start swinging. Watching Tony swing encouraged me to do the same. I got up and went to the swing beside him. We swung as high as we could go. Tony let go of the chain and leaped out of the swing. He landed light as a feather on the ground in a crouched position. Not fair , I thought to myself and smiled. I slowed my swing and got out.
We took each other’s hand and started walking toward the animal cages. Every time we saw an animal it ran back into its home. Now that I knew the animal’s reaction to Tony, I didn’t care when they disappeared. At least, Tony got a glance of them before they took off.
After seeing all the animals we could, we headed back home. Tony didn’t mention the meeting while we were at the park and I didn’t bring it up. I didn’t know what to say. All I knew was, if he had to attend a meeting in Italy, he would have no choice but to go.
Tony went straight to the phone when we got home. I didn’t want to hear the conversation between Tony and Victor, so I went to the bedroom. I was changing into my nightshirt and heard a noise outside the window. Pulling the curtain open, I saw Mildred standing at my window. “What are you doing?” I asked angrily as I was opening the window.
“There was a gray kitten and I was trying to catch it,” Mildred said.
“At this time of night,” I said, sounding unhappy.
“Frank got it for me earlier. It ran out of the house when I went to put the garbage out,” she said.
“Put some milk out and I’m sure it will come back,” I stated.
“That might work,” Mildred said.
“Good night, Mildred,” I said, sarcastically.
Closing the window, I put the episode in the back of my mind. Normally, I would have told Tony, but he had enough to think about with the trip to Italy. I went into the kitchen to check on him. He was still on the phone with Victor. I kissed his cheek and headed to bed. Little did I know Mildred was on the front porch listening to Tony’s conversation with Victor.
Tony woke me up crawling into bed. He pulled me to him and hugged me tight.
“Is everything alright?” I asked.
“Father said, it was reported a dhampir didn’t protect his family. Apparently –Dhampir’s have rules they have to abide by.”
“What kind of rules?” I asked sitting up in bed.
“Father said we are to protect our family. We are great protectors. He said, one of our kind, didn’t protect their family member and it ’s caused a devastating mess.”
“What kind of mess?” I asked.
“Father said Thorment didn’t go into details. The consequences are not good. The time has come for me to know the rules that are set forth for Dhampir’s.”
“Tony, I know you will protect me to the ends of the earth. If you must attend this meeting, then please attend.”
I had the feeling he wasn’t telling me all he knew about this mess. Tony hugged me tight. I didn’t protest because he was nervous about this meeting. When Tony knew what the mess was, he would tell me. For now, he needed to relax so I lightly kissed his neck. He released his hug a little. I kissed his neck with lots of small kisses. Tony moaned and I knew he was relaxing and forgetting his worries. He kissed my neck and bit it quite hard, making me flinch with a tingle that set my body on fire. His face bent over mine and I grabbed the back of his neck, nibbling on his ear, I panted, “we should do this more often”. The growl started from the pit of his stomach and it didn’t take much longer before he joined me and together we reached our climax. Exhilarated, we rolled to our sides of the bed.
Tony fell asleep and I turned toward him watching him snore lightly. Looking at the clock on the night stand, I decided I
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