondering what on Earth he meant by “it’s you.” He knows me? I nearly leap out of my skin when Corinne appears next to me and holds her hand up, causing time to freeze.
“You are ahead of schedule, Your Majesty. We weren’t expecting this for some time. We weren’t finished with him yet,” she says with a slight reprimand in her voice.
“What?” I ask her, confused beyond belief right now.
She sighs and sits, indicating me to follow, which I do. “There is a special role for this man in your life. He was chosen and we have been trying to prepare him for entering into your world.”
“I don’t understand,” I say. “What special role? How are you preparing him? Why not just let me turn him?” I fire these questions at her and she holds her hands up again.
“All will be clear soon, Your Majesty. Just know for now that you need him, but just turning him is not the correct way to go about it.”
Still, even after all these centuries, she is all about the cryptic. I gave up a long time ago trying to decipher anything she or my mother says to me.
“Look, Corinne. I went to another world. One like this, but where everything is different. The Other me was married to this man and she had turned him. He was her charge and he loved her so much. I want that,” I say, knowing I sound like a spoiled brat.
“And you will, we just need more time with him,” she says.
“I don’t have time!” I yell, exasperated. “He won’t want me once I start to show.” I clamp my mouth shut as Corinne’s drops open.
“You are with child again, Your Majesty?” she asks.
“Yes! You are supposed to be all-knowing, how do you not know this?” I ask.
She stares at me and then at my stomach and she puts her hand to her mouth. “The Faerie baby,” she whispers.
I gesture a “yes, obviously” motion with my hands and she remains silent.
“Oh,…” She looks shocked and fearful and I have to wonder why. What could this child’s purpose be that would scare her so badly? I smile cautiously at her and she adjusts her features. “Well,” she says, clapping her hands together and standing. “We need to move forward post haste.”
“Okay,” I say, standing as well. “How?”
“Ahmed and I have been allowing Cole little bits of your life into his dreams. Snippets, if you will. He remembers them, but he isn’t sure yet whether he believes it to be true,” she says.
“So why didn’t he recognize me then?” I ask.
“We haven’t shown him exactly who you are yet,” Corinne says.
Well, this is just annoying…and typical of my meddling mother, even from the grave. I stand and watch as she speeds up time again and places her hand on his head. He murmurs something in his sleep and starts to sweat and convulse erratically. I step forward to stop whatever it is she is doing to him when she steps back suddenly and says, “It is done. When he wakes, he will be yours,” and then she promptly disappears. I chew my lip as I stare at him lying there, having no idea what just happened to him. It breaks my heart that this must be what happened to the Other Cole. Manipulated into loving her so she could turn him for…what? That is the big question
.
He opens his eyes as I stand over him and I kneel down at the side of the bed with a soft smile
.
“Liv,” he says as he strokes my face. “My dreams, my beautiful, blonde Vampire.”
London, England, June 2013 – Aefre
We lie in each other’s arms perfectly content. It is almost time to get everything together. I am nervous. I don’t know if I can do what I need to do. If I can’t, if I fail, I will be devastated. But it has to be now, I have to go and try to find her. She is the only one who can help me do what needs to be done. My stomach balls up into a tight knot and Cole senses my tension.
“You’ll succeed,” he says, full of confidence in me, and I smile and kiss him.
“I hope you are right,” I say. “I am more worried that she won’t help me. I am asking a lot of her.”
“She will help you. She knows what it is to live without him,” he reassures me.
I chuckle at him. “You have no idea how to process this, do you?” I ask him and he laughs back.
“Not a clue,” he admits. “But I love you and I want what you want, so if you need to find this Other Liv to help you get that, then I am all for it.” He pauses and I wait for what is coming next. “You won’t love me any less, will you? You know, after?”
“Oh, Cole,” I say, taking his face in my hands. “I could never love you any less. In fact, I will probably love you more.”
“Good,” he says. “I will hold you to that. You had better get going, if you expect to do all of this and make it back in time to meet your husband…”
I squeeze his hand tightly. I know he is still unhappy about learning about Constantine and Sebastian and our baby. But he is strong and I do love him. He is every bit as loving and attentive as the Other Cole was and I know deep down that all of this is our destiny. It is fate that spans across universes. And speaking of universes, I had better get going. I kiss him again and stand and get dressed. I close my eyes and with a deep breath I think of her. She that is me in another world. The only one that can help me in my quest for completion.
Book Eight, Secrets, is coming very soon. Stay tuned!
Other Books by Eve Newton
Forever (The Forever Series Book One)
The Power of One (The Forever Series Book Two)
Revelation (The Forever Series Book Three)
Choices (The Forever Series Book Four)
The Ties That Bind (The Forever Series Book Five)
Trials (The Forever Series Book Six)
Switch (The Forever Series Book Seven)
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